Incase you didn't know...

Milk and Soy proteins are the DEVIL!

I gave Leigha cereal with Soy in it, agg, and now her poor belly and bum are tore up!

Did I mention that I hate hate hate hate hate milk and soy?!?!?!

The End.

My thoughts on Momma's Day

Today is Mothers Day...My Bug and Lady Bug are sleeping as is their Daddy. I am only awake because Lady Bug needed fed then went back to sleep and then I had to pump. (Oh the joys of breastfeeding ;), I really do love it though!)
I adore feeding Leigha right now! Breastfeeding is so special for us, it's just our time and it's something that only I can do for her which makes me feel pretty darn important. Within the last week it's become so much better to feed her though. She's been really alert when she's been eating instead of her eating and falling asleep like she did until this week. She'll stare at me with her big beautiful blue eyes and sometimes grin really big then go back to eating. It's so fun and makes me fill up with joy and love!

Bug and I have our special time when we read. He love, love, loves to read. We read throughout each and every day just about. It's the only times now when he slows down enough to sit on my lap and snuggle me. I read and he points to the word then the corrilating picture just as I've taught him to.
He is the most lovable boy in the world. He'll stop playing or whatever he's doing just to come up to me and sis and give us hugs and kisses and sign 'love' to us. He has a beautiful soul!
We also have special time when we are learning new signs together. He picks up on sign language so easily and does so well! Just yesterday he surprised me by signing 'socks' and 'go' and honestly (lacking on my teaching a bit) I'd only shown them to him once or twice like a month ago. I don't know why but he suddenly decided to sign them yesterday when I said "Let's put on your socks" and he signed "socks" he also said the word out loud! In the car on the way home yesterday I told him we were going home and he said outloud and signed "go". What an amazing little guy!

Anyway that's all for now. Just my thoughts on how my beautiful kids show love to their Momma every day!

Drake loves bath time!

Someone loves bath time!! Look at that huge grin and those amazing red curls!!

This is one of those moments I wish to burn into my memory to never EVER forget!

SPLASH

Such a happy Buggy!

Lady Bug, Leigha, was napping and Bug, Drake, had gotten all messy from lunch so I decided to throw him in the bath tub. I am so thankful I had my camera at hand!! I adore these photos. I don't get to play with him much in the bath, usually bath time is daddy and Drake time. I enjoyed this very much!! Hope you enjoy the photo's :)

Leigha's first food experience

Leigha's first food experience...Rice cereal and momma's milk

What is on my lips???

This is weird and I don't like it! I want Momma's milk only!

Hmm maybe it's not soooo bad...

Maybe I'll stick with what I know...sucking on my fist :)

So Leigha still will not take a bottle. I have a wedding to shoot June 4th therefore she will not have Momma around for 10 (give or take) hours and she'll have to take a bottle. In my thinking about this...I wondered if it was a texture thing. Then I thought,...what if I tried cereal with my milk. That's a different texture but it's also instant food in her mouth and tummy and maybe that would help her take to the bottle. So today I'm going to do cereal at lunch and dinner as well then tomorrow we'll try the bottle again.

I didn't get any shots of Drake but he was a big helper in feeding "Sissy Leigh-aaa" He got the cereal on the spoon and tested it first, of course, then he got more cereal on the spoon gave it to me and told me to give it to Sis. He was also sweet enough to wipe her face off when she got it all over her. He was worried about her when she started to cry at first so he held her feet and hands to try to make her feel better. He's such a wonderful big brother! I have two pretty amazing kids!

Photography Give-A-Way

On tiffanyhileman.blogspot.com I'm doing a give-a-way...go check it out!

Moving

Where do I begin? This is my problem in every area of my life right now...What should I pack in my car first, which room should I take apart at our "old house" to move to our "new house". What if I pack something that we need before I am able to unpack it there?!
I am an organizational freak as well as a cleaning freak...these are words from my loving husband and he truly does love me through all of this! It's making me insane to not be organized right now and it's extremely hard to clean around boxes and stuff all over!
Yesterday I took most of the kids toys over and started setting up their playroom. I have the rest of the stuff for their playroom in my car now, except a few toys and books for Drake to play with until we move.
I want to start on their room but they don't have anything I can move until we really move. I can't take their beds or clothes and that's really all that will be in their room except for decorations but I'm wating to make those till things calm down.
In closing, I'm frustrated and ready to get everything over there and out of boxes and laid out so I can sort through it all and put it in it's new home :)

Easter

Our Easter

We went to church then...
 Well, we were busy busy working on our house. We stopped by Josh's grandparents for a quick bite then off we went to work.

