shoppers

Grocery shopping is much more fun (and takes about three times as long) with my cute cart. In fact, the whole time we were at Costco, almost everyone we passed had something nice to say about my great helpers.

It was pouring rain, and shopping wears us out

noah's birthday party

On January 27th we got to go to arkansas to celebrate Noah's 5th birthday. 

Being able to sit beside each other, the kids did great on the car ride.

Evalana and Lazarus both had so much fun at Jump Zone. Evalana played with Chloe the whole time. Then we went back to Mima's house to play with Bailey and Chloe lots more!

sesame street live

On the 26th we surprised Evalana with a Sesame Street Live show. We started with meeting Daddy at his work for pizza dinner.

After dinner we told her we were going for a surprise.

The kids had fun. Evalana's favorite part was giving some of the characters high fives before the show.

Lazarus lasted through most of the first half. Both kids were so tired with the show not starting until 7pm. Somehow all the children around us were wide awake.

laughing boy

babywearing

She says she feels like an African mama 

  

sleeping beauty

name

Evalana's getting pretty good at writing her name. I keep meaning to post a picture of it. Recently she wrote her name on one of my checks. that finally convinced me to take a picture to post. She still needs spelling help on her middle name (and it doesn't come out quite as clearly), but she can write the whole thing herself.

bath and bed

Usually Joshua does the bath time for both kids and then he puts evalana to bed, but right now he has class two nights a week, and he and evalana go to awana one evening a week, so i get do to bedtime with just lazarus once a week and with both kids twice a week. the kids love their bath time. and then dance time after that.

 

early bedtime

Lazarus generally sleeps about 7pm-7am, but sometimes his nap gets cut short, and he gets sleepy about 5pm or 6pm. So i'll be trying to get dinner made, and he'll start falling asleep in my arms, so i quickly lay him down to put a bedtime diaper on him, and he falls asleep right on the changing pad. And then i get about 30 minutes with two arms, which is great, especially when i quickly need to get evalana and me ready for bed before he wakes up, and then i'm stuck under him while he's sleeping. Evalana does a wonderful job of getting herself ready for bed when it's needed, too. It's pretty incredible how responsible and capable this little three-year-old is.

cousin shelby

This morning Aunt Kristen had her ultrasound, and they called to let us know she's going to have a girl in July! We're so excited to meet little Shelby Raye Morgan this summer! Also everything in the appointment showed a healthy baby. Praise God! They found out a little earlier this morning than we were expecting, but here are the videos of the four of us here finding out. I guess all the grandmas were there for the ultrasound, and Gigi called us.


This is the first cousin who's younger than Evalana and Lazarus, and we're hoping for many more to come! How wonderful to be getting a new niece/cousin in several more months!
Kristen, these clothes will be coming to you next time we make a Joplin/Arkansas visit!

 

Reminds me of when we got to find out about Evalana and Lazarus. So much fun.