Giggleface :)

     Yep.  I'm pretty sure that I couldn't be any happier than I am with our family photos.  They turned out great.  I hope everyone got a chance to see them.  These photos are by Chelsea Rittenhouse, and her business in "Giggleface Photography".  How could you not want to have your pictures taken by someone with a business name of Giggleface?  It's too sweet!  We had our pics taken on the 14th, and then not even a week later I had my photo disc in hand and a preview was up even before that!  I must have checked her blog for the preview of our shoot a million times, because I wasn't being very productive around the house...lol.  We went to Gene Stratton Porter for the shoot and ended up having a great time.  Ethan and Natalie spent a lot of time barefoot with their feet in the water and a natural spring there.  Their feet were filthy, but I loved that they were having so much fun!  Chad hates having his picture taken, but he even did really good!  Chelsea captured some of the sweetest photos of Chad with the kids.  Here are my favorites:

     I love how happy Chad was to have these photos done.  I think he had just as much fun as I did, although he would never admit it!   Here are my favorite photos: 

     I want to write more but I am sooo tired. So i'm headed off to bed, but I will follow up with more later. :)  Goodnight!

I'm So EXCITED!!!!!!!!!

I know it's been awhile since i've written, but here lately I have actually been finding a little bit more time in my evenings to sit down and spend a little quiet time as I wish.  (Yay!)  So, remember the old Pointer Sisters' song, "I'm So Excited"?  Well that's EXACTLY how I am right now!  I am so excited and I just can't hide it! Back when I had Ethan, I was SOOOO good about getting his photos taken...(Newborn, 3 months, 6 months, 9 months, 1 year, 18 months etc).  We even had a family picture taken at 18 months! Well then Miss Natalie came along, and I did pretty good until 2009.  I don't know if it was just time constraints, money at the time, or what exactly but I haven't followed up with photos.  Now Landon is 8 months old and I haven't gotten any professional photos of Landon, other than his birth photos.  And the funny thing of it all, is that all the pictures I got before, I "thought" were professional. I had no CLUE that photos could look as good as I know these will turn out!!!!  Chelsea Rittenhouse, "GiggleFace Photography" is our photographer.  I am so excited because these are going to be complete family portraits.  We haven't had any since DECEMBER of 2003!!!!!  That is soooo wrong! LOL.  Our shoot is set up for this Sunday, and I definitley decided that we are not going to match at all.  In fact, I don't even know what we are wearing yet, other than the fact that Landon is going to be wearing a super cute onesie that he got from his Aunt Meme...that was actually Jaxson's when he was little.  I loved it so much that I HAD TO HAVE IT!  Can't wait for you all to see it. :) 

     Things are going pretty good here at the Bailey household.  We are having an issue with our septic and it looks like we might be putting a new septic tank in....I'm praying that this problem can be fixed without the expense and all the trouble, so finger are crossed and prayers are flying madly for a solution.  Chad is doing really good right now.  I am very proud of him b/c he has been working on a few personal things and has been doing so well. 

     Ethan is actually excited to start school.  This absolutely FLOORS me.  He hates school.  I wish I would have kept him home another year and let him be an older one in his class rather than a younger one.  He struggles a bit and I think that this is a big part of it.  The other part is that he has his Dad's attitude and will.  He is a perfectionist to some degree with different things.  He sets himself up to such high standards and if he doesn't PERFECTLY execute something he just flips out and gives up. He shuts down and is like talking to a brick wall.  Natalie on the other hand is the polar opposite.  She is smart naturally.  Ethan is too, it's just that he thinks too much into things.  With Natalie it isn't even a thought.  She tested for Kindergarten and did so well!  So they are going to let her start young.  She can write her whole family's names, does simple math (2+2, 2x2, 4+3 etc).  She can count to 100, count by 10's, spell the whole family's names, knows all colors and almost all shapes.  She knows both of our cell numbers (we don't have a home phone) and she also knows our address and everyone's birthdays! lol.  She just amazes me constantly.  Only thing with her is that she is also a perfectionist.  I noticed this from when she was a baby.  She's meticulous and focuses on fine little things.  Nothing gets past her to be honest.  She is SUCH a drama queen too.  I am pitying the teacher and students the first day that she throws a little crying fit in class.  I know it will happen.  I dread it.  LOL.

     Landon is growing sooo fast.  I can't hardly stand it.  He's soooo so sweet.  He's constantly happy and smiling.  For some reason he has been waking up at night for the last month and I just don't get it.  I took him to the doctor to make sure it wasn't his ears but they checked out fine.  They tell me it's probably teething, but all my children teethed late, and Landon was born a month early so I am guess that it's not that at all.  He doesn't always eat when he gets up, but he does like to be rocked.  I LOVE it when he wants rocked.  I have even been doing that before his naps whether he wants it or not...lol.  I love to sing and hum to him and just hold him.  He smells so sweet and he's so dang soft and squishy.  I love it so much and it goes so fast.  We are not sure if this is our last baby or not.  At first I was positive we were done...but I have always wanted four.  So if life, budget, careers and the like have babies in our future then I will be forever greatful. If not...then I am happy with my kiddies, just they way they are.  I will post pics from the shoot as soon as I can!