What you can find Madalyn doing...

Madalyn has really turned into a avid reader this last year. She is always reading, has finished an entire 5 set book series and is starting it over! I love this about her because neither me nor my husband ever really got into reading. I would love to sit down with a book, but I would get about halfway down the first page and I would hear "MOMMY!" Excuses, I know... I am just glad my daughter has found something all on her own that she loves!

Easter 2010 (Reese's first!)

The girls Easter baskets from the Easter Bunny! There was a trail of eggs from Sophie and Reese's rooms, and a trail going down the stairs for Madalyn and Loraly.
Here is Reese with her first Easter basket! (and her infected eye) :o(

Loraly hunting eggs.

Madalyn hunting...

Sophie FINALLY got in the grass to hunt for eggs. She didn't want to get dirty or wet...

All of beautiful girls...I am so blessed!

Reese's Nursery******(for Shannon) :o)

Just wanted to post some pics of Reese's nursery. We really hadn't done a lot with it since she slept in our room for so long. We rarely even went in there except to get clothes. But she is officially sleeping in her own room now, so we moved the cradle out of our room and into her room, cleaned up my scrap booking stuff (yes, I was using her room to scrap book) and now have it pretty for her :o)

SeRiOuSlY!!!

We have been through the ringer!!

So as long as I can remember, we have been going to the doctor for at least one kid every week since right before Christmas! It started the week before Christmas when Loraly has ear infections. We went from that to a month later her and Sophie having the flu! and Reese having ear infections, 2 weeks later Madalyn having strep and ear infections, a month later Madalyn having yet strep again and ear infections!, now we are hear again with Reese having ear infections, strep, and RSV!!! Poor thing, she has lost 9 ounces in the last 2 weeks! Not good for such a tiny body. The doctor said her lungs are having to work so hard that it is causing her to lose the weight.

What is a momma to do!?

We have been on so many medicines lately! My counter looked like a pharmacy SeRiOuSlY! I love and adore my children but have got to get them well! If this weather cooperates we can get outside and hopefully kill some of these germs!

3/4 of my girls are or have been on breathing treatments in the last 2 months!

2/4 of them are currently on allergy meds and will be for the unforeseeable future.

Please say a special prayer for our family (and others who are fighting illnesses) to get well! It is so hard to watch your child suffer! And it is tiresome, miserable, and devastating when you are having to watch/ care for so many of them being sick at the same time.

My oh My where have the days gone...

March 1st, 2001 changed my life in a way I would have never imagined! God chose me to be Madalyn's Mommy. She came into my life so sweet, precious, and absolutely perfect in every way! She turned 9 yesterday and what an amazing 9 years it has been! She is and has always been so beautiful, sweet, caring, respectful, honest, compassionate, and MINE (well, and Mark's)!

We have enjoyed the last 9 years watching her grow, leaving her while I worked the first 5 years, watching her dance in ballet/ tap/ jazz/ hip hop, become best buds with Paul, being by her side as she told him bye, leaving her at kindergarten with Mrs. Humphrey, watching her become such a smart girl, overcoming a speech delay, becoming such an awesome and compassionate reader, watching her become a big sister, bigger sister, and the biggest sister :o)

Madalyn we have loved each and everyday God has given us with you! You are amazing, brilliant, and the most special first born daughter! We fell so deeply in love with you, that we insisted we wanted more daughters! You were and still are wonderful to us and your sisters and we are so proud to call you ours!

I love you and Happy 9th Birthday!

Reeses 4 month stats

Weight: 14 lbs 8 oz

Length: 27 in

Head Circumference: 17 in

And these are the percentages:

Length = above percentile 95

Weight = between percentile 50 and 75

Head Circumference = between percentile 90 and 95

WOW...I had thought she was small for her age...boy was I wrong!

My last but not least

Becoming a mommy was always what I said I was meant to be when "I grew up". I love each and everyone of my girls! They are all so precious in their own unique ways.

*Madalyn taught me how to be a Mommy. To love, care, and want to give my life for her.

*Loraly taught me patience, nurturing, and resiliency. She is so exciting to be around!

*Sophie taught me joy. She is the light of my life, my sunshine on a rainy day. Such a blessing!

*Reese is my angel. I never knew I wanted another baby girl until God placed her in my womb, and then in my arms on September 10, 2009. She is awesome, loving, sweet, perfect in every way!

Thank you God for my girls! Please make me be a better Mommy to them each and everyday. They are precious and wonderfully made. They deserve the best!

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