Roberts Family Blog

Hi everyone.  I come to this blog today with a very heavy heart.  I have a distant cousin who lost her three year old little boy yesterday, due to a completely random accident.  I haven't seen my cousin since I was a teenager, and I have never met her little boy, but this just saddens me and scares me beyond belief.  Our children are so vulnerable and so precious, and this just reminds to always always appreciate and cherish every moment I have with my boys.  My heart absolutely goes out to my cousin, but I know she is a Christian, and I know she realizes that God has a plan for everyone, so hopefully she will eventually come to peace with this.  But I know for now her heart is breaking, and my heart breaks for her.  I'd like to request prayers for Jessica, her husband Scott, her son Isaiah, and her son in Heaven, Noah.  Gosh....I can't even type this without tears flowing.  What a tragic loss.

Something like that makes all of our minor troubles just pale in comparison.  We've been going through a second round of sickness with the kids, which has been unfortunate.  Pierce has been dealing with a double ear infection and he has three teeth coming in (his first top one just came through last week!).  Nathan and I are traveling to Europe at the end of March and my sister-in-law is coming to stay with my boys, and I just keep wishing that Pierce would get healthy so that we can start getting him to sleep through the night again!  It will stress me out if my poor sis-in-law has to endure nightly wakings from my little teething monkey baby!  Thank goodness he is so sweet and fun

We've also been having some trouble with Hayden's nighttime sleep.  Ever since we took our Colorado vacation, where he shared a bedroom with Nathan and I, he's been reluctant to go to bed on his own.  Being the brilliant mother I am, I decided to put a CD player in his room that played Dora music, so he would feel more comfortable and have something to look forward to while going to sleep.  While this plan did work for bed-time, it totally back-fired during the middle of the night because he would wake up, not know how to turn the CD player back on, and would come into our room for help (about 3 times a night!).  Ugh....not fun.  So we finally just played tough guy parents and took the music away and went back to our old bed-time routine of reading books, singing, and prayers, and so far so good.  I've been encouraging a "friendship" with a stuffed animal elephant, and I really do think it is starting to give him comfort.  He snuggles up to him every night and hugs "Elly" like a best friend.  The past two nights have been much better sticking to that plan, so hopefully we are on an upward trend with sleep for both boys.

In happier news, Pierce has developed an obsession with our cat, Evi.  It's so cute to watch his face light up as soon as he sees her enter the room, and then he makes a beeline straight for her.  I've seen him make about 3 loops around the couch at top speed in pursuit of her.  It just amazes me how his crawling skills have just taken off in the past month, and he just pulls up onto everything.  Sometimes when he is standing at the couch or train table, he'll take a toy in both hands, and just stand there completely unsupported for up to 10 seconds!!  Walking just cannot be too far away and it's so exciting to think about what a wide world that will open for him.

I recently got a new computer and I can't quite get it to recognize my camera....so I have no pictures to share today   I'll fix the problem soon.  Good bye for now, and everyone hug your babies extra tight tonight.