I just wanna play!

Lanie is a ball of energy! She seriously is go go go from the second she gets up to the moment she goes down for the night.  She does take a nice nap in between, but with being 33 weeks pregnant there are times that this mom takes a nap too!  I haven't figured out how to take the naps Mon-Fri while I am at work, but with teaching highschoolers they would either not care at all or tell everyone that the crazy pregnant teacher is sleeping during class.

Saturday was a busy day as usual for the Wades.  I put some stuff in a garage sale that our friends were having so after a rough night with Lanie, she was having some bad dreams or at least that's all we can think of.  I was up bright and early to help with set up and garage sale doings.  I left the sale midway through to go to a meeting with Mark and Lanie for our church called Vision Day.  At the meeting we got to meet neighbors and other organizations that are throwing into Jacobsville and looking at the long term plan to make it a great neighborhood again.  Little miss came with us and for a two hour meeting she was really good.  It was in a gym so for the most part Mark and I separated and set up a perimeter and just let her run and play with the other kids there. While she was running around having a blast she got way to excited and stopped paying attention to where she was going and ran straight into a table.  Since she was running and I move a little slower these days I was right behind her and could see what was going to happen, but couldn't do much about it.  As soon as she fell down of course there was a cry and a look around for Mommy.  I was right there to scoop her up and reassure her that everything was alright.  It took a total of 60 seconds for her to request to keep playing.  So I kissed her ouchy and put her down and she happily continued to run expect with a little more awareness this time around.

I couldn't help, but relate this to our relationship with our heavenly father.  When we get braver we tend to run just a little to far ahead of him and even though he can see that we might run straight into some trouble, he is right there to pick us up, kiss our bumps and bruises, help us learn from our mistakes, and let us run again, hopefully with more awareness.

Lanie is reassured time and time again that Mark and I are there for her when she needs us, just like we are reassured that God is there for us ALL the time.

Pretty soon he will have two little girls to read too :)

 

Easter

Easter is always exciting for me.  I love that it is centered on Christ and his love for us. I recently read a blog from a gal and I thought it was such an amazing post.  The gist of the post was that she was at a Panera and watching a very busy father with his young daughter.  From the outside it looks like the father is annoyed, frustrated, and too busy for his sweet three year old daughter, but being a full time working parent with a two  year old I know you can't always judge the book by it's cover! So even though that part of her post bothered me the bottom she compares it to Gods love for us.

"What follows for me is realization. I’ve never felt the extreme depravity that this little girl lives with every day – and so it takes an encounter with that depravity to realize what I do have. I have a God who delights in me. He sees hope, grace and beauty in me. He sees my potential. I’m not an inconvenience to Him. When we share a table, He takes no calls."

This ladies post was a double reminder for me to forget about other things in life and sit and listen to my daughter even though I can only understand about 60% of the things coming out of her mouth and that our God loves us more than I will ever be able to humanly comprehend!

Sorry the lame picture, this gal does not sit still for pictures anymore so I take what I can get!



Our Easter relay game my Mom made up. It included a variety of group activities, a couple being the whole team running around the house, hopping like a bunny around the tree, and ABC's as fast as you can! We are a competitive family :)

Spring Break 2013

So I took a little break from posting it has been busy with a capital B around the Wade house hold.  My job always has me moving in ten different directions, but there seems to be three times a year it becomes even busier.  The start of the year, October when I hold my annual IEP meetings, and the end of the year with testing, banquets, dances, graduation, etc.
So this year when my Mom and Dad told us they were going to Destin for SB and invited Mark and I to go with them my only thought was "heck yes", I immediately asked Mark if he could get off, but the truth was Lanie and I were going with or without him!  He did get the week off and it made the trip even more fun with crazy Daddy to continually entertain our two year old :)
I haven't gone on a spring break since college and with being a teacher I feel like I should have done something with 7 years of getting a spring break.  The first year I had no money, the second year I was buying a house, the third I was gearing up for our wedding, the fourth I can't remember, the fifth we had a newborn, the sixth we thought we would have sold our house, and would be working on moving, but instead just did fun stuff around Evansville, and then this year finally got to get away :)
We had such a great time and Lanie once again rocked the 12 hour drive she just watched 12 hours of movies (hey it kept her happy so we were happy).  Once we got down to FL it was a little chiller than we had hoped, but we got three good days in at the beach, 2 good days in the pool, and lots and lots of sunshine filled days which is what I was looking forward too.  The whole crew filled their tummies with seafood every night, Mark and I got to have a special night kid free for our anniversary dinner, and Lanie got all the attention her little heart could take from Mimi and Papa. All in all it was an extremely laid back, relaxing, fun trip.  Let's be sure it doesn't take another 7 years for the Wade family to go on a spring break trip :)

Celebrating 4 years of awesome!

Found her shadow and was amazed

No fear, unless it's the shower and then she is terrified

Serious obsession with her Mimi