And then there were 6!

I haven't posted on here in such a long time.
So much has changed!
The kids are all growing so much, and last year, we were blessed with another baby, Dagny Louise. She was born on June 25, 2019 at 12:59am, 2 weeks early!! She just turned one and is such a precious little joy to have in our family!

 


Also a year ago, we also sold our previous house and bought a 4bd/3.5ba house that was built in 1976. It has a lot of things that I love, but I'll always miss our first house. I had put so much work and love into that house. We've been here for a year, but it's apparently difficult to do projects with 4 small children so not much has gotten accomplished.

Llewyn is 7 months!

This little bubba is 7 months old already! I'm not sure how the time has gone quite so fast, but he's just getting so big, and he's such a little chunk! Definitely the chubbiest baby out of the kids. He loves to eat food so much, sometimes I forget he's only 7 months old and doesn't even need food.

He wouldn't stop playing with the signs

Overall, he's such a good baby, you can pretty much always get him to smile, even when he's mad/crying. He loves to sit with Ellsworth and watch the big kids run around. Since this is the first post I have of him, here's the rest of his life so far:

 (this is 3 months, I somehow didn't take any pictures with the sign this month...)

Just such a cute, happy little chub. I love him so much!

Update on the family

Well, it seems the last time I posted, Elsie had just turned 4. She's had 2 birthdays since then, so I guess you could say a lot has changed! We were going to try homeschooling her for Kindergarten last year, but I didn't get off to a great start with that, so she will be starting Kindergarten this year. Here's her turning and 5 and 6!

Elsie's 5th birthday

She had eye surgery August 2016 to fix her lazy eye that the glasses wouldn't correct, we are now glasses free! 

6th birthday! We celebrated while camping with Grandpa and Grandma, then on her birthday we went to Maquoketa, IA and explored the caves and went to cloth diaper party!

She's a crazy kid!

But we love her!

Abbott is 4 now! Time just flies. He's a little sweatheart, but Elsie can get him to do anything, even if it's something he knows he shouldn't do. He's got the cutest little sad/scared face. Not too long ago, he came to me pouting and on the verge of tears because he was so scared because he accidentally swallowed a cherry pit and he didn't know if he would be ok. It was so cute. He's going to be heading to preschool this year, and I think it's going to be really good for him to make friends and interact with children other than Elsie.

He wanted a spaceship cake. I didn't have a lot of time to make this cake and it was falling apart while frosting it, so we made it work! (It's not the prettiest though)

Spiderman cake at Grandpa and Grandmas!

Some from last year: he's quite the little character!

We lost great grandma Marcia last year unexpectedly. She was a great lady and so active! I'm so sad she's gone, but really thankful we got to spend time with her on vacation in Minnesota before she died. I'm also very glad that she wasn't sick or in a nursing home for any amount of time. She would not have liked that at all! She loved fishing from the dock and walking. We didn't get to see her much recently as they moved to Texas I think when I was in middle school and ran an RV park, but the summer before she died, she was up visiting with everyone in the family for the whole summer. When I told the kids she died, Abbott said "I miss that grandma, I liked her." Awwww. 

 In other news, we had a baby! Llewyn Robert Fowler was born on January 8 at 11:33pm and weighed 8lb 8oz, and was 21.5 inches long. We got his name from the movie Inside Llewyn Davis. He's just been the best baby, and we love him so much. We are so blessed!

He's alomst 7 months old now and he's just got the best rolls. He's the chubbiest of the kids and he's just almost always happy! He loves watching Elsie and Abbott do just about anything and usually thinks it's hilarious!

Well, that's all for now!