September 27, 2018

Solomon is FOUR!!!

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Solly Mack, you're FOUR! We had the best time celebrating you on your birthday. We continued the tradition of donuts for breaky - only this time, daddy scored them before you guys woke up so we could eat them at home and send Mosie off to school. Daddy picked out a super cool skateboard for you (want) and you've totally rocked out on it. We scooped Amos up from school for an early dismissal and headed to the new trampoline park in town. Let me just say, it didn't disappoint. Even Oscar loved it! We took back to the house for a rest time after jumping for over an hour, then loaded up and went to Sidewall for cheese pizza + ice cream and then to the park so you could check out your new skateboard. A birthday well spent, I think! 

You've seemed so big to me lately. You're confident and sassy. And independent. You love PJ Masks and your sleepy dog. This past year you've added stamps to your passport, learned to swim, driven the East Coast, and learned to ride a bike without training wheels. 

You are so wonderfully you. I have loved watching you grow over the past year and am admiring who you're becoming. We call you our poet ... you have an appreciation for fine things that is uncommon in a boy your age and this does not go unnoticed. You're a fierce fighter (always have been) and run towards battle. 

I sure do love you, Solly Mack. Keep growing big and strong! Cheers to the past 4 years! 


September 15, 2018

month ten | oscar fox

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Oscar Fox. I could eat you with a spoon. I have loved every minute of being your mama these past ten months. You're normally so easy and happy (not here because you'd just woken up and were not happy about being made to have your picture taken). You're seeming more and more like one of the boys and less and less like the baby. You can hold your own on the trampoline, get anywhere you please (still by crawling / almost by walking), have two more teeth coming in, and win the award for best sleeper in the Martin house. You're a great eater - favs include: pizza, CFA, yogurt, bananas and peanut butter. You pull my face in and give the sweetest sloppy open mouthed kisses. And, you love to play "Where's Oscar" with your sleepy fox! You are outrageously loud and hilarious. Oh, and you still look a whole lot like Mama. 

Child, I love you. You've stretched us and grown us. You've made me a better mama, as each of you do. You're making daddy a better daddy and the brothers better brothers. I thank Jesus for you always and pray His strength over you. Grow big and strong little guy. 

September 9, 2018

taking stock // 005

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making: french pressed coffee, every morning (and sometimes post dinner) 
eating: brick street sweet potato cake (for Gram's birthday)
drinking: coffee, black 
reading: this month's Southern Living
listening: this podcast (recently, not currently) 
texting: mikey
watching: (re-watching) Poldark  
bookmarking: essential oil combos (still such a newbie) & home rhythm inspo 
wanting: an extra day this weekend
looking: forward to celebrating amos and solly's birthdays soon 
enjoying: the beach 
waiting: on Amazon packages 
wondering: what a week without our kiddos will be like
loving: having all of the doors flung open and feeling the (much) cooler air  
hoping: for good weather for next week's wedding that i'm shooting
marveling: that it's already september // that september is almost half over
needing: a refill
wearing: sweats + my fav hand-me-down gray t-shirt 
smelling: freshly mopped floors (thanks mikey) 
noticing: how big amos seems now that he's going to "big" school
knowing: christmas will be here soon (time to start planning / shopping)
laughing: at olly recently remembering dreams for the first time (he was in Paw Patrol) 
thinking: how much fun i had shooting with alexa last night (!!) 
daydreaming: about fall in our white house 
wishing: the boys liked to jump on the trampoline as much as they do the couch 
feeling: grateful
learning: spread sheets 
celebrating: september birthdays, soon