Saying Goodbye to FOUR...

Because tomorrow I'll be FIVE!!!

Mother's Day 2009

How big is Judah? THIS BIG! :-)


I have a lot of posts coming soon...Elijah's preschool graduation, baseball games, Elijah's birth day post and birthday party post. Get ready for lots of pictures!

Commotion in the Ocean

This past Monday, Elijah had his end-of-year preschool program. It was really cute and the 4 year old class did a great job (included was my 4 year old class that I teach twice a week). To see the entire 4 year old portion of the show, the video is at the bottom - Elijah is in the middle on the middle row but my camera wouldn't zoom any more without being really blurry so I hope you can find him.




Elijah's cousins, Jonathan & Kristopher, came to watch his program.




His preschool graduation is this coming Monday...and his 5th birthday is on Wednesday. Oh, I'm so not ready for that. Let the tears leading up to kindergarten begin. :-)



Also, my mother-in-law did this amazing slide show for me of Judah's first year that she gave me at his birthday party. We played it at the party - it is so sweet! We just figured out how to put it on my blog, so here it is for your viewing pleasure if you are interested. The first song is an instrumental version of "hey jude" - I love it! This is the smallest I could get it on my blog.

Birthday Pictures

Finally...our internet has been down all week. What we ever did before we had the internet, I don't know. :-) Here are Judah's birthday party pictures...

Isn't he the cutest one year old you've ever seen?!?! Cute as a bug, that is.


The decorations


The caterpillar cake (that I made)...excuse me while I brag. :-)


The birthday boy showing off his new found walking skills


Opening presents -he loved his monkey bean bag chair!




Elijah was such a big helper...for some reason I think he thought all of the presents were for him. :-)






Singing "Happy Birthday to You"!




Mmmmm, cake!!!




This cake tastes pretty good!


Cleaning up after the cake made a big mess!!!




There were so many cute pictures, it was hard to choose. I hope this gives you an idea of what a great time he had...it was a perfect first birthday party for our special guy!

Here is a video of him walking. He really started to get the hang of it about two days before his birthday, and has been walking more and more ever since.
I also added the video of us singing Happy Birthday to Judah.

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I am one year old today. Watch me grow...

My birthday - April 25, 2008 - 4:17 pm - 8 lbs - 18 inches


Newborn - April 2008


One month old - May 25, 2008


2 months old - June 25, 2008


3 months old - July 25, 2008


4 months old - August 25, 2008


5 months old - September 25, 2008


6 months old - October 25, 2008


7 months old - November 25, 2008


8 months old - Christmas Day 2008


9 months old - January 25, 2009


10 months old - February 25, 2009


11 months old - March 25, 2009


12 months old - Today, my 1st birthday - April 25, 2009 - approx 18 lbs


My mommy is remembering my birthday minute by minute and getting ready for my birthday party. I can't wait! I am excited to be one year old and learn a lot of new things this year! I'll post pictures of my fun party later.

was that really a year ago???

I am having an emotional week. On Saturday, our Judah (aka Jude, Bug, Judebug, Judah-bug, Ju-Ju, Juby, Bubba), will turn one year old and I can hardly believe it! TIME FLIES BY...especially, it seems, with the second one. A year ago tomorrow I wrote this post and to re-read my birth story click here. What a crazy crazy day it was...it seems like yesterday.

I don't remember what we ever did without this sweet, sweet baby boy in our family and in the world. We are so blessed by him, he is such a special gift from God and he is so loved.

Here are some things I love & want to remember about Judah right now at almost one year old:
*he is so precious when he waves bye-bye to EVERYONE
*he can sign the words "more" and "all finished"
*he loves for elijah and i to build a block tower just for him just so he can knock it down and clap for himself
*he is definitely a mama's boy and will hardly go to anyone else (i'm secretly enjoying that right now :-)
*he has taken random steps but is still not walking - he has a mean crawl though and loves to push his walker all over the house while waving bye bye
*he LOVES cell phones - he has 3 of his own and always wants to play with mine
*his favorite thing to eat is his yo-baby yogurt every morning for breakfast
*when you ask him to show his muscles he just makes this funny strained face
*his favorite person to play with is elijah
*he will give you a big, wet kiss when you ask him for one

I could go on & on about him...he is awesome.

Someone tell me...How does THIS turn into...


THIS in only one short year????


More to come later from his one year photos and BUG birthday party.

Happy Birthday my sweet buggy-boy! We love you so much!

"She bore a son and said, "I will praise the Lord!"; therefore she named him JUDAH."
Gen. 29:35

Easter 2009

We had an impromptu photoshoot on Easter while my in-laws were here. WOW! There were too many cute ones to choose from so I'm giving you a whole slew of them for your viewing pleasure! I'm not even going to show you all of the individual shots we got of Judah for his first birthday coming up in less than two weeks! They are precious as well, but I will save those for his birthday post since I'm putting a few of them out at his party.

I got my hair cut last week-










Hunting for eggs-




The "Easter bunny" brought Elijah some six-shooters for Easter. What a strange Easter bunny!






Oh, how I love these tree shots of my big boy - almost 5 years old, wow!












Judah is saying "more" in sign language


I love this grin!


I found his outfit at a resale for only $4!




My favorite memory from the day was that morning when I asked Elijah what Easter meant. He said, "When Jesus raised from the dead and went to heaven!" That just made my day. Thank you God for that gift!