Busy Summer!

We've traveled back and forth between Grammy and Peepaw and Nanna and Nunnie, so we haven't been home much this summer, so here's an update.
Elizabeth had surgery a little over a week ago to repair her umbilical hernia. She did very well and is almost back to normal now.
Sarah Grace is getting to be quite the handful. She's getting into EVERYTHING, but is still so sweet that it's really hard to get mad at her.
Cole is crawling. It's the funniest crawl I've ever seen. I also cut his hair. I buzzed it, so it WAY to short, but at least I know I'll never cut it this short again. He's still cute as ever though.
Well, that's about it. Still not sure when we'll close on the townhouse and be able to move. The latest we heard was that they were trying to get us in it by the end of the month. I'll keep you posted.

4th of July!

We had lots of fun during the 4th of July weekend. We spent time in Manchester and in Cullman. They were quick trips, but they were so much fun! Here are the pictures.

Busy Days

The Shedd family has had a lot going on lately. Jonathan found out he had the be accepted to the Cumulative Ed program at Auburn to be rehired, so we've put a lot of our time effort and money into that. We think that he's in though. He had to take a test today and from what we've heard his scores were good enough to get him into the program.
Elizabeth turned 4 on Sunday, which was also Father's Day. We had a good time. Elizabeth's party was Saturday and on Sunday we went to church. When we got home we ate lunch followed by left over cake and ice cream. After naps we played outside. Elizabeth got a water thing for her birthday and we tried it out. Everyone had a good time, but Sarah. She didn't like getting squirted in the face.
I ran my first 5K race Saturday morning. My dad came down from TN to run with me.He pushed me to run farther than I had been. I ran more than 2 miles of it and I was quite proud of myself.
Cole had 3 teeth and more on the way. He gets on his hands and knees and rocks back and forth. We know from this that crawling is emanate and it breaks my heart. It hurts to know that my last baby is growing SO fast. He's such a sweetie though.
Sarah's vocabulary is growing every day. She's so strong too. She is by far stronger than her sister. Her personality grows more and more every day. She's the sneaky one who refuses to be forgotten even though she's the middle child. She's also very sweet.
So that's what we've been up to.

NEW PICS

Some of these pics are from our trip to the zoo today. I'm trying really hard to do better at posting them when I put them on the computer.

Sarah Grace

Sarah's vocabulary is growing every day. She says, "C ya tomorrow!", so we knew she could say "Love you", but she wouldn't do it. If you tell her "Wuv oo" she'll repeat it, but she won't say the real thing.
She's a pistol. She maybe the middle child, but she's not going to let anyone forget about her. She's by far the loudest of the 3. She can be so sweet and then in the middle of the hug she's giving you comes the hardest bite she can give you. She's really something else.
She loves her little brother to death. I can't leave him on the floor because Sweet Sarah will lay down on top of him to hug him and that's just not a good thing for little Cole.
Sarah is so funny to watch. She gives everything all she's got and is becoming quite the little climber.

Elizabeth

Elizabeth has completed her first year of preschool and I'm not sure she understands that she doesn't go back until September. She learned so much. A few months ago she started spelling her name which we thought was more than awesome since her name is so long, but now she's writing it. There is absolutely no way she'd be doing that if it weren't for preschool. She made some cute little friends and they'll all be in the same class next year. They'll just have a different teacher.
She says she's getting married on her "5 birthday". I told her she'd have to ask a judge. We go to church with one and he helps with her Sunday School class, so I told her to ask Mr. Craig. Now I just have to prep him to make sure he gives her the right answer. She's talked about getting married forever. She says she'll marry a little boy named Tray in California. We have no clue where she gets some of the things she comes up with.
I love to watch her play with Sarah (when they're not fighting). She can be so sweet and helpful with Sarah and Cole.
She amazes us with big words and off the wall ideas every day. She's a beautiful, smart girl that truly loves her brother and sister and her friends too!

Cole

I have lots of pictures to post. I'll work on that, but just wanted to do an update on little Cole. He has two teeth on bottom now and he's growing like crazy. I have never been as proud of a little belly as I am of his. I think that's mainly because of the surgery he had on his stomach when he was 7 weeks old. He gave us a scare, but is doing wonderful now. At his last dr appointment he was up to 17 lbs! He gets really excited when his sisters give him any kind of attention. He's such a sweet and quite little baby. I know that we're not having any more kid, but if I knew they would all be like him I'd have 10 more. He's wonderful. You hardly know he's there. He rolls all over the floor, but that's not a safe place for him because of his sister, Sarah. She love him to death and I mean that literally. I'll post pictures soon, I promise.