update on kiddos and life

I've missed blogging...These kiddos have kept me busy...

Beckham at 2 weeks

(photo credit: Natalie Grace Photography)

 Beckham with big brother at 14 weeks

It's hard to believe that it's been almost 4 months since Beckham was born. What's even harder to believe is that Lincoln will be 4 in about a month! CRAZY!!! He is growing into such a big boy. A little man really. Some of the things he comes up with cracks me up and I wonder to my self, "what in the world? where did he come up with that?!" I really should write them down. (cuz now I can't come up with any...)

My favorite thing about Lincoln right now is his imagination. From pretending to be Iron Man, playing Blue's Clues (he always makes me Blue...), to building robots. I decided that for his birthday, we will be getting him some big boy Legos! He's doing the best he can with what he's got now, which isn't a whole lot!

I've been trying to do preschool with him. But with baby and house work and lack of motivation....yea...I'm terrible at it...anyways...This is a new week...

Beckham is growing WAY TO FAST!!! I'm thinking he's my last baby and I don't want to let go, miss anything, or make him grow too fast! He's a very smiley baby and LOVES his daddy! He enjoys watching big brother and has just found a new growl/voice thing...it's so cute!

Right now Lincoln are waiting excitedly for Uncle Ken and Aunt RuthAnn to get in. They are moving to Greenville from Colorado and should be here soon! RuthAnn will be traveling with the quartet (that Joe travels with,) playing the piano. We are excited for this opportunity for them and happy to have family in town! With that happening, Joe and I have been looking for a house to buy thinking this might mean we will be here longer. 

so...kids, house hunting, in-laws moving in town, some preschooling, church, and family time...I'll TRY to fit blogging in there. What should I blog about?

A look into our week

Who doesn't love Pinterest? Besides the fact that it tends to steal hours upon hours from you and it's SO addicting!!!! 

Well, I found a few recipes that I couldn't pass up and wanted to try. I don't usually take pictures, but since I'm in a blogging mood, I couldn't blog this without taking pictures! :)

You can find the recipe for these Breakfast Sandwiches in the link. I actually made them for supper and froze the rest for later! We were in a "breakfast for dinner" kind of mood that night!

 The cooked eggs in my muffin tin! I had beaten them a little bit just so that the yolk was broken up.

 I even cooked the bacon in the oven this time! I've never done that before and I'm never going back to stove top bacon cooking! :)

I froze the egg, bacon, cheese, and muffin separately before I wrapped together. Wrapping them brought back memories of working in the sub shop at the gas station in my home town. 

We ate our "breakfast for dinner" with bagels instead of muffins and they were AWESOME!!! I love finding recipes that Joe likes and Pinterest has been a HUGE lifesaver! (I'm one that tends to make repeat meals week after week because of lack of ideas and or creativity!) So, I'm adding this one to the list of a successful meal to make again!

Our now a peak into our week of preschool with Lincoln!

 C is for Caterpillar

 I LOVE capturing these kind of shots! :)

Joseph's coat of many colors made from a coffee filter!

And the rest of the day was spent outside! Can not believe the beautiful weather we're having! And to think that it's the same temperature in Michigan as it is here! WOW!!! Hope it lasts for a little while and we're not in for a HOT summer!  

Any favorite Pinterest finds you'd like to share?! I'm always up for some good pins to add to my board! :)

Preschool with Lincoln - Noah's Ark!

I've been kind of behind with Lincoln's preschool. We're only on week five of the curriculum, and we skipped review week... Sad, I know. But the weather's been beautiful, and with dr. appointments, playdates and stuff....we've been slowing taking out time. Hopefully this week will run smoother, but I'm not counting on it. It's supposed to be in the mid 70's - low 80's this week and I plan on using that to our advantage!!!!

Anyways....

Here's how our week is beginning to look like. We are on the story of Noah's Ark. We're looking forward to making rainbows later on this week! (link to the curriculum I use)

The Letter of the week is B. So we made 'b' things and made them blue.

A 'B' butterfly that has blue glitter! Glitter's always fun!

I took these in between break/lunch time and he had a treat of watching Blue's Clues, so he wasn't too interested in showing off his crafts at that moment!!!

He made Blue and got to watch with her!

This week our memory verse is: John 14:15 "If you love me, you will obey what I command."

We also worked on cutting with scissors, and our new number of the week is the number 3. I hope to post more later on in the week. Monday's are always hard to jump into. At least he slept in this morning instead of waking up before the sun like last week! (Thank you daylight savings time change!!!)

