Katelyn's first day of preschool

Well, it's official- Katelyn is now a BIG girl!  She started preschool today!  

 Here she is outside her school.  

 When we got to her class she literally started to walk in without a wave, hug, goodbye...nothin'.  We of course were more sentimental and had to give her hugs and kisses.  She then went in, put her bag away and headed straight to the art table to create her first of many crafts!  Praying this is a wonderful year for her!

Back to school interview:

1. What is your favorite food? Pizza
2. What is your favorite sport? Gymnastics
3. What is your favorite TV show? Dinosaur Train
4. Who is the coolest person on Earth? Jesus
5. What are you most excited about school? Learn more about Jesus
6. What is the thing you do the best? Go on trips without mommy and daddy
7. If you could go anywhere in the world, where would you go? I would go see SaSa and see how she preaches to people all about Jesus
8. If you could change your name, what would it be? Beautiful Rylie
9. What is your favorite color? Pink
10. What is your favorite toy? rings and bunny
11. What is your favorite movie? Princess and the Frog & Sleeping Beauty
12. What is your favorite book? Brave
13. What is your favorite song? Jesus loves me verse 3
14. When I was little I used to... spit up, crawled, and eated
15. What is your favorite snack? dried up banana and fruit
16. What food do you not like? pepperoni
17. Who is your best friend? Emily, Savanah, Heidi and Lylah
18. If you could have one wish, what would it be? To swim all day and night
19. What is your best memory? Playing chutes and ladders with Daddy
20. What is your favorite holiday? Birthday and Christmas
21. What do you want to be when you grow up? Christian and Astronaut
22. What is your favorite cereal? Frosted Mini Wheats
23. What is your favorite game? Hide-n-Hoot

Katelyn's Baptism

Katelyn asked Jesus into her heart in March.  Since, at the time, she didn't come with us to big church, she had never seen anyone get baptized or even heard of it really.  Thanks to her cousin Micah, that all changed in July.  He was recently baptized and wasn't afraid to share with Katelyn all about it.  She came home from Washington asking lots of questions about it, and not too many weeks later she said she wanted to show everyone that she asked Jesus into her heart by being baptized.  (On a side note, Micah was also sharing with Caleb about how he also needs to accept Jesus into his heart and get baptized.  Caleb made that decision a few weeks ago and was baptized last week.  I am just so thankful that Micah is so willing to share Jesus with those around him.  He has already made an impact in 2 lives and he is hardly 6.  How many more lives will he touch? Preacher in training perhaps? Or maybe just living the way we all should by sharing his love for Jesus?!?!  All of that to say, I'm proud of Micah and Caleb too!)  

She was very excited to tell her friends and Ms. Marlys (her Sunday School teacher from last year) that today she was getting baptized.  We were so thankful that Brian Brunson, our young married minister, would be baptizing Katelyn.  She knows him from small groups, so she was comfortable with him. 

Here is a good picture of her professing who her Lord and Savior is, "Jesusssss Christ"!

Buried with Christ in baptism....

Raised to walk in newness of life! 

While we were getting Katelyn dressed afterward she said, "Mommy, I'm glad I got baptized today.  I don't want to hide that I asked Jesus into my heart."

After her baptism Chad Hampton (Youth Minister) preached.  He preached about not using words necessarily, but painting a picture of Jesus in our lives every day.  Our prayer is that as Katelyn grows in the Lord that she will paint a beautiful picture of Jesus' love and others will be drawn to Jesus because of her faithfulness.  

Colson- 6 Months Old

Half a year old- I can't believe it!  Colson is such a happy little guy, especially when he is in the jumper!

He loves to sit in the jumper, play with all the toys on it, watch his big sisters running around, and jumping (of course).  He also likes to have time to just roam around on the floor.  And yes, I do mean roam.  He rolls, army crawls, or wiggles all over the place!  He is quite obsessed with the door stopper that is in the living room.  He makes a bee-line for it anytime I lay him down.  I try to keep him on a blanket on the floor so he doesn't spit up on the carpet, but he gets off it in about 2 seconds!  

  

He had his first sink bath at Bubba and JoJo's this month.  He loves splashing and kicking.  When I give him a bath, I also get a bath because of the amount of splashing!

He has been eating baby food (banana, rice cereal and applesauce) the last week or so.  He isn't too impressed, but I'm sure that will change soon.  He isn't the greatest sleeper, and this momma is getting tired!  He would still eat every 3 hrs if I let him, which I don't, but he still wakes and cries several times each night.  While he is awake he is very independent and generally very happy.  If he gets fussy all you have to do is  pick him up, give him a new toy or even just smile and talk to him and viola- happy boy!  He is great in the car and he loves Katelyn.  She can get him to laugh like no one else!  His excema still flares up on his face every week or so.  The spot above his eye (Doctor thinks it's a dermoid cyst) has started to grow.  We were planning on waiting until he is a year to MRI and remove it, but since it is growing, we may have to bump that up.  His well check is next week, so I'm thinking of asking for a referral to a specialist to get it checked out.  

Happy 1/2 Birthday sweet little guy.  You are a blessing to our family!

Adelyn

"Cheeeeeeeese" is what she is saying!

But that is not what I'm here to tell you.  I just had to tell you that today Adelyn said, "Mommy, can we stop playing now- I want to go night-night."  Yup, that's my girl!