Let’s see if we can pick up where we left off… right after Christmas.  Being the oldest, and now 6, I, Junior, will take over the blog for this post.

I hope Spring finds you all much better than Winter found us – too many colds, a couple stomach bugs. Yuck!  It wasn’t until March to April that we were healthy for a whole month.

I will take you through some birthday photos for myself, Little Boy, Bumblebee and Squeaker, then some Easter photos and other Springtime photos.

These are from my 6th birthday and Little Boy’s 1st birthday in January.  My Godparents gave me some really neat things, as did our Lee’s Summit friends.  I got a big, farm, floor puzzle, a table-top puzzle, a John Deere dominoes game, a neat Saints book, an I Spy game, and a few more things.  Little Boy’s Godparents were unable to be there, but they gave him a gift at the big family party another time, and mom and dad gave him a flashlight toy that sings a song and has different colored lights that flash, and our friends gave him some neat clothes, though I think he liked the box and wrapping paper most… well, and the cake.

Now for Bumblebee’s 5th birthday!  She was SO excited to be 5, haha!  Actually, Mom could only locate one video of her birthday, no pictures.  If we ever figure out where the pictures are we can at least print them and put them in a photo book, but for now a funny video will have to do.

Squeaker was all too happy to celebrate her 4th birthday.  She talked about it for the whole month of March.  We DID find several pictures of hers, so here are a few of the best.  The first one is with our neighbor, Mrs. H.

Can you tell she likes “Hello Kitty”?  hehe.

Now for Easter.  We didn’t really get the family photo we were hoping to get, but we have several of the 5 of us kids, and a couple where dad made sure to get himself and mom in the reflection of the front door, so they were technically in the picture too.  So silly, Dad!  Anyway, here’s just a couple of the good ones… try not to notice the faults with my new, big-boy tie. :-/

And now for some random Spring photos, including some from our visit to the N’s house in Illinois (DOGPILE ON MR. N!), a couple of us trying to look like Mom with a baby in her belly, our new wagon, some funny faces, prepping our garden, and a few early harvest shots.  We have really had a lot of neat gardening experiences, and for our first year, I think we did great!  Thankfully our soil is super!

Little Boy made a mess of the seedling plants. Mom was sad, but we did manage to salvage some, and despite everything we still had a lot to plant, though we had to order several organic starter plants to make up for the losses caused by LB… more than once! 

Daddy tilling for the first of about 8 times before planting! Our garden measures about 50’x12’. We hope to expand just a little for next year, and with everything we learned we’ll be adding some other things as well… like mulch! And a soaker hose! And NO pole beans! And early squash-bug management, etc.

Being goofy on the loft landing. Somehow I don’t think Daddy would be thrilled about this, but Mom thought it was cute so she pulled out the camera.

At Cabela’s in the Legends… we had a blast… and I look like I have antlers in this picture, hahaha!

This is a heavy-duty wagon, meant for holding a lot more than LB.  But he’s a good load for Cruz to pull.

I never thought Bumblebee would beat me to losing a first tooth, but she did… not long after Easter.

Another “not-long-after-Easter” event was the birth of a new cousin, almost 12 lbs at birth! Cruz was so excited to get to hold him. I think when our baby arrives Cruz will want to be the official baby-holder.

 

Early garden growth, some radishes (we ended up with TONS of these), and our first head of lettuce – romaine, and our first cherry tomato!  Mom was SO happy to see good results early on.

Well, I hope you enjoyed the pictures and video.  Daddy is working on the next post, which should be out very soon, as he wants to catch you all up on how our Summer went before we post about a new baby. Thanks for reading, and God bless you all! OH, and please keep praying for a healthy homebirth for our new baby, any day now.