Recent updates on Lincoln's life: It seems every week there's something new that he's doing that makes me just stare at him and wonder where my baby boy went?! Like just the other day, I swear, he aged 4 whole years in front of me. He no longer had the baby boy image...He was a BOY.

Here's how it went down: He decided to use the big potty. (which happens on occasion, not that unusual.) But this time he was on a mission... He pulled his step stool UP to the BIG toilet and PEED STANDING UP!!!....Sorry...but maybe you moms out there with boys will understand what I'm going through right now...But this is BIG. I don't know what it is, but it's a big deal for me!!! *ok, I'll stop now....sorry*

Lincoln will come up with these hilarious phrases that I wish I had them recorded when he says them! I wanna try to record some of his story telling, but usually he just stops the story and ends up more interested in my camera....So...anyways. The other day he went potty in his pants. So while we were in the bathroom, he was kneeling on the floor for some reason, I was telling him how he wasn't supposed to be going potty in his pants and to get up and get into the bathtub. He then puts his hands together in a prayer like manner and says, "Yes, Master." I didn't laugh or do anything. All I said was, "no...I'm your mom, not your master." Not till after his bath when I told daddy the story, then did I start laughing about it!

Another funny thing, well, funny to me....(and cute) is hearing him hum. Only just recently has he started humming. His favorite song to hum is "I've got the Joy, Joy, Joy, Joy, down in my heart" and it makes my heart full of Joy to hear him! :)

Our house has accumulated tons of papers with drawings of stick men. I don't want to get rid of them because this is very new of him to do.

He loves craft time, always asks if we're going to be doing school, doesn't like nap time anymore, is ALWAYS jumping on my bed, a recent breakfast skipper like me, wanting to do EVERYTHING by himself, a mommy's boy, and a helper. I love this little guy! :)

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Preschool - Creation Day 6

Earlier this week we talked some more on God creating the world and the color Green! Lincoln made a frog, and added some more pages to his creation book! Here are some pictures:

Lincoln asked for some help on the flower.... :)

He made two pages for his creation book. One with dinosaurs and the other with animals. That's just how he wanted to do it. When we talked about God also making man on the 6th day, he added Adam to his dinosaur picture! He said that Adam was naming the dinosaurs! Pretty good drawing of Adam if you ask me!

Helping around the house

I'm considering in making a chore chart, or something like that where he can visually see jobs he can do around the house. Any ideas?! How soon did any of you start having kids do chores? Right now he likes to help with laundry and dishes.

Getting so big....

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Preschool with Lincoln - Creation Day 5

I started doing preschool with Lincoln sometime at the end of January, but it was very relaxed and we took our time for two weeks to go through a one week schedule. I was testing the waters, and we were also getting ready for a week vacation to Florida. Now that Florida is about 3 weeks ago and we are finally over with that nasty cold we got while in Florida, I'm ready to start preschool again and go at it more serious than previously!

Lincoln loves "school" and loves making things. We really like the free online curriculum that I found, (ABC Jesus Loves Me) along with other free online resources. (http://ministry-to-children.com/, http://www.first-

school.ws/INDEX.HTM, and even Youtube.com)

This week we started up where we left off, in the middle of the story of Creation. We reviewed the first 4 days by listening and watching some Youtube videos. After that we recited Gen. 1:1 a few times, sang it, and then sang 7 days. (a poem provided by the curriculum.)

We then sang the song for the week: This is the day

Our craft is a page that we will put into our Creation book. Day 5: God created the birds and sea creatures.

After our craft, we went to his bedroom to put up fish window clings on his bedroom windows and talked about the fish that God created.

While lunch was being made we watched the book of the week on Youtube: Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You?

After lunch he played some education online games and that was about the extent of our 'school day'. Through out the day something will remind us of our lesson, or we will talk over what we learn, sing more songs, and there's always time to read our books of the week over again. Like this week we'll be reading My One Book, God Gave Us You, and our Beginner's Bible

Later on this week we'll go through the last two days of creation, learn about the color green and brown, and more on the number 1.

If anyone has any other resources or websites they'd like to share, please do! I'm always searching for more ideas!

His new craft/school board in his room that we got today! I love it! :)

I don't stress over on how much time we actually spend in 'school.' I don't really think of it as school yet but rather an outlet for both of us.

(silly shots after craft time) :)

Love my little man!

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These Five of Mine