Scout and Navy are 20 months apart.
Dash and the Pips are 23 months apart.
Apparently, the range worked out for us, because these brothers and sisters sure do love each other.
This was Navy loving Scout because she was so excited to see him.
This is Dash who finds the Pips very first when he wakes up.
But no matter the time of day, he is always hugging and loving her like crazy.
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Now 34 months?
Time will tell if the sweetest-boy-on-earth Dash, will jive as well with the constantly-teasing Navy.
My guess is yes — but that is me putting positive energy out into the world, in hopes that it sticks!
Scout, Dash and I got new running shoes.
So I laced/velcroed theirs up and then started lacing mine.
In the meantime, they headed out to wait for me to open the car so we could go for a run at the harbor.
As I was lacing, Liv the neighbor carried Dash in and said, “Dash is bleeding”.
I looked up and said, “He sure is bleeding!”
I grabbed him, took him to the counter, snapped a picture, and then Micah wiped him down.
Forty-five seconds later, he was up and at ‘em.
Five minutes after that, all was well on Nonnie’s lap with “Thomas” in tow, while munching on some fruit snacks.
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Clearly, it was merely a flesh wound.
We have early church this year, so we have the whole Sunday afternoon free.
The mornings are really rushed, but when we have an entire day to spend together as a family, I love it!
After dinner, we opted for a walk with flashlights to see “cool and interesting things”.
Micah was the photog (hence the blurry photos) — and here are the rest of us…all geared up to go.
The little Pips is always comfy when she is next to her mom, and was down for the count almost immediately.
Of all the things we found, I think the most “interesting” was how many stars we can see from the dirt path in front of our neighborhood.
I think we decided that we were going to have to look for stars on that path one night.
I love that our kids are always up for little adventures like these.
“Yook mom…I a monster. RAAAAGGHHHH!”
(me) “I scared! Hey monster — where’d you get that gum?”
“Daddy’s room.”
(me) “Better go fess up.”
“Don’t wike to.”
When I was spot treating this outfit before soaking it in the wash, I wondered aloud, “Should I just throw the blessed thing away?”
With poops all the way up the front and back of her…looks like Pippi’s prune juice is working!
The Pips is getting BIG!
I can’t believe that she is already been in our lives for three months.
And in honor of her birthday — she gave us a present.
It was a present any mom would die over!
This little girl slept for 12 straight hours last night!
She was down at 8pm and up this morning at 8am.
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Happy Birthday to you…cha cha cha!
Happy Birthday to me…hip hip hooray!
Megan gave our family zoo passes, and we are stoked!
We went today, and had the best time.
Partly because it was totally free, partly because it was our whole family, and partly because our kids are at really fun ages to go to the zoo.
Look at the little joey in my “pocket”.
The hippos were the highlight of our day.
We had front row seats to a baby hippo swimming all over the place.
The kids were so excited about it, and I was too — as I fed the Pips in my pocket.
My kids were totally excited to see the “Polar Bear Plunge” since we had our very own plunge a few nights before.
This exhibit is new, and the kids had a blast playing on all of the different things that were in it.
We got there late in the day, and our kids were pretty cold.
Thank goodness that Micah made me bring sweatshirts.
I had thought about it, but literally thought “oh…a little cold will just make our kids tough.”
Good thing he said something because it was COLD!
Scout was dying to go on the overhead tram, and I was glad we did since the walk back for Micah and the Pips was about 20 minutes long.
Since we did the tram in the dark, my kids were loving seeing the airplanes fly at our same level, and all of the bright Christmas lights that are still up everywhere.
All three of these kids were perfect.
They were all polite, good, nice to one another and didn’t beg for a thing to buy!
Dear Brockbanks,
You could not have gotten us a better present!
Love, Us.
Dash got a call that he was invited to the farm.
Although he wasn’t feeling too hot, he got all gussied up for his date.
And then got fresh with his cousin when she arrived.
My poor mom has had some crazy eye problems lately.
She woke up with double vision after three days of a headache.
We spent one entire day at the ER getting tests done — including a cat scan to rule out a bunch of really scary things.
Thank goodness she doesn’t have anything like big cell arthritis that leaves you blind, or a tumor that was pressing on her optical nerve.
We still don’t have it totally figured out, but she is scheduled for an MRI of the brain to get closer to the answer.
Bu tin the meantime, she has been diagnosed with MCNP.
Basically her fourth muscle to the eye isn’t receiving the blood flow it needs and has stopped working for the time being.
Meanwhile, she has had several eye appointments that I have driven/taken her to.
And look who has been tagging along:
The WORST doctor visit accompaniers EVER!
This was not staged!
They were horrible!
Scout finally caught my drift and grabbed a pen and paper.
“Sorry Mom for being naughty at the doctor’s office today. Love, Scout”
At the top is a picture of Navy and him.
He is saying, “Yes mom!” in his word bubble.
Navy is saying, “no mom!” in hers.
Pretty accurate.
He wrote on….
“Thank you mom for liking my sorry note mom. You are the best mom in the world. I love you mom. Love, Scout.”
Can I just say that Scout was destined to be the oldest!
The kid has a heart.
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Needless to say, I dumped those dudes for my mom’s next appointment.
Only this sweet little girl got to attend.
And it was fun to have a child get oohed and aahed over.
Much better than getting glares from the others in the waiting room.
And as my mom showed the Pips off to everyone, I filled out her paperwork.
Good thing she couldn’t see where I put under easy going, “unless it comes to a clean house.”
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Madre — I am thinking the eyes have a real problem.
But with the headache I got after your doctor’s appointments, I am pretty sure my kids are causing your head to hurt!
It worked out tonight, that Navy and I were all alone.
I know she has been needing some attention from me, so I welcomed the opportunity to do something fun with her.
We decided to do a beauty school with the new doll head she got for Christmas.
We styled the hair, brushed it all out, put different clips in it, and then we set it for it to get curled over night.
And then I set Navy’s in curlers to match her doll.
After curling their hair, she decided that she wanted to make some bows for her doll’s hair.
So we spent an hour in the wrap room making some.
And she stuck them all in the “bow bag” we made together.
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After all of our fun, I laid in bed with her and read her a Pippi Longstocking book she got for Christmas.
Then we cuddled and she fell asleep in about a minute flat.
It was one of our best nights in a long time.
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I was interested to see if the curlers were going to bug her overnight, but she woke up with no complaints.
Then she took them out, and voila!
She must have looked at her hair in the mirror — twenty times!
It was so cute to see her so proud of our work.
But then we had to go somewhere, and I had to make a decent style out of the crazy curls.
Good thing I am a pro at knots!
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I was so glad to have had our girl’s night. Like I said, I knew she needed it. But what I didn’t know was…I needed it as much as she did. It was fun and relaxing, and a blast getting to do something that Navy was so excited about. But of everything that happened during the night, when she leaned over to hug and kiss me, and then say, “Mom, this is the best night ever!” about four different times, I felt like I was doing what I am on Earth to do — creating happy and good children.
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