3am, y'all!

So...Molly and I are watching Baby Einstein and hanging out. We have a teething baby who just doesn't want to nurse, folks. So I guess we'll just hang out in the living room and enjoy the fruits of Disney's labors.
I am super tired. This is the first time I've been up with Molly at night and I'm feeling incredibly resentful. How dare she? I'm pretty spoiled, I guess. I always read blog posts about people sitting up in the middle of the night with their kids and that my lucky stars that it's not me. Now you can do the same! I guess I'll just call Andrew in after the one-hour mark and see if we can't trade places for a bit...
Mom is in Washington now. I just got her text, so I will be praying for a safe and successful visit with Grandma and Grandpa. Hopefully we'll be hearing some good news very soon. Well fellow sleep-lovers, I'm going to go. The night is young and I have an infant to party with.

Party Time!

My beloved Andrew had a birthday last week, and I threw a big, fun party to celebrate! It was wonderful having so much space for people to wander, visit, eat, play and laugh together, and I know it'll be our best Summer '09 memory.

This pic os Lucy was in the batch and it was too cute not to include. I sure love this little angel. She's just such a well-behaved, funny, talkative, amiable girl. Her vocabulary is just booming and she says the craziest things. She listens very well and two and a half is treating us well. She recently learned the word "why?" and I have no idea what to do with that.

Here is Lucy on Friday night, reading a bedtime story to the cows. No joke! She actually said, "Listen, cows!" and told them all about Baby Mickey and his friends. They seemed to love it.

Christian and Lucy playing with chalk in the dark!

Calvin and Katherine got in very late on Friday night and by Saturday morning Lucy had affixed herself to Katherine's side and was very happy to finish her nap in K's lap.

She finished the final wake-up on my lap.

Calvin hung out with his best little baby, Miss Poppers. This is her supermodel pose.

The boys decorated the cookies and did a fabulous job!

Julie even came along for the fun and she had a blast wandering around outside.

Pretty Katherine!

My handsome honeybun.

Mo and PaPa!

So terribly cute after 3 blissful years of married life!

Grandpa feeding Molly!

Sweet Lydia's first pigtails!

Relaxing with Grandpa!

Once the party got into full swing, I put the camera down to have fun and visit! It was a fabulous time and we talked and played and visited long into the night. Can't wait for Cooketoberfest!

Evening on the Farm

Last night a hot and sunny night, so Andrew took the girls out to watch some of the farm activity. The farm family is up this week to work on various projects and get the hay baled, so we've been having lots of fun meeting new people and watching all the goings-on.
I love this picture of Molly. Andrew's Aunt Mary was kind enough to ask around to see who needed some baby things, and we ended up with this awesome like-new Kelty Kids backpack! Our backpack is 11 years old and Molly is kid #5 to use it, so a new pack was a huge blessing for us. I've been eyeing these packs since before Lucy was born and I just never had the extra money lying around to buy one. Molly loves it and it will be SO nice for the our busy summer and fall ahead! It was really an answer to my prayers!

Walking the newly-cut field!

Our little patch of berries behind the barn.

Lucy loves to bring wildflowers in from the field and I love Queen Anne's Lace, so it's a good combination. It might be my second favorite flower behind hydrangeas. It's even prettier when a little red-haired cherub thrusts it into your hand and shouts, "We finded you fowows, Mommy!"

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Back from the big city, y'all!

I'll post a big old post with pictures and hilarity later. For now I'm trying to clean my house. Ever notice how it always gets worse on Day 1 of cleaning and magically looks better at the end of Day 2? Andrew hates Day 1, and he went to work in a state of "blah" this morning as it was, so Im trying to cram Day 2 into Day 1 to surprise him when he gets home. I have a party to host in 3 days and this house is nowhere near party-ready. I hope the weather holds. What the poop would I do with a million people IN the house?