tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26714475980621601112024-03-05T01:19:28.218-06:00The Botts BrigadeThe Botts Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976529069274769468noreply@blogger.comBlogger109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2671447598062160111.post-39538918726698131052015-05-07T12:58:00.001-05:002015-05-07T12:59:28.418-05:00365 days old!!!Well, we've hit it! Our sweet Carter is 1 year old!! This day has come so quickly and I honestly can not say that any other year has gone by so fast! Carter keeps us on our toes and definitely completes our family. We just keep saying over and over again that he is the sweetest and happiest boy… until he's not! :) He's always smiling and is intense about everything that he does. He is most always happy and then the second he's not, you know it! We have had so much fun this year and can not imagine not having him in our lives!<br />
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Carter is still a little peanut! Here is how he ranked at his 1 year check up:</div>
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<b>Weight: </b>18 lbs. 14.5 oz. (12%)</div>
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<b>Height: </b>28 inches (2%)</div>
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<b>Head Circumference: </b>45 cm</div>
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He is our SUPER blonde haired, blue eyed boy with 6 teeth, 4 on bottom and 2 on top with two more not far behind! He's growing so quickly and is definitely a wiggle worm!</div>
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Carter has been mobile and pretty much pulling up since he was 6 1/2 months old. Practically every day we told ourselves "Wow, it's not going to be long until this boy is walking!" Well, he definitely took his time. His first "official" steps were taken in our backyard on April 18th and then he started full out walking on May 4th. It was about 3:30 in the afternoon and he just walked over to me from the fireplace across the room. He's still pretty wobbly, but he's also a determined little guy and will have it mastered in no time! He is very agile and does something once and pretty much knows how to do it right away the second time. Stairs were nothing for him, both up and down! This has been a little frustrating for mama! He is into EVERY cabinet and everywhere in seconds! At times he is really independent and then at others, he is really clingy! He wants me to hold him all the time and then squirms to get down. And then repeats this over and over...</div>
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<b><i>Favorite <span style="color: red;">LOVES</span></i>:</b> BALLS, bath time, being outside, climbing up on something, swings, the park, watching his sister and brother, Daddy coming home, cheese, clapping, banging and Beca! </div>
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<i><b>Not so favorite things:</b></i> being restrained by anything (carseats, his crib, highchairs, shopping carts, bibs…), shoes, getting dressed, getting his diaper changed or vegetables</div>
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It is almost impossible to get Carter dressed these days! He is too busy getting in on all the action that he just does not have time to do it! We've given up all together on all pajamas that have snaps because there is just not enough time to get them all snapped! He wants to get away from us as quickly as possible. He can crawl up the older kid's step stools in the bathroom and will reach for anything in sight off of the counters. Usually toothbrushes are the first things he grabs and puts them right in his own mouth! </div>
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Eating is a whole new world with him as well! He is so different from the other two and doesn't like to eat the same things day after day. He also does not like things that are plain. He prefers the sauce and seasoning on items much more. It's so funny because I am still washing and scraping everything off for Caroline and Cooper. Carter thinks it is hilarious to throw food off of his highchair and because he is so stinking cute and loves to smile, it's so hard for Josh and I to keep a straight face while telling him no! His new thing is to climb out of the seat of the highchair and crawl on the tray. Somehow, I think we're going to have our hands full with this one!</div>
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Carter gets compliments every where we go and really can make anyone smile! He has an infectious laugh and eyes that sparkle! We love our little goose and love seeing the little boy he's growing up to be!</div>
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Last Friday Carter started sitting up all by himself! He can now go from laying down on his tummy to full out sitting. He has been working on this for quite a while and has pretty strong stomach muscles! I'm pretty thankful that we've made it here because he's been frustrated for quite some time. Now he is just inches away from crawling… but I am definitely content with the sitting! :)</div>
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All 3 of my SUPER guys!!</div>
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And the big kids are SUPER excited to add him to the mix during bath time. Oh the joy of siblings!!</div>
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Cooper just ended his first season of soccer! He has looked forward to playing since Caroline did a year ago and so we decided to sign him up through the Small Fry soccer at the YMCA. They can start playing when they're 3 and we thought it would be a good introduction for him. They had 3 "practices" and then 3 days of scrimmages. <br />
