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BOY! That's right! We seem to have a nice little pattern going, and this guy is no exception to the rule. The boys are thrilled - the girls a little disappointed. However, they quickly reminded themselves how much they've loved and enjoyed little Seth, and that cheered them right up.

Scott and I were grateful that all looked well and whole - we know that is a blessing from the Lord!

No names so far - the girl name was already picked out, but the boy was giving us more of a time. I guess it'll be an exercise in patience, compromise, team playing, and all that...

OK, y'all.

I need some help. We finish school next Friday, and I need to make a summer plan. I mean, other than going to the pool, the library, and spending a lot of time reading to my little ones. What do you guys do? Modified school? Drop it completely? Organizing tasks that you can't get done during the school year? Keep up with math only? What? I feel like the days go more smoothly with a PLAN, you know? So, if you've got a plan, I'd love to hear about it. Pretty please?!?

* SIGH* Need I say more?

Weeeeelllll folks, we're back! Yes indeedy, after a rip-roaring holiday season, in which blogging not only took the back burner, but more like fell off the stove, our snorkels have been retired until summer, and our noses are emerging! Praise the Lord! Nothing like the extraordinary to make you appreciate the ordinary.

Scott has begun his job NEXT DOOR (at our church) and begins his first series of sermons this Sunday evening. We hit our full school schedule this week - and we're loving our new home! I'll have to post some pictures soon.

OK y'all that's it for now. My blogging skillz feel kinda rusty...More later!

Oh yeah, Seth turned one during our move and had the lamest birthday party ever, but hey, he won't remember! But we did take some cute pics of him digging into his first taste of chocolate - and his gifts!

Seth's Latest Stunts

As you can see, Seth is learning to feed himself. He LOVES to try, and it certainly keeps him occupied so that I can eat my meal in peace (relatively speaking). But he has many near misses (such as the chin) and a few far misses (your ear is nowhere near your mouth, except it's on your head). Maybe he was trying out the goatee look, like Dad - and the earring look, like Mom???

He has also discovered TP - great fun! I would call it hours of entertainment, except it takes him WAY less that an hour to unroll a whole roll of toilet paper. As you can see, he's learned to make a quick escape after he's finished...Yeah, he looks really scared ;-)!

Why buy Post -It notes????

when you can make your own????? Yes, that's right. If you look carefully, you'll see some homemade post-it notes that Ellie made - just a little paper and a glue stick required! I told her that I like initiative, and saving sweet moolah, but let's stick to the store bought version from now on... for the sake of our living room walls.

For those interested, our first piano lesson of the year (well, of life, really) went great for the boys! With typical beginners gusto, they both wanted to practice AS SOON as we got home. We'll ride that wave as long as we can ;-)!

It's all in good fun until someone loses an eye........:-D

Name that quote! No, no, rest assured - no one has lost an eye.

However, it's the first broken bone for the Davenport Family (at least this branch)! Last night at church, Nathan was rough housing with some of the older boys and somehow, during one of the "group wrestling" sessions (I guess that's the guy version of a "group hug") he got thrown down on his shoulder and broke his left collar bone. Thankfully, two of our elders are MD's and one of them went and checked him out right away, could see that it was broken, and whisked us all off to his office to get fitted for a brace and a sling. Which he has to wear for ONE MONTH.

That's a long time for a 6-year-old boy. Or his mother.

Anyway, he's been a real trooper through the whole thing. And, of course, the Lord was very merciful to allow it to be dealt with so quickly and easily!He even slept through the night, though our doctor warned us that collar bone breaks are notoriously painful. He's been pretty sore today, but still doing what he can (or what Mom lets him 8-D )! I guess it's a good thing he's right handed!

Enter baby food, exit pull-ups (we hope)!

I have finally started Seth on baby food. It always takes me several days of mental prep before I begin the baby food thing. But he's so active! and when he starts waking up at 5:45, and in general being more fussy, and starts sucking on his TOES!!! it's obvious the poor child needs more substantial sustenance. Not to mention he's almost 8 months old and has been trying to grab my food off my fork for while now.
I know there are a million pics of kids all over the world with their underwear on their head, but it's a mile marker in a way. Bonnie has finally gone to "big girl" panties - only keeping the pull ups for Sudays. Maybe the transition has been hastened by the fact that her "big girl" panties have flowers and the pull ups were blue with Buzz Lightyear on them (thanks, Auntie Joy!). Another high standard crumbles... :-D!!!

One of my new favorites!

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I just signed up for this a few days ago and it's already great - saved time, money, and brainpower!!! It saves a LOT of time in planning meals, and keeps you out of the "rut" that I've been in. Not every meal is something we would necessarily use, but we have some "standby" meals that we would all hate to see go, so I just fill in the gaps with those (like on Sundays, and/or with company).

HELP! I've crawled in and I can't crawl out!!!

Seth is now very mobile. I think I'm still in a little bit of denial. I often leave him on the floor in the toy room to play and forget he's there while I go off to make lunch, etc. A new, but now regular occurence is for one of the other children to come rushing in with the cry that "Seth needs you, Mom!". Here's what I found yesterday!

Poor guy, he'd crawled into the bottom of the exersaucer to retrieve a toy, but he couldn't figure out how to get out again. Very traumatic for him, but I had to capture it on digital (since you can't say film anymore)!

And here's just a cute picture of Ellie belle (can't figure out how to turn it - sorry!), since she got left out of my last post by accident...

A new way to keep in touch - how hard can it be?!?

Well, after being behind the technology curve for the past, say, nine years (give or take...) I'm trying to catch up. Actually, it's purely a stab at some more efficiency in my life! I figure it'll be easier to keep up with folks and share pics of the kiddos etc. without spending hours (OK, so many hours) on the phone! We'll see how it goes ;-)...