I'M BAAAAAACK!!!!

oh my goodness. 3 weeks without internet. it wasn't fun. at first, it was really annoying. then it got to the point where i got used to it and didn't think about the fact that i hadn't checked my email. but now, this evening, i have been reveling in sheer online-ness. i had the kids in bed promptly by 8:00 so i could watch 'house' whilst getting caught up on everyone's blogs... it took a long time. but since chuck probably won't be home from work til about 3am, i feel quite content to sit here in my pjs, eat chocolate, and blog.

oh, thank you. it's good to be back.

since you all have been deprived of the beauty and charming personalities of my children, i'm posting some recent pictures from this past month.

little man was very busy busting out 4 teeth. yes. he went from 0 to 4. this picture is from when he had one bottom tooth and one top tooth directly above. it took me 21 pictures to get one where you could even vaguely see even 1 tooth. enjoy.

i see this every day without fail. there is no remedy. good thing it's cute.

chuck's glasses finally kicked the bucket. they weren't squashed or sat on. they actually just fell apart when he picked them up once. he's had them since before we got married, so that means he saw me walking down the aisle and the births of both of our children through them. i think i was sadder than he was.

she's pretty.

mommy's big helpers

i didn't pose this. i stumbled upon it. i think she innately knows what's cute... cuz she's so darn cute.

i still have plans for random holiday pictures. no worries.

miss me?

i know i've put you all in a horrible position of not having your semi-weekly "babies having babies" fix for a while now and i deeply apologize. we haven't had internet for a couple weeks now. whenever it gets up and running again i'll be sure to bombard you with all the most ridiculously adorable pictures possible to make it up to you. you have my word on that.

2008 in Pictures

i saw this done on another site (see "triplets plus one" on my sidebar) and i thought it looked like a good idea... though i knew it would take a long time b/c it's so hard for me to narrow down pictures! one and a half smallville episodes later (yes, it took me that long), i think i'm narrowed down my selections!

january

i was busy being very pregnant and soaking in every moment of my little girl as an only child. chuck got the opportunity to go to central asia on a last minute short term trip, and i spent my last few weeks working full time as a nanny.

rachel was my special present opener helper at lucas's baby shower.

february

don't be deceived. there's only one child in there. my skin actually aches when i see this picture. and i still had a week and two days to go here.

and then, a mere traumatic natural child birth later, i was the mother of two.

and we were a family of four!

march

we celebrated our first holiday as a 4-person family, easter. as you can see, rachel was crazy about her little brother right from the start.

and we continued getting to know our new little man.

and rachel got introduced to the big girl potty.

april

little man kept on growing.

rachel and i planned a little surprise "low carb" 28th birthday party for chuck. (yes, that's a low carb cheesecake that i actually made. that's why it looks so shady.)

may

the little ones kept growing, and i had my first mother's day as a mother of two. i also turned 26.

june

we started visiting our neighborhood pool regularly and our kids discovered that they love the water! (rachel was scared to death last year.)

and hello, solid food!

july

we sold the vast majority of our furniture as we prepared to move into our church's furnished parsonage house where we'll live until it's time to ship off.

rachel was a big helper.

august

goodbye, townhouse on andsley drive! (that apart from the landlady that thought we were trying to murder her, has been my favorite place we've ever lived)

hello, basement of the parsonage, our new home!

and little man started sitting up!

september

after quickly mastering sitting up, lucas quickly moved to the art of crawling... and making life a little more complicated. :)

october

my favorite month and the month in which my little girl celebrated her third birthday. we got to go to the fair, too!

november

we took a huge road trip with chuck's parents to the nc zoo in asheboro...

to the biltmore...

to young harris, georgia and then to chattanooga, tennessee. it was a loooong time in the car with the kids, but they did so great.

december

right before christmas, chuck and i took a trip to new york with our friends, the sigmons, as our big present to each other.

and i learned how impossible it is to get two little kids to sit still for a decent christmas picture. this one is the winner, despite the blur.

you might be thinking, "hey andie, you guys have apparently been on some trips you've failed to post pictures of or even mention." yes, this is true. i haven't been very dedicated in keeping up with my picture posting, and i have a ridiculous amount of pictures to put up. i haven't even done thanksgiving, yet. but i figure you're all probably suffering from post-holiday let-down, but here at my awesome blog, you can look forward to holiday pictures popping up at completely random times. i mean, who knows? you might get to see christmas in april! there's always holiday cheer here at "babies having babies!"