2 year check up

We had a great 2 year appointment yesterday. Babies are perfectly healthy and right on track with all of their developmental milestones. Jack Henry speaks above his age level in word counts and Hadley surpasses it, big time. My big headed- tiny bodied, Jack Henry went up 14 percentage points for height! YAY! There is hope for my sweet boy :) The doctor said not to think anything about his small height right now because it means nothing for the future. I have heard lots of people say that whatever height they are at their 2 year check up, double that, and that will be their adult height. I asked her if that was true and she said it wasn't. Thank goodness or my boy would be SHORT. I am praying for big growth spurts in his future. Maybe he will be like daddy and grow 1 foot in 1 year in middle school :) We are happy however God made them, and we are so thankful they are healthy! They had one shot and did great. Here are their 2 year stats...

Hadley

Height: 33.75 in (58th)

Weight: 29.5 lb (82nd)

Head circumference: 50.7 (99th!!!)

Jack Henry 

Height: 33 in (22nd)

Weight: 28.2 lb (53rd)

Head circumference: 51.7 (98th)

 

He gives rest to the weary...

Hello friends.
I am sorry for my lack of posting these days. I have come to realize there are certain seasons of my life that are more blog-able and certain seasons that just aren't. I created this blog in hopes of a baby and God swept me off my feet when he blessed be twice over. Ya'll have been beyond precious in sharing in my joy and journey to their birth. In addition to my pregnancy, this has been a place for overwhelming large amounts of baby pictures as well as some recipes and home decor when I can manage.

Our house is coming along but oh so slowly. If I had a bigger budget I could move faster but I realize staying at home with my sweet peas might slow down my house projects but is SO VERY worth it. Isn't it amazing that we can never be content in our material world? While I am tackling projects left and right, I still don't have one room 100% complete. As soon as rooms becoming complete I will take you on a little house tour :)

My prayer for this blog from the start was to be a place of encouragement. The Lord has blessed me beyond my wildest dreams through ya'll's relations in this blog. I have had countless readers all over the world who struggle with infertility reach out to me on here and my greatest joy has been to be able to relate to women who are hurting in this area. 

I always want to be transparent with ya'll so that God can use me to relate to you in any way. You read about my battle with PCOS and my miscarriage and now I just have to be honest with you that trying for baby number three is beginning to become emotionally difficult. With out going into too much detail about trying for baby three (that is a whole lot of info, enough for a post in itself on a different day) we have been not preventing pregnancy since a year ago today. It was the day after the twins first birthday that we decided we would "just see what would happen" and it has been since January of 2014 that we have been trying with medical help. I am currently in the process of round 4 this year in hopes of another baby. Again, I will give details of our journey later, details that are actually encouraging, but today I just feel weary.

I feel weary that it has already taken longer this time around than it did the first time around. I feel so encouraged that I am able to carry a full term pregnancy but for some reason I thought it would be easier once I was able to already have a pregnancy under my belt. Friends, it so hard when you struggle with infertility. There are so many things that I feel right now that make me feel guilty. Things that only someone who struggle with this could understand. If I said them all out loud it would just sound like a selfish pity party. 

I could go on and on about the goodness of God to me, through this. He has blessed me unimaginably, and I would not change one thing about my road to conceiving the twins. That is why, why it is hard to see now, I know that once I finally do become pregnant again, I will appreciate all the Lord has revealed to me through this specific journey. 

But today, my heart is overwhelmed. It is sad. And it is longing for the desires the Lord has placed on my heart, to have more children. I am sad that I have PCOS and sad that I have to take meds and try so so hard to achieve something that to some women is so very easy. But what gives me joy than anything is to know that He is enough. He is enough. If all that I have is hope in Christ, its all I need. If I look at what I already have on top of all that, my mind is simply blown with His goodness. 

When my heart is overwhelmed like it is today, I can come to Him for rest. And that friends, is a beautiful thing. Jesus, I CAN'T do this on my own. Lord, I need your help. Settle and quiet my heart and let me rest in you.

I know many of you are going through trials WAY more than this. There is so much on my heart with what is going on over in the middle east and I know this post could seem trivial
to some of you in comparison, so my hope is that I did not offend. I am thankful for a God who hears our cries no matter how big or small. 

How many of you sweet friends have days when you need to just rest in Him? Sweet sisters who are reading this right now, and are longing for a sweet baby, He can give you rest.

I'm sure I will wake up tomorrow, sunny and ready to tackle this baby making journey but for now, I need rest.

