That's what I need to do to ensure I don't miss documenting all of our passing memories :) I have come to terms with the fact that I shall never keep up with this thing as much as I would like... so be it. If I can take those extra moments and spend them with my family or friends (imagine that), then my time is well served. I capture what I can with pictures, videos, and notes jotted here and there in a calendar. What is lost, at least remains in my heart :)
Well, onto some updates!
Mia Grace - 3 years old! Wow... I can hardly believe it. She is such a precious girl. Yep, no baby, no toddler, she is my official little "Big Girl". She is coming out of her shell, though she is clearly an introvert at heart. She really needs her down time after being around a lot of people (aka every Tues/Thurs after preschool or Sunday after church). She loves her little sister (who she affectionately calls "Little Girl") so as to nicely point out she is a "Big Girl". She loves to play chase me, which consists of one of us chasing her through the kitchen/dining room/living room for an endless amount of time. She loves to read, she loves to sing and will do so at random and melt me every time. She has memorized the following verses - with her own little pronunciations and missing words (Joshua 1:9. Proverbs 3:5-6, Philippians 4:4, Genesis 1:1, John 3:16, Matthew 4:19, Luke 1:37) though we now sometimes get our references confused. She loves to build towers with her blocks and then tear them down. She loves to rider her bike and scooter. She ADORES bouncing at UBounce with her daddy. She is a mommy's girl at heart - kills Daddy sometimes but gets mommy through the tough parts of not being here as much. She is potty trained 98% (moved back to pull ups at night after a couple set backs due to crazy schedules). She looks just like me (or so everyone says). She plays hard, cries hard, loves hard, fights hard and just flat out lets you know what she thinks when she thinks it. (Provided she is not being shy in the first 5 minutes she meets you). She loves to snuggle. She loves to comfort Anna Beth with songs when she is upset. She loves to hug and kiss and always asks for just one more when we leave or go to bed. She is an incredibly sweet soul.
Anna Beth is 14 months old and our little Blonde Haired Blue Eyed Beauty - Yep, she didn't lose either! Crazy I know. She is so different than Mia Grace and we cherish and celebrate that! She is a Daddy's girl. She is an extrovert - aka she will go to anyone (provided she doesn't think we are leaving her). She talks to everyone in her "Dat" language. She can say Da Da, YYYeeeSSS, make a dog sound, a cat sound, a snake sound and a duck sound (though you likely wouldn't know what they were if we didn't tell you). She is passionate. She is silly. She is a rough and tumbler who is always trying to keep up with her big sister whom she adores. She is a great night sleeper who is trying to give up her morning nap yet fighting to keep it all the same. She still sleeps in the pack n play in the playroom as we can't seem to bite the bullet to move her into MG's room and she doesn't care. She loves to play. She will sit in her bed and read for 30 minutes at nap time and wakes up happy. She only has 3 (going on 5 teeth) and thinks now she may not want to drink out of a bottle or a sippy cup but prefers a big girl cup. She knows where her nose and head and feet are. She listens to everything and tests everything. She loves to cuddle at bed time. She loves to be held. She LOVES animals of all kind and lights up at the sight of them. She melts me with her smile and laugh and open mouth kisses. She loves being chased, she loves throwing balls, she loves wrestling and tickling and playing. She is just full of love and for that I am thankful.
We are so blessed the Lord has entrusted to guide them in this crazy world and seek to do so in a way that honors and glorifys Him. I pray each day that I do so and when I fail that His grace would be sufficient to make up for my failings.
Daniel and I are doing well. Work for me is crazy. Reffing is in full swing for Daniel. Our Fellowship Group is growing and teaching us more about life and ministry and loving others as Christ loves us. We seek to balance life and work and family and though we often fail we are grateful for those who love us through it all. Thanks for reading. Thanks for sharing your lives with us. Keep praying for us.
sweet dreams...
The good, the bad and all the FUN of the Fisher Four!
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
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Monday, August 29, 2011
A Mama's Thoughts...
I love the blogging world... I just wish I had time to keep up!
Working and raising 2 precious daughters really keeps me occupied. I barely have time for life much less documenting it.
Life is good in our Fisher Four world though. For all the sleepless nights and stressful days, I am reminded how blessed I am to be entrusted with the care of 2 beautiful daughters. Our God is so gracious to grant me this amazing opportunity and I simply pray I can serve Him well in the way I raise them.
Pictures to follow!
Mia Grace update: 2 years and 7 months old and growing each day!
