Ethan's eyes

The other day I looked at Ethan and his eyes were not blue. They were a very bright green. It totaly took me for surprise! When Chloe was little, they were blue the first 3 months, then turned black till she was about 6 months when they started to turn green. They were fully green by 9 months. So Ethan's eyes have always been a bright blue. After he turned 1, I noticed they were not as bright, but didn't think much of it. Well, now they are green, not always a strong green, but never a bright blue either. I was just looking at this picture (posting a link so you can see it full size) http://www.cahillplace.com/images/Fall2007/Ethan_escape.JPG In that picture, you can see they are green, not blue. So we have 2 light complected blue eyed kids, and 2 dark complected green eyed kids. It is so fun to watch them change!

Best Christmas gift!

We JUST got the best Christmas gift that we could get. Adam's mom called to set up when we have Christmas. She also said that Asa (Adam's sister) and her family will be here for Christmas this year!!! I was so excited when Adam told me I felt like jumping up and down. Then we told the kids, they are all on top of the world. They were all talking about how old Ava is and how much fun it will be to see her. It will also be the first time for them to meet Ethan. I am soooo excited for him to meet his cousin that is his age. I still can't believe that they will be here! Yeah!!!!!! So we will get to have Christmas with all of our out of state family this year. We just got it worked out that my brother and his family will be back the week before Asa. Have a merry Christmas everyone!!

Back-forward

Sorry, I do so good at the beginning of every month, then do nad at the end.

I have always been the type of person to help kids speak corectly starting out young. I even do with Ethan already. When he says something, I repeat it anounciating it carefully. Chloe started speaking differently about 6 months ago. As soon as she really started to understand what she was saying, she would use words differently. It is so cute! However I have always told her the right word without pushing it to much. (Sorry, long story to get to the cute part)

So Chloe has started saying something, that even I don't corect. I need to, I do now and then, but need to start doing it everytime. When she is watching tv or a DVD and she wants to see a part again she asks us to "back-forward it" It is just so cute the way she says it! "Mommy, I missed part of Little Bill, will you back-forward it for me?" How can you not back-forward it?

Also, on the way home from school, I asked the kids what they think we should get as a gift for the whole family. Without letting me finish, Alex says "a kitten", Donna says "a kitten" and Chloe says "A roller coaster so we can go around and around as a family and Granny and Pa and Grandpa-Pat and Grandma can go with us too."

So, a roller coaster it is! I think we may ahve enough pop cans to turn in for cash so we can get one.

I am very thankful tht Ethan went back down after picking up the kids today!!!(poor boy never gets a full nap in one stretch)
I am also very thankful for my awsome kids!!!

Snow - "finally"

It is snowing today, and I am just amazed at how beautifuly the Lord made our world.

Anyway, I call to Chloe and Reed(my friends 3 year old) to come look out the window and see what was outside. Chloe runs up and says "know!" Then she looks at Reed who is a couple feet away still and says "Look Reed, know outside. Finally" Like she has been waiting years for it to snow. She then asks if we will be able to make "knowangels" today. Awwww, just want I needed to remind me of just how wonderful our Lord truely is. I am not a huge fan of snow, but I think that if we get enough snow, Our whole family is going to have to go out and make "knowangels" in the snow.

Thank you Lord for the fresh white snow that is covering my dirty yard, and thank you for how you make my dirty heart fresh and white just like the snow!

Went to see santa

The thursday before Thanksgiving our town has a big Living Windows on the square. It is an open house to let people know what our town has before Christma, but it has turned into more of a big party. Santa comes in on a fire truck with the lights flashing and the siren blaring. (He came in on a helicopter when I was a kid)

So we went to see him last night. Alex has known for years that santa isn't real, and Donna does also, but she doesn't want to take a chance that he may be real and she didn't tell him what she wants. It was so cute to watch Ethan clap and cheer when he had no clue what was going on. He also spent most of the night singing to the music. I'll post pictures when I get a chance. It was such a good feeling to know that my kids have each picked out 2 things that they want, and that is it. They aren't greedy with a huge long list that they feel they should get. They each picked out 2 things. I didn't prompt them to do that, it is just what they did on their own. Santa was a bit shocked when he heard Chloe's request. lol "know balls and a realy tree." said with a very proud grin. He looked at me like, "is this kid for real" and I repeated it to emphasize it. lol Then after he had talked to Donna and Alex and the kids were walking away, he said "you have a very musical Christmas". Oh, Ehtan is no longer asking for pom-poms, but still says "cars and dad" every time. lol he has no clue, but it is so cute! He will get cars and dad for Christmas. That one is easy.

