Boytim Blessing #5 has Arrived!!!

Jay Collier Boytim was born at 10:45am Tuesday June 23rd, 2009.
Weighing 9 pounds 2.5 ounces and 22 inches long- he is our second biggest - being topped by his oldest brother Richard who weighed 9 pounds 5 ounces. What is it about the King names????
He was born at home - mama went into labor around 6am and baby Jay arrived approximately 4 hours and 45 minutes later. He scored a 10 on his first APGAR as he was so pink and vocal from the get go.
I will post a more thorough birth story later (for those that want to know), but for now, I am doing some serious baby bonding. Thank you for all the congratulations and prayers - we love you all!!


This was Jay's first picture - Daddy snapped this and rushed off to email it to everyone straight away!

This was yesterday

I took these today - Jay, Card and Katie

Bella and Jay

Baby Jack and Baby Jay

Jack absolutely LOVES Jay and runs yelling into the room anytime Jay makes a noise. He was SO proud to be holding his baby brother in this picture and made me take lots more - he kept saying "more, more, more".

How truly blessed we are by these little ones!!

Grandpa King's Bag....

Katie was asked to make her great grandfather a cloth clothespin bag for his line. With the help of our good friend Mrs. Debbie, she finished it last night. I think it turned out great! Thanks so much Mrs. Debbie and good work Katie!

Katie putting the finishing touches on

The finished bag front

and back

The Time Is Nearing

The time is nearing - the next little Boytim will be joining the bunch soon.......(no, I am not in labor right now - just thinking of the upcoming work ahead of me!)
Thoughts right now - a mixture of longing to see my newest little one and of course some fear and anxiety. Please keep me and the baby in your prayers and thoughts - I really feel we both need them right now.



Thank You Lord for the blessings You have given us thus far



















and for the blessing on the way

Look what followed me home Ma.....

We also brought home this girl from field day - her name is Jumper and her daughter Daisy we brought a few days later. They are wonderful lawn mowers but have a taste for rose bushes and pear trees........hence, Jumper being tied up.

Field Day

We went to our first homeschool field day. The kids had a GREAT time. Here is Katie with her friend Rachel.

I originally put Card in with the 2,3,and 4 year olds. Poor guy was so bored doing things like this - the baby cars then stick horse riding. He came to ask me "when are we going to run mommy?" - he and Katie had been practicing for the 50 yard dash for a week! I was able to move him up to the 5 year olds and he was so much happier.

Here he is running that 50 yard dash - which he WON!!

Bella and Andi Davis

The kids and their ribbons -

Bella got her participation ribbons

Card got:

1 third place ribbon

2 second place ribbons

2 first place ribbons

and that was after missing a lot of the activities!!! AND he got best dressed!

Katie got 2 second place ribbons

They had a great time and we sure hope we are able to do it again next year!

Sheet Rocking

Jack getting in on the action

















Jack and Mr. Bill take a break



















Daddy giving some instruction
















The boys are doing in on their own now!

Katie's B-Day

I forgot my camera when we took the kids to the lake to swim - but here are some of Katie opening her gifts when we got home.

Katie opening Little Mom-Mom's gift

Elise Dinsmore Audio Cd's! We have been wanting these for awhile! Thanks Little Mom-Mom!!

May Days....

This is Will spraying our foam insulation in. We have gotten much farther now - two rooms are sheet rocked and taped and floated!



























Card and his daddy finished the boat Uncle Edward and Aunt Julie got him for Christmas. It has been named "SSS Mama" and has voyaged in the bathtub so far, but has rumors of going out to sea in the pool.......























We are reading through "Mystery of History" and here the babies are making Adam and Eve clay figures after hearing about how God made them. They later made up a play starring Card as Adam, Bella as Eve, Katie as The Serpent and God. They laid a brown blanket out so Adam could rise out if the "dust" and Eve was so cute telling Adam to "eat this fruit!".


























Jack's preferred way of eating avocados. Messy, but he gets the job done!

Chicken Tractor Building

Card using his Daddys' hatchet






















Jack being cute





























Jack "measuring" just like his daddy























and Daddy putting up the walls!
This tractor has been competly free so far - the trailer came from my dad, the studs came from W.E. Owens porch that was replaced and the panels came from W.E's old shed he put new walls on... Thank you Lord!

Conroe Lake Park

We visited the Conroe Lake Park a couple days ago - it was a bit chilly and windy, so the kids are wearing their favorite jackets (given to them by Great Aunt Suzie two Christmas' ago!). I was recently reading an article by Mike Pearl (the day before we went to the park) titled 12 Parenting Essentials and this one really struck me:

6. Time
Not just “quality time” but quantity time. Know this, that when you are not spending time with your children, someone else is. When you received your child into this world, it was like receiving a beautiful book with all blank pages. Like a daily planner, each fifteen-minute interval has an empty line beside it. Your child’s history is not yet written. The sum total of life is the accumulation of minutes—minutes listening to someone, talking to someone, seeing or hearing something said by another, or minutes consumed watching a video produced by a disreputable character from Hollywood. Everyday, you write in that book, line by line; or you take your child to a baby sitter or to school, and you turn the book over to someone else, and they too write into your child’s life. The hour you spend with your child is not more influential than the hour someone else spends. Value time enough to spend it on your children.

Then today I am reading another one of his articles and this pops out at me:

Where the TV with its soap operas once stole the children’s mothers, it is now the web. Mothers surf and children suffer. They learn to be quiet, to not bother. In time they won’t bother with anything. Spend your hours talking and visiting with your friends instead of talking with your 2-year-old and your 2-year-old will not grow up to be your friend.

And once again I realize my kids are sometimes "Computer Orphans" - why is it we as mothers get so caught up in the computer? I can tell when I spend time on the computer that the kids behavior is not good and then the day just goes downhill from there. So, once again, it is time for me to take a computer sabbatical :)

I have been on a lot less lately, but I believe one night a week, after they go to bed, should be plenty for me - anyone else want to join me?

You can view these articles in their entirety here -

12 Parenting Essentials

Tomato Head Kids

