Update

This little girl has been busy lately! She has lost 6 teeth now! The tooth fairy is going broke at our house! I love her little grin!  She scored her first goal in soccer this year and is improving a ton and loves it more and more.  I got a text from her teacher yesterday telling me that she rocked her dibbles test at school in reading! WAHOOO! We are so proud of her she is quite the little smarty pants! She had a birthday last week and turned 7, boy does that make me sad.  I hate to see how quickly the years are flying by.  Spring Break this year was pretty lame sad to say, the weather was not cooperative and having four little ones keeps us homebound....but luckily we were invited by our neighbors to go to their cabin in Bear Lake for the day and Liv got to look for seashells which is one of her favorite things to do, she also enjoyed walking through the quick sand as she called it!

She wanted a new bike so badly for her birthday so when she walked in after her dinner at Olive Garden she had the cutest smile on her face and she was so excited!

I love the puffed cheeks! She had to have a Hannah Montana cake this year....she makes me laugh!

Bella has been keeping us on our toes! Last week she coughed in my face while I was helping her get dressed and she said "sorry mom my breath doesn't know better, it's rude!" She is so full of it.  She has turned into a great big helper with Abe, she likes to sing to him and rub his little head, it is so sweet and tender.  She is always begging to play with friends and begging to go outside....her dad can't get that backyard finished soon enough...she keeps telling him to do it today!

I love the look of excitement on her little face as Liv opens her present from her!

Wow how this little man has changed! He is growing up so fast! He will no longer sit in his highchair, he has to be at the bar with the girls, which makes quite the mess for me to clean up.  He is a daddys boy and he freaks out everytime Jake leaves. So when he leaves  he has to sneak out! I found him in the basement today in the dark screaming and shaking trying to find his daddy.  Hes a little stinker!  He is good at finding his blanket and binki and telling you he wants to go to bed, which is quite nice. And he love love loves to be outside playing ball with his daddy.

As for this little one he is growing like crazy.  I am so sad to see how much he is changing.  He is 3 months now and we love him to pieces.  He is not nearly as fussy as he was in the begining, and his sweet little smile just melts my heart.  He was  blessed on Sunday, and it was fun to have family around for the weekend.  I wish I had more pictures but I loved this one of his dad looking down at him.

And as for me I am loving my little ones as sleep deprived and exhausted as I am......and I wouldn't change it for the world.

Easter Happenings!

Jake and I always look forward to Easter as it helps us look forward to Spring and warmer weather.....

Or maybe NOT! Look at all of this snow for the Easter Egg Hunt!  Our neighborhood had an Easter Egg Hunt and we had a great turnout with over 700 eggs! Needless to say nobody went home in tears or empty handed!

I love Liv's new little smile with 6 missing teeth! The tooth fairy is going broke at our house!

Showing off the goods!

Standing in the snow wondering which egg to pick up next!

Showing off her goods!

Now this little man wasn't to into it.  We had our front yard for the little ones 2 and under and he just stood there not really caring about all the eggs filled with candy around him.

However, once I showed him what was inside he decided he would be happy and eat. Notice the pink binkin in my hand....ya its his and he doesn't care about the color he sometimes prefers the pink ones leftover from Bella! Too funny but not to his dad!

I love this picture! Look at the "like father like son chewing moment"  LOL!

And now he gets it! He was in heaven....I decided to let the sugar rush begin so it would end a lot sooner!

Baby Abe

He's Everything I Never Knew I Wanted.... and more.

Lost!

So I finally got around to having my announcements done.....and I can't find my address book! It lost......so please help me out and email me your address so I can send you one! emilyard@hotmail.com

Thanks!

Bellas Wish List....

Isabella has a wish list currently that consists of......

1- wishing that her brothers were sisters.....she is constantly decking Abe out with bows in his hair, and constantly trying to talk Ezra to step into her dress ups!

2- wishing that Ezra can go to sleep....."Mom put Ezra down for a nap" ......even though he has only been awake for an hour!

3- Jesus
Bella- Mom I wish Jesus didn't live up there in the clouds.
Me- Why?
Bella- Cause then I could see him and talk to him.
Me- Where do you wish he lived then?
Bella- Right across from us on the ground.
She is so stinking funny!  My brother was in the car with me when this conversation occured and he told me I had to write this one down!

If all our wishes could come true life would be grand!  I love how kids believe in this!

6 weeks

Six weeks ago the stork came and delivered this little one

And since then this is what has happened.......that we can remember!

Olivia lost two more teeth!  She is now reading chapter books at school which is so fun for her!  She has been waking up on her own and getting herself in the shower before I get up to do her hair so I can get a few extra zzz's, she has been great at entertaining Ezra and Bella while I am busy trying to keep up!  The other day I got a phone call while I was picking Bella up from preschool and it was her teacher informing me of a mishap at school....her chocolate milk ended up all over her and she was worried that I wouldn't be able to bring her new clothes! She told her teacher that I don't go anywhere! LOL! I really don't.  She has adjusted quite well to the new baby, I have to remind myself that she needs just as much attention as the other children, I'm so use to her doing her own thing, which makes me sad at how quickly she is growing up.

Bella has also adjusted quite well.  As you can see this is her new favorite thing to do! She loves holding her baby brother, she is always playing dolls and mimicking everything I do with Abe.  She has been very helpful with Ezra during the day.....when they get along.  She has informed me that she doesn't want Abe to grow up because he will be mean like Ezra!  She has also informed me that we just have to have another baby when Abe gets bigger!  This morning Jake was telling Ezra that he couldn't go to work with him because Bella would be sad,  she quickly replied "NO I WON'T".  She continues to crack us up!  She saw Jake kiss me goodbye last week on his way to work and she wanted to know why dad was kissing me! When I told her it was because I was his girlfriend she looked at me like I was psycho! She has been dressing herself everday because she gets sick of waiting for me to help her.....her outfits are interesting to say the least!  She is great at singing to Abe and helping him calm down. Her daddy even took her and her sister swimming for being such great helpers!

Can you tell how he is adjusting?!? Oh BOY! Four is kicking my butt! I can't keep up with this little one!  He has now dumped 2 full boxes of cereal through the house, written on the walls, ripped the batteries out of the swing, drained all the batteries in the wii remotes, filled the toilets with wrappers, granola bars and balls quite a few times, and has figured out how to open the door to go and play in the garage! He has literally grown up over night, which also makes me very sad!  He has a whole new vocabulary! He can say me some, chocolate, thank you, more, again, and the best one of all is NO! He says NO to everything, and he screams like a girl! AHHH! What can we expect since he has two great examples of this!?! He climbs in the pantry and as you can see gets his own food while I am feeding the baby, he is quite sneaky!  He also runs very fast from his sisters and I!  He loves his little brother!  His dad is quite nervous because is constantly playing dolls with his sisters!  I think its cute! Jake is always telling him to go and get a truck!  I got in trouble last week when he got his toenails painted like his sisters!  But the sweetest thing of all is that he now has to say his own prayers when whe put him in his crib for his nap or nighttime, it is so sweet!  We went through 2 full weeks of him not sleeping! All he would do is scream!  Finally when I was able to hold him again and rock him to sleep he would stay in his crib and sleep all night!  Jake also figured out that he wanted the same bedtime ritual as the girls! Its so sweet!

As far as this one adjusting.......well lets just say he has been my hardest baby!  But we still love him to pieces and can't imagine our family without him.....it feels like he has always been here with us! 

Introducing......

Abram Charles Chadwick

January 25, 2010

7 lbs. 6 oz. 19 inches