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We showed up the first day and the first thing the referee asked was "okay, who's the coach?" It was a random group where we only had 1 other friend on the team, so Spencer stepped up and volunteered Josh to help coach the Team Pizzas. It was pretty funny at first, but Josh did a great job coaching and ended up liking it quite a bit! You can imagine what it is like having 10 three year olds out on the field, but somehow they made it work! <br />
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Cooper really liked the "idea" of soccer and enjoyed saying he played, but really hadn't shown that much interest in the game. Josh told him that if he scored a goal, he could pick out anything he wanted from Toys R Us. (Nice parenting, right?) Well, after the first goal of the first game was scored for The Pizzas, Cooper cried because it wasn't him! Not quite the teamwork we were going for, but he started understanding what needed to be done. Unfortunately I missed the last game because the rest of the family was sick, but he did GREAT!! He was trying really hard, running up and down the field and in the end, HE SCORED A GOAL!! He was smiling from ear to ear and SO excited!! Josh made good on his promise and took him to Toys R Us that day. You can bet that he already knew what he wanted and you can bet he took advantage of the "ANYTHING you want" part of it! And of course it was going to involve elephants! They came home with the $60 FAO Schwartz Noah's Ark that he had been eyeing. Josh is such a push over and just couldn't say no, ;). So yes, now we have yet another Noah's Ark toy and more stuffed animals! But we couldn't be more proud and Cooper deserved it! He did such a great job! <br />
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Last night we went to our church's Fall Fun Festival. And this year it was even better because we got to take the von Goertz's! Of course the kids all based their costumes around each other so we were Elsa and Anna and Superman and Super girl! They were so excited to get dressed up and of course get CANDY!</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Another sweet friend Ava… who was Elsa of course!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And then we have the happiest and sweetest baby of the night, sweet Carter our mummy!</span></div>
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We sure love rooting on our beloved Horned Frogs! Our season tickets have been so much fun and the kids really do look forward to going to the games. I can't say that they've ever made it passed half time, but while we're there, they sure have fun!<br />
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<br />The Botts Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976529069274769468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2671447598062160111.post-4721677542932686262014-10-23T16:35:00.000-05:002014-10-28T17:21:56.132-05:00SIX Months!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Just where does the time go?? It is SO true what they say… the days are long, but the years are short! Carter is now 6 months old!! Half of a year under his belt and half way to ONE year! Somehow I blinked and now have a rolly polly little boy who does not like to sit still! He has a constant smile on his face and not much ever causes that to change! From day one, he has had such a laid back personality and seems to face life with a smile. That sure is good news for this mama! If he doesn't get to eat right away, he's usually just fine. If he's sleepy, he might get a quick nap and then is ready to go when we need to leave. I feel terrible that he doesn't always get the most attention right away, but I figure that it is growing him into a very self sufficient little guy who is pretty flexible. His favorite things are watching his siblings and of course being held! He laughs the MOST while watching Caroline and Cooper on the swings. It is pretty funny to watch such a little guy hysterically laughing at pretty much nothing. It happens every.single.time! Caroline and Cooper just love him and we couldn't imagine a better fit for our family!<br />
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So far he still seems to be the lightest child in our family and we can't quite tell who he looks like. His hair is very fine and fuzzy and sticks straight up no matter how much you comb it. His eyes are very blue and look like they will stay that way! We were very surprised by his stats! Everyone always asks how old he is and then proceeds with "Wow, a big guy!" He is pretty round, but I was very surprised with how he ranked:<br />
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You read that right… 2nd and 3rd percentile for length and head measurement! I guess putting a 22nd percentile weight with that will make you look like a big baby?? :) All of his measurements are almost exactly what Caroline was! It really is crazy how different each kid can be.</div>
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Nights are still hit or miss. Some nights he does great and sleeps ALL night and others aren't so great and I am up several times to either feed him or just put his pacifier back in. It is hard because he is moving so much and gets so frustrated on his stomach. I'm really ready for that day where we have a CONSISTENT sleeper! Between all three kids, someone is bound to get up every single night and we certainly are TIRED!<br />
