where do I start??

Happy Birthday Aunt Lin! We love you! :)

I'm really behind on posting photos and updates...so much has happened in a month! Wes is a BIG boy these days and Arlie is really a great big sis. Amanda is awesome and handing being a mommy of TWO like a champ. Lin had a birthday yesterday and as always, we're super proud of her as she started another school year.

Haven is walking all over--and even attempting to run. This has resulted in a HUGE goose egg on her forehead (now a weird yellow green bruise), a scratch under her eye from hitting the couch on her way down as well as a burn on her arm from falling against a landscaping brick. I promise I'm a good mom!! She's really tough and I think I cry more than she does when these things happen. Haven constantly walk/runs as if someone is chasing her--the dogs, daddy, arlie mae, etc. She moved to the toddler side of the baby classroom at school which is exciting to just me I'm sure but I did learn something awesome the other day when I picked her up--she sleeps on a cot during naps. Her teachers probably think I'm nuts because I couldn't stop saying "how the HELL do you get her to do that??" I have two fans, a nightlight and a million pacies in her crib at night to keep her asleep and you get her to sleep on a freakin cot voluntarily!? Anyways, she is apparently very well behaved and loves the older toddlers so maybe she just does whatever they do...

I will work on posting new photos because she has changed so much recently. We have so much going on--as everyone else does but I need to make more time to update the blog. This has become Haven's baby book in a way--I go back and read posts from her surgery (almost a year ago!) and it's like that was a lifetime ago. I'm so glad that I kept this journal of our experiences because this has been an amazing 14 months and I wouldn't change any of it. :)