Scrapbooking and picture ideas...

So I need some new ideas of taking kid pictures and stuff. I got a bunch of scrap books for my birthday and going to do a highschool book, barend and juniper book, family book, Australia book, and a wedding book. Need page ideas :)

Thanks!

Two sick babies...

Both my munchkins are sick :( Barend is doing the coughing thing now and Juniper has the stuffy nose and sneezing.

At least one of us was smiling this morning...

Thanks for all the prayers! I was able to take an hour and a half nap with both of them this afternoon....can't believe how much that has helped! Anyway, here's a picture of the only one smiling this morning. The silly girl decided she was going to roll over too and we didn't have the camera handy.

And so it began...

Forgive my typing, for it is 4:15am and I've been up every 30min or so with a screaming almost 3yr old. He has a cold and refuses to blow his nose and every time he tries to put his thumb in his mouth he can't breath and gets upset. This is from a little guy who just blowed his nose before bed time and had no problem with it at all...hmmmmmm....how do you get them to do it. So I'm extremely frazzled, tired, patience has completely gone out the window, and counting the minutes until morning arrives (oh wait that's already happened!!) so i can put in a movie and not do much today (oh right, i have a 4month old that needs watching too...) Oh, and Trav has a project due on Friday....not much available help in that arena. So all you prayer people out there, and you know who you are, pray for us today and during bed time tomorrow (well actually today) so that Barend will get over this cold and we'll be able to get some sleep!! Oh, and pray that Trav, Juniper, and I don't get sick....especially Juniper.....*sigh*

This is my first experience having a sick child with a 4month old, while cosleeping and breastfeeding...her needing me and my son needing me at the same time.

Sunset at the beach...

We went to Holland State Park last night and watched the sunset...beautiful :)

More pictures and more fun...

"I'll stop those waves! I have a life-server on." Barends quote from when we walked out on the pier yesterday at the Holland State Park. We made him wear a life preserver because of the amount of waves and how much they were splashing on the pier. The water was beautiful, unfortunately i couldn't go in, because my daughter wasn't liking the sand blowing in her face too much. There were red flags out (no swimming due to strong undercurrent) but Trav and Barend, Barend just staying on the shore, braved the waters and waves. Barend enjoyed laying down in the sand while the waves pushed him forward further onto the shore, until a couple of them were big enough to get in his face. Poor B was shivering after just a few minutes because the air was cooler than the water.

Barend also wanted to see the lighthouse and since it was on the other side of the lake (Lake Macatawa) we drove around to the south side of Holland and went through a private gate thing to walk up to the lighthouse. Barend enjoyed the walk and the lighthouse, but it was starting to get late and colder. I had Juniper wrapped in a blanket and was holding her and Barend was on his dads shoulders. Trav turned and asked me if i was doing ok holding juniper, i told him yes and that was the last time trav asked...barend on the other hand asked it about 20 times, "how you doin back there mama?!?" My little boy :) Here are some pictures during last week and stuff...don't have any of the beach, cause both of us were too lazy to take any.

"Where's Barend?"

Few more pictures...

Barends favourite phrases, "What happened?" and "Why?" for instance we made "keenie" bread the other day and he got into the cinnamon and got it all over his shirt...he looks at his shirt and says, "what happened?" i explain to him and he then proceeds to ask why...silly goose :)

Aftermath...

He couldnt wait....he also decided he was going to have two and try to hide the evidence of his first one behind the bench :)

The Cupcake and The Tea...

So we made cupcakes today and Barend wanted one soooo bad. I told him he couldn't eat it until we had dinner. This was 4pm it is now almost 5:30pm and he still hasn't eaten it, but has insisted that it was his cupcake and he was going to hold onto it. Wow! Can't believe he's lasted this long without taking a bite :)


The other picture is a picture of him with the sun tea that Trav made. Barend wanted a picture with the tea :) Don't ask me why.