Farris family blog: April

This month has been a lot of fun with friends and family coming into visit. Uncle Troy and Aunt Holly and the kiddos new cousin McCoy came for a visit from Virginia! It was great and a lot of fun to have Bret's whole family be able to stay here with us. His parents and Aunt Pat also came in town as well. The kids loved meeting McCoy and would always talk about how cute he was. Tucker, also woke him up from his nap and they all 4 had play time in the crib. That poor kid was probably ready to leave. Our kids more so think of new babies as a new pet. Always up in his face and rubbing his head. I am so grateful we have enough room in our house to have so many stay so comfortably. I love nothing more than having our house full of people. It makes me so very happy. The kids had races on Pops and Daddy's shoulders in the backyard and played and played all weekend. Troy and Holly will move overseas here soon and I am sad we don't get to see them more often. Would love to have them closer, but they are excited for their new adventure.

Bret had his first weekend with all three kiddos by himself when I went away for a girls weekend in Galveston. They seemed to have a great time playing (and building ramps) to which I came home to Tucker with some serious bumps and bruises, which is funny because it happens all the time whether I am here or not. Our boys just do not.stop and go so hard. I had some of my friends tell me what an incredible and patient dad Bret is. Which I already knew, but I love hearing everyone who saw him at church and at birthday parties just see how amazing he is with our kiddos. So grateful to be married to a man who loves all of us with everything he has in him.

The next weekend the MS 150 came through Bastrop. My mom and Lauren were both riding in it, so we got to catch both of them on their way through Bastrop! That was so fun to see them, except Tucker did not understand why in the world he could not ride his bike with my mom. All day long after my mom left, the boys kept asking, "Did Itsy win the race?" "Did she get the trophy?" They were obsessed. They are so competitive in everything it truly does scare me. They race everywhere and even to see who pees first in the toilet. We already have our hands full with their obsession with being first and winning. It may the death of Bret and I, even though we knew it was coming. Lord, please give us so much patience in loving them well when they lose.

Carter's friend Bella has come over to play some Friday's the past few weeks while her mom works at their restaurant. It is fun to have one of Carter's closest friends have a restaurant in town as well. We are so thankful for their family and friendship with them. Bella makes it so much easier when she comes over because all my kids adore her so much. They walk in hand in hand to the park(when I can't even get them to hold my hand), but they play so well together. Carter has had friends pick him up from school lately to go to their house to play. All these little things just make him feel so grown up. I want to freeze time forever right now before he starts school. I told him the other day how I was going to miss him so much next year and he told me, "Mom, I will be home with you on Saturday and Sunday, but I really will miss you too." He tells me all the time right now, "You are the best mom I could ever have." It melts me. He is always whispering in my ear how much he loves me and him and Tuck are constantly bringing me all the flowers from our yard. I sure do love those sweet boys. I asked Carter the other day why they love to wrestle and fight so much. He said, " mommy God made us to fight." He is so right. He is most of the time. He was made to fight. I pray his little heart just loves Jesus with all He has because He is going to change the world. Every night right now he wants to sing "all in all" to me or "holy,holy, holy." I used to sing to him, but now he wants to sing to me every night and listening to sweet voice-there is just nothing better. He really does love to talk about Jesus and how He is the strongest and bravest superhero. He told me that tonight at our mother/son date night at CFA. As much as I don't want him to grow up, I love watching who he is becoming. He is so helpful, he loves to do his chores and he is such a boy. He loves to swing on the rings and monkey bars at the park, he loves to try new tricks on his bike like standing up or getting on and off of his new big boy bike. He is so determined and I can't wait to see where it takes him. He is such a gem.

Oh my sweet Tucker. Tonight at the date night he was sitting on my lap and we were making our silliest faces at each other. He loves to squeeze my checks and I love when it makes him belly laugh. One of the questions they had on the table tonight was, "Would you rather be a spider for a week or an elephant for a year?" C said he would rather be a spider and we asked Tuck and he responded, "PUMA". He is so obessesed with pumas. He also LOVES to ride his bike right now after Bret put new training wheels on it. Except you can't call it his bike....ever. It is his "bike training"- If you or anyone else says anything other than bike training he will correct you. It is so hilarious. I smile so big every.single.time he says bike training. I am laughing as I type this. Oh all the Tucker-isms we have. "oh right""That's inertia"(he learned on a show, so he will just say "that's intertion at random times" "Well, that wasn't expected" "This can't be happening"...Or the other day he woke up from his nap and Carter had woken up first and I hear him at the top of the stairs saying, "Mommy, Carter's gone. I am never going to find him again. This is terrible." D.R.A.M.A I was telling Bret the other day how I can imitate all of our kids dancing perfectly. T has perfected the side to side step dance move. R has got the shake with her arms down and know the little bounce with the knees and C is our break dancer with the spin moves and the shoulders working. I love so much that our kids love to dance. LOVE IT SO VERY MUCH. Tucker loves Bret so much. When Bret was gone this past week he said "NOOOO he can't leave." He always wants to go in and cuddle with Bret in the morning." He is also in love with Team umizoomi and wants to watch it constantly. The boys had me move Rylie's swing off the back porch in between their swings on the play set and it is so cute how they say we have family kid swing time now. They always tell me how they wish their were two more swings so all five of us could swing together. I wish that too. Nothing makes me happier than when we are all together.

Rylie girl. Oh Rylie girl. The past two days she has started screaming at the top of her lungs. Just really loudly. It is funny, but more kinda scary. Hoping it is gone before next week. Ha. This girl right now is trying to grow up too fast. She looks too big and acts too big. One of her favorite things right now is to get her shoes on, get one of the boys backpacks, turn around for us to put it on and then wave bye to us and walk out the door. What.in.the.world?? She is 15 months old. Not ok sweet girl. She loves to do all her sign language right now as well. It is so sweet. She loves to show us her nose, eyes, ears, mouth and hair right now as well, oh and of course-belly. every kids fave. Now when she is hungry she RUNS to her high chair and just waits for you to put her in and just sits there waiting hoping food comes ever so soon. I sure do love that. She is also so into bike riding and goes and tries to climb into the back of our bikes to go on a bike ride. She is kinda in the just walk wherever I want to go phase now. You can look up and she will be down the sidewalk of the street. Yikes. We are working on the last four teeth right now. R loves to wear her teething necklace, but I am so over teething and they cannot get in fast enough. Our girl sure is one tough kiddo though. She may be small, but the girl can hold her own.

May has a lot of birthday parties, end of school year stuff and I am sure lots of other fun to be had! We are already living it up in our little blue pool everyday! More memories to come soon!