Showers of Blessings

We had the honor last weekend of showering soon-to-come Baby London Eliese with gifts - Jennifer has been such a friend to so many people, it was an honor to be able to give back to her.  The shower was at Heather Hilliard's house, with the creative genius of Heather and Ashley W at the helm.  Loretta, Corey and Amy helped with the logistics and gladly put our hands to work in preparation for the shower.  It was an absolutely beautiful shower, complete with a live pianist, fresh flowers, and enough decorative touches to amaze even though most design savvy person! :)  We can't wait to meet little London!

In other Z-news - the kids went to Green Meadows farm last weekend for a field trip - and it was Addison's first time there.  We wondered how she'd do as Kaleb was always terrified of the animals until he was about 5ish, but she had no fear (other than she was NOT going to be riding that pony!!) of the animals - reaching out to touch and explore!

Chickens!

And more chickens!

Zachary is holding a baby chick

Kaleb and Evan

We had Biris and Almodovars over last weekend for Sabbath dinner before Adventurers (we're all in Apopka Adventurers) - and as we gathered outside of church, Abel was playing with Addison lifting her in the air - she LOVED it, and would hold her hands up in the air - little daredevil!

Playing soccer after lunch in the bonus room

Amy took the kids to Adventurers, and so Addi came along - she jumped right in there and thought that she was one of the big kids!

The boys were lucky ducks (and Daddy too), and got to go to a Solar Bears game that night as well - in the Florida Hospital box!  We try and tell them how fortunate they are to be able to do these kinds of things...this is certainly not the kind of thing that every child or adult gets to do!  They loved the game, but Amy is suspicious that Kaleb's favorite memory will be the huge cup of soda (see in the cupholder beside him) of Sprite that he got at the game!

Amy has had a deep cough the last 3 weeks - almost gagging at times it can be so bad, and of course it is worse at night (good thing we have a guest room, Karis has voted himself off of the island - preferring to sleep in relative peace where Amy isn't hacking up a lung a 2A each morning!).  She finally went to the doctor yesterday and he thinks that it is just allergies - with a bit of asthma.  She doesn't have asthma (after verifying this with a pulmonologist a few years ago), but it is amazing - if she does one of the kids albuterol nebulizer treatments before she goes to bed (this was from Kaleb's old stash when he was about 2-3 and was having croup all of the time), it clears up the cough for all night!

Addison is starting to talk a lot more, and is putting more frequently 2-3 words together at a time.  "hurt bad" (after banging her check really hard), "Daddy-funny" (Yes, Daddy is funny!).