She has such a sweet spirit. She loves to kiss and hug and really can melt just about anyones heart. She has a shy tendency around anyone she hasn't met or seen in a while but give her 10-15 minutes and the Mia Grace show will begin. Her words are flourishing and she loves to be acknowledged when she says something new. She is really formulating her sentences well these days, she loves to sing and shout and adores making Anna Beth laugh. She is 95% potty trained and is a ball full of energy. The child can keep going and going and going like none other! She gives the best hugs (even when they might be after her 15th time coming out of her room at bed time). She is in a big girl bed though currently alternates between her toddler bed, blow up toddler air mattress and the floor. This has been a fun journey (cough cough cough). She starts 2 a day preschool next week and I can hardly believe it. I feel like it was just yesterday she was so tiny and yet here she is, going off to school! Craziness for sure. She prayed for dinner the other night and about made this Mama cry. I truly am blessed to be her Mother.
Anna Beth Update: 9 Months old - 16lbs 15 oz (18th percent), 27 in (I think - somewhere around 50%), and a big head! (90%) which is FULL of beautiful blonde hair!
She is such a happy girl! She really lights up a room. Daniel and I always enjoy just wearing her in the baby bjorn and watching people react to her because it is always such a delight. She just has a way of making just about anyone smile. She still adores her big sister and is constantly attempting to take away whatever it is Mia Grace has (particularly her Dora milk cup or her snack cup). I do believe this is a forshadowing of our future life with 2 daughters. She has no desire to crawl, though she does humor us with almost a minute of tummy time now. She would prefer to stand all day and even think she can walk. She learned this by "walking" in her float in the pool. I would not be surprised to see her learn to walk before she crawls. She still battles refulx but we are managing through the tough nights anyway. One of her favorite games to play is "Where's Anna Beth?". Daniel figured this out by putting her swaddle blanket over her head one day (yep, still one arm swaddled at night). We put it on her head and say "Where's Anna Beth?" and she starts squealing and pulls it off her face with a huge smile. It is too precious. She also adores being frontward in the Baby Bjorn. She would sit in that thing all day if we let her and just kick to her hearts content! Her newest joy is solid foods! She seems to have taken a dislike for baby food and only wants stuff she can munch on. Very different from her big sister that's for sure. She warms my spirit daily and even as I rock her in the middle of the night I remember these moments last only for a brief instant and she helps me cherish them daily.
A lot of random thoughts but my hearts feelings none the less. I really do want to update more but this will do for now. I love my girls, my husband, you my dear friends and most importantly my Lord. My days may be long and the journey may feel long at times but for all these things I give thanks today and remember how truly blessed I am.
Working and raising 2 precious daughters really keeps me occupied. I barely have time for life much less documenting it.
Life is good in our Fisher Four world though. For all the sleepless nights and stressful days, I am reminded how blessed I am to be entrusted with the care of 2 beautiful daughters. Our God is so gracious to grant me this amazing opportunity and I simply pray I can serve Him well in the way I raise them.
Pictures to follow!
Mia Grace update: 2 years and 7 months old and growing each day!
She has such a sweet spirit. She loves to kiss and hug and really can melt just about anyones heart. She has a shy tendency around anyone she hasn't met or seen in a while but give her 10-15 minutes and the Mia Grace show will begin. Her words are flourishing and she loves to be acknowledged when she says something new. She is really formulating her sentences well these days, she loves to sing and shout and adores making Anna Beth laugh. She is 95% potty trained and is a ball full of energy. The child can keep going and going and going like none other! She gives the best hugs (even when they might be after her 15th time coming out of her room at bed time). She is in a big girl bed though currently alternates between her toddler bed, blow up toddler air mattress and the floor. This has been a fun journey (cough cough cough). She starts 2 a day preschool next week and I can hardly believe it. I feel like it was just yesterday she was so tiny and yet here she is, going off to school! Craziness for sure. She prayed for dinner the other night and about made this Mama cry. I truly am blessed to be her Mother.
Anna Beth Update: 9 Months old - 16lbs 15 oz (18th percent), 27 in (I think - somewhere around 50%), and a big head! (90%) which is FULL of beautiful blonde hair!
