Friday, June 13, 2008

no greater joy...

I love this photo of Maribella; simply enjoying her lunch, but really just enjoying her family.... This has been such a sweet year of her wrapping up her 4's.  John and I just can not believe that she turned 5; it just sounds so old!  I think it is a combination of two things; her being our only girl and not wanting her to rush growing up (can't we just slow it down a bit?) and also her now being school age.  Something about my children becoming school age just speeds up life.  I think I must be getting old or something; I never felt this way when I was in my 20's.....
Killian was such a trooper at the ball field this spring.  Here he is enjoying a pear watching Channing's game.  He is such a doll-- that boy is always smiling, hanging out just taking it easy... He is finally just making the strides towards crawling.  Even in the past two days I am seeing him actually get a little aggressive (not his normal tendency at all) towards moving in the direction of something that he wants- probably food, you think?  Finley's pet name for Killian is "Chubba-Bubba" .  "Mom, Killy is so cuuute, he's a chubba bubba".  
Here he is with those gorgeous blues having his first outing to  the Oak Table for our Mother's Day tradition.  We had such a lovely day; my family spoiled me marvelously.....
"Mom, take my picture".   Avery is such a ham- and such a cutie... He really is such a love bug too.  This has been a great year for him all the way around.  With school he really loves to learn, and has progressed right along just absorbing health and science like crazy- oh yes, and math!  He loves math.  He is reading some challenging books and was right there with his big brothers taking notes on Islam from a lecture by our acclaimed scholar Bridget.  I was so proud of my 1st grader!
Daddy made my Mother's Day extra special; loving on me with time in Sequim at our favorite breakfast restaurant and my favorite boutique in Sequim where he let me choose a couple of things-- so fun!  As I type John is awaiting the final inspection on the beautiful home that he built for our friends in Scandia.  The house is fabulous; and everyone that I talk to who have walked through it are just raving!  I am so proud of John; this just adds to the list....

1 comment:

Anna said...

Well, that really doesn't surprise me that Killian is just now learning to crawl. Those roly-poly types seem to take a bit longer! I used to call Abby Chubba-wubba.