Roper's Round Up

Sabrena

Life has been "off" for lack of a better word lately. It's been hard to keep up with my blog with everything that has been going on so I apologize for the lack of updates and pictures.

On the Noah front. He had his longer evaluation on Monday. It went wonderful! He did amazing. He made it through the whole thing and was very compliant. I was disappointed that they didn't get to see the fun temper that he has, but thats o.k. We have an appt for the 9th at 1:00 to discuss the results. Be praying for the results and our hearts. We are prepared to hear either way. At this point I don't know it will make too much of a difference other then programs and such.

Connor is getting ready for Spring Break next week. He's been keeping busy playing lots of basketball and spending a lot of time outside. He's been reading a series of books called How to Speak Dragonese. We had conferences last week and he is doing very well. We are proud of him.

Dawsyn is enjoying a lot of pretend play. Playing with his action figures. We are thankful for the nice weather that has been around because he LOVES to get outside. He's a very active boy. He has a hard time wanting to do everything Connor does, and not always being able to. Last Friday, I took Connor and Dawsyn to see Horton Hears A Who and then we enjoyed some IHOP from their special Horton menu. It was a great time!

Can you believe my baby girl is going to be 1 next month???!! Gracielyn is getting SO BIG. She is very much a mommy's girl and I LOVE IT. I can't believe how different boys and girls can be at such young ages, but she is the complete opposite of the boys. She loves to cuddle, give kisses already, and has amazing eye contact. I'll be feeding her and we will just get lost in each other's gaze. I love it. She is "cruising" around on furniture. And walking when we hold onto her hands. She loves to play as well. Wants to be where all the action is.

Please be praying for our family please. We have been climbing a mountain and I feel like we are finally near the top. Chase has decided to make a career change for reasons that most of you already know. Please keep us lifted up that God will bring to us the perfect match for him. His heart so desires to write, I'm praying that that door is opened some how for him. It would make him so happy to do what he loves and support his family doing so.

Pictures to come soon!

Many Blessings and Love,
Sabrena

Happy Weekend to all!
Sabrena

I want the person that took my children that sleep all night and traded them with these 4 kids that wake up 5 times each a night, to give them back to us!!

Chase and I can not catch a break. Our kids are in this horrible routine of not sleeping through the night currently. Gracielyn is teething, so it's understandable, BUT the boys, MAN. Dawsyn get's up 10 times to pee, Noah wake up at 4am screaming, thinking its time to get up. Connor will hear "something" and need Chase to lay him back down. It goes on and on.

My poor husband will go to put one of the kids back and Gracie and I some how take over the bed and he ends up on the couch. Their all healthy, so I don't know what is going on, but Chase and I are drained right now. I feel like crying every morning I have to get up for the day, just wanting to beg for one more sec, min, hour.

Please pray for a good night of sleep and plenty of energy to keep chugging along.

All my love,
A very sleepy Sabrena

We have a few exciting updates that i wanted to share:

Gracie is a Crawler now! On the go. Keeping me on my toes and getting into everything. Also, tonight I found one of the 6 teeth trying to break out, OUT! She has a tooth. I'm sure the other 5 are not far behind. All my kiddies got teeth like that, so I'm not surprised. Lot's of exciting things going on with Gracers and lot's of fun!

Noah is making some GREAT progress. At OT today, she mentioned how well he was doing and how far he has come since November. I don't know how to explain it other then God's intervention, but Noah is saying new words everyday. He is starting to copy us when we tell him to say a word. His fits are less aggressive and I feel like he is enjoying life A LOT more. God is faithful and I am beyond blessed and grateful.

I don't want to leave out my Dawsyn "dippin dot." He is having a good time learning letters. We started learning how to write them. He's doing so well. He also is drawing smiley faces with legs and arms. I LOVE IT! He is so proud of himself.

God is so good to me. I am in awe of the little lives he has entrusted me with. I feel so blessed. Sometimes life gets insane and in the moments of what feels like "chaos" I don't always think that way. I feel overwhelmed and truthfully, have "what were we thinking" moments, but at the end of the night when I lay my head down I think about how amazing of a life I have with 5 of the most AMAZING people in the world. They are why I wake up everyday and why I continue to smile. They are the reason I KNOW there is a God. Without their love and how I love them, I would never believe that God could love us so much more. I am unworthy of his mercy and compassion and I am thankful that he doesn't feel the same way.

I pray God is blessing you.
Sabrena

Undergoing MyBlogLog Verification

I got pictures uploaded from my camera FINALLY. I will start with Christmas Eve today, Enjoy!