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We started baby food on Monday and so far he has eaten butternut squash and sweet potatoes. This boy does not discriminate! He is hungry for everything and has even had no problem drinking cold milk. I'm a little hesitant to start giving him food and my reasons are pretty selfish. 1.) It's a whole lot more work on my part and 2.) he still spits up ALL THE TIME! After eating the baby food, his spit up has been ORANGE and I'm really not ready for my carpets and clothes to be spotted! Oh well, I guess there's always time in the future for things to be replaced!<br />
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Although Carter can roll really well and get to where he wants to, he is pretty insistent and determined to figure out this whole crawling thing! Instead of rolling, he spends his days on his knees rocking back and forth and nose diving into the ground! As soon as he learns how to move those knees, he will be off and there will be no stopping him! I'm not sure I'm ready for that, but I am ready for him to be a little more content on the ground. He is not really sitting on his own yet. If you place him sitting, he can stay for a little bit, but is pretty wobbly. I'm sure that is coming as well.<br />
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<br />The Botts Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976529069274769468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2671447598062160111.post-79310167164161823372014-10-02T10:21:00.000-05:002014-10-02T10:26:29.874-05:00 GiGi Jean & Papa John<div style="text-align: center;">
My grandparents made a visit to Texas at the beginning of September and we had such a wonderful time!! Little did they know when they made their tickets last spring that just about ALL of their grandchildren would be in the DFW area!! They were able to visit my family, the von Goertz', my brother and Christy, Maddy AND, because it was family weekend at TCU, Marcia and Johnny were even in town. It was quite the weekend filled with a TCU game and Emma's birthday celebration. We were so lucky to have them!</div>
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Carter sure got some love!!! Between all of the other crazy siblings and cousins, he still received so much attention and his own cuddle time!</div>
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The whole crew headed over to Fort Worth on Saturday and got to visit Andy and Christy's new apartment. It was really cute and the kids had another chance to play with their new puppy, Scout! Grandma and Grandpa spent the day with Andy and Christy while the rest of us went to the game.</div>
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15 of us ate at Pot Belly before the game! Now that was quite a sight and a LOT of purple! (It was a white out game, so we tried to stick to wearing white, but it was hard for Josh not to wear PURPLE!)</div>
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We also invaded Maddy's dorm room!</div>
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The kids had a BLAST at the game! We have great seats where they really can run around and play. They took full advantage and danced to every song they heard!</div>
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Cooper, Carter and I were able to take them to visit the Dallas Arboretum. The fall exhibits weren't quite ready, but they were setting up ALL of the pumpkins while we were there. It was just beautiful!</div>
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And of course it wouldn't be us if we didn't get some group pictures! Let the party start!</div>
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What a wonderful treat and great present to have these kids' GREAT grandparents here for a visit! We all had such a great time and can't wait until they can come again!</div>
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And just like that, another one is off! Cooper enjoyed a great first day of preschool at a new school this year. He is attending Waterview Christian Preschool and is in Ms. Cheryl and Ms. Rosalyn's class. He is in the same class as his cousin Ellie and he loved every minute of it! No tears from this boy!<br />
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Of course we got a picture next to the Noah's Ark and of course there are elephants on there!! This made for one happy kid!</div>
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Our 3 year old big boy!!</div>
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Lucky to still have one little guy at home with me!</div>
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I'm still working on creating some sort of routine! Cooper's gone 2 days and Caroline's gone 5, but it seems we are busier than ever! It seems as if I'm always shuttling someone around! </div>
The Botts Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976529069274769468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2671447598062160111.post-88511180523046227512014-08-28T16:22:00.001-05:002014-08-29T13:10:16.962-05:00And off she goes...One day I have promised myself that I am going to go back and blog about every event that I have left off of this blog. One day I am going to dump all of those thousands of pictures I have taken of my children and our lives and write about them. One day I am going to do it even though they are just iPhone pictures and even though they aren't the best. One day I hope… but today is not that day! I feel like I remember so much of the past 5 years because of what I wrote about it and I just hate that I'm so far behind. But, in hopes of starting somewhere, I decided to jump right in with the present and share Caroline's first day of KINDERGARTEN!! We now are 4 days in and she seems to be loving it!<br />
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Caroline started school on August 25th at Mohawk elementary school. This is such a sweet little school and has already turned out to be so great! All of the moms and families are so kind and caring and very, very involved. We had a popsicle picnic to meet all of the kindergarten teachers the week before, as well as a back to school night. Caroline doesn't really know that many kids in the neighborhood, but we are excited to meet them!</div>
