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Marc's first day of school!

Marc had his first day of pre-school yesterday and was SUCH A BIG BOY!

We are so proud of him adjusting so well to a new school, teacher, and classmates!

I also am so sorry for SUCH a delay in posting.  This summer has been crazy as I went to Uganda for 11 days and we hosted two children from Latvia... one of whom is being adopted by a family in Chicago!

Marc is doing well.  He has learned almost all his letters and is moving on to his numbers.

He loves to play with his sisters but still finds it very difficult to play on his own.  LOL

We have been having FABULOUS 70 degree mornings and so Marc and the dogs (we got a new puppy last week as well) spend some time in the morning in the back yard.... the above is how Marc plays most of that time... standing and looking in the window.  It kills me!  LOL

Here is our new buddy... Charlie.  He is a vizsla.  He was a rescue pup and is very sweet.  Marc calls him Chawwlie.

Marc ventured into the pool this summer with water wings and scootered all around the pool.  Of course his favorite thing to do is the play with the water gun!! :0)

Now that things have slowed down a bit, I will try to get back in the habit of taking more pictures and updating the blog more.  Thank you for your patience.

Love to you all.

Dawn

Back from the beach...

We came back from a week long stay at the beach and noone was ready to come home!

It was a wonderful time and Marc had a blast!

Not only did he love playing in the sand... he also boogie boarded with the big kids!

Here are some pictures from the trip... hope you enjoy!

I'll post some more in the next couple days...

Hope you all are well!

This smile makes my heart smile.  He has finally started giving me smiles for the camera!  Yeah!!!

We went to the lake a few weeks ago and Marc had a great time.  If you look closely, you can see how he puts his flip flops on by himself!  It cracks me up.

 This picture was taken a while back but I wanted to include it.  I like that he is chillin in his pajamas!  He probably was watching Thomas the Train on Netflicks!

He loves to ride his tricycle.  It cracks me up so the core of my soul how he gets this thing on it's side like this!  Who knew trikes were so dangerous!?

He had his last day of pre-school yesterday.  I can not believe summer is just around the corner!

Hope you all are well.  Hugs.

We love Spring...

We took some Spring pictures the other day.  I didn't even dress Marc for the occassion as he made it clear he didn't like all the photographing for the Fall pictures.  And wouldn't you know it... not only did he WANT to do it this time... he gave me some of his best smiles EVER!!!

And not just once... but again and again!  So I did some fast thinking and... turned his shirt around backwards...

at least the clashing orange was gone!

We pray you are being blessed with the beautiful beauty of our Creator springing forth from everywhere!

Marc is THREE!

We celebrated Marc's birthday outside this year, as the weather was AMAZING!

It's hard to believe this little guy is three years old!  Wow.  Time really can fly.

Thomas and Buzz Lightyear are his two favorite things right now and Thomas won out on the cupcake toppers!  He also got a starter Thomas Train Track and two trains.  He was very happy about those.

 I think he was more pleased with the cupcakes than any of the presents though, this child is an eatter.

After we had some fun in the back yard, we went to the park to play.  I gave Marc some poprocks for the first time and it was pretty funny to watch him react to the popping in his mouth!

He wasn't as perplexed as I thought or even hoped he'd be... like I said... he's an eatter and nothing pretty much stops that process!  It was still a little funny!

I also bought him a little riding bicycle with some of the money you guys sent for Christmas.  When the weather warms up and the grass fills back in, I'll get him a slide or something for him to play on outside with the rest!

Hope you all are well.

Love, Dawn