Little Personalities: July 2014

Friday, July 25, 2014

Ben:: 2 months

Happy 2 months, sweet boy!

We love you and are so glad you're ours!

This month you are smiling a lot and cooing a lot.

Wt: 11lbs 9oz (50%)

Length: 23 inches (50%)

These legs are too delicious, soft, and squishy!

Lily's 5th Birthday

Five feels like its turning the corner from the toddler years to the childhood years.

We celebrated Lily this year, much like we did last year, with a pizza pool party in NY.

Throwing her from four to FIVE (!) How can it be?!

Pretty Brown Eyed Girl!

Pizza Time!

Hanging with the Boys

Benny was there!

Gifts- a jewelry box from Goo.

I remember getting a similar jewelry box at a similar age.

The same butterfly ice cream cake as last year- just in pink & purple this year ;)

The Perzanowski cousins- they all had the best time together!

A look back at her other birthdays:

One, Two & Two, Three

an Aug update on her 5 yr old stats:

wt: 38 lbs (25-50%)

ht: 42 inches (25-50%)

"Used to him"

One night we were walking into our church's VBS pushing the baby stroller, and Peter told me that he thinks he's used to the baby now. Oh, my heart. He is. He loves his little brother.

We were just at a family reunion and Peter announced that his brother's name is Benjamin and he's 2 months old.

Seriously, who is this tall, handsome elementary aged boy who now lives in my house?!

Thursday, July 24, 2014

EMU Check In

The week after school got out Peter had a planned stay at the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit.

He was really pumped about it. I am always shocked at how God provides for us in this boy's attitude. He has always been able to tolerate the medical stuff and does it with ease. We had been telling him a little more about why he was going in and just more details about the situation in general. He's done a great job at processing it appropriately.

He had a 3 day, 48 hour EEG. We found out that he continues to have generalized epilepsy with myoclonus. However, his EEG on Keppra looks great. While that isn't the outcome we were hoping for, we have to be thankful for the great way Keppra works for Peter. And I have to trust God's plan for us, for Peter in this. Honestly, Peter has been a delightful child this summer. He is maturing before my eyes and turning into such a nice, smart, caring, loving, thoughtful boy. We still have our moments but there is such progress. He has learned so much and functions so well. I am happy to talk about this to anyone who asks but I will probably keep it brief here out of respect for the handsome boy.

In a strange way, these scenarios are always clarifying for me. It helped give me a better mindset as we went into summer. This is our life. This is his childhood. It is my job as his mom to make him know how valuable he is. It always gives me a softer heart towards him, more compassion, and helps tame my demands. We don't do this perfectly AT ALL. I fail DAILY. But its been a joyful summer to love on this boy and help him to see how awesome God made him. And He really did. It has been a rough life behaviorally with Peter but I think he is going to turn into the nicest kid. He is so quickly repentant. He thinks processes through so well. I love his imagination. He is so thoughtful of others.

He put the castle together over the 3 days he was there! Its no longer fully together. There was too much play to be had... and toys were made for playing.

Skipwith House

I took some pictures of the house just before we started disassembling it. I thought it would be fun for the kids to see and remember. As I look back at these, I think 'should we just go and make friends with the new owners?' Wouldn't it be fun to take the kids back for a visit, to see what the new owners have done? But I'm sure it wouldn't feel like ours- ours is this stuff that is now at the new house. :) As I looked back at the blog tonight, Mike and I both commented on the good memories from there. These pics aren't a very 'thorough' job but still fun to have... I am sure all of the other pictures here on this bloggy fill in what's missing from this particular post.

Dining Room looking into the (Galley) Kitchen