She is such a happy girl! She really lights up a room. Daniel and I always enjoy just wearing her in the baby bjorn and watching people react to her because it is always such a delight. She just has a way of making just about anyone smile. She still adores her big sister and is constantly attempting to take away whatever it is Mia Grace has (particularly her Dora milk cup or her snack cup). I do believe this is a forshadowing of our future life with 2 daughters. She has no desire to crawl, though she does humor us with almost a minute of tummy time now. She would prefer to stand all day and even think she can walk. She learned this by "walking" in her float in the pool. I would not be surprised to see her learn to walk before she crawls. She still battles refulx but we are managing through the tough nights anyway. One of her favorite games to play is "Where's Anna Beth?". Daniel figured this out by putting her swaddle blanket over her head one day (yep, still one arm swaddled at night). We put it on her head and say "Where's Anna Beth?" and she starts squealing and pulls it off her face with a huge smile. It is too precious. She also adores being frontward in the Baby Bjorn. She would sit in that thing all day if we let her and just kick to her hearts content! Her newest joy is solid foods! She seems to have taken a dislike for baby food and only wants stuff she can munch on. Very different from her big sister that's for sure. She warms my spirit daily and even as I rock her in the middle of the night I remember these moments last only for a brief instant and she helps me cherish them daily.
A lot of random thoughts but my hearts feelings none the less. I really do want to update more but this will do for now. I love my girls, my husband, you my dear friends and most importantly my Lord. My days may be long and the journey may feel long at times but for all these things I give thanks today and remember how truly blessed I am.
Saturday, April 2, 2011
My Sweet Blessings...
So I have kind of failed at staying on top of the whole blogging thing. But you know, its ok. I work all day and have but a few precious hours each night with the two most precious girls in the world so if that means I don't document as much as I would like, so be it.
Anna Beth is 4 months old now and such a doll. She is so much more talkative than Mia Grace ever was and she has this smile that will melt me at any time. She was 12lbs 6oz at her 4 month appointment and was 24 inches long. She LOVES her daddy and to watch her big sister be crazy. She is still sleeping in a chair/rocker because of her reflux but she usually eats around 7/8 and goes until 6/7 the next morning which is wonderful. She is doing much better with her tummy time and is really working on grabbing toys. She rolled over for the first time at her 4 month appointment and had the most amazing gigglefest on the 25th as we were having a family dance to one of the Beach Boys songs for "Beach Boys Friday". Yep, Daniel and Mia Grace have "Beach Boys Friday" where they play the Beach Boys greatest hits and dance. It's fabulous and Anna Beth seemed to agree. She started laughing and couldn't stop. Such a wonderful memory. We are so thankful for her and the joy she brings to us. Her hair is still super blonde/light brown and her eyes are still that beautiful baby blue. Her hair is actually so long that it gets tangled in her sleep. Who would have thought a baby could have that much hair!
Mia Grace is growing by the hour... really... it amazes me more and more every day. She is talking and mimicking like crazy so we have to be very careful with our words. She loves to draw and color with chalk. Her newest fascination is sitting on top of a storage box in her playroom and "Reading" her books. She will sit there for a good 20 minutes taking them out one by one to read them. She is very close to being potty trained thanks to her "2 Treats" which are the 2 mini marshmallows she gets when she uses the toilet. She actually pooped on the potty for the first time 2 days ago all without telling anyone. She loves her sister and wants to kiss and hug her all the time. She has also started some not so awesome meltdowns where she throws her things and has taken to wake up screaming to get up at about 6 each morning. We hope these last two behaviors subside soon. She is such a precious sweet spirit. She loves to sing now too and will sing along with all her nursery rhymes and kids praise songs. We must sing Twinkle Twinkle, Itsy Bitsy Spider, Wheels on the Bus and Hot Potato each night at bed time. Routines make her happy :) She also has really started to soak in what we tell her about Jesus and associates crosses and Easter with Him which is pretty amazing...
Well, I had to stop to go feed the littlest Fisher so alas my train of thought is broken.... for now here are a couple of pictures of my most beautiful girls until I blog again...
Anna Beth is 4 months old now and such a doll. She is so much more talkative than Mia Grace ever was and she has this smile that will melt me at any time. She was 12lbs 6oz at her 4 month appointment and was 24 inches long. She LOVES her daddy and to watch her big sister be crazy. She is still sleeping in a chair/rocker because of her reflux but she usually eats around 7/8 and goes until 6/7 the next morning which is wonderful. She is doing much better with her tummy time and is really working on grabbing toys. She rolled over for the first time at her 4 month appointment and had the most amazing gigglefest on the 25th as we were having a family dance to one of the Beach Boys songs for "Beach Boys Friday". Yep, Daniel and Mia Grace have "Beach Boys Friday" where they play the Beach Boys greatest hits and dance. It's fabulous and Anna Beth seemed to agree. She started laughing and couldn't stop. Such a wonderful memory. We are so thankful for her and the joy she brings to us. Her hair is still super blonde/light brown and her eyes are still that beautiful baby blue. Her hair is actually so long that it gets tangled in her sleep. Who would have thought a baby could have that much hair!
