thanksgiving-

thanksgiving was imperfectly perfect. 

grant wrote a paper on what he did over thanksgiving break. i don't have a scanner-but i wanted to preserve his writing-so here is goes...

My Thanksgiving Break

by 

Grant Edington Lockwood

On my Thanksgiving break I went to Muskogee Oklahoma. On the first day, Tuesday my Dad drove from my house right away to go to Oklahoma. It is a really long drive. It was so long we wached a couple movies. We wached a couple of earths. The first one was great plains, then Jungles, then Mountains, then finally shallow seas. I liked Shallow seas the best. I liked it becaus there was a shark. And when we got there, it was pitch dark! And on the second day, Wednsday, my cousins Roy and Dale came over. Roy is ten and Dale is six. They brought there baseball stuff and so we played catch. We played that almost the whole day and on thanksgiving we had a feast, it had lots of food and on the last day we had a bonfire and we played backetball and Jakob knocked my tooth out. And on Saterday we lefs and on Sunday we went to church.

love this boy-

from halloween to christmas

just days after trying to get pictures of the kids in their halloween costumes-i am dressing them in their new hanna's, pulling on tights and boots and trying to keep them from wrestling in the front yard before getting some christmas pictures. it was the night of tiny tim (IDC's big fundraising event). bobby was skeptical that we should add a photo shoot into the schedule of events-but i was determined. i braided hair and then tried to get myself ready. i'm hoping to get a christmas card out this year-but here is a sneak preview.

more lullabies to sing

so for some odd reason i've always had a feeling that i should be the mother of 4. after anneliese was born i would have dreams about another baby. it was a strong feeling. a not done feeling. but life with 3 is not a cake walk-and there were so many times that i tried to tell myself to let it go. 3 is good. 3 is amazing. i'm sleeping through the night now-seriously why would i want to go through all that really hard stuff again. i even started telling people that we were done, we sold the van. bought a prius. but secretly i was a little disappointed when month after month nothing was happening.
but now it is becoming a reality. baby number 4 is due to arrive around may 1st. i will have more lullabies to sing. and i am very happy and a little scared. it is exciting to share this with the kids-as they were all too little before to really understand what was happening.
scared because i already feel very crowded in this house. closeness is good-and i'm working on my auditory sensitivities, but it all gets to be a little too much sometimes. we are hoping to add on-but that brings all sorts of new stresses to the table. money, planning, money...
need to sleep now.



this blog may be my new procrastination for working on the other blog :)

here is one of the pictures i took over the birthday weekend. my mom requested some pictures of kids reading-for her new reading lab.

a wolf, an owl and an octopus

i realize i have been horrible about updating this blog-and it makes me a little sad that i don't give it much attention when the babyday blog is going crazy with posts. hopefully, i will back track and post about the party we had for anneliese and nana and the bonfire and all the other wonderful events in october. but i have 2 minutes until i need to wake up 3 sleepyheads and get them ready for school-so for now-just a few pictures from an attempt at getting a few pictures of them in their costumes.