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Mrs. Henderson is Caroline's teacher and is new to the school this year. She seems very sweet!</div>
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How can she really be this big??? We are so delighted to be her parents!</div>
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Cooper was still sleeping when we were about to leave and she insisted that he wake up and be in the pictures… hence the Hulk jammies! There was no way Carter was waking up!</div>
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It was so convenient that Grami was here helping move in the von Goertz's! It worked out great that she was able to bring Ellie over and stay with the boys while we took Caroline in to school by herself.</div>
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Such a big girl with her own locker!</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"> Class of 2027, here we come!!!</span></div>
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Hooray for a successful day and to a successful year!!</div>
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We welcomed Carter Robert Botts into this world on April 22, 2014! He arrived quickly at 1:44 pm weighing in at 6 lbs. 8 oz. and 19 inches long. We were so thrilled to have a safe, quick and easy labor and were so excited to finally meet our Carter!</div>
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Although he does have hair, it was surprising to see just how different he looks from his brother and sister! They both had VERY black hair and his is quite a bit lighter and quite a bit less! He also has blonde eyebrows and eyelashes. For now, his eyes are blue. We will see what color they turn out to be as he gets older. Caroline's were blue until after she was 1 and now they are very brown. You never know! But I'm sure ready for 1 kid to look like me… :)</div>
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Things were quite a bit different this go round! Josh and I didn't have to be at the hospital until 6am that morning and everything got started a little after that. It involved a lot of waiting and just really hanging out. I was already a little dilated so they gave me the epideral early and I really didn't feel much until it was time to push. </div>
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Grami and Pop Pop stayed with the kids while we were at the hospital and they were right there to greet Mr. Carter! Caroline and Cooper had been counting down the days and were so excited that TODAY was finally the day!</div>
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Grandmother and DJ also came were right there to meet our little man! Later that night we had a few more visitors, but it was pretty quiet and Josh and I really got to enjoy our third little bundle of joy!</div>
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Every night after dinner we ask the kids if they want to help us do dishes. One washes the dishes at the sink and one clears the table and then we switch every other night. They're actually getting pretty good at it and usually seem to enjoy doing it! It's only a couple times that Caroline asks for a "fast" night and just lets Mommy and Daddy do it. In exchange for them helping, they each receive a quarter. They have piggy banks set up near the kitchen and every so often we count how much money is in there. It started out that we would let the kids ride the merry-go-round at the zoo. This is $2 and definitely fun for them to pay for themselves. We then told Caroline that she didn't have to spend her money every time and could save it for something even better!! She saw this pink elephant on a leash at the zoo gift shop and was determined to buy it! She had to sit out several times while Cooper rode the merry-go-round and just watch in order to keep her money. We wanted to keep the goal attainable, so instead of making her save the $16.99 in which it cost, we told her she needed $10 to buy it. Well she was getting <i>really</i> close the last time we went to the zoo and while Daddy and Cooper rode the merry-go-round, Caroline and I went to check on "her" elephant. Wouldn't you know… there were NO pink elephants to be found!! She was crushed and pretty upset. We told her that she didn't quite have enough money yet anyways, so next time there would probably be the perfect one for her. Of course nothing else would work!<br />
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I dropped the idea, kind of googled other pink elephants but really had no luck finding much. My amazing <i>{and somewhat frustratingly focused}</i> husband however, did not stop until he found this particular elephant! He called the zoo and found out the manufacturer, called them and begged the wholesaler to just sell him 1 elephant and ship it to our house. Yes, this was not super cheap and increased the price by about $20, but we decided it was worth it to teach her a lesson and not let her lose her enthusiasm for saving money! <br />
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So the morning we were planning on going to the zoo, we decided to take 2 cars. We needed to renew our membership anyways, so Josh went early and after doing that, took our pink elephant to the gift shop. The workers were happy to play along and said they only had 1 pink elephant left and Caroline could have it!! She was pretty excited!<br />
