The Gordon Four (and a half)

well, i knew that before baby #3 arrives-we needed to get a recent pix of us four, before we become five...here are a few of our faves...

august so far...

lovey eli. this little dude is one lovey boy. it's SO cute. anytime myah is laying down, or even sitting on the floor, he'll go over to her and just lay his head on her. SWEEEET!

next is Grandma Betty's 60th surprise bday party in enid. it was so neat and she was so surprised!

after that are a few pix of us at cousin Jay's 10th bday party in Tulsa, but i was trying to get eli to sleep when all the festivities were going on, so i didn't even get one pix of the bday boy. but here are a few of us hanging out by the pool; i included one of me holding eli, just to show my 'baby bump.' :) wow! i'm showing A LOT faster this time around.

on the way to Tulsa and Enid that weekend, we stopped in Stillwater for some much needed lunch at Eskimo Joes with friends Ryan, Jody and Cale Webber. Jody is a friend of mine from college and get this: their little man, Cale was also conceived from IVF; we call Cale and Eli our pitri-dish boys. ha! here's the great part, they are pg, too-this time, completely on their own, just like us! yea God!

then there are a few pix of myah and emma; it was fun putting all their hair stuff in, but taking em out that nite wasn't as fun :)

and lastly, here's eli in his high chair playing peek-a-boo. he'll be 11 months this saturday, we can't believe it. but he is SO much fun. we just sit and laugh hearing he and myah playing and giggling together. much fun!

eli facts

here's the latest on the little man:

*he's 1o months old

*has 4 top teeth and 2 on the bottom

*is happy 99% of the time

*finally sleeps thru the nite

*laughs a lot at myah and daddy

*still gets lovey with mommy

*likes pulling myah's hair

*is cruising really well

*weighs only 5 lbs less than myah

*has a temper!

*LOVES bath time

*misses his grandparents!!!

*is such a wonderful addition to our family, thank you Jesus!

playtime

okay, so it's finally getting fun for these two: they've recently started having crawling chases around the living room/kitchen. eli gets so excited when she turns and starts chasing him that he practically screams and goes super fast-straight to either kevin or i. funny! he'll follow her into her room and they'll stay in there for quite awhile; allowing me to get a little bit of housework done. just yesterday, they started playing under his crib. myah and kevin used to 'camp' under there and now eli follows her under there and she LOVES it. in fact, she's yelling EIIII (her "L"-less version of eli) COME UNDER HEW! i think she thinks the louder she calls his name, the more likely he'll hear her and obey :) after a while, tho-i think his little head gets sore from banging it as he goes in and out. i'll try to attach video of it later. really cute! kevin chose ROCK BAND for his father's day gift, so here are also a few pix of he and myah rocking out. it's pretty fun and one nite after eli went to bed, she and kevin and i all played and at the very end, loud into the microphone, she said, "i'm rockin' with jennifer!" funny girl!

myah's ballet and tap

well, here's myah on her first day of tap/ballet. her nose was runnin like crazy, so she kept her kleenex with her the WHOLE time. ha. she's taken the class for a month now and seems to be liking it-but i think she's like me, the outfit is the funnest part about it! i told kevin my goal is just for her to stick it out thru the recital. it's all about the pictures, you know :)

4th of July

okay, okay-it's time to catch up. here are a few pix from the newell's house on the 4th.

one more disney "souviner"

um...yep, you read that test right...we're pregnant! and um, if you know us at all, you'll know that we adopted our daughter and had to do in-vitro to get our son, and um...well, i guess i can say we've come full-circle now and can actually be included in the 'we weren't even trying!' club!

i know this is a huge blessing, but i'm a bit overwhelmed right now. eli is only 9 months old and i'm 8 weeks along. i had no idea how 'runneth over' my cup actually was when i changed the title of this blog...

we finally decided to take a test while at disney (hey, they say it's a magical place, right!?) but i just kept thinking i was stressed about the trip; well, i may have been-but little did i know til this test, that i was PREGNANT, too!

i'm praising the Lord in my heart, for i know His plans are much greater than mine, but i'm also praying that He'll help me to see the joy in this pregnancy soon...

i used to sing "IT IS WELL..." (old Christian hymn) every month during our 'desert years' of infertility; knowing that "whatever my lot, Thou has taught me to say, it is well, it is well, with my soul" and that He would provide children for us one day. i admit (and God knew it) i only sang it half-heartedly, b/c i was hurting so badly without any children, and then one day, in HIS perfect time, He opened our hearts and eyes to adoption. myah is a miracle in more ways than one and it was then that i really, really knew how true it was that His ways are perfect and only for our good. then came the miracle of eli. again-praise you, Lord for your timing! You are faithful! and now this surprise...well, i was reminded again about the song "IT IS WELL" and had to just praise Him b/c now i'm on the other side, and i hope to whole-heartedly be able to sing 'whatever my lot...it is well with my soul' soon. it is a wonderful thing, and i know i'll get excited soon.

PS another HUUUUUUUUUUGE praise is that i'm not sick at all! i was already puking 4-5 times a day at this point with eli, now i'm just exhausted and feel like i've been hit by a truck :)

disney world

wow, what a trip! a lot of hot, but yet a lot of fun! we thank you SO SO much, grandpa dwain and grandma betty for taking us all on this wonderful, memorable, family vacation!

my mom had been talking about this for years; it was "my mom's dream, my dad's nightmare!"

hee.hee. of course we took way too many pix to put on the blog, so here are just a few to enjoy. all five kiddos did AMAZINGLY well and were such troopers! naps were missed, a few tears were cried, but over all, they were great! thanks to cousins aspen and hanna for helping out with eli so much, he loves and misses you already! mason, you're so funny and we're glad eli has a cool boy cousin to look up to on this side of the family!