Lydia Jeanne Robsinon

My new neice!! I love her!!

 

WC and her babies!!

 Proud Meena to three beautiful girls!

Natalie @ 7 months

This little girl just makes me giddy looking at her!! She is so lovable and just smiles at everything. I can't believe we are over the 6 month mark....it won't be long until she is one! Sniff Sniff.....

She is low crawling EVERYWHERE. She is getting pretty fast too! Everything that WC does is hilarious to her and she watches WC very carefully.....maybe she's taking mental note on what NOT to do so she won't get spankings :)

Natalie has been on table food for a couple of weeks now. She eats almost whatever we eat. Mostly fruits and veggies. I'll give her some meat every now and then.

Sleeping still isn't something that happens a lot in this house. The Trobough children just don't sleep well. At least Natalie will eventually stop crying and sleep! She takes about three 45 minute naps...maybe a little longer if I'm lucky. So I don't nap often! She is waking every 3-4 hours still at night, but more out of habit than hunger. So sleep training will be coming soon!

Over-all, she's pretty darn easy. It's neat how different both of the girls are, but they have a lot of similarities (including sleep habits)!!!

Cleveland, OH

 This past week we traveled to Cleveland to see another Sarcoma specialist for Chris's case. So we decided to make it a mini family vacation! We had not been ANYWHERE in a really long time, and we definitely deserved it :) After the appointment we headed to the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo which was incredible. It was so clean and organized and the staff was more than willing to help us and accommodate Chris's wheelchair. We were quite the sight to see...lemme tell ya. I had Natalie in the backpack carrier and WC was sitting in Chris's lap while I pushed those two around. The hills made for a great workout :)

 Our favorite exhibit was the Elephants. Such awesome creatures and so beautiful!

So I guess I'll write a little about the doctor's visit :)
We had decided that Chris will not do anymore chemo at this point. His scans were clear for a few months so the only reason we'd be doing chemo now is just for precaution.  This was a big debate among doctors and friends, but Chris feels he is doing what is best for him! No one else can tell him otherwise. We've been SO blessed with different people's opinions and believe me, we considered EVERY

 point of view and we are thankful for everyone's input. The cancer is weird. There is no protocol because  .4% of every millions of Americans develop this kind of cancer.  We have been encouraged to just go with our gut instinct! Unfortunately, there is an 80% reoccurance rate with this, so we have to be prepared for it come come back! Neverless, we are SO ready to be "normal" again. You can't even imagine.......And don't! HA!

We also ate great food and enjoyed the hot tub and swimming pool at the hotel. Just a great get away...even though Natalie was sick the whole time! She tried to be happy at least :)

Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day!

(Too bad neither of the kids would look at the same time at the camera just ONE time! ha!)

Easter

 This was WC's first time dyeing eggs!!! I bought "spill proof" cups and they worked well....but I still think there's nothing like using the Paas egg dying kit. Y'all know what one I talking about right? The old school ones :) But for her first time, this got the job done! She thought it was neat watching them change colors! Then we had a little egg hunt in our front yard for the whole 15 minutes of sunshine we've had the past 3 weeks. WC LOVES hunting eggs and I do believe this fun game will last another few weeks :)

 WC's first time doing an Easter basket. We didn't bother last year or the year before. No reason too!! But even this year she didn't know what was going on. I think the priceless look on her face says it all! ha! She did look at the Easter Bunny at the mall. I wasn't about to stand in that ridiculous long line and I'm such a great mom that I forgot about the free pics at base housing with the Big Scary White Bunny and the $3 pics at her gymnastics place. Oh well! At least The Bun Bun comes every year!

 This is what Natalie thought of the 2 little doo-dads that she got in her basket! WC was such a nice big sister (bossy is more like it) and opened everything for her. Natalie was just concerned about the taste of her new toys. Mmmm plush velvety goodness.

My princess puddin' pops!!! I was hoping for a nice family picture outside after church, but Ohio weather doesn't really permit that this time of year! Plus it was two little girls' nap times after the service!

It has been so great teaching our girls about Jesus. Natalie is obviously too little to understand, but we sing her the same songs we sing WC. WC really got in to, "Happy Easter! Jesus is Risen!". We were working on that for about a week leading up to Easter. We want to strongly implement the reason why we celebrate these holidays!!!!

^{Deuteronomy 6:6}
These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. ⁷ Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. ⁸ Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. ⁹ Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.

Chris and I are really trying to live by this verse. Children are a gift from God and we want to honor Him by teaching our children His way!!!!

Natalie @ 6 months

So she's really 6 1/2 months, but who's getting technical?? Not me...

Here is my punkin pie :)

She is sitting up on her own, scooting backwards and pulling herself forwards. She is rocking on her hands and knees so I know it won't be long til she's trying to keep up with WC!

She takes 3 naps a day and I finally did cry it out for naptime last week. It's helped tremendously with her sleeping and so the next thing to tackle is her night time sleeping habits. She still wakes every 3 hours to eat so I'm going to start cutting some feedings soon. I don't feel any hurry...but the thought of having 6-7 hours of straight sleep just thrills me.

She was eating homemade baby food, but after she had a graham cracker and baby finger foods, she doesn't want to be fed from a spoon anymore. She watches WC eat and wants everything we have. So I'm sure she'll be on pure table food in a few weeks! Following the footsteps of WC...well, I hope not every footstep. HA!

Natalie is such a happy girl. She smiles and thinks everything is awesome. I love having her around and it's been neat to watch her and WC bond. I wish I had a sister bond too!!!

I know I'm slacking a little....

I just figured I'd let all my hundreds of blog followers know I'm still alive. I haven't been much for internet time lately. WC isn't napping and is climbing in to bed with us a few nights a week and then Natalie is napping well and is waking a lot in the night, so I haven't had the opportunity to nap. This means that by the time the kids are in bed, the last thing I want to do is formulate a though!

I'll get back in to it soon......

But we're doing just dandy :)