One Thousand Blessings

#336-345.

336. Lillian getting another tooth (even with all her sweet crankiness!)

337. Painting my new craft table

338. Having a list of new projects to start

339. Getting all of the trim put up in my office

340. Clearing off my desk to just a computer and lamp

341. Seeing family members we haven't seen in awhile

342. Watching the kids and their cousins play together

343. Knowing that we got our money out of the power wheel tractor we bought for Jacob three years ago

344. The boys finding the power wheel tractor smoking and knowing what to do

345. Making plans to buy a new power wheel tractor for the kids

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One Thousand Blessings

326-335

326. Walking/biking with Kyle and Lindsey to school to meet their teachers and drop off school supplies

327. Kyle and Lindsey telling me about their first day of school

328. Anxiously waiting for Kyle and Lindsey to come from school

329. Jacob riding his bike without training wheels for the first time!

330. Jacob learning how to pump his legs and swing himself on the swings

331. Going to the local lumber yard with Chad and the kids to get some wood to build a craft table

332. Getting back into our school routine

333. Saving lots of money by buying Lillian's Stride Rite shoes on EBay

334. Using a wood cutting saw for the first time

335. Chad building me a craft table that looks just like the one in the Pottery Barn catalog, if not better!

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One Thousand Blessings

316-325.

316. School supply shopping with the kids

317. My new Thermal Laminating machine for Jacobs preschool stuff

318. Hearing kids sing part of the Fifty Nifty song

319. Watching Lillian take a small interest in pulling herself up

320. Chad starting to work on putting the trim up

321. All six of us going out to eat at a local restaurant

322. Taking the kids to the school park to play during our bike ride

323. The kids excited to start school

324. Not having to buy new back packs this year (The ones they had from last year are still in really good condition, which is good considering the price I paid for them!)

325. My tomato's are starting to turn red! (I was afraid that maybe we had planted green tomatoes!)

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10 Months Old!

Yikes, I almost forgot to post Lillian's 10 month update! Over the past month you seem to have really grown! You have gotten really fast at army crawling and started to get up your hands and knees and rock yourself back and forth, but for you army crawling is faster! For the first time the other day you got yourself into a sitting position from your belly! You haven't started to pull yourself up yet, why bother you know someone will come along to help you stand!

You seem to be using your left hand just a little more than your right, you love to sing songs like the itsy bitsy spider, wheels on the bus and twinkle twinkle little star to name a few, its so cute to watch you try to do the motions! You could care less about the TV which is a good thing, Jacob wanted nothing to do with TV and still doesn't watch it! You love music and I caught you dancing while Lindsey was playing the piano the other day. You love Elizabeth Mitchell's music so much that you seem to recognize it when it plays. You have started to fall asleep on your own with the help of music from the O' Neill Brothers piano music.

Everything goes into mouth, even the dirt and grass outside which is kinda gross. You have started to point to things when we read and love to point to at your baby dolls eyes and move them open and shut (you tried to do that with Jacob the other day when he was laying beside you, he sure didn't like that!) You are starting to show your temper a bit, you sure know what you want and don't want! Your personality is really starting to show and we love watching you grow!!!!

Blessings, Lisa

One Thousand Blessings

#306-315

306. Lindsey meeting a new neighbor friend

307. The yummy purple peppers growing in the garden

308. Helping Lindsey's friend ride her bike without training wheels

309. Watching how excited Lindsey's friend was to ride her bike without training wheels

310. Going on a bike ride with Lindsey and her friends

311. Stopping by the gas station for a candy bar with Lindsey on our way home from a bike ride

312. Receiving an acceptance letter in the mail

313. Making a final decision on going to private school rather than a large big ten school

314. Swinging on the swings with the kids at night

315. Registering Kyle and Lindsey up for school

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One Thousand Blessings

#296-305

296. The way the sunlight shines on the staircase through the front door as the sunsets

297. Hearing Jacob talk to himself as he plays with his tractors

298. Lindsey helping me wash and dry the dishes that I don't put in the dishwasher

299. Braiding Lindsey's hair

300. Lillian army crawling to the book shelf for the first time

301. Remembering to use coupons at the store

302. Picking up a free desk and chairs at Kyle and Lindsey's old school

303. Lindsey telling me that she can't wait to go back to school

304. Pandora radio on my phone, which gets used almost daily

305. How excited Lillian gets when we go upstairs

To learn more about One Thousand Gifts visit Ann's blog, A Holy Experience, and take the dare to count as many blessings in which the Lord has blessed you with!