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What a great lesson and what a great dad! We are now on our way to earning enough money to go and see Charlotte's Web at a local children's theater. She's pretty determined!</div>
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<br />The Botts Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976529069274769468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2671447598062160111.post-35626632807025735782014-03-25T16:54:00.000-05:002014-03-25T16:54:32.512-05:00And #3 shall be...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Well, it is official! Our little boy is set to arrive just 4 weeks from now and we could not be more excited! Although we did not set out to name all of our kids "C" names, nor is that particularly my preference for all to start with the same letter, but we have decided to continue the trend and name this little one <i>Carter Robert Botts</i>. Carter was another name that we both really liked from the beginning and it just seemed to be right! Robert is my father's name and a perfect middle name for this one! We are SO excited to meet him and I can definitely tell you, that I'm READY for him to get here! :) This pregnancy has been a little more difficult. I'm older, I'm busier and I already have 2 little ones with minds of their own who both weigh around 35 pounds and like to be carried! My body is just plain sore at night and this one kicks NON-stop! I'm not sure what we'll be getting with a third <i>let alone</i> a boy! But we are excited non-the least! The kids keep asking me when he's going to get here!!<br />
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We had our last ultra sound at 34 weeks. This was a little early, but I have been measuring just a tad bit on the small side. This was no surprise, as I was small for both Caroline and Cooper as well. He measured just a little over 5 lbs, so nothing to worry about! He will probably be somewhere around 7ish by the time we have him.<br />
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The Botts Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976529069274769468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2671447598062160111.post-49889378312322565192014-03-23T20:53:00.000-05:002014-03-23T20:53:54.594-05:00SPRING!!Spring is FINALLY here!! I feel like we have been waiting for this for SO long lately. We had a wonderful day of sunshine here on the first official day of spring! I wish I could say it lasted through this weekend, but at least we got to enjoy it when we did!<br />
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Cooper decided that he wanted to get out his new water table that he had gotten for his birthday. I was about to start cooking dinner so I figured, why not? He was SO excited and it kept him entertained that I really didn't even think twice about watching him. I was inside and saw his head through the window with a BIG smile! He said "Look at me mom!! I'm a hippo!" He had climbed onto the table, in the water IN HIS CLOTHES! Jeans, socks and all! He could not have been happier!<br />
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<br />The Botts Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976529069274769468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2671447598062160111.post-35713344674901429542014-03-16T17:06:00.000-05:002014-03-16T17:07:54.867-05:003 YEARS OLD!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
So what do you do when you're nearly a year behind in blogging and you've missed SO many important milestones? Well, I guess you have to admit to yourself that you just can't do everything and just start where you are. Between teaching preschool, being pregnant, emptying my iPhoto of almost 40,000 pictures so my computer will work, while ALSO taking care of 2 little munchkins, I have just not found the time.</div>
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BUT... with all of that said, we were able to celebrate a special little boys 3rd birthday on Saturday, March 15th! This was pretty much the first time we hosted a party at our house since we had moved in and the first time I had put enough effort into planning anything. We had a B.L.A.S.T!! And the best part is that I think Cooper felt just as special as we think he is! <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrYSNS-h1h5Aqt1aTKyf5ZUMdTBw2aG1-4O7O_nXfhL_wGAJJyd37E1T85B7a7HhlxK1SEs2JUEHl1DxAtToCmLuIu-wtNClSFtrcpoKo-0abn80Jdz2y5aeyY3nzTYZeuf2vT58xaIoc/s1600/DSC_0081.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrYSNS-h1h5Aqt1aTKyf5ZUMdTBw2aG1-4O7O_nXfhL_wGAJJyd37E1T85B7a7HhlxK1SEs2JUEHl1DxAtToCmLuIu-wtNClSFtrcpoKo-0abn80Jdz2y5aeyY3nzTYZeuf2vT58xaIoc/s1600/DSC_0081.JPG" height="424" width="640" /></a></div>
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Of course Cooper's birthday of choice was, yet again, an Elephant party! I decided to change it up a tad bit from last year and make it a circus party <i>WITH</i> elephants instead. He wasn't too thrilled with the invitations and told me that all he wanted was elephants, but he was SO excited later on to have a CIRCUS birthday!</div>
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The weather wasn't the best, but the rain managed to hold off until the afternoon, so an 11 am party was just perfect! It is amazing how quickly the guest list adds up when everyone has two or even three kids! We added it up and ended up having 54 people here!! I {mainly JOSH} was worried that we would all be stuck inside and it would be a madhouse! Our house actually did quite well and it didn't seem crowded at all! {<i>I think I can safely say that our marriage was saved! :)</i> }</div>
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I hardly saw either of my children the whole time! Caroline disappeared in her room, but was a great host and played with all of her friends!</div>