Mia Grace is growing by the hour... really... it amazes me more and more every day. She is talking and mimicking like crazy so we have to be very careful with our words. She loves to draw and color with chalk. Her newest fascination is sitting on top of a storage box in her playroom and "Reading" her books. She will sit there for a good 20 minutes taking them out one by one to read them. She is very close to being potty trained thanks to her "2 Treats" which are the 2 mini marshmallows she gets when she uses the toilet. She actually pooped on the potty for the first time 2 days ago all without telling anyone. She loves her sister and wants to kiss and hug her all the time. She has also started some not so awesome meltdowns where she throws her things and has taken to wake up screaming to get up at about 6 each morning. We hope these last two behaviors subside soon. She is such a precious sweet spirit. She loves to sing now too and will sing along with all her nursery rhymes and kids praise songs. We must sing Twinkle Twinkle, Itsy Bitsy Spider, Wheels on the Bus and Hot Potato each night at bed time. Routines make her happy :) She also has really started to soak in what we tell her about Jesus and associates crosses and Easter with Him which is pretty amazing...
Well, I had to stop to go feed the littlest Fisher so alas my train of thought is broken.... for now here are a couple of pictures of my most beautiful girls until I blog again...
Sweet Mia Grace - 2 Years
Cute Anna Beth - 4 Months
Friday, February 4, 2011
So hard....
Leaving my girls each day to go back to work has been harder than I could have imagined....
Leaning on Him....
Thankful for an amazing husband who loves us so...
Focusing on being grateful....
Leaning on Him....
Thankful for an amazing husband who loves us so...
Focusing on being grateful....
Thursday, January 20, 2011
A Bit Behind...
So I was really in the swing of things and then life with 2 kids caught up with me... :)
I suppose I should get used to the feeling of being behind, though anyone who knows me gets how difficult that is to comprehend!
In absence of lots of wonderful blogs with pictures and memories I am going to try and do some quick hits and maybe add pictures later. It will probably be a bit disjointed as I am actually terribly sick with a head cold so bear with me! :)
Anna Beth is now almost 2 months old! Time has certainly flown by. She is sweet as can be and I can finally start to see her emerging from just a life of reflux and gas (though these two things do mostly occupy her waking and sleeping time). She has started "talking" to us more regularly and actually wants to be entertained more. She looks more and more like her daddy every day (except for the silly blonde hair) and she loves to look at us. She is much bigger than her sister was at this age but seems to be developing at about the same pace. Her smiles seem to still be gas related but I don't care, I cherish them anyway. She eats about every 3 hours during the day and we are slowly getting her into sleeping in the pack n play or cradle though she still mostly sleeps in one our many baby seats. I cherish our feeding times even if they are still a bit stressful to start (thankfully I can just let down into a towel instead of pumping now) and there is nothing sweeter than where she is right now which is asleep on my chest. I didn't know my heart could love any more than it did but it grows each day!
Mia Grace is now 2 and full of love/joy/energy/craziness/independence and all that goes along with being 2. She is such a light in our world and I am so thankful for the 4 months I have been able to spend at home with her. She has grown up before my eyes and I am constantly amazed at what she knows and can do. She is trying to say everything we say and her vocabulary grows by the day. She knows words and stories I had no idea she knew and she will happily repeat any word she hears (though often its only understandable if you were the one who just said the word). She loves to tell you NO and if she starts doing something she knows she is not supposed to and you catch her, she will look at you and say "No No". She clearly knows right from wrong and loves to do "wrong". She has started saying "luh-you" at nap/bed time which melts my heart and when daddy puts her to bed she always wants to come and give mommy a kiss. She loves her baby sister (sometimes to much) and really seems to be adjusting well. She laughs, plays and just wants to be with us which I cherish.
One of my favorite memories from her 2 year old birthday trip to the Great Wolf Lodge was when we tried to put her down for her nap. We had just arrived about 30 minutes before and she was super excited to be running around the room and jumping on the bed (and even walking out of the room and WAY down the hall before daddy knew she was gone). She wanted NOTHING to do with her nap and when I told her she had to sleep she tried a great trick. She plays a game with us where she says "sEEp" and then we lie on the ground together and she counts to 3 and says "wake-UH". So we put her in the pack n play screaming and she would drop down, lie down sobbing and yell .... 1-2-3 "wake-UH" over and over again. It was so pitiful but so hysterical.
