To Church with Kate...

The Boys were busy today, so it was Mom and Kate to church today. I think getting Kate all dressed up is 1/2 the fun! She was in a fine mood, so we spent a few minutes on the church steps before Sunday School. I got some precious shots, might be wall hangers.

Here is Jack just before his first T-Ball practice!! He's SO excited, you can see he's got all the gear. It's going to be a fun season, we've got a great coach, some old friends, and some new friends too!

Easter!

Precious Easter Morning. What a gift.

Do you think he got enough eggs? Cici didn't...

She said, Here Jack! Put them in here and go find more!!! And of course, he did!

Cowboy Jack

"R" is for rodeo, and that's exactly what they had while learing about the letter "R"! Nothing is more exciting than getting to go to preschool dressed like a cowboy. They made horses, and cowboy vests, and had rodeo races. A young boy's dream....

Sleeping Beauty

I should give you some background on our sleeping beauty. The day Kate was 12 weeks old, I was determined that she should be able to sleep through the night. In order to support my theory, I researched sleep books extensively and found one that i thought looked marvelous, and it was available for immediate download, even better. That book changed our lives. i read it that afternoon, and with Blake's moral support, let this sweet girl cry it out that night. I'm happy to report that it only took 20 minutes, she slept through the night, and has done so VERY consistently ever since then. By consistently, i mean this girl loves to sleep, and she has not awoken us in the middle of the night more than a dozen times in the last 15 months. Now, she almost takes herself to bed. We can usually sense her mood change and we simply have to ask her if she's ready to go night night and she pats herself on the chest and says night night and waves. Off to bed she goes.

In the last week or so, she has started attempting to take care of her bedtime ritual all herself. We refill her vaporizer water tank every night, and she's been delivering it to us for more water. After we refill, she leads us back to her room, pushes some buttons on her cd player, and walks to her crib waiting patiently to be lifted up and tucked in. That's it, she might not go right to sleep, but she's happy and content until she does.

Amazing I know, i'm scared to death she's going to turn on us any day and we'll need one of those crib tents to keep her in there, but for now it is bliss. Well, some nights she takes herself to bed earlier than others. Tonight, she didn't even have the chance to say night night because as you can see, she didn't make it to her carrots...