it has been years, seriously years. I canme across my old blog a few days ago and fell in love with the old posts. It amazing how quickly the years go by and nothing quite captures the moments. But reading back through my old posts brought back those small and precious memories. So… here I go again.
kirkham boys
four boys, two dogs and a fantastic city
scooting today
Uncle Adam gave me an adult scooter for Christmas. I will admit, I love it. I have so much fun zooming around with the boys. Today we scooted and played for about 3 hours this afternoon. It was a beautiful spring day.
Way too long
I am not going to try to catch up. A lot has happened since I last wrote. I am just going to post a few of my favorite most recent photos.
update
It’s been a little while since I have written. We had a wonderful December. Grandma Care, Grandpa Richard and all our Kirkham aunts and uncles (Jodi- you were missed) came to visit. It was serious fun! We had a great advent calendar with fun festive things to do every day of the month. And then I had surgery on the 19th. Since then … life has been a little out of control. Uncle Adam stayed with the boys – they loved it! while I was at the hospital. I will be eternally grateful to Adam. We are all doing well. I am sore and trying to recover as quickly and smartly as possible (not exactly easy with the little boys). I am not sure how many, if any, photos we took on Christmas. It was once again, a strange Christmas at our house.
I’ll post photos soon!
And I am personally looking forward to a wonderful 2013!!
Holiday preparations
We have had so much fun getting ready for the holidays. Every morning James asks when it is going to be December.
Post-post
Wow, what an exciting couple of weeks (that is one way of saying it). All I can say is that I am very very grateful for the small things. I am grateful that Luke is doing great (that we had no doctor appointments last week and all of his surgery stuff is behind us). I am grateful that we live on Floor #2 (high enough above the water, only one flight of stairs to navigate in the dark with three kids). I am most grateful for Josh, who is truly the neighborhood rockstar. He was up to his waist in sewage/salt water helping move neighbors valuables, shutting down power before the water, even moving the homeless man’s belongings to higher ground. He was didn’t go to bed before 4:00am most nights. He is awesome.
The water started rising last Sunday evening. My street literally turned into a river. Our basement and elevator filled up with about 3 feet of water. The eletricity was out for a week but overall, it was an adventure. The boys had a blast. We set up our camping tent in the main room and pulled out the sleeping bags. It is kind of awesome to go to bed and get up with the sun.
Luke
Three weeks post surgery, Luke is doing great. He had a super pubic tube removed yesterday and we are both very thrilled. He took a real bath last night. He seems genuinely happy again. Woohoo!
school
Today was picture day at school. The boys looked mighty cute – I’m objective, of course.
kirkham boys 