Today I feel very blessed to have my husband. He has been very good at giving me compliments the last week or so. I haven't even asked him too! I also feel very blessed to have my kidos. They are my world, and keep me on my toes.

Shooting Star

It's 2:00 in the afternoon and I am driving accross town to WalMart with Chloe, Ethan, and my friends little boy Reed. Chloe very excitedly starts yelling, "mom mom can you see that? Can you see the moke for the shooting star? It goes all the way down to the ground and started in the middle of the sky. It is really cool!"

I love how her little mind works!

Chloe

Okay, This is my last blog for today. The last 4 were to get caught up on pictures, this one is to catch up on life.

In the pictures out at the lake, you will see that Ethan has a goos size owie above his left eye. He was in nursery, and fell off a chair and hit his head on the table. He was havign fun coloring before that. They said he didn't cry for more than a couple seconds. He is a tough little guy!!!

Then on Wednesday, we were at the Cross-Walk. I was alone with the kids working on the meal for that night. Chloe was laying accross the back of the couch, and she fell off. She has done that many times, so I felt bad for her, but wasn't worried. She landed with her face straight down. She looked up at me, and I could see it dawn on her that it hurt. She got up and started to come to me. She got about 5 feet and I saw her eyes start to roll around, then she lost her ballance. She leaned to her right, and down she went. I went running over to her, thinking she was going to be crying and she is a breath holder when she cries. She was just laying there all slumped over, so I blew in her face to make her breath and cry, nothing happened. I picked her up to force her to breath because it still freaks me out when she does this... nothing happened, then I noticed that she was floppy. She was unconscious! I sat her down on the table we were by and saying her name, nothing. Then I started to worry, and yelled for Alex and Donna ro pray while I carried her over to the couch and started trying to dial 911, I dropped the phone and couldn't get the number dialed. That is when she moved her head a little.

Long story short, we later took her to the ER where they did lots of test, and a CAT scan. Everything came out good. Praise The Lord!!!!! Thank you Alex and Donna for praying with me for our little Chloe!!! She still isn't back to normal. She is extra tired, and still a bit sore, but doing lots better. (The last 2 days she would only play for 5-10 minutes at a time before she had to rest, also taking 3-4 naps)

So today I am feeling so very very blessed to have my sweet little Chloe!!

Fall leaves

We planned to go to the park for fall leaves pics, but we seem to have missed them by a week, so we headed out to Red Rock.We hiked along a trail and then climbed down a rocky ledge to teh water. It was so beautiful!! Here are 5 pictures. (I can only post five per entry) If you want to see more, check out our website. http://www.cahillplace.com click on the "picture" tab at the top.

This is the kids looking out over the water sitting on the ledge. The wind was blowing the girls hair.

This is yet another pic of Ethan licking something. haha

Chloe, it shows her personality!

Donna, so sweet.

This is great of Alex, he was being so good that day.

Halloween part 1

Lego minifig Alex

Island Princess Donna

Tinkerbelle aka Chloe

Chunky Monkey Ethan

looking at the camera for once, this costume atracted the leaves!

Halloween part 2

The kids Trick-or-Treating Ethan and I are still by the house.

Power Team

We went to see the Power Team in October. They were in town from the 24-28th. They are a group of awsome men with amazing strength. They use their strength to get you to come to the evening crusade. We had 1090 people give their life to Christ before the last night. I was an alter worker and boy, it was wonderful to be a part of God's work in our town!!! Here are a few pics.

Kevin blowing up a hot watter bottle. (The most dangerous thing they do)

John blowing up the water bottle, it is to big for him to get his arm around here.

The girls with John. He was so good with kids!

Craig rolling up a frying pan in each hand. We got one of these to hang up.