Girls and Boys, I love them both!

It's Friday so my tutoring (my work I do) is slow so I thought I'd update this thing. I know, you should all be thrilled I'm updating my blog again. Since my life centers around my sweet, cute kids, I thought I'd post some of my favorite pics on my life as a mom. I have the best job ever! And I feel so blessed to have the kids I do, they are all such sweethearts. And this way I can write about them and not have to blog for a long time to come since this is what i do everyday. Okay, it's the laziness in my coming out I admit it. Now the moment you've all been waiting for . . . and first up, my little girl.

GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS

I love playing dress up with Mackenzie and, of course, she loves it as well! Mackenzie is the sweetest little baby. She is always so happy and very easy going and the best baby sleeper I've ever heard of. After 3 weeks of age, I think she's only woken up in the middle of the night maybe 4 times. God must love me. But I just enjoy her so much! We talk all the time, about nothing really (in fact, it isn't English even). Mackenzie has been a real go getter lately. She wants to be part of what her brothers are doing and luckily they love her and let her join, even if that means making special accommodations. She's 9 months old and loves to get into any cupboard or shelf and tear everything off, then she moves onto the next thing. Ah, the joys of parenthood. But luckily Jace likes to pick up after her sometimes (not often enough though).

Mackenzie is nothing but big smiles and lots of fun! I think she is going to be quite the energetic, rough house, tough girl! If she doesn't want to her brothers will see to it.


One of my most favorite things to do is to get Mackenzie ready for church, that is when she gets to wear all the super cute dresses I have for her. Unfortunately I have WAY too many and she only gets to wear each one twice. The trials of having so many cute things and so little time. I could do a whole page on Mackenzie outfits, I take a picture every time I love what she's wearing. . . which is often. This is bad for people who get lured into looking at my scrapbook. Very boring for them.

BOYS WILL BE BOYS

I love boys because of how carefree they are. They don't worry what others think or what they look like (even as grown ups) and the world is their playground.

Jackson and Jace have been best friends ever since Jace could walk, and by that point he could talk too. Now they play together all day long which makes me not want Jackson to ever go to school. I love watching them dress up like spiderman, tie each other up with string, shoot each other with fake guns, and laugh the whole time they are doing it. They don't even fight that much . . bonus for me, but time will tell on that aspect.

Every boy is a super hero deep down inside. Jackson and Jace have a natural affinity to fight bad guys. And of course the costume goes with the job. One of my favorite part about my boys is that we love to wrestle and play soccer, baseball, frisbee, blanket rides, etc.

Jackson is 4 and my incredibly talented child. He's already very coordinated athletic and has quite the arm (I would know from all the broken items around the house). He remembers what chapter we were on in our book from a week ago, and he can hook up any gaming system (or other systems) without instructions or doing it before. He has a natural ability to all things mechanical and as a 2 year old every toy with batteries or other parts would be taken apart with a screwdriver (which we would hide but he can always find). He can get into anything and does. But my favorite thing about Jackson is he is the biggest sweetheart! I hope Mackenzie marries someone like Jackson (is it too early to start making a list for her?) He loves to give morning hugs and is so good at helping out and is uncannily happy all the time.

Jace is our copy cat. Not only can he copy anything he hears but he loves to do everything Jackson is doing. Like running around in your underwear with a tattoo on your belly and hanging upside down. Jace has the cutest boy face, with big eyes, long eye lashes, red cheeks, and his hair is always perfect, so thus I never do it. Jace is braniac smart ( you can tell I'm an unbiased mother). He could say full sentences at 16 months and hasn't stopped since then to express his opinion on any matter. You never have to guess how he is feeling, you will know! Jace has the biggest attitude and stubborn streak out of any of my kids but I just hope that he will use that to always be a stalwart boy in his values and character. Definitely not one to be influenced by others. Jace loves to sing and knows more of the words to songs than I do, and he's only 2. Maybe that's just not saying much of me.

THE LOVE OF A FAMILY IS LIFE'S GREATEST BLESSING
I love to watch my children play together, I cherish the moments that they laugh and help each other out. They will push each other around in boxes (except Mackenzie and Jace can't push Jackson, they do try though) or give each other blanket rides. I think it is so fun that as brothers and sister they already love each other. I couldn't ask for a better fit. I love being a mom and especially love my kids. I can't wait to see what the future holds for each of them! I know they are all special spirits (in a good way) from heaven and I hope I don't ruin them with my

shortcomings. Their dad will keep me from doing that I hope. So these are my three angels and three of my very best friends. I can't believe I've written this much, yeah really slow day at work. Definitely maxed out on my blogging capabilities for a few months. Until next blog . . . predicted to be in 4 months from now . . . Ciao!

"Let them be little . . . cuz they're only that way for a while."