The Lord is teaching me so vividly these days that boys will be boys. I am learning to appreciate them so much, and boy do I love my boys. I have discovered a great appreciation for their laughter, creativity, loyalty, passion, messiness, how they forgive and forget, the importance of physical touch (the rough kind as well as the gentle, but all loving), and their amazing energy. I have always claimed to be the "clean mom" because I did not like to deal with messes. I now find that I am much more relaxed in this area, and if they are dirty then I know they are having fun and being just as God designed them to be.
Basketball is quite popular in our house right now. Have I mentioned that our Women's Aggie Basketball team are the 2011 NCAA National Champions?!? I know I have not on the blog, and I will not try to annoy with it, but we are quite excited and pumped for those ladies. Did you know they held Bible Studies during the tournament, and that Danielle Adams even made this clear to the media. I know, I know we always hear thanks to God, and that is great. I do not downplay that at all, after all, God should always get the glory. However, how often do they go to the extent to mention that even Bible Studies were held? Amazing. I love that Coach Blair and these ladies are such great ambassadors to the sport, to our great school, and most of all great role models for our children. I know I went on a tangent...
Basketball is quite popular in our house right now, and it does have a lot to do with how we follow both the men's and women's Aggie programs. (We do not follow the NBA, except during the playoffs.) Calvin loves to play for hours outside on the big goal, and Colton tries really hard. He loves to be lifted up so that he can dunk it. Colton did get a small basketball goal from GaGa and PawPaw for his birthday present. Right now it is inside the house where there is pandemonium going on. I just know something is going to get broken, but I am not in the least worried about it. If you are ever at my house for an extended period of time, you will soon find out that there is always balls being thrown or shot inside. We have the middle of our living room floor open on purpose so that football routes can be more easily run. When Calvin was three we did have to stop the ball tosses and swinging of the bat. He was just too good, and it was getting dangerous even with the "soft" balls.
Before the basketball goal was assembled, there were makeshift goals being created out of anything that resembled a hole. They following is a list of what I can remember has been used as basketball goals: laundry baskets, the seat of Kylee's jumperoo, the boppy pillow set in the recliner seat, Colton's stool that goes in his room and the lid comes off, a cardboard box, the highchair, the cute tin tub that holds the dog's toys, and various toy bins. I know there are more that I am missing, but I think the point has been made. The sheer creativity, love of sports, and energy that lives in my house is inspiring. I try to hang, but I need to inhale some of their energy. If I could bottle it, I would be a millionaire.
I have partially figured out what needs to be put in the bottle, but I am not sure how to get it there. I would put in children's pure innocence. The joys and lack of stress that they live in allow for energy to multiply. It makes me so sad and sick to think of all of the rough situations some children have at home that they are simply forced to grow up too soon in order to survive, and the joy and stress-free life of innocence is robbed from them.
Some things would not need to be bottled. These are things that I am able to change, but choose not to or do not do well enough. These would be things like drinking lots of water, not drinking sodas, eating more nutritiously, cutting out majority of sugar, exercise more and get the proper amount of rest. I do well at some of these and poorly in others, but I really think they all work together. Therefore, if I am missing any piece of the puzzle, then I am missing out on the whole. I know this whole paragraph was like blah, blah, blah. The boring things we always hear, know, and disregard.
I am so thankful that the Lord blessed me with boys! I am also so grateful that I enjoy them for the way God created them to be. It sure would be boring around our house if I did not allow them to be boys.
Something else to note: When Kevin gets involved with the boys, he is one of the boys. The competition revs up. The energy increases. And it always gets physical. As I was typing that I thought of the Olivia Newton John song, which is a totally different kind of physical. The Mommy and Daddy kind where wrestling ensues.
Only By God's Grace...
Callie Ann
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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
A Portrait Studio Adventure
I am not a fan of going to the portrait studio. I prefer for us to take our own because Kevin has the talent with my creativity to do it. However, every now and then I make the trip to the studio. It is not really that I hate the results because the kids took some great portraits today, but it is the process that I am not fond of. We managed to get some really beautiful pictures today at Sears of all places. I get a little flustered because I feel rushed during the whole process, yet it takes for-ev-er. We go in all happy and excited to take beautiful pictures and usually come out tired and hungry.
We had to go to Sears because of a decision I made nine years ago. I had the twins pictures taken in the tin tub with the cloud background and yellow duckies. I really love those pictures and they grace the kids bathroom wall. I repeated the procedure with Colton so it would not look right to not have sweet Kylee's face up there as well. So we packed up and went to Sears for the infamous "tub" picture.
