Bathtime...

So I'm a horrible mom... I neglected take pics of Alyssa's first bath at home...or her second...or third... so here's pics from a recent bath... (which may have turned out better than the first series of baths since she screamed BLOODY MURDER during them!)

Oh well... so here's a series of pics in her pink tub...(which I really love because naked and without a bow...it'd be hard for me to tell the kiddos apart!)

I think she was actually rooting here... that girl LOVES to eat!

Relaxing now that she realizes it's bath time... and she may have just peed...

Making a silly face... she still has times when she goes momentarily cross eyed!

Trying to eat the washrag...see! I wasn't kidding! She loves to eat!

Covering her boobies...she gets a bit modest when she's undressed or having her diaper changed...which we fully support now and for the next 30 years! :) (not the diaper part but the modesty part!) :)

THE LOOK...this is a look I get quite regularly from our little princess... in a previous post I mentioned how she takes after me a bit more in the personality department...um...this is why I mentioned that...(she has also learned to "give the bird" and has on occasion pulled my hair already...I gotta get this all straightened out before the teen years!) :)

Yellow Snow and Other Christmas Fun...

That's right...yellow snow...

This Christmas Eve, we were finally able to take Andrew on the Christmas train in Jefferson. This is the same train we tried to take him and other kiddos on for his 3rd birthday (which fell through to my major disappointment!) but anyhow...

We took the train ride through the woods which are decorated in Christmas lights. As we are riding, it started raining and I mentioned to Andrew that I wish it were colder so that it would snow like it did last Christmas. For the kid who doesn't forget anything - including the random life lessons you teach him - he decides to loudly announce, "I LOVE to e-e-e-eat snow! But we DON'T EVER eat yellow snow!" Of course, the other passengers here and begin laughing and repeating what he said to those who didn't hear it clearly (or who did and thought they just didn't hear right...) so below is our little ham and our amused smiles...


Here my baby brother, Joey, was able to take a little better pic of us...but you can tell that Andrew is still being silly and quite proud of himself!


Christmas morning didn't start out so quietly. Andrew began waking us up right at 7 and as you can see, Ms. Priss did NOT want to wear her bow....


Notice a MUCH calmer Alyssa now that she got her way... hmmm... I have NO idea where she gets that from! :)
Andrew opening the NERF guns that Santa brought to Munner's house. He was SOOO excited and so was Daddy because Santa happened to bring Andrew TWO Nerf guns to play with...;o)


Mommy & her girl... you can somewhat see the bracelets that Andrew & David made for me...I LOVE them! :)

Our sweet Andrew showing off his Santa Clause hat.. he enjoyed distributing gifts and helping open everyone's!


It's hard to see but here, Andrew is showing me the little sleigh bell that was used to decorate the tree with. He LOVES Polar Express so he REALLY wanted to keep the bell... I'm not sure why he is so serious in this picture...I may have been giving him the 3rd degree as to why he wanted to keep it...(I think he has hoarding issues...)

Later that day...I didn't realize that David had taken this picture until I downloaded the pics to the computer... I love my naptime with my snuggly girl!

Flies, Woody & the Bears

Our baby girl "catching flies"...this is her favorite position, so it's how I spend the majority of my days...

Just a random pic of Andrew hanging with Woody whic h Alyssa gave him at the hospital when he came to meet her....

A picture of Alyssa dressed in her bears ready to go to Munner's house and to Jefferson for the first time... she is about 6 weeks old here...

YUP...she's a Davlin!

Ok, so I'm still not posting things in order...but it seems that I'm not able to keep the blog updated with recent pics...sigh....

But here's a pic of Alyssa last night while in a happy mood and talking with her "Friends" on her bouncy chair...

Can you see the Davlin resemblance? She definitely takes after the Davlin side MUCH more than her brother does...

I think it's funny how Andrew looks more like me - but has David's personality...and how Alyssa looks (a little!) more like David - but has my personality... I guess that is how God keeps us on our toes! :)

7.5 Weeks Old

Answered Prayer

A few days ago I received an email from Geoffrey Mayimba who lead our mission team a few years ago to Uganda. In my response, I informed him of Alyssa's birth. His reply to my email left me in joyous tears as a reminder of how Faithful our God is!

Because of past surgery and issues, I had always been told by OB/Gyn's that it would be very difficult to get pregnant. We had our first mission trip to Uganda in 2005 where Geoffrey was unknowingly praying for us. And then when we traveled for missions to Milwaukee in 2006, we had asked a few of the team members to pray for us to become pregnant (and little did we know that on that trip we were in fact pregnant with Andrew!!! His pregnancy and the tale behind it is in fact a Blessing!!!)

So before I digress too much further, I wanted to post Geoffrey Mayimba's email:

It is nice to hear you have a second child...baby girl. I believe your first born was a miracle child God gave you as a result of your trip to Uganda. You steped out in faith to be where God wanted you to be and God open your womb. I remember asking you and Davlin when we had gone to visit one of the High Schools in Jinja whether you had children, and you answered no. I felt guilty why I had asked you about children. I recall you telling me about your chances of having kids were minimal. When we returned to the Hotel in Jinja the Lord took your burden and put it on my heart. Perhaps, I had not had a chance to share with you about this. All the days of our mission in Uganda, I watched you and Davlin devoted to the Lord's work. I prayed for you daily that the Lord would grant you all your desires. Later when I saw you at Columbus Avenue Baptist Church with your first pregnancy I was overjoyed. My sister be blessed. Please, hug those beautiful children for me. Tell Alyssa she is the cutest baby in the whole world. We love yall! We now live in Kampala, Uganda."

Dr. Geoffrey and Sarah Mayimba
P. O Box 37391
Kampala, Uganda
Tel: (256) 787-750665
URL: http://www.hopefocusministries.org/


I never thought of our mission trips blessing us in such a way. Of course, we knew we would be Blessed by the people we would meet and the lives that were dedicated to Christ. But to read Geoffrey's email, I am in awe as it is such a testament to God's Faithfulness and to the power of prayer!!!

Sweetness...

Alyssa 4.5 Weeks

Andrew 3 yrs 9 months

First week of December 2010

Andrew styling in his jammies & newly found Santa hat that was pulled out with the Christmas decorations...

The Christmas tree almost finished by the guys as Alyssa & I "supervised"...Andrew is about to put the finishing touch on with his Daddy's help...

Dave thought he would go ahead and put baby Alyssa in her new stocking that her big brother picked out...I don't think she likes wearing the stocking....

Alyssa's 4 week birthday. We were going to go to a SS Christmas party as our first outing...

Big brother Andrew rocking his sister...sooooo sweet!

David broke out his X-Box...he turned Andrew into a lover of video games!