A preview of Leigha's 3 month old photo's...go to tiffanyhileman.blogspot.com for more

Leigha Bug and I before church. I made that headband the night before to match her dress. Dad didn't get the dress in the photo but on my other blog you can see the dress.

My Bug and I before church. Poor guy has a cold but still looks hot diggity dog handsome!

After working on the house we decided to come home and play in the rain. This is me putting Draker in a water puddle..."Oooo Brrr" is what he was saying haha

After the shock wore off, he LOVED splashing and getting wet

Daddy putting drake under a drip

Such a stinkin' cutie! I love moments like this...playing out in the rain with the Bug. He won't want to do this forever with Josh and I so we relish it when we get the chance!

I pray that you had an amazing Easter! Ours was wonderful :) Leave me a comment and let me know you stopped by my blog! Don't forget to check out my photography blog tiffanyhileman.blogspot.com

My photo/Drake on the cover!

 am friends with the sweet, sweet, wonderful lady that does all of the design work and promotional work for Happy Heiny's Cloth Diapers. She is the one that introduced me to these amazing diapers! She gave me a hand full to photograph on Drake last year so that she could use them for promo stuff. I thought this would be a great oppertunity for me to get my photo's out there and promote myself as well as a chance to try some awesome diapers! Anyway, yesterday she surprised me with a text saying that a photo that I took of Drake in his cow hide Happy Heiny is on the cover of Baby Maternity Retailer Magazine!!! Here's a photo of the cover!!

A game for YOU



Here are two photos, one is of Drake and one is of Leigha. This is them at around 3 Months old, well very close to it. Can you tell who is who??
Leave a comment and let me know your choices...at the bottom of this post go to COMMENTS then type in your comment then go to the drop menu and click GOOGLE ACCOUNT, it will send you to another page where you type in your normal email and password, even if it's not google, then it will direct you back to your comment and you have to press the button for me to get it.
HAVE FUN!!

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And now, a word from God

Tidbits from a Bible Study that Josh and I are currently doing:
We are not on our own in this life - Thank goodness for that! I don't know what we'd do if we were "alone" in this life. Josh and I are wonderful together but without God, holy moly, it would be horrible!

God has a plan for our lives (Ephesians 2:10) - This is so true and He is constantly showing Josh and I that it's His plan and not ours that matters! This is a lesson that Josh and I are always learning, over and over again. It's a hard lesson to learn but in the end, it always turns out the way God wants and we end up seeing that His plan was way better than ours!

God loves us and wants the best for our lives. - We have such an amazing, thoughtful, loving, precious God!

Sometimes we make mistakes because we fail to consult God. - Going hand in hand with His plan is better than our plan

God guides us when we are prepared to do His will rather than insisting that our own way is right. "He guides the humble" (Psalm 25:9) and "Confides in those who respect him" (v.14)  The moment we are prepared to do His will, He begins to reveal His plans for our lives. - Holy Moly (to those of you who read my post on being poochy and not happy) Hello God, I hear you talking to me. This is exactly what i needed to hear after my poochyness!!

*I just wanted to share these things because they really spoke to Josh and I and heck, maybe it'll help ya'll out as well!*
The End.

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ASL Letters

American Sign Language Letters

Just as with all other images on my Blog, you may order these if you'd like :)

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Stinkin', No Good, Rotten Mommy Mood Day

Warning: Today this post is me rambling and being poochy...if you don't want to read it, don't, your won't hurt my feelings..promise!

Go ahead...no turning back now!

So my rant:
They delivered the house. It's sitting on our land in two pieces. Another crew has to put it together. That crew has not done so yet. I hate that it's sitting there, I can't clean it, can't paint it, can't do the hookups, can't move stuff in and organize....I hate it, I truly do! However, I realize that I am frustrated because I want this all to happen in my time and not God's...I know, I know, horrible of me but right now that's how I feel.

The Bugs: Drake is in a mean, rotten, unhappy mood today and to be truthful, it hurts my heart. Leigha is on day two of non stop crying. Not sure what's wrong with either of them..unless they are picking up on my mood and copying it. UGH!

