March-April

I finally remembered my blog log-in, kinda shows how long it's been since I have posted.

The last 2ish months have been filled with lots of great things, but also a few things that were sad and will stay with me for a long time.  Grandpa Roessler passed away in March and Grandpa Gautraud in April.  It's funny how teary eyed I can get when a memory is sparked.  I am thankful for the years I have had with them in my life!

If you know the Davis family you know that March through August we celebrate one birthday a month. We had a family birthday for Kate's 7th and a friend birthday for Lucy's 4th. Next Wednesday is Sam's 2nd birthday, firetrucks, Thomas the Train and super heroes here we come!

Lucy had 4 friends over and they made pizza and decorated cookies!

Joel and Kerry welcomed their daughter home in March, it has been so fun to share in their adoption experience.  We are very inspired by them.

My parents celebrated 33 years of marriage, we enjoyed a catered dinner from Pompilios and a night full of laughs at my parents house.  It was so wonderful of my mom to pull it all together.  My dad prayed over the food that night and it was so sweet to hear him choke up when he prays about his marriage, my mom or shows thanks for my grandparent's marriage.  I appreciate the genuine love he has for his family and the Lord. 

School is almost done and I am so excited, it's hard to continue to get up at 6:20 with great Joy, I am looking forward to May 25th!!!  In the last couple of weeks school has been far more manageable, due to a very simple schedule Ben implemented.  The kids know exactly what to do when they get home and our expectations.  Too bad I didn't figure that out a few years earlier.

     This is just a fun picture I found from one of those warm evenings in March.

Sam seems to be the entertainment/ highlight of the house lately.  A line often said to him by Ben is "Sam, don't you know your still one."  Sam often does or says things that seem so mature.  Potty training is one of my favorite examples.  If you ask my thoughts on potty training a child I will tell you that I don't even try it until 3 yrs. old because my kids weren't interested until then.  At 3 it would take a week and we would be done, instead of begging my child to use the potty.  Well Sam has decided in the last month that he is ready.  He likes to climb up on the big potty by himself and poop, yes poop on command.  All my kids were petrified to poop and especially on the big potty.  For a couple of nights in the evenings he would need to poop and while he was on the potty he wanted me to flip through a Family Fun magazine so he could look at it, those are things that make me smile.
...Last night we were putting him in bed and he said "It's too hard to be Spider man...I tried it."  Ben asked,  "How do you be Spider man?"  He then turns his hand palm side up as if shooting a web, he then says "I tried it, I watched it"  He looked pretty discouraged about the whole situation, maybe another day he can figure out how to be Spider man.

This pic is from November but the look he gives is the very same Sam look I see most everyday.