Hello, remember me? Yes, I am still alive and well - just a bit busy is all. When one adds another child to her brood, an infant, no less, her time is divided into even smaller chunks of productivity. So, the time I normally designate for blogging, during naptime, is being used for dinner prep, laundry, and what-have-you. All the extra stuff -blogging, sewing, reading, etc. - must yield to all the essential stuff - eating, sleeping, surviving :).

(It's been a month since my last post - yikes. Sawyer turns two-months-old on Thursday - yikes. )

Some things I'm loving right now...

• Mr. Two-Months-Old slept from 9:30pm to 7:30am last night without waking. Boo yeah! That's 10 hours of pure and precious sleep. Of course, I didn't get 10 hours of uninterrupted sleep. No, I got up several times to make sure my babe was still alive - still breathing and all that stuff. He was.


• I set the boys up with paper and markers yesterday, and Matt and I sat down to draw with them. You can see what the boys and I drew:

Mason's drawing is the top left, Smith's is the green, and mine is obvious (Yes, I accidentally drew one of my children with three legs). Here is Matt's: Love it.

• Sawyer's precious baby feet...especially his pinky toe and its teeny-tiny toenail. It reminds me that my Almighty God sees to all the details of my life...even my son's perfect baby toe.
  
• Bribing my children with candy ("nee-nee") in an effort to potty train them. After successfully peeing in the potty, they will run about, naked from the waist down, squealing, "I peeeeeed! I peeeeed! Dada, I peed! Nee-nee?" I will have to capture it on video to share with the world - it's awesome.

• Family. I don't know what would become of me without the help of my family (both sides). I might implode without them. Phone calls, prayers, encouragement, Godly counsel -yes, but also the dirty day-to-day stuff...poopy diapers, laundry, meals, babysitting, bathing the monkeys, entertaining the monkeys...etc. Thank you, to all of you, for helping me...I am loving you right now and always. And if you ask me if I need help and I say "no"...I'm lying.
  

Our new computer. It's shiny. It's fast. It's new. And Costco extends the manufacturer's warranty to two years. No brainer.

Beer...actually, alcohol in general, but mostly beer...I've missed it so.

My little monkeys caring for their little monkeys. They hug and kiss them, they change dirty diapers, and Smith has started to "nurse" his baby monkey via his belly-button (much to Matt's chagrin). Loving it.