We Love You and Will Miss You Reed!

Our Perfect Child

As our children were born

We wanted them to be perfect.

When they were babies,

We wanted them to smile and be content playing with their toys.

We wanted them to be happy and to laugh continually

instead of crying and being demanding.

We wanted them to see the beautiful side of life.

As they grew older,

We wanted them to be giving instead of selfish.

We wanted them to skip the terrible twos.

We wanted them to stay innocent forever.

As they became teenagers,

We wanted them to be obedient and not rebellious,

mannerly and not mouthy.

We wanted them to be full of love, gentle and kind-hearted.

"Oh God give me a child like this" was often my prayer.

One day He did. Some called him handicapped....

We call him perfect!

We had a lot more time with Reed than any doctors expected. But, it never seems like enough time once it runs out.

A Few Fun Pictures...

I'm drawing a bit of a blank this evening and can't remember what I was going to blog about this week. So, here's a few pictures we've had hiding in our archives...
Lolli and Pop came down for the weekend. We had a fun filled weekend at the science museum and the clydesdale park and eating and eating....without any sight of my camera.
At Christmas, Clayton wanted to make a birthday cake for Jesus. "Ahhh, that's cute", I thought, So he and Lolli were off to the kitchen. The problem now is, when he see's Lolli, he feels as if there should be cake involved (hence the eating and eating)

Puckered out at book time. I keep telling myself, if only we could get him still for 30 seconds...he'd fall right to sleep. The proof is in the pudding.

Bird watching

Laney is quite the snuggler. She is a girl of (very) few words but when she sees an animal (in a book or live) she gives a cute little "ahhh" and tries to hug it. When she catches Stella (which seems to be more and more rare), she's in snuggle heaven!

Back From A Hiatus!

Oh my goodness, I can't believe that it's been a month since I've updated our little Blog. So, here it goes:
We hope everyone had a wonderful Holiday season. Ours was great, minus the part where we had to literally fight Clayton to let us take down the Christmas tree at the end of January! Laney is our little climber. She's so quiet that we rarely catch her. BUT, if there is food at stake (here's showing her getting a fair share of her brother's bananas that he, earlier, refused to share) she'll risk her life for it.

Yeah for pig-tails! This is the first of many more to come!

What to do on a cold Oklahoma day?

Clayton is officially in SUNBEAMS at church. His class is made up of 4 three-year old boys and he LOVES it! He has his own little scripture bag and is thrilled to carry it to 'his class', as he calls it. He loves singing time. However, I'm not sure how the bum is connected to the vocal chords, but none of the Sunbeams can sing unless they are standing up. It is too cute!

Welcome Old Man Winter! On Tuesday we received quite the winter storm. First an ice storm, typical for here. Then came the snow. We got somewhere between 10-14 inches. The biggest problem was the wind was blowing as high as 50 mph with a -25 WCI. Snow's not as fun when you can't go in it. This picture is Clayton's attempt to help Dad dig us out....it lasted about 1 minute and he was back inside.

I don't know if you can see this but it's a huge snow drift in our back window that almost totally covers a yard stick. This is my favorite snow drift because now the dogs can look at us through the window by standing on the snow.

Laney's a but jealous that everyone else got to go outside. The problem is getting her to come back inside before frost bite sets in.

That's all for today. It's now Friday and the snow has started falling again...but we love having our Daddy home to play!!

I promise to update soon!!! Scout's honor!