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Tough guys in their elephant shirts!</div>
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No matter how old he gets, he will always be my sweet sweet boy!! </div>
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…and hopefully he never loses the mama's boy in him!</div>
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We re-used the big elephant from last year and I made elephant tails for everyone. We played pin the tail on the elephant and the kids thought it was hilarious!</div>
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Cooper did quite well!</div>
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His comment after the next person went was "Elephants don't have 2 tails!" Smart little boy! :) He sure knows his elephants!</div>
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Next we broke a clown piñata. The kids had fun moving the string up and down as well as hitting it with the bat! </div>
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But the most fun was the <b>CANDY</b>!!!</div>
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Cooper had a large audience and enjoyed all of the Happy Birthday attention!</div>
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Of course he also had a lot of help blowing out his candle!!</div>
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We all had a great time!! Thank you to all of our wonderful friends and family who helped us celebrate!</div>
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The Botts Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976529069274769468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2671447598062160111.post-32522950745677939052014-01-17T17:14:00.002-06:002014-01-18T16:51:49.495-06:00And the winner is…!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Our original plan was to not find out the gender with this child. It seemed perfect because we had both a boy and a girl and honestly did not have a preference. However, the closer we got, the more Josh and I decided it was getting harder to not know and we needed something to recognize this one a little more. Our second thought was that because my ultrasound was the beginning of December, we would have the technician write down the gender and we would "reveal" it during Christmas with our families. Well, after going to the appointment and having them write it down and seal the envelope, Josh insisted that he take the card with him to ensure I wouldn't tamper with anything. He came home that night and it was ALL him that said "Should we just open it?" Of course I am never the one to say no, so we did and found out just what our new family would look like! It was a little shocking! Both Josh and I thought for sure it was a girl, but we couldn't be more thrilled and are so excited to see what this little boy will be like!</div>
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<br />The Botts Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976529069274769468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2671447598062160111.post-77001072604910270032013-11-22T15:04:00.003-06:002013-11-22T15:04:52.993-06:00Here we go again…!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So I mentioned it in my last post, but it is true… <b>I am pregnant</b> again! I really don't know how you are able to forget just how terrible the first trimester is every time, but somehow we decided to do this again! And yet again, it took quite a while for me to start feeling better. I am now 18 weeks pregnant and due April 29, 2014. We could not be more excited and are really anxious to see just who will be joining this family! Of course Caroline says it's for sure a girl and Cooper is determined that it is a boy. When asked which one I would prefer, I can honestly say that I have no preference whatsoever! Each one has been so much fun and each one has had their challenges. And with this one, I'm sure he or she will be completely different either way. We have entertained the idea of not finding out the gender and have so far gone back and forth on the idea. My sonogram is scheduled in 3 weeks, so I guess we have until then to decide. Honestly this pregnancy has just gone so quickly that I am not in that big of a hurry to find out. I'm just happy to say that so far this peanut is growing normally and healthy!<br />
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These two have been working hard learning all of their new duties!</div>
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The Botts Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976529069274769468noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2671447598062160111.post-26953526237164779862013-11-20T13:55:00.000-06:002013-11-20T13:57:32.009-06:00And here we are...almost 6 months later!! Ahhhhhh!!! I can't tell you how many excuses I have for not updating this thing. I have loved the fact that I have both of my children's lives documents on this blog and it is something I can give them when they are older, hopefully one they will appreciate! We have been so busy around here - moving into a new house, my computer being frozen and full of many pictures {I had to sort through 40,000 pictures!! Only 3,000 left...!}, I started teaching preschool in the fall {yep, me a teacher!}, a big trip to Disneyworld and last but definitely not least, I'm PREGNANT! {Yep, baby #3 is on its way!} But truthfully, the one thing that has gotten me to update this blog is that I am so extremely tired of seeing Charlie's house pop up every time I go to look at my blog roll! We moved into our beautiful house on August 9th and have absolutely LOVED every single second that we have been here. Building a house from the design phase to the finish is amazing and has given us just about every single thing we wanted! It was a LOT of work, but definitely proved to be worth every second!! <br />