I'm sorry for my quietness here on the blog. Just know I am sorting a lot in my heart right now and I will be back it again soon!

Love you friends and thanks for hearing me out :)

"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28 

23 Months

I can't believe this is the last month before my babies are TWO! I am so used to saying they are "fill in the blank" months old. Next month I will start saying they are two. Where does the time go? 

I still wake up every day and can't believe they are mine. Seriously. My heart has so much love for them, it feels like we have always had them in our family but it also feels new each day. Like, new in the way where I get them out of their cribs and just bask in God's goodness to me. These sweeties are ours? What?! 

This is such a fun age. It is challenging at times but it is so fun to watch them learn so much. If I could sum up this stage, it is one of SO much learning. Each day they learn so many new things, words and concepts. They are talking up a storm. There is really no way I could list their vocab because they know so many words. They are putting words together like "daddy's shirt" "mommy go bye-bye" etc. They are able to make their own choices (when I let them) and they are just so easy going, loving and sweet. Seriously easy babies.

Our number one goal as parents is to grow children who know and love The Lord. Each day we try to instill things into them that will help them understand the majesty of Christ. They praise Jesus by putting their hands in the air, when asked where Jesus lives, they point to and say "heart" and then point to your heart too. They know not to eat until they pray. Jack Henry has started closing squinting his eyes during prayer time. It is precious. One day Luke and the twins were praying in the kitchen while I was cooking and Hadley ran over to me during the prayer and pointed her finger at me and said "pray momma" Ooops! What little eyes see. They imitate everything we do which is certainly humbling and gives me a good smack of reality to be the best me. 

Jack Henry:

You are the cutest little thing! You have such a swag about you and have the sweetest heart. You love to dance and you have the cutest walk. You walk almost with a march and you do this "chicken wing" thing with one arm. You also do the chicken wing while you dance. You LOVE trucks and cars. They are the first thing you go to in a group of toys. You can say "car" "truck" "vroom vroom". You love making animal sounds just like sister and you love pushing your lawn mower. You are very much a thinker and you get lost in your own little world. It is fun to watch you because you don't let us watching you affect what you are doing at all. You are very easy going and have become easier and easier as you get older, and you were an easy baby, so that is saying a lot. You are very sweet. Sugary sweet. You love giving sister toys and you have such a sweet and generous heart. You are certainly a daddy's boy. You love me lots, but Daddy is just special. You light up when he enters a room and you are just his boy. You have the most adorable face and you are just my dreamy boy. Momma loves you SO much.

Hadley:

Sweetest, smartest girl. You are so full or personality and such a smart little girl. Verbally, you are ahead of brother as you are just talking up a storm. You are SUCH a girl, always requesting bows and going straight for anything pink or sparkly (like momma:)) You are so very sweet. You always love giving hugs and kisses. You are definitely a momma's girl. You are all momma all the time. I love it. You are very emotional and can have your fair share of meltdowns but you are also SO very obedient. You listen to mommy and daddy's corrections even when you really don't want to. You are definetly the "dominant" twin. You always have been. But as much as you like to be the boss, you love brother so much and love doing things for him and giving him kisses. I love when you see something that is brothers and hand it to him saying "here brother." You call Jack Henry "bro-dur" and he calls you "Hat-tie." 

The babies are really loving books and coloring. We bought them a little table and chair set where they love to eat and color. They are GOOD eaters! They eat almost whatever we eat. Jack Henry who used to be my pickiest is now the best eater of the two. They love to scribble with crayons but have a short attention span for coloring just yet. They love side walk chalk and their very favorite activity are the cars that Aunt Ashee gave them. They LOVE water, especially Hadley. Jack Henry always proceeds with caution where Hadley is trying to ride every slide she can at our local water park. We purchased season passes there and go several times a week. We are having such a fun summer and I am soaking in every ounce of their baby-ness which is quickly fading. Thank you Lord for these PRECIOUS treasures. We are so blessed.     

Happy 4th of July 2014

Happy 4th! We were in KY last year on the 4th so this is our first Texas independence day! We had breakfast with Luke's parents before they head on back to Kentucky and then we will be heading over to our community group party. Babies weren't cooperating but here is what we got...

Catching up: April iPhone pics

Catching up: Davidson's come to visit 2014 :)

We had such a precious time with our sister in law, nephews and niece a few months ago in March. We did lots of fun things and created lots of wonderful memories. We love them beyond words and always cherish our time together. Here are some pics from the week...