The Boy Who Didn't Eat

After a year of feeding therapy, and feeding tubes, we are firm believers in miracles because yet another one has taken place in our house! This child eats ALL THE TIME! It's comical these days because we literally have to tell him to quit eating and go play. If ever there was a true scripture it is that He is really able to do EXCEEDINGLY MORE than we could ever ask or imagine :)

Easter Candy

Cupcakes

Yogurt

Cereal

Ice Cream

The list could go on and on..........popcorn, all meat, chips, anything spicy, tacos, salsa, spaghetti.

I'm not complaining, I'm just sayin.......

Milestones for Creed Samuel

We've hit a week where it's more and more evident to us that our baby is not so much a baby anymore :( This past week he has cut 2 teeth, started sitting up on his own regularly, and can even get around with his own version of "crawling" it's more like an inchworm than crawling but it get him around regardless! Last night was the first time that for his bath, he got to sit up in the bath tub seat instead of laying back in the baby washer thing. Now that he has the ability to sit up, he really doesn't want to lay back so it just wasn't working to wrestle him to take a bath. So, we pulled out the tub seat and he was so happy! Just look at what a big boy he looks like!

Since he could sit up and I knew he was safer, I left the boys in the tub to run and get their pj's. While I was gone, I heard them both laughing so hard so I ran for the camera too. I'm so glad I did because I caught them having so much fun together! The older they get, the more I am looking forward to seeing the relationship between these 2 little boys develop. I'm praying that they become the best of friends that will help each other, and make each other laugh, their entire lives. Here's the VIDEO that I got. I hope you enjoy!

These pics are my attempt to get a picture of Creed's tooth. The other one on the bottom came thru yesterday so now he's sporting 2 little teeth. I'll try to get a picture of that soon!

Super fun Easter Weekend with Grammie/Lellow Gigi and Poppa

The Yellow GiGi and Poppa made a quick trip to NC to see all the grandbabies/Callaway kids for the weekend. The plan was for Emily and Rob to pick up GiGi and Poppa from the airport and spend a couple of days with us too but Janey was sick, and Em was sick, and so plans got changed :( But GiGi and Poppa still came and we were super glad to see them! Mom(GiGi) had sent a box earlier in the week and it happened to come in on the same day they were flying in. So, as soon as they got to our house, the box had to be opened!

3 Andersens waiting for a picture to be taken :)

GiGi and Poppa helping with the opening

They also brought a purse for Cadence that matched her Easter dress. She was pretty excited about that! Everyone also got bunnies with their names on them. The boys aren't much into bunnies - or presents for that matter - but Cadence was plenty excited!

For Good Friday, we all headed to the Callaway's house so that we could hang out with them and Mom and Dad could meet baby Garner - who I did not get one picture of the entire day.

I did get this little man who is now not the baby :( and could play in the play room with the big kids.

THe plan was to color eggs so that we could have an Easter egg hunt and make cupcakes so it was like a party. Christa bought confusing Easter Egg dye so here she is trying to figure out how to color the eggs :)

Cadence and Kagan thought they could be helpful..........

We finally figured it out and after everyone was suited up to not ruin their clothes, we were off

Caleb pretty much just ate jelly beans and marshmellows

Here are our finished eggs. Aren't they beautiful!

Next we decorated cupcakes. It's hard, serious work to decorate cupcakes!

Caleb pretty much just ate :)

We did other fun stuff but that's all the pictures I took - mostly hanging out and drumming. Either way, we're so glad that we got to spend a couple of days with GiGi and Poppa and grateful for cousins so close that we get to hang out often.

Hippity Hoppity Easter's on it's way!

Packages have started arriving in the mail, so the Andersen 3 have figured out that there must be a holiday coming. Today's package was from Aunt Connie. Cadence was so excited and could hardly wait for her brothers to wake up so that we could get started on the fun of opening everything.

Here they are waiting so patiently to get started.

She pulled out a carrot full of gum and her brothers were definitely interested.

Then out came the balls!

Creed found the Ring Pops and knew he had found something good!

See? It was that good :)

Cadence thought her pink one was pretty good too. and Caleb Shaun decided he liked the eggs better than the Ring Pops :)

Thanks Aunt Connie for adding to our Easter Celebration. We miss you and hope to see you soon!

Spring is coming.........

Spring: with lots of pollen, bees everywhere, beautiful days followed by really gross days, 80 one day and 56 the next........it's a good season :) One of the reasons I really like Spring is because the good days are SO Good that they totally outweigh the bad ones! Chris and I went to a concert a few weeks ago and the artist said that one of his top reasons for liking spring is because it is a time of year when it is so visible that the Earth itself shouts the Resurrection Story. And it really made me think about what a true statement that is. Not only does everything come back to life and bloom again, but as I thought about it with people, it's the time of year when all the neighbors come out after being cooped up inside all winter. It's amazing to see how much everyone's kids grew or what new things they're doing now. And it's pretty amazing to think about our own kids and how they've changed over the winter. It provides me with hope that everything is truly "just a season" and that there is good and bad to come from all of them!

But speaking of new life, Garner Matthan Callaway decided to show up last weekend! He tried to beat Creed out for the weight record but didn't quite get it. Weighing in at 9 lb 7oz he's still a big boy! Christa definitely beats me tho, because she actually birthed him and I took the easy way out :) We're so excited for our new cousin!

One of the great "spring" things that we've picked up as a tradition is Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry's. This year wasn't a great year because all 3 kids without Chris is always hard. Thankfully Karen and Garrett were there to help us out! Either way, I had to wake up both boys to go in order to be back home to teach a lesson so that didn't really help anything.

Cadence is in the bounce house - and yes she picked out her own outfit and I let her wear it to school!

Creed loved him some ice cream! Caleb Shaun did nothing picture worthy so he didn't get his taken - remember he was woken up to even go and he doesn't love ice cream so it was pretty much a bust in his world.

Spring coming means that the bikes come out! We went for a walk last Sunday all together and it was so much fun. I can't believe that we have 2 boys who can each ride in their own thing and not need to be in the stroller, but we do!

The picture of Cadence on the tricycle makes me laugh because I so remember when she could really ride the thing! Now, her legs are definitely too long but she had a good time anyway!

Caleb Shaun prefers his walker if we're going to make him walk outside and so, he gets to use it - mostly because it's super cute.

Here is a video of him with his walker outside.