So here we all are, in cranky, poochy, no good, stinkin', rotten' moods.

The end.

The Bugs Doc Apt

The Bugs had a doc apt yesterday. Thank God for His Plan! Josh rained out and I didn't have to take them both by myself. God is good!
Drake weights 24.13lbs which is 63%
Leigha weights 10.13lbs which is 23%
Drake's height is 31in which is 25%
Leigha's height is 21 in which is 8%
Drake's head Circumference is 48 which is 77%
Leigha's head Circumference is 37 which is 18%

They asked Drake to feed the baby doll a bottle which he did without problem. I figured he'd do amazing at that since he is constantly trying to give Sis drinks of his sippys and feed her his snacks.
They also had him stack 4 blocks, when he was done he looked for more and was sad that there was only four. The nurse asked me how many he could stack and I told her that I quit counting once he could stack them as tall as he is standing. She was amazed..

They also had him pick out a bird and a dog on a paper with other animals. He did that easily and perfectly as well.

They said he's doing perfect. Makes a Momma (and Daddy) proud!

They checked Leigha Bug's head controll and they said she did perfect, advanced head control. They were happy to hear that she's cooing, smiling, frowning, pushing up, and holding her head so well.

Poor Lady Bug had to get 3 shots and 1 oral. It was HORRIBLE! The first shot made her bleed sooo much, she blead through the band aid quickly. The other two she didn't bleed as much but I had to keep blowing on her face to keep her breathing. All day the injection site from the first shot was red and swolen and I couldn't touch it without her screaming. The other sites were very sore but never puffed up or got red. She's still pretty sore today and sleeping a lot. But the swelling and redness is almost nonexistant.

The kids both went to bed early and amazingly enough Josh and I were able to watch a movie and relax without any kids. They both slept though the entire movie! It was bliss!!!! I woke Sis up to feed and change her then she fell back asleep and Josh and I took the oppertunity to get a few extra minutes of sleep.

Yesterday I packed quite a bit and today I am trying to finish up with the boxes that I have left. I'm almost out of boxes again. Josh took of the day so he could be there for the delivery. They will be at the land in a few minutes. They put it in place then another crew comes tomorrow to put it together, siding on, cap the roof, tie it down and such...then tomorrow afternoon my awesome Dad is coming down to paint it. I cannnnnoooott wait for it to be painted!! Thursday and Friday the kids and I will make a few trips from our house to our HOME with boxes and just unload them there and get more. Saturday Josh is going to work on stuff out there and I'll probably leave Drake out there with him and Leigha and I will pack the rest of the stuff and take it there and then I'll start organizing and making piles and probably go crazy ha.

We're going out there later this afternoon to check everything out. I'll be sure to take photos.
...Until Then...

Leigha's Faces

She is getting such a personality lately! She is grinnin' a lot, cooing (which is probably the sweetest sound in the world), and wigglin' all around.

This is after an attempt to roll over. She's getting so big, it amazes me and also makes me want to cry.

She is such a good baby, for the most part. She has belly problems though. Her sensitivity to milk proteins has been hard on this breastfeeding Momma! I messed up last week and accidentally ate something with Milk proteins in it...I still have no idea what it was. She's been hurting ever since. She screams and cry's and her little bum is red as a crab right now. But day by day she's getting better. I guess I ate it on Thursday because Friday was heck! I hate that I caused/am causing her so much pain. I am suppose to be the one (along with Daddy) to always make her feel better and here I am hurting her. But since all of this Josh and I have vowed to only eat things that we make and ABSOLUTELY know there has been no dairy products anywhere near it. Thank God for such an amazing and understanding husband. He's been great in making me feel like I am not a horrible person.
Today the Bug's have a doc apt so we will see how much they weigh and all of that fun stuff! I cannot wait to see how much she's grown! I'm also excited to pick the doc's brains on this whole milk allergy thing and for her to give me tips on how to manage it and such...

God Bless!

Buggy Love

When Drake gets up from his naps he always wants Sissy in his bed to hang out for a bit before he gets out of bed. He loves on her, kisses, hugs, and holds her hand when they are in there. And today I was smart and quick enough to grab the camera to catch this shot.

Sis was layin' on the couch while I was folding diapers and Drake climbed up there and laid beside her, he was havin' a blast!

Handsome man after I put Sis in bed, sooo happy! He loves her so dadgum much!