Hello again! It's been awhile since I last posted. Josie is 5 weeks old today. I just can hardly believe that she is 5 weeks already. She continues to do really well and we enjoy her more and more everyday. She has started to smile and that has been so much fun. She is a little cutie! Hopefully I will be able to catch it on camera and post a picture soon. She is still getting up about once a night to eat, but then goes right back to sleep. I have been trying to get her on a schedule, but kinda forget how to do it. It's been 3 years since I had a baby and it's hard to remember. Any advice would be grand!
Our most exciting news is that we bought a van last week. It has been wonderful. We were getting along fine with the car, but it was just so tight in the back seat. We looked for a van for a while and found a really good deal here in Fort Wayne. We are super excited about it! The kids love it and there is just so much room. We traveled to Illinois this past weekend and that was great! The kids had so much room to sprawl out! This was the first time Josie made the trip and she did wonderful. She slept most of the way and didn't cry hardly at all! I am so thankful. The ride out was the part that I was most worried about. It was fun to be home and be with family again. It was really fun to show off little Josie. Most of our aunts and uncles hadn't seen her yet, so that was fun for them all to meet her. Babies change so fast, she will probably be alot bigger next time we go home.
Well, Josie is getting hungry, so I must go feed her. Good night all!

Happy Birthday, Caden Joseph!!!

Today is Caden's 3rd birthday! I can hardly believe that 3 years have gone by since the little guy came into this world. It has been a wonderful 3 years and I don't know what we would do without him. He has been the "problem" child from the beginning. We didn't sleep through the night until 10 months (and even now we sometimes wake up), we got cold after cold followed by ear infection after ear infection. All this lead to getting tubes in his ears. The tubes have been a blessing because we haven't gotten a single ear infection since they were put in!! Then there was the stretch where he would get random nose bleeds ALOT!!! That has seemed to go away and not return! We then moved onto studdering! This all started about a month or so before we moved to IN. So, I know that all the stress from the move was probably the culprit! A couple months after we got setteled in he stopped the studdering and now has NO problem talking. We always thought that he was going to be the quiet one....boy were we wrong! He still comes down with a cold/cough about every month/month and a half, but those are bearable. I'm so thankful that all the things we went through with him were not life threatening. So many children in this world are much sicker and some may not see their 3rd birthday. So I'm not complaining by any means! Libby loves her brother so much and I'm so thankful for their close relationship. They love to play together, but also can get SO mad at each other! Alot of nights I will go into Libby's room and find them both in her bed, cuddled together, fast asleep. I hope that this relationship continues far into their lives. Caden is becoming more and more onery as the days go on! It can be reallly frustrating at times, but looking back we just have to laugh at the things he does and says. I hope I never forget these days! Caden Joseph, we love you so much and are so thankful that God gave you to us 3 years ago today!