Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Happy Birthday Joshua!!!

Today our wee man changes from a baby to a toddler.. at least that is what we are feeling! Can't believe he is 2 years old today! We have been greatly blessed with this fun loving, strong willed, flirty, spunky, shy boy. God has great plans for him and we are excited to see where the Lord leads him in his life. 

Here are some pictures of when he was less then a month old...











Ian has been saying words like "God, Jesus, Lord, Jesus saves" and having Joshua copy him. We know he is picking up so many words these past few weeks, he has become quite the talker!! He loves to sing, and runs around collecting our psalm books and handing them out only to take them back again after 2 verses just to hand them out again. 
A look through this past year at how Joshua has grown and developed... such good memories!






Chocolate face...



He HAD to have the tie on with that shirt..

At Great Granny's house in Scotland.. eating an orange

Goofing off with the 3 Aunties over in Scotland

Such precious memories! Makes us so sad when we see other parents chosing paths that cause harm to their kids. No matter how tough we had it (and he was a very difficult baby!!) we still love him with all our hearts and wouldn't change his personality one bit! He has put so much joy and life into our lives. Makes us look forward to this next pregnancy with excitement knowing each child God places in our arms and home has a purpose. Each life is precious in God's sight and precious in our eyes as well. 

Tuesday, March 1, 2016

March 1st

It is the first of March and what do we get? Snow!!
The past couple days have given us spring fever a bit and waking up to snow this morning brought us back to reality. 




Here are some pictures of a snow fall we had last week.. we received about 8 inches from wednesday afternoon till thursday morning. Thats alot of snow in a 24 hour period!











Lets just say we are anticipating our trip down south to warmer weather!

Thursday, February 18, 2016

The Children's Museum

A couple weeks ago Joshua and I met Auntie Jo & Marvin and a friend of our with her son, Lincoln at the Grand Rapids Children's Museum. Joshua had lots of fun till he ran head first with his shopping cart into cousin Marvins shopping cart and cut his lip and gums up. It has all healed nicely since then.

Auntie Jo pushing Joshua in the little car with a trailer full of toy food


Marvin pushing a shopping cart his size






Joshua wanted the sheep skin wrapped around him on the couch


Joshua's smile

Saturday, February 6, 2016

Playing catch up on pictures

Joshua's favorite thing to do... 
be in the tub and have the water running alittle 
so he can fill and empty his little cups.



Another favorite thing is to feed Bucko our dog

Piece by piece

We had to move the food from this cupboard to the shelf above because the little money kept getting in and feeding Bucko "More?"


Playing with his train track







Watching baby einstein on Daddy's lap, in Daddy's study

Bucko

Jimmy still going strong.. hasn't had a bath yet in the year he has had him.. probably should do so before it becomes a health hazard!