Lucas turns 4!

Where has the time gone? Jason and I found our camcorder recently... wow!  Are we bad at moving files to our computer, or what?!  We found so many videos of Lucas at 1 and 2 years old... such a baby!  He is growing up way too fast!

Jack, of course, thought he was the one that was supposed to be unwrapping, so we had to pin him down and tickle him :)

An extremely silly Sully mask... the mouth and eye brows move when Lucas talks.  We were all belly laughing at how funny it looked :)

Jackson turns one!

Our adorable baby Jackson turned one year old on February 6th!  He has become such a happy, energetic, expressive little boy.  Jack is currently practicing his walking skills (refusing to let go of one of my fingers, of course), learning new words and phrases (such as "uh, oh"), and becoming proficient in quite a bit of baby sign language.

We are having so much fun watching you grow and learn!  We love you, Buddy!

I am not to be blamed for the blue icing... Daddy picked it :)

Tutus!

Wow, I am so far behind.  I just found pictures from the beginning of October that I haven't put up yet.  Stay tuned for those.  I promise I'll catch up :).

Okay, so I love my boys... but I'm a girly-girl.  I like pink and frills as much as the next chica.  I finally decided I'm going to have to satisfy my craving for tutus and ruffles with my friends' kids.

I just went through my friends in my head... most of the them have boys.

Thank you, Erin, for having a little girl!!!

She just celebrated her birthday a couple weeks ago, and I had the chance to finally put my girly Pinterest ideas to use!

TUTUS!!!!

Her favorite princesses are Sleeping Beauty and Tinkerbell.  (I think I had a little too much fun with Tinkerbell).  Treasures for Tots has a great tutu tutorial here and here.

Sleeping Beauty:

I made the length twice as long as in the tutorial to make it look more like a ball gown.

Tinkerbell:

Sorry there's no tutorial for the accessories (I, like normal, waited until the last minute to make these).  For the headbands, I found soft foam-covered headbands in the sewing section at Walmart and wrapped them in leftover ribbon.  The shoe clips are pompoms glued to those long snap hair clips.  The wings are tulle and ribbon wrapped around and hot-glued to molded floral wire, hot-glued to a ribbon-wrapped cardboard base.

Luc-athlon 2012

Lucas loves that his daddy runs mud obstacle races, so we decided to use that as a theme for his 3rd birthday party!

See how we did it after the break...

The starting gate:  5...4...3...2...1...Go!!!

Climbing through a rope web

Carrying logs as fast as you can from one point to another

Crawl, crawl!  (These are pool noodles set on plastic tent stakes)

 

Hop, hop, hop!

Through the tunnel...

Over the leaves (I think there were 3 big piles)

Past the gladiator! (It's just a baton-shaped pool noodle :) and to the finish line!

I found little medals at a party supply store to give the kids when they finished (see the second picture up above... that was his second time around).  The older kids were so competitive and so funny  to watch.

Dinner was made to look like a race concession stand.  I think I confused some people by my race menu (it was supposed to be a joke :)... oh well).  My brother said I should have done something like "Hot Dog...3 jumping jacks."

My sister made the obstacle course cake.

We ate hot dogs around a bonfire.  It was a cool night, but tolerably comfortable with the fire.  I didn't get pictures of the fire pit that night, but I did the day before (Hubby decided to test it out on the papers he cleared out of our filing cabinet). I'll post those pictures later... I think my camera fell in love :).  You'll have to come back and check it out.

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Happy 3rd Birthday, Lucas!

Lucas, My Buddy,

 You are growing up way too fast!

Before you were born, I craved holding you in my arms.  I loved being pregnant with you.  When I first felt your little flutters at 15 weeks, I cried tears of excitement.  The first time you rolled over, making my belly look like a tidal wave, I giggled hysterically.  Your kicks were so strong, I was thrown off balance.  Even then, your personality showed through.

You were stubborn... Daddy would sleep with his arm over my belly, but you let him know that you definitely didn't like that :).  Your tiny little foot would aim right for him. "Move, Daddy! This is my mommy!"

You were pensive.  Kick, kick, kick!  I would yell for Daddy to come feel you move.  As soon as he put his hand on my belly, though, you would stop.  If he moved his hand away, you would kick again.  Hand down... stop.  It was as if you were watching, feeling, wondering what this strange knew thing was.

3 days after my due date, I went in for an induction (that means my midwife told you that you needed to come out now :).  After 16 hours of attempting too prove how set you were to stay inside, I finally met you.  I cried tears of joy!

You were so heavy!  Nothing like the baby dolls we held in our Baby Boot Camp class :).  Solid.  Warm.  Red, swollen little face.  Wrinkled little fingers.  Ten perfect little toes. Dark curly hair... oh wait... it was just dirty... thick straight blonde hair.  No wonder I had so much heartburn.  Maybe that Old Wives Tale had some truth to it.

Lucas David Wright ~ 8 lbs 14.9 oz ~ 20.5 in.

I have loved watching you grow.  You are so intelligent, and happy, and quick-witted.  You have been a joy to be around.  I love watching you quietly take in your surroundings.  I love watching you when you confidently decide your place in those surroundings, walk up to another child, and say, "Hi!  My name is Lucas David Wright.  I'm six. Will you be my friend? Let's go play!"

Your laughter is infectious.  Your smile is beautiful.  Your heart is tender and sweet.  You are so thoughtful of others.  Your ear for music is amazing. Your sense of humor cracks me up (you sure had Daddy laughing pretty hard last night)!

My prayer for you is that you grow up strong and healthy, loving Christ as your Savior.  I pray, Lord-willing, for the little girl you will one day marry: that she will be a strong, godly young woman; a help-meet; your perfect match.

I love you, Lucas!