Love, The Knoxes
Saturday, July 10, 2021
A Decade With Addison
Monday, September 7, 2020
Izzie: 5 Years Old
Monday, November 18, 2019
Happy 7th Birthday Lily!
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Izzie's 4th
Saturday, August 31, 2019
Happy 1st Birthday Eden
My littlest, Eden Keziah, you just turned 1! Here is a picture of you and I just a minute after you were born, and a picture of us a year later. What a year we've had!
You came into this world just two weeks after we uprooted our lives and moved thousands of miles away from everything familiar to us and the people we love, to start a life in Waco, TX. You came while we were still high off of the exhilaration of moving to a new place and exploring and seeing everything through rose colored glasses, but over the last 12 months, the glasses came off, we suffered much loneliness and isolation, melancholy during holidays, and intense homesickness for friends, family, mountains, church, and familiarity. But you...you've been this bright spot for the rest of us five in the family! We could only feel a little sorry for ourselves because there was no time for wallowing...we were too enamored with "our baby" (as your sisters call you), watching you as you made your first cooing noises, learned to roll over, laugh, sit up, eat solid food, crawl, and now walk. You must've decided it would be cute to learn to walk the week of your first birthday, and you are pretty proud of yourself!
You have brought this family so much joy! Each baby has been a joy of course, but there is something about watching your older siblings find joy in their baby sister, and it's so fun for us to watch as parents. To see one of our girls having a crummy afternoon for one reason or another, but then you wake up from your nap, and that girl's eyes light up and she forgets all her troubles as she races down the hall to be the first to scoop you out of your crib and snuggle you...well, it's priceless.
You had a rough start...6 hours stuck but ready to come out and greet the world, then a tough time learning to nurse (darn the tongue tie!!), and then a terrible UTI that put you in the hospital for five days when you were a tiny little five week old. You stayed small (off the charts small) for so long, but we knew you were healthy and fine, and you were! You weighed in at your one-year appointment this week at 18 pounds, which puts you in the 10th percentile. You've earned the nickname "Peanut" from your Papa, and you may be small, but your personality is anything but! You're a hoot! You've got a big, happy personality and you know how to brighten anyone's day, from one of us to a perfect stranger at the grocery store.
I have to admit, I had an emotional day on your birthday. I don't know if you're my last, only God knows for sure, but in my mind, I'm pretty sure you're my last baby, and so every birthday might make me emotional, as my littlest grows older and older. But it's exciting to watch you grow, none the less. I pray that God blesses this second year of your life, that you continue to grow healthy and strong, and that you keep your happy, spunky personality, bringing much joy to those around you.
Words cannot express how much I love you! You're one of my blessings, and I thank God for you every single day! Happy Birthday sweet girl!
Saturday, January 19, 2019
Life Since October...
Lily, working on school, snuggling the baby
Thanksgiving
Mother Neff State Park: enjoying it in the winter. We've heard there are too many rattlesnakes to go the rest of the year.
New outfits to match their dolls, and (unintentionally) matching new sewing boxes from Grammy and Papa. They spend much spare time since Christmas making little things for their dolls...and I find pins and needles everywhere!
Not as fun as going in the woods, but a Christmas tree farm got the job done:)
The Sunday before Christmas
At the Silos with Mom
Closing Day!!!!!
Tuesday, January 1, 2019
Eden, in Pictures
Less than 24 hours old
The girls with my midwife, feeding the goats a few days before Eden was born. So fun!
39 weeks...
My 36th birthday with my girls. Eden was 5 days old.
More recent...Lily loving on her baby sis:)
Izzie talks about how she and Eden will be best friends. She's already "reading" books to her:)
Just a few days new. Addison is smitten
In the hospital at 5 weeks old:(
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