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Category: 3.0 Baby 2012

8 + 4 + 1 : Back To School

Weekly prayer meeting fell right on the day before the girls are going back to school so we were able to have a devotion about trusting and waiting on God, and not be fearful. And we each prayed for specific things that might take us away from giving each of our best this year + that they may be extensions of God’s love to their schools. We also prayed for their cousins, their friends, and school peers who will be entering into another year. Be mighty, little ones; take courage in the One who leads your paths. One-two-one-two! Get ’em, Ababas.        SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW: This year, I decided not to buy any new school clothes for them or backpacks. Thankfully, their sneakers still fit and was still in good condition.  Only Elle had to get new sneakers because her feet are growing so quickly and I could never keep her sisters’ old sneakers because they were so beat up from each year.  Also, after school ended, we kept all their old crayons, colored pencils, markers, erasers, pencils, highlighters, unused post it notes, tore out the old pages from their composition notebooks, binders, colored folders, calculators, paper, […]

Elleonai Turns 6

Happy birthday to our darling, Elle, who continues to be an example to us with her bravery for accepting challenges that test her mentally + physically, her fervent pursuit for friendships, and her unconditional forgiveness that chooses to see the greater sides of people, despite sometimes being treated unlovingly. We are so blessed by her affection, the plethora of bear hugs + random kisses. She is the color yellow ? in our home, with her shining smiles and joy- every day. We love you, little one. We pray your Bible verses over you and hope you continue to live your purpose with a smile.    Some things from her 5th Year: FAVORITES: COLOR:  tiffany blue TV SHOW:  Fuller House, Teen Titans  MOVIES:  The Lorax, Monsters Inc., Goonies, Mamma Mia “Here We Go Again”, Greatest Showman BOOKS:  Little People Big Dreams Series, Treehouse Series, Elephant + Piggy Series FOOD:  Mac + Cheese, Spaghetti, Vienna Sausages, Fruits, Soda, Fried shrimp RESTAURANTS:  Red Lobster, Rai Rai Ramen HOBBIES:  Swimming, Reading, Roller Skating, Playing Roblox, YouTube, Indoor Rock Climbing, Riding a Scooter, Going to the Park, Playing Pokemon, Dancing THINGS:  Sleepovers, Parties, Being With Friends, Chuck E. Cheese, Unicorns, Rainbows, Target, Musicals, LOL Dolls, […]

Passing It Down

Moments that I sincerely cherish. When out of the blue, one of them just serves the other. Zienne has been learning the uke because she looks up to Emma + Emma taught her a few chords. Today, while waiting for Emma during violin lessons, we stayed outside and Zienne started teaching Elle. My girls are natural teachers.

Elle On Her Knees

I’ve been sick in bed for 3 days now. Elle finally couldn’t take my absence, so she came in the room crying for me to get better so she can finally hug me. She said she almost started crying in school just remembering me sick at home. After a small reassuring talk, she left the room. An hour later, she came back into the room and asked if she can pray for me, and so she did. Warms my heart. What I love most about having girls is their extremely open loving nature and easy feeling to communicate verbally.  My girls always ask me for quality time, when they want me to hug them on my bed, just talking.  They will ask me questions and it becomes a time when they can feel safe opening up something that’s in their minds, and I can verbalize how much they are loved.   Elle is our most emotionally needy- she lives by hugs, so when I was sick and wasn’t able to hug me, she had such a hard time.  My love.

Elle Turns 5

Happy birthday to my not-so-little beloved Elleonai who turns 5 today. Last year, she learned how to skate, ride a bike with training wheels, swim under water without Floaties, indoor rock climb, read, write her full name, hula hoop, whistle, love the Beatles + Abba, make simple meals, ride really tall rides, was a flower girl for 3 weddings, and met Mickey Mouse + Jollibee. She is opinionated, super social, outgoing, vocal, and extremely brave to new activities. We are quite surprised with her ability to try new things even if she is this small little girl…her courage is immense. She is also very sassy, prone to make a myriad of facial gestures that can even be sarcastic and extra. But she is an amazing little girl, who already knows what it means to be a loyal friend, an understanding sister, a responsible worker, a mini leader, and can melt her way into the hearts of her parents. Not to mention, she has such a mature sense of humor for her age and weird interests…I asked her what she wanted for her birthday, and she said ,”Peppa pig and a model of gray matter.” What a pleasure to raise her.  […]

Elle Turns 4

  Our little love turns 4 today.   Our family is so blessed with her life, her confident and sassy, yet loving personality- protective and caring to those she is close to. Three year old Elle LOVES to sing, watch videos, play in the park, go crazy in any water source, cuddle, go to movies, pretend play, and try to do everything her sisters can do. She has always challenged herself to play the game of catch-up, which is probably why she hits all her milestones much earlier than Emma or Zi. Although she’s not too keen with writing her letters and words, she jumps at any chance to read her books, which is why one of her fav hot spots is “Barnes and Nebbles” ?. She’s also pretty fearless when it comes to new things, like swimming and climbing, but deathly afraid of any bug! If you know her, she’s pretty vocal and even dispenses sarcasm, and has an impressive sense of humor! At 3, she can catch you Pokemon, sing a couple of ABBA and Beatles songs, recite 12 Bible verses, tell you her full name, make you a cup of coffee, sing some measures from Bach, tell […]

Elle’s Random Recollections

While watching the Home Alone movies, Elle listened to the opening theme song and noticed, “it sounds like Harry Potter.” (The first time she watched Harry Potter was 2 weeks ago.) So I looked it up and they’re somewhat similar. Observant kid. She always impresses me with her memory. The other day, I was doing one of those adult coloring things on my iphone app- a picture of the Japanese bridge over lily pads by Monet. She looked at it and said, “Hey, we went there!” I was so intrigued because we’ve never been to that actual bridge, but last fall, we did go to Grounds for Sculptures where they recreated somewhat of a Monet painting with the lily pads.  I’m so impressed that she remembered such a fleeting image. My little 3 year old’s senses are impacted, and somehow embedded into her brain…a melody she hears once, or a place she’s visited. This is what I was coloring on the Colofly app that Elle saw. This is Monet’s painting of the water lilies. This is the place we visited last fall, a recreation of that bridge and water lilies in the painting.

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