Just had to...

post this cute picture of little Liah!

The New Bathing Beauty on the Block!

Here she is!!

Little Miss America!

There she goes!


(Whew! I think I'm all caught up now! FINALLY!)

Sending messages to Asher

I guess we know why Asher was checking his e-mail! : )


My sister, Holly, posted a video of my nephew, Asher, "checking his e-mail" a few days ago. We just watched it this evening. Alliyah was 'crusing' and crawling around the computer desk shortly after and I found her doing this!

Growin' and growin'!

Little Sweetie!

Little Alliyah is growing SO fast! She's making leaps and bounds in all areas of development! (except getting teeth, which I'm thankful for as I am still nursing her!)

I found her one afternoon standing in her bed after her nap...she was very happy to see me until I ran back out of the room to ask someone to bring me the camera! So, the "pulling herself up on things" stage had started.

Here she's much happier once she realized I was just taking pictures and not leaving her stranded in her crib!!!

She's been showing more of an interest in books...opening them, turning the pages, pointing to things...here she's 'reading' about Jesus walking on water!

A few days after I found her standing in her crib, she decided it would be fun to put her feet THROUGH the rails! Gratefully, they were not stuck!

Here she's sitting in a seat just her size...she wasn't sure about it at first, but now she can climb in and out of it!

She loves to dance with her monkey! : )

Lovin' Little Liah!

Alliyah has been such an added joy to our lives! She is adored by us all! Such a happy little girl, who shows her emotion so readily...usually with a squeal of delight! My sister-in-love, Mandy, recently posted on her family blog about being given something you didn't even know you wanted, in regards to her own 5 little blessings...it's so true! Who knew I wanted 5 kids? Obviously our loving Father knew just how much I would treasure each one of them! His plan is always best! What joy we would have missed out on if we decided to intervene and stop at 4 children...

Liah...pre-bath : )

In the tub...she LOVES the water...could easily become a mermaid!

Lookin' cute after her bath...love that chubby little face!!

Sittin' in the highchair (the one I bought at a yard sale AFTER Elli was out of hers...'just in case' we had another baby!) eatin' crackers! YUMMY!

Trying to get going!

Zach lovin' Liah...big brothers are the best!!! : )

It's a little blurry...but I LOVE her expression! What a cutie!!!

Nathaniel's turn to love on Liah!!



What a sweet little face!

Swingin'!!! Love it!! (Thanks for the swing back...again! The one I was going to sell after having Elli because we were 'done!')

Alliyah...she's growing!

Alliyah is growing and changing so fast! Here she is at the end of December,,,so much more stable sitting! She's able to sit and play now! (7 months old)





Here we are...trying to do a self-portrait! Liah looked away!






We purposely took this picture of her in this outfit in this position because she looks so much like her oldest sister and we have a picture of Aunt Holly holding Kaity like this in this outfit!



LOVE the walker! Look out, world...she's mobile!!

Happy girl!

Liah and Elli... ; )

Blowin' bubbles!

Truly Daddy's girl....when mama's not around!

Smiley girl...most of the time! Little precious!

Cuddled up with Daddy after a busy day of just being Liah!