Please pray for this precious baby girl...

This is Gracie Lockyer. I do not know her or her family but have been following their blog for several weeks now. She was born with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. I learned of Gracie's blog and story from a dear friend whose baby was also born with HLHS. She is 7 months old and has NEVER left the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Duke Hospital. This baby is in DIRE need of our prayers.

You can read her blog and the whole story at www.caringbridge.org/visit/graciejeanlockyer. She will have a surgery to attempt to repair her heart defect in just a few days in which she has only been given 10% chance of survival. Please pray fervently for baby Gracie and her parents, Todd and Amanda. They are believers and are trusting God completely with their daughter. What an awesome testimony to God's goodness.

Dialogue between Abigail and furniture delivery man...

Abigail: "You are missing some teeth!"
Delivery Man: "I am missing lots of teeth. I haven't been to the dentist in a long time."

My New Hobby

I got really tired of paying $6+ for hairbows so I tried making them myself! Much to my surprise, I was pretty good at it! I started by investing only about $30 on ribbon and hair clips and those materials made me 20 bows! Jonathan told me I should sell them so I called the toy store down road and I think they actually may help me sell them in their store! So exciting! Anyway, here are some of my firsts...

Yearbook Yourself!!

1950

1960

1970

1980

1990

This was SOOOO funny! Yearbook yourself at www.yearbookyourself.com!!

The latest on the Chapmans...

In Abigail news, we have had a fun few weeks before she went back to preschool today. She is so excited to be in her 3 year old class, but happy with some familiar faces from last year's class.

Changing baby's diaper... On her way to her first day of preschool for 2008...
She loves her Tinkerbell backpack.
Playing in her new class for the first time...
And if I didn't know any better, I might think Abigail was showing some autistic tendencies by lining up her panties on the fireplace. She loves to find her clean panties (yes would only let her play with them if they were clean) out of the clean clothes and play with them. Why, you may ask? I have no idea. Anyhow, this what she did with them...(she'll also stuff them in her Dora backpack and walk around the house with them.)

My sweet Rachel is growing up so fast! Look at her already standing! She's only 8 months! She loves to play with her big sister!

Rachel is also crawling SO fast! She is like bullet and into EVERYTHING! One day this week I was in the bathroom getting ready and I came out into our room and couldn't find her. Here is where I found her...My sweet Rachel. And here is where I found Jonathan tonight with his head INSIDE the paper shredder attempting to fix it! I was really tempted to close the door and turn it on but I refrained :).

In other news, I am officially a STAY AT HOME MOM! It feels really strange to not go back to school after 5 years of working there, but I am loving being home more with my kids. It is a blessing to be able to work PT treating a few speech clients on Jonathan's day off to make a little extra money.

That's been the latest with us in a nutshell!

Girls' trip to the beach!

Two of my best friends came to visit this past week from Texas. They are friends from grad school and are also both speech pathologists and work in the public schools. It had been 2 long years since I had seen them, so it was SO SO SO SO nice to see them again. We made a girl's trip down to Myrtle Beach where I showed them all around the beach. I also got to meet Ashleigh's little girl, Ryleigh, for the first time! She is so precious and had so much fun playing with Abigail. My mother-in-law graciously kept Rachel for me during the day so I would not be tied down with a baby while we were there. Jonathan kept her at night. We had a great time and made such great memories!!!! Love you girls!!

Abigail, Me, Ryleigh, Angie, Ashleigh in front of Sarah J's. It was good even if we had to eat at dinner at 4pm!

Ryleigh and Abigail in their matching PJ's Angie bought them. Angie's yummy breakfast plate we threw together...breakfast in bed!

Playing on the beach!

And of course on a girls weekend, you have to get a little crazy once the kids go to bed! We were attempting to mimick stupid celebrity expressions...

"TOOT"

Tonight's dialogue between me and Abigail:

"TOOT" (passing gas)

Me: "Abigail, did you pass gas?"
Abigail: "No, I didn't.
Me: "Are you sure?"
Abigail: "Mom it wasn't me because I don't have a toot in my booty."

Must have been Daddy!!!