Christmas Eve:

Sadly, since our other computer crashed and we can't take it in until next Friday I don't get to post any Gracie pictures. I need a cord for my camera to plug into the old tower, and I don't have that cord. So, I will take lots and post some when we get the other tower fixed.

If you hadn't already make sure to read about how you can help fill Jacob's Stocking this year, below! Be Blessed!

Have a great weekend!
Sabrena

I've been bad about keeping up lately. Lots going on and I keep forgetting to get Fun Photo Friday's up. But, I will get it up tomorrow.

Couple things I wanted to share.

Noah is doing well. He is making some great progress with his speech. I am getting excited about how much is coming out of his mouth now. We have even heard him repeat us when we weren't talking to him. That's exciting for us. And we are rejoicing for answered prayers!! We are learning to be creative with him. Distracting him from what frustrates him most. That is helping to keep the fits to a minimum and not to escalate. It's working out so much better for us and Noah. His Occupational therapist gave me some great ideas to help him. I'm exciting to see the progress he makes from working with her more as well.

We just had a conference with Connor's teacher, and he seems to be doing really good in calls and is thriving in Math. That doesn't surprise us, because he loves to do math and he seems to catch on and "get" it. One thing Connor was concerned about this year was making good friends. He came home a couple weeks ago pretty upset about kids not wanting to play with him. So we sat down and talked about it and afterwards we prayed about it. Asking God to bring boys' into Connor's life that would be good friends and I'm happy to report that God is working in that part of Connor's life right now. He has come home 2 different time since praying about it telling me about a couple kids that he didn't even realize "knew" him and asked him to play. What an opportunity to share with Connor about answered prayers. Nothing makes me happier then to show him that God is faithful and will answer prayers. Not always in our timing, but I think Connor got to see that first hand and it was awesome to see.

Dawsyn is testing lots of boundaries lately. But for the most part is a pretty good listener. We just started going to open gym time and he loves it. He had a blast running around and playing with the kids. Dawsyn is at an age where he is cracking us up almost daily with things that come out of his mouth. He is so different then Connor was at 3. They both have great sense of humors, but Dawsyn has things that come out of his mouth that I can't help but laugh when I probably shouldn't be. An example of this is the other day when he realized that he had "boobs" (found his nipple), and explained how he could also feed Gracie like mom does. Or when he will be singing his ABC's and gets towards the end and adds "Butt" in as a letter. Not appropriate but really funny. He also says the sweetest thing's like this morning when he went around telling Connor, Noah and Gracie that they are his best friends. After asking me who my best friend was. It melted my heart.

Gracie is on the move. Not crawling, but rolling. And she goes from one side of the room to the other, just rolling around. She seems to be really enjoying her new found freedom. Although, will let me know she is not in the mood to be put down quite clearly with her little "fits." Man, she is all girl. Her little screams and "talking" its all so girly. I love it!! I'm excited to celebrate her first Christmas. Dress her up in a cute Christmas dress. And buy girl toys. It's an exciting time for me!

Our family enjoyed a nice low key Thanksgiving at home. Just our family. Chase and I cooked, and it was fun to be in the kitchen together.

We have our tree up early this year. Although, the kid will NOT leave it alone and that is adding in a whole other thing to drive me completely mad, I'm enjoying having it up and getting our family geared up for the season! This is such a fun time of the year.

Babes are calling. Until next time...Be blessed!
Sabrena

Yesterday my friend Anne and I took our boys(minus Noah, who was napping) to see the Bee Movie. We had a great time, and the kids seemed to enjoy it.

We go to leave after the movie and Dawsyn, having sat for over an hour to watch the movie of course needs to get his energy out and runs to the door, trips and falls face first into the doorway, cutting his head open.

I knew instantly that when I picked him up there was going to be blood, so I swooped him up like a baby and ran to the bathroom, and sure enough he was. Thank goodness, I had been through bleeding, head wounds before with Connor, because I was able to keep my head on straight and not lose control. Although, you should have heard some of the women in the bathrooms reactions. A lot of "Oh my gosh, is he ok," "He's going to need stitches," "I'll get the manager." It's nice to know so many people are willing to be helpful.

Got the bleeding cleaned up and off to the hospital we went. Where we waited for 3 hours to get in and be seen, and they only glued it closed. After waiting that long, I was really hoping for stitches, but none the less it got fixed.