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The Botts Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976529069274769468noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2671447598062160111.post-35262190130863090342013-07-31T07:00:00.000-05:002013-07-31T07:00:01.224-05:00Moving on!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Goodbye Charlie's house! The end of an era...</div>
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Packing wasn't the easiest with these two around! It's a good thing they're cute! Once something was packed, they decided they wanted to play with it and would unpack it. Sigh...</div>
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The Botts Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976529069274769468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2671447598062160111.post-1304230105631873292013-07-30T07:00:00.000-05:002013-07-30T07:00:02.436-05:00Uncle Adam turns...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Josh's brother Adam turned 40 in June and to celebrate, we took a trip to the Hyatt Hill Country in San Antonio. We loaded up the car again and headed down south. We left as early as possible to take advantage of the great pools and grounds. Unfortunately, it was raining when we got there.</div>
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The kids passed the time with face painting inside the hotel. </div>
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I'm not sure Caroline had any more room to paint once she was done!</div>
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Luckily, the sun came out the next day!! We had a lot of great cousin time and got in a lot of swimming!</div>
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Can you spot Josh and Sam???</div>
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All the grandkids and Aunt Jo Jo.</div>
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Siblings!</div>
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<br />The Botts Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976529069274769468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2671447598062160111.post-60488910356919001352013-07-29T07:00:00.000-05:002013-07-29T07:00:12.219-05:00Back on the road again!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
VERY lucky for us, Josh and Paul were able to google our air conditioning problem and fix the car for only $14!!! What an answer to our prayers! We left a day early knowing that we were running out of time to pack up our house. We were fortunate enough to get in touch with our good friends the Keisers who were vacationing about 2 hours away from us. They used to live in Texas and are now in Tennessee, so we haven't seen them in quite a few years! It was great to catch up, great to meet each other's kids and it was also Cynthia's 30th birthday!</div>
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iPads sure work wonders!</div>
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A very welcomed sight!</div>
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<br />The Botts Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976529069274769468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2671447598062160111.post-17327012154635766582013-07-28T14:20:00.003-05:002013-07-28T14:21:05.413-05:00Panama City Beach!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It was so much fun to have an entire week in Panama City Beach. We enjoyed going out to eat, shopping and really just hanging out. With all 14 of us it wasn't always an easy task, but always an adventure!</div>
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It has been a tradition for Grami and Pop Pop to take the kids to Gulf World, sans parents!! Definitely something I look forward to! :) I haven't actually been, but love seeing the pictures! They talk about the dolphins and fish all the time!<br />
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The last night we were there, we did sparklers around the pool! Poor Cooper was already in bed and missed them, but there's always next year!</div>
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Another great year at the beach spent with cousins! Until next year...!</div>
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<span id="goog_560490933"></span><span id="goog_560490934"></span>5 hours of driving later... we made it to Panama City Beach Florida!! Somewhere near Destin, Josh and I may have <i>wanted to</i> throw each other out the window, but we blame that on traffic and no air conditioning! We pushed through and arrived at our house only to find this:</div>
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Ahhhhhh!!! Absolute PARADISE!</div>
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Of course we had LOTS of beach time!</div>
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<br />The Botts Familyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00976529069274769468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2671447598062160111.post-83032539879413845532013-07-23T15:06:00.000-05:002013-07-23T15:06:29.868-05:00RoAd TrIp #2!!So just about a month after our first <a href="http://thebottsbrigade.blogspot.com/2013/05/32-hours-of.html">16 hour road trip</a> of the year to Arizona, we hopped back in the car to venture east this time for our annual Florida Memorial Day trip! We figured we would skip the hassle of flying and just drive to make things easier. (If you don't remember, we don't quite have the <a href="http://thebottsbrigade.blogspot.com/2013/01/planes-trains-automobiles.html">best of luck</a>!) Everything was going great as we packed up the car and started out. It was only 30 minutes in where our air conditioning went out!! It kind of slowly stopped and then fizzled out. Then the air was not cold at all! This is NOT what you want to happen 30 minutes in to a 13 hour drive!!! Leave it to us! While only a short distance outside of Dallas, we stopped at a quick fix car place and had them fill the car with coolant. This seemed to do the job and worked great... <span style="font-size: large;">for about another 30 minutes!</span> Then the same thing happened!! We called our brother in law who knows a great deal about cars and he thought it would be best to keep driving with no AC and they could look at it together in Florida. The back air seemed to be blowing better so the kids didn't seem too affected, however it was so loud with the windows down and so stifling with them up! I can't say the trip was really that great and Josh and I might have had our patience tested!<br />
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<span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">We stopped at Nanny's house in Purvis, MS to break up the drive, arriving here 8 hours later. We got a good night's sleep! It was fun to see Nanny and LC and see Purvis for a second time. The kids could not get enough of Aunt Jenny's Mickey Mouse room! Cooper even found an all blue Mickey which he fittingly called <i>{would not put down}</i> "Elephant Mickey!"</span></div>
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Nanny cooked us a great breakfast where Uncle Sonny and Debbie joined us and then we ventured over to Aunt Faye's house. Aunt Faye is Nanny's older sister who just turned 96! Neither I nor the kids had ever met her. We had a great time talking to her, hearing stories and listening to her play the piano. She is still sharp as a tack and a hoot to listen to!<br />
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We left town just after 10am for the remaining 5 hours of our trip. While we turned the car on, every one of us prayed... but we still set out with NO AIR CONDITIONING!</div>
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Another year behind this little girl! Time just goes TOO fast!! Caroline's 2nd year of preschool came to an end in May. She started out at MacArthur Baptist and we switched her to Northwest Bible (our church) in January due to our move. She did GREAT and didn't skip a beat! She quickly made friends with everyone in the class and loved going every school day. She learned quite a bit more at her new school and finished knowing how to write almost all of her letters, as well as her name. It was also really neat that she got to see most of her classmates on school days, in the nursery at church and also at choir, so our weeks were full of friends!<br />
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Caroline got to take cupcakes on the last day of school to celebrate her summer birthday. She picked out ones with hot pink frosting and princess hearts on top.<br />
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Here are two of a kind! Caroline and her best friend Madie.</div>
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SO proud of our little girl! She really has grown into a beautiful person both inside and out!</div>
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We love you big 3 year old!! Off to the 4 year old class for now!</div>
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An adorable 4 year old from Ethiopia! </div>
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We decided to start sponsoring this little one in March after an email went out to my home church in Colorado stating that children were awaiting sponsorship. A girl I grew up with in Greeley, helped establish the Elshadai Development Organization and lives full time in Ethiopia. She has made quite an impact in so many children's lives! We saw this face and just could not say no! Caroline loves the idea that Yordanos is exactly her age and it has been so neat to see my children really excited about praying for and thinking about someone else. Every night at dinner and night time, both kids blurt out "Don't forget Yordanos!" <i>every single time</i>. Although we've never met her, we sure love this little girl!!<br />
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You can read more about this organization on their website <a href="http://www.elshadaicd.org/elshadai/index.php">here</a>. There are many different places out there where you can give money, but I love this one because it is small and has ties back to home for me. Caroline keeps saying that she wants to meet Yordanos one day and one day I really hope we get to! I have always wanted to go to Africa and this just makes going even sweeter! I can not tell you how many times I have been able to explain different things to my kids using Yordanos. At the store today Cooper was crying about us not buying a toy that he wanted. I told them that we can't always get what we want and we need to use our money wisely. Our money has to go towards food, our house, our needs, gas and even money to give to Yordanos. It is much more important to help others than to get toys. Not sure they loved that answer, but they really did stop crying! :) And my favorite memory of this has got to be from a couple months back. I had been explaining to Caroline that some children, like Yordanos, do not have food every day like we do and that we are very lucky. She said "Does she even have a refrigerator?" I told her that most likely she does not. Then several weeks later we were talking about what to send her for her birthday. The first thing Caroline came up with to send her was a Fridge!</div>
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