We had a blast at the lodge, Anna Beth slept most of the time and Mia Grace played like a champ. We have been trying to do all the things I don't usually get to do while I am home and have gone to the Science Museum, Little Gym (which she is now enrolled in and we are super excited to watch her blossom), walks, games, you name it. Each moment is a moment to treasure.
My two girls are truly the light of my life and I am so thankful for them. I have an incredible husband who loves us and cares for us tremendously and I am so blessed. I have a little over a week left before my world is rocked by returning to work and I look forward to cherishing every second I have left.
I suppose I should get used to the feeling of being behind, though anyone who knows me gets how difficult that is to comprehend!
In absence of lots of wonderful blogs with pictures and memories I am going to try and do some quick hits and maybe add pictures later. It will probably be a bit disjointed as I am actually terribly sick with a head cold so bear with me! :)
Anna Beth is now almost 2 months old! Time has certainly flown by. She is sweet as can be and I can finally start to see her emerging from just a life of reflux and gas (though these two things do mostly occupy her waking and sleeping time). She has started "talking" to us more regularly and actually wants to be entertained more. She looks more and more like her daddy every day (except for the silly blonde hair) and she loves to look at us. She is much bigger than her sister was at this age but seems to be developing at about the same pace. Her smiles seem to still be gas related but I don't care, I cherish them anyway. She eats about every 3 hours during the day and we are slowly getting her into sleeping in the pack n play or cradle though she still mostly sleeps in one our many baby seats. I cherish our feeding times even if they are still a bit stressful to start (thankfully I can just let down into a towel instead of pumping now) and there is nothing sweeter than where she is right now which is asleep on my chest. I didn't know my heart could love any more than it did but it grows each day!
Mia Grace is now 2 and full of love/joy/energy/craziness/independence and all that goes along with being 2. She is such a light in our world and I am so thankful for the 4 months I have been able to spend at home with her. She has grown up before my eyes and I am constantly amazed at what she knows and can do. She is trying to say everything we say and her vocabulary grows by the day. She knows words and stories I had no idea she knew and she will happily repeat any word she hears (though often its only understandable if you were the one who just said the word). She loves to tell you NO and if she starts doing something she knows she is not supposed to and you catch her, she will look at you and say "No No". She clearly knows right from wrong and loves to do "wrong". She has started saying "luh-you" at nap/bed time which melts my heart and when daddy puts her to bed she always wants to come and give mommy a kiss. She loves her baby sister (sometimes to much) and really seems to be adjusting well. She laughs, plays and just wants to be with us which I cherish.
One of my favorite memories from her 2 year old birthday trip to the Great Wolf Lodge was when we tried to put her down for her nap. We had just arrived about 30 minutes before and she was super excited to be running around the room and jumping on the bed (and even walking out of the room and WAY down the hall before daddy knew she was gone). She wanted NOTHING to do with her nap and when I told her she had to sleep she tried a great trick. She plays a game with us where she says "sEEp" and then we lie on the ground together and she counts to 3 and says "wake-UH". So we put her in the pack n play screaming and she would drop down, lie down sobbing and yell .... 1-2-3 "wake-UH" over and over again. It was so pitiful but so hysterical.
We had a blast at the lodge, Anna Beth slept most of the time and Mia Grace played like a champ. We have been trying to do all the things I don't usually get to do while I am home and have gone to the Science Museum, Little Gym (which she is now enrolled in and we are super excited to watch her blossom), walks, games, you name it. Each moment is a moment to treasure.
My two girls are truly the light of my life and I am so thankful for them. I have an incredible husband who loves us and cares for us tremendously and I am so blessed. I have a little over a week left before my world is rocked by returning to work and I look forward to cherishing every second I have left.
Monday, December 20, 2010
Remind Me....
Some days I feel overwhelmed.
Some days I am just a jerk to my husband.
Some days I feel like I just can't do anything right.
Some days I focus so much on what's not going right.
Then I see these sweet faces and remember God has blessed me beyond belief and I have so much to be grateful for.
Some days I am just a jerk to my husband.
Some days I feel like I just can't do anything right.
Some days I focus so much on what's not going right.
Then I see these sweet faces and remember God has blessed me beyond belief and I have so much to be grateful for.
Trials come and go but He is good all the time.
These moments are but a blink of an eye and I shall cherish each one, good, bad, crazy, stressful, tearful, joyful and all.
When I forget, remind me!
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