My big kiddos!

I've always heard from older (ahem, excuse me, wiser) moms that I should treasure each moment with my kids, and enjoy them while they're little because they grow up so fast... Boy, is that true!! It's so cool to watch them jumping milestones, learning so many new things everyday and it seems like almost every week they are bigger kids than they were just the week before... You may be asking yourself why I'm thinking about this, and let me tell you... Brayden lost his first tooth last Monday!! That's right, my little, 6 lb 10 oz at birth baby boy is now a jack-o-lantern pumpkin face... I picked him up from school and his teacher told me the whole story- he bit into his apple at snack time and there was his tooth! (It had been wiggly for almost 2 weeks...) When Mrs. Terri took him over to look in the mirror, he was very upset and told her pointedly that she had better put that back in! He had school pictures at the beginning of October (before the missing tooth), and he looks sooo old in his picture!

Only a week after Brayden lost his tooth, Selah found it! Not literally, I just mean that she just cut her first baby tooth two days ago on Oct. 27th (almost 7 months old!)!! AND, that same day, she started pulling up to stand holding onto her crib rail, the couch, the laundry hamper, or whatever will hold her!

Josiah is talking to us right now in full (and REALLY FUNNY) sentences... He was so cute the other day, he was climbing up onto a dining room chair, and Bobby told him to get down... He got down, then immediately started climbing up another one of the dining room chairs, which got him a stern "Josiah..." from me. He responded with, "Let me get my water, kay Mommy?" What the HECK!!! It's like they wake up one morning and decide, "okay, no more of this baby stuff anymore..."

It is exciting to see my babies start to grow up, but it's sad at the same time... I guess all we can do is be grateful to the Lord for whatever stage of life that they are in...

By the way, I promise we're going to post some pictures very soon, I'm so bad at that...