I will now have all four tub pictures on the bathroom wall. It will be complete. I also decided to go ahead and take Kylee's picture in her beautiful dedication gown. I am so glad I did. There are so many of these that I love, but here are a few.
I am really glad I had these taken because we are finally having her dedication this Sunday, and now I have a beautiful picture to submit for it. The old saying is true that the more children you have the less pictures you have of them. Well, I have a lot of snapshots, but I hardly have any great portraits of Kylee or Colton. I think the twins had theirs taken every 2 or 3 months their first year of life. Here a few more of my favorites from today.
I will say that I love the fact that I came home with a cd of 78 pictures!! The moral of the story is now that I am not feeling the frazzlement of going to the studio, I am so happy to have these pictures. The photo session itself was tiring and I was sweating by the end of it, but Colton and Kylee were both happy. The worst part is trying to make all of the decisions at the computer after the session with the pressure of needing to make the right decisions all while your older son is running up and down the hall with the football prop you had brought and a baby wanting to sleep. Colton decided that it would be a great idea to try and make baskets with the quilt rack they had displaying products. I let him know that was not a very good idea, and he obeyed. However, then he had to find other things to keep him entertained. I mean what fun is it for an active boy to have to sit patiently and wait while Mommy makes portrait decisions. Kylee did not cry, she just sucked on her fingers and every now and then would politely vocalize her desire to leave. I have developed a list of places for anyone needing natural birth control, and this is on it. My children were not horrible, but I did not even mention the other crying and bored children that we witnessed. I decided to order the minimum and get the cd so that I could make better decisions at home.
All of this for cherished memories. Memories of ages of my precious children that I can never get back. I am sad when I think of how fast they are growing, yet I love every new development and accomplishment they make. Another day gone, but there are so many more memories to make tomorrow!
I was not going to blog about it, but I simply cannot sign off without voicing my pride in my Lady Aggies Basketball team! They are headed to the Final Four for the first time in program history! Whoop!
Only By God's Grace...
Callie Ann
We had to go to Sears because of a decision I made nine years ago. I had the twins pictures taken in the tin tub with the cloud background and yellow duckies. I really love those pictures and they grace the kids bathroom wall. I repeated the procedure with Colton so it would not look right to not have sweet Kylee's face up there as well. So we packed up and went to Sears for the infamous "tub" picture.
I will now have all four tub pictures on the bathroom wall. It will be complete. I also decided to go ahead and take Kylee's picture in her beautiful dedication gown. I am so glad I did. There are so many of these that I love, but here are a few.
I am really glad I had these taken because we are finally having her dedication this Sunday, and now I have a beautiful picture to submit for it. The old saying is true that the more children you have the less pictures you have of them. Well, I have a lot of snapshots, but I hardly have any great portraits of Kylee or Colton. I think the twins had theirs taken every 2 or 3 months their first year of life. Here a few more of my favorites from today.
I will say that I love the fact that I came home with a cd of 78 pictures!! The moral of the story is now that I am not feeling the frazzlement of going to the studio, I am so happy to have these pictures. The photo session itself was tiring and I was sweating by the end of it, but Colton and Kylee were both happy. The worst part is trying to make all of the decisions at the computer after the session with the pressure of needing to make the right decisions all while your older son is running up and down the hall with the football prop you had brought and a baby wanting to sleep. Colton decided that it would be a great idea to try and make baskets with the quilt rack they had displaying products. I let him know that was not a very good idea, and he obeyed. However, then he had to find other things to keep him entertained. I mean what fun is it for an active boy to have to sit patiently and wait while Mommy makes portrait decisions. Kylee did not cry, she just sucked on her fingers and every now and then would politely vocalize her desire to leave. I have developed a list of places for anyone needing natural birth control, and this is on it. My children were not horrible, but I did not even mention the other crying and bored children that we witnessed. I decided to order the minimum and get the cd so that I could make better decisions at home.
All of this for cherished memories. Memories of ages of my precious children that I can never get back. I am sad when I think of how fast they are growing, yet I love every new development and accomplishment they make. Another day gone, but there are so many more memories to make tomorrow!
I was not going to blog about it, but I simply cannot sign off without voicing my pride in my Lady Aggies Basketball team! They are headed to the Final Four for the first time in program history! Whoop!
Only By God's Grace...
Callie Ann
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