today was a big and happy day for us!! it started off unfortunately at 5 am for mommy and liam, which is the earliest either of them have woken up in awhile (i shouldn't have bragged on my last post :)). to be fair, he has had a very stuffy nose and couldn't breathe well at all. so, time to get ready for homecoming!! love these sweet little guys in their baseball jammies...
today is their 3 month birthday. i can hardly believe it. why is it 3 months takes SOOOO long when you are pregnant and then FLIES once your baby(or ies:)) are on the outside?? no fair!! i had to post this pic, it KILLS me!! i think it looks like liam is giving a "sic 'em"!
a better pic below. oh my word i love these jeans. they are pretty much in different sizes in a lot of clothes like that...0-3 mo for culley and 3-6 for liam. it's interesting, when sophie was as big as liam at that age i got some pretty rude comments..."wow, what are you feeding her?" (um, breastmilk)..."oh, she doesn't miss a meal, does she??" (well, she's 3 months old...NO!) etc. with liam, it's always like, "oh, look at the little linebacker" and "oh, someone's gonna play football like daddy." it's funny how society kind of thinks it's a good thing for boys to be big but not girls...i digress. again, i can't say enough about how wonderful these last 3 months have been. i have been so pleasantly surprised!! i think i prepared for the worst and it just has not been at all. it just feels right to be a family of 5. i worried i would not love them as much as sophie and of course i totally do. i worried i wouldn't like having boys as much as i liked having a girl and i so do. i love being the mom to boys! it has surprised me how much i love it. i asked shane tonight if we could be the duggars so i could do this 16 more times. i don't really want 16 more kids, but you get the idea :). my little angels are so distinctly their own and each so precious to me. liam continues to be large and in charge. loves to eat more and sleep less than little bro. can holler and scream with the best of them if something is wrong. will cuddle on you all day if you let him. cullen is the most go-with-the-flow baby you will ever meet. the other day at school he had fallen asleep in a swing at the end of the day, so while mandy's and my other kids played in another room with a teacher while we worked, i left cullen in the swing and turned the light off, checking in on him every few minutes. after awhile mandy went and checked on him and angel baby was awake, just swinging in the dark by himself peacefully. didn't mind a bit. this exemplifies my sweet culley.
the next pic is big sis at a baylor women's soccer game. she was the only girl on her soccer team this year and shane wanted to show her that lots of girls really do play soccer and they are beautiful and strong. so he took her on a date friday night to the game!! she looooves date nights with daddy and i pray they have them for a long time to come!!
one of the best parts of our weekend was getting to spend tonight with some of our very best friends, the vietti's. they have loved sophie so much at every stage of her life and now they are loving our boys so much too! (please note that we love their precious 1-yr-old matelyn very much too :)). i can't get the spacing right on these pictures but this first one below is matt and ginny with sophie when she was about 6 weeks old. i feel like it was last month, but alas in 1o months that newborn is going to kindergarten.
sob. the next one is matt and ginny with our boys now. don't they look so natural?? and the last in that sequence is sweet li-li napping on matt. poor boy had been so fussy all night with his cold and some reflux issues...i handed him to matt to heat up a bottle and the next thing i knew he was calm! he fell asleep on him and slept for a good while! i guess he knew a daddy was holding him :). thanks matt!
lastly are all of my babies on their first homecoming. just take a look at my baby girl!! i don't know if you can tell or not in that pic how much she really does look like liam. it is unbelievable to me how fast time flies!! i hate that the boys pic was not
at homecoming, but we left the camera in the car and by the time we realized it were not going to traipse half a mile back to the car with our 2 infants, diaper bag, 4 year old, and various other items collected during the parade. oh well.
so that wraps up our wonderful day!! i hope yours was wonderful too :).
today is their 3 month birthday. i can hardly believe it. why is it 3 months takes SOOOO long when you are pregnant and then FLIES once your baby(or ies:)) are on the outside?? no fair!! i had to post this pic, it KILLS me!! i think it looks like liam is giving a "sic 'em"!
a better pic below. oh my word i love these jeans. they are pretty much in different sizes in a lot of clothes like that...0-3 mo for culley and 3-6 for liam. it's interesting, when sophie was as big as liam at that age i got some pretty rude comments..."wow, what are you feeding her?" (um, breastmilk)..."oh, she doesn't miss a meal, does she??" (well, she's 3 months old...NO!) etc. with liam, it's always like, "oh, look at the little linebacker" and "oh, someone's gonna play football like daddy." it's funny how society kind of thinks it's a good thing for boys to be big but not girls...i digress. again, i can't say enough about how wonderful these last 3 months have been. i have been so pleasantly surprised!! i think i prepared for the worst and it just has not been at all. it just feels right to be a family of 5. i worried i would not love them as much as sophie and of course i totally do. i worried i wouldn't like having boys as much as i liked having a girl and i so do. i love being the mom to boys! it has surprised me how much i love it. i asked shane tonight if we could be the duggars so i could do this 16 more times. i don't really want 16 more kids, but you get the idea :). my little angels are so distinctly their own and each so precious to me. liam continues to be large and in charge. loves to eat more and sleep less than little bro. can holler and scream with the best of them if something is wrong. will cuddle on you all day if you let him. cullen is the most go-with-the-flow baby you will ever meet. the other day at school he had fallen asleep in a swing at the end of the day, so while mandy's and my other kids played in another room with a teacher while we worked, i left cullen in the swing and turned the light off, checking in on him every few minutes. after awhile mandy went and checked on him and angel baby was awake, just swinging in the dark by himself peacefully. didn't mind a bit. this exemplifies my sweet culley.
the next pic is big sis at a baylor women's soccer game. she was the only girl on her soccer team this year and shane wanted to show her that lots of girls really do play soccer and they are beautiful and strong. so he took her on a date friday night to the game!! she looooves date nights with daddy and i pray they have them for a long time to come!!
one of the best parts of our weekend was getting to spend tonight with some of our very best friends, the vietti's. they have loved sophie so much at every stage of her life and now they are loving our boys so much too! (please note that we love their precious 1-yr-old matelyn very much too :)). i can't get the spacing right on these pictures but this first one below is matt and ginny with sophie when she was about 6 weeks old. i feel like it was last month, but alas in 1o months that newborn is going to kindergarten. sob. the next one is matt and ginny with our boys now. don't they look so natural?? and the last in that sequence is sweet li-li napping on matt. poor boy had been so fussy all night with his cold and some reflux issues...i handed him to matt to heat up a bottle and the next thing i knew he was calm! he fell asleep on him and slept for a good while! i guess he knew a daddy was holding him :). thanks matt!
lastly are all of my babies on their first homecoming. just take a look at my baby girl!! i don't know if you can tell or not in that pic how much she really does look like liam. it is unbelievable to me how fast time flies!! i hate that the boys pic was not at homecoming, but we left the camera in the car and by the time we realized it were not going to traipse half a mile back to the car with our 2 infants, diaper bag, 4 year old, and various other items collected during the parade. oh well.
so that wraps up our wonderful day!! i hope yours was wonderful too :).
4 comments:
Ah! They are sooooooo cute! I love the story about Cullen. Precious angel. And Liam reminds me so much of my Clarky! No, Sophie canNOT go to Kindergarten. We need to get together again soon!
I love the picture of Matt with Liam. Thanks for the sweet post :) LOVE YOU!
it just thrills my heart to see what a happy family of 5 you guys are now. it's so easy to remember this time last year and all the heartache you were feeling while you struggled to conceive. such a beautiful picture you all are of the way the Lord provides and makes things right in His time! love you all!
Hi Meg! I was looking back at some old posts of mine and realized I had NEVER read the comment you sent about Helen Hunt! I am THRILLED that you know her. She loves you so much (we have talked about you a lot since we figured all of this out!) and continues to sing your praises. She said that you made a tremendous impact on her daughter! On a seperate note - your family is beautiful and the boys are getting so big! I cannot wait to one day get to meet them! Please tell your hubby we said hello!
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