After they placed the band aid over the glued wound, I said to them, "I can't go home to my husband that has been home with my 6 month and 2 year old all day with only a band aid on his head, you have to wrap it like he has a horrible head wound." To which they looked at me like, are you for real? Then I let them know I was just kidding around with them and the dr. said we need more humor in medicine. Yes, we will wrap it for you. So Dawsyn came home looking like he had just been in a car accident instead of just tripping and hitting his head on a doorway. It was quite funny and he wouldn't let us take it off because in his words, "the dr. said I'm a pirate."

Thank goodness, he's fine. And all is now well. We enjoyed the Bee movie and recommend it.

*On a side not I have to say THANK YOU SO MUCH to my good friend Anne. Who was with me and so helpful with getting it cleaned up and such. And SO brave.(LOL..she HATES blood) Also, after she went home and fed her baby, she came and walked the hospital with Dawsyn, Connor and I as we waited the 3 hours to get in. Isn't she the best???!!

Anne, your friendship means the world to me and I can never thank you enough for all that you are and do for me. God answered a prayer when he brought us closer. In everything that is happening right now, I can't imagine going through it or getting through it without you. There's so many things you have done and the saying "Thank You" just doesn't seem to do any justice, but none the less, I say Thank you from the bottom of my heart, for listening, allowing me to cry, and being the amazing person you are!

I love you Annie!!


Sorry about no photo's on Friday last week was a LONG one, and Friday was not the best of days. It shall return this Friday, so stay tuned.

Give thanks, theres so much to be thankful for!
Sabrena

ETA: I started this on Sunday, finished it today(Tuesday) This happened on Saturday.

My bestest friend Anne is out of town. This is my post to keep her updated on everything I couldn't call her about this weekend.

Well, I hope you are having a good time. We were being silly yesterday with all the kids and doing karaoke and we sang "Smooth Criminal" and thought it was the perfect start to this blog entry to you. (wink wink).

So, Gracers rolled from her back to her tummy yesterday! That was exciting. We all were rooting her on this morning to do it again. Very fun.

We used the cook book too! We spent a lot of the day pureeing cauliflower, carrots, and sweet potatoes. We made the meat loaf and mash potatoes for dinner last night. It was really good. The kids did ok with it. I think only because it was something new. And Dawsyn was having a hard time with the texture, but they did well. There was celery, onions and pureed carrots in the meat loaf and cauliflower in the mash potatoes, which you could NOT even taste. I was impressed. We are planning on making the chicken nuggets today. So the cook book is a hit so far!

Today(Sunday) I was sad that I couldn't call you to say Happy 2 months to Miss Sophie girl! Gracie was 6 months yesterday and I can not believe how quick time is going. Soon they will be running around having tea parties together! CANT WAIT!

Well, I will add more to this as the day goes on. Miss you and hope you are having fun!

Loves,
Sabrena

Hope you had a great week! It's finally FRIDAY!
Sabrena

So, I got an espresso this morning. So excited for a little jolt of energy. Dawsyn so kindly carried it into the house for me. I go into the kitchen to do something and he comes in looks at me with sadness in his eyes. I knew right then, he spilled the coffee. I walk into the living room to find my totally full cup of "energy, get me through my day", espresso spilled all over the carpet. Couldn't freak out at him, he was only trying to help, although inside I was CRYING...why???!!

So, I get a towel, while in my head screaming a few "choice" words. I wanted that coffee so bad, not to mention I paid for it. After cleaning it up and getting kids situated, I sit down to read an email I have from my dear of a husband. And this is what it said:

I know your not excited to get older, but oh the wiser you have become!! (wink wink). I just want you to know that you bless me life everyday. Thank you for being a man that adores his family and puts us first. Thank you for being the daddy that takes the time to explain things to Connor, or wrestles on the floor with the boys. That is disappointed if he misses giving Gracie her bath every night. Thank you for realizing the importance of a sense of humor and for making me laugh everyday. I could never put into words what you mean to me and how much I appreciate all that you are in my life. There is nobody I am happier to celebrate then you. And I am so thankful that God gave me this day, November 2nd, to celebrate the greatest man I have ever known. My heart is yours forever!!

Happy Birthday baby,
Your wifey!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDY! WE LOVE YOU!!! YOUR THE BEST!!

Love: Connor, Dawsyn, Noah and Gracie

I just wanted to share my little munchkins in their costumes. The kids had a great time. Their Meme came over with dinner and took Connor and Dawsyn trick or treating. I am so blessed to have her in my life.

Meme thank you for loving us all. Your love for my children and time you invest in them is priceless. I can't thank you enough.

Hope you all enjoy the pictures!

Hope your Halloween was full of fun!!
Sabrena