Life with my sister

We woke up yesterday morning to snow,snow, snow! Henry saw snow when he was 3 weeks old but it was nothing like this. He did not know what to think about it. He was not fond of how bright it was. We heard kids playing in it down the street and it made us long for the day he will be out in it making snow angels and snowmen in the yard. This is what it looks like at our house. We are snowed in as you can see. I don't know about you but I am ready to hide Easter eggs and be done with this Winter mess. Urrggh! Abby

One of the benefits of homeschooling is that our schedule is flexible. We can decide to go out of town and not have to worry about the kids missing school. We can have school in the morning, afternoon, night, weekends, whenever we want. We can do 2-3 days worth of school in one day and other days we barely get through one days worth of work. The flexibility has me spoiled. The dilemma of homeschooling is that my kids know the public school schedule. They know that school was out for MLK day and will be out for President's Day. Our school does not take those 2 days off. And they also know that today the public school was let out at 8:45 because there of ice in the trees. So my dilemma is to have school or not. I've decided that since the public schools went to school for an hour, we will also do a little bit of school. The kids seem fine with it, since they enjoy what we will be doing. Test prep for the standardized test they take in April. I think I have strange kids! Julie

Warning: PICTURE HEAVY Henry and I headed west this past weekend to visit the Fort. He was anxious to meet more family and friends. We traveled with Nana and that made it fun since Daddy had to stay home and work. It was a fun filled weekend with lots of hugs, kisses and sweet faces. Henry and I loved being at Marmie's for his first overnight visit. Marmie was most excited to have her newest baby boy at her house. Henry was the handsome guest of honor at a sip & see hosted by our dear friend Genia. She threw the party for Marmie's friends and family to come meet Henry. (sip on cider or tea and see the baby - in case you are wondering) Marmie loved showing him off and he was such a good boy. He never made a sound the whole 3 hours he was on display. He is near perfect, I must admit! All of us girls loved seeing all of our old family friends and our family that lives near by. It was such a special day. Genia really knows how to throw a party and love on babies. Henry was ...

Today Henry and I took a quick trip across the Mighty Mississippi to see Mama's former work friends, Grandaddy and to go to Ross Dress for Less. He was such a little trooper being in his carseat/stroller most of the day. Seeing Grandaddy is a given when we cross the bridge. No visit is complete with out a little G'Daddy love for the Henster. He sat with us at Wendy's while I fed Henry and then he strolled Henry around Ross while I tried on a few dresses and such. He made up a song for Henry and sang it out loud in the store. The sad thing is that it did not embarrass me. I was just glad he was able to keep our little mister content and happy. Henry appreciated the paci patrol more than anything. Thanks, Grandaddy. We got lots of love from our Aunt Babs and Sassy while on our trip to ECS today. Babs loved showing Henry off to everyone and we loved seeing Sassy for the first time since the weekend we found out Henry was a boy. It had been WAY too long. We had some good laug...

Thank you for all the Disney help! I think we have finally decided where to stay and when to go. Now to make reservations for dinner and breakfast! I haven't been to Disney World since 1985. I went for one day with some relatives. I remember riding Space Mountain and the parade. And that's it. And I was 15! I sure hope my kids remember more than one ride and a parade. When I called Disney for information the girl asked if I had ever visited before. And then she asked when, I told her, and she giggled. Giggled! My guess is she wasn't even alive in 1985 and probably doesn't think Disney Word existed. Well, it did. I don't know how much of it existed, but I know Space Mountain was there. A couple of days later I called Disney again. The girl that answered reviewed my information that I had given last time and said "and the last time you visited was in 1995". I corrected her! The other girl didn't even believe me. She couldn't believe that there was ...

Wearing blue jeans and loafers like a big boy makes Henry happy and dapper. It also makes Mama laugh and Daddy beam with pride. He truly is most precious, isn't he?! Daddy called him "Henry High Pockets" because of his jeans being too big and pulled up all the way. So cute. His first trip to Target made Henry gitty...and it made his Mama both nervous and glad. Mama loves Target and having my baby boy with me made it even better. Despite the white trash woman who got 'tude with me in the check-out and shoved my cart with Henry in it, we had a nice trip. Yes...she did! Anyway, I chose Target for this outing instead of Walmart because I felt less chaos and germs would be at Target. I failed to think of the classless breed of folk that seem to be everywhere I go. Oh well, he is now aware that there are classless folk in this world and they follow Mama everywhere she goes. Bless his heart! Ms. Melissa makes Henry get a warm fuzzy feeling inside. He is glad that someone b...

Henry smiled for the first time at 3:00 this morning while I was up feeding him. It was priceless. He has not done it since and I hope he does it again soon so his Daddy will see it. His Daddy is sitting on the couch looking at him waiting for him to to do it again. Poor Daddy...lucky Mama! Abby 15 minutes after I posted this Henry smiled 5 times in a row and his Daddy saw 2 of them! We are complete mush at this house.

This is my "Good Friend" who spends her day off every Wednesday coming over after she drops off her children to keep mine so I can go run errands and such. She does it because she wants to. I never ask. She is a God send to me. Her family is so precious to us. We are so much alike, yet different. We joke with her, but mean it, when we say, "Melissa, you know you are a good friend, right?" because she would always call me and say, "Girl, you know I am a good friend, right?" We have a good time, for sure! Our family loved meeting her at the hospital while I was in labor. Randall's Dad asked me how she and I ever get a word in with each other....we both talk nonstop! Henry adores Ms. Melissa and looks forward to his Wednesday visits with her until his Mama goes back to work. Abby

I am planning a Disney trip for June. And I'm confused, panicy and have almost decided to bribe the children into not going!! If you have any helps, pointers, ideas, charts, maps, logs or journals you could loan me I would SO VERY MUCH appreciate it. I was looking at making a reservation at Cinderella's Royal Table for breakfast and it says you have to make them 180 days out. AAAAHHHHH , I'm 154 days out! Have I missed the window for reservations? See what I mean? I need HELP!!!! If you don't want to comment, you can email me at cooljules 143 at hotmail .com or message me on facebook . Please help a girl out! Julie

This is Henry getting an upper GI test. It looks sad, but he actually really enjoyed it, sadly enough. The heart paci in his mouth makes me smile. Poor baby. He has reflux and we are trying our best to get him relief. Between formula change, meds , and other tricks, we are trying to get drama free feedings around here. Pray for our little guy's GI tract to mature quickly! Henry's Nonnie (Randall's mother) came to meet him over the weekend. He enjoys his weekend company. He has yet to have a weekend without a grandparent...spoiled boy! Nonnie got to feed Henry. Our feedings are sometimes pretty stressful because of the reflux. He sure is cute when he eats though. We love all his fun burp rags (He has 22 burp rags and they are ALL monogrammed....LOVE IT!) and looking into his little eyes as he gulps as fast as he can. So cute, he is. Henry is more alert each day. The only toy he pays any attention to these days is his new gloworm he got from Hollye , Claire and Thew f...