Drumroll Please.....

We have a tooth!

She's Off!

It's amazing how quickly babies can figure things out when they decide they're ready. Lilah started crawling yesterday- on her 7 month birthday! She's been trying to figure it out for a week or two. I was at GG and Papa's house yesterday and they were playing with her on the floor, when she decided to crawl over and get a toy she wanted. Then when I got home last night Brady put her on the floor and she crawled clear across the living room to get to him! So now that she's got the hang of it, she's all over the place... Time to go get baby gates for the stairs and to do a once over on the house to make sure it's baby proofed!
Here she is showing off her mad new skills...

Here I come, Daddy!

Mama's...(Achoo!)....sick....(sniffle)...

It inevitably happens when I'm running myself ragged, day in and day out. School, House, Kids, Husband, Meals, Laundry, Baby.... Week in and week out. The baby hasn't been sleeping well; as always happens when they are learning so many new things at once! Right now she's so close to crawling! She can get from her bottom, to her knees, to her belly and back again. As soon as she figures out how to use her legs right, she'll be all over the place. She already scootches really well. 

So now I'm down with a nasty, flu-like cold. Really nasty. I've been down for 2 days now and I HAVE to be better by tomorrow so I can get the weekly shopping done and the house's weekly deep clean accomplished. I already put it off a day, and it can't be postponed any longer. That is if we want to eat this week!

I'm prostrate on the couch, feeling guilty because the kids are watching PBS- but there's no other way for me to get any rest. 

I may amuse myself today by doing Mandy's Tag that I haven't gotten around to. We'll see. :>P Probably I'll take the opportunity to read. 

Wish me luck on getting up tomorrow!

Business as usual

I haven't been blogging much lately, because there just hasn't been much going on. Don't get me wrong- I'm terribly busy. However, not with anything exciting. My days are pretty much business as usual.

 School is taking up my time. Both the kids are doing very well in school and we are enjoying it. Jaxson is learning to work well on his own and is doing excellently in all of his subjects. He's aced his spelling tests three weeks in a row! Ellie has already completed one of her two math books for the year, I will be purchasing her the next set- and as I posted before she is reading already. 

Vance pretty much just makes a mess of the house while we do school, but he sometimes sits down with a paper and marker and proudly announces that he is "doing school too". 

Lilah will be crawling before we know it.  She's growing so fast. 

Brady and I are taking the 101 membership class at our church and looking for more ways to be feasibly involved (with four kids). Brady is doing the children's small group program with Jaxson. He will be leading Jaxson and Alex's small group. They start next week and are really looking forward to it. We LOVE our church- it's unlike any congregation we've ever been a part of in so many ways! It's incredibly refreshing. 

Well, I'm off to lesson plan for next week, and menu plan as well so that I can shop tomorrow morning. If you happen to be at the grocery store at 6 am- I'll probably see you there, Starbucks in hand!

Another Campbell Discovers the Joy of Reading...

We've only been doing school for three weeks.  She's not supposed to read her first word for at least another three weeks. We've only just begun blending. And yet, yesterday, Ellie picked up a book and read it to me. Granted, she already knew her letter sounds. But still, she's only four years old, and I'm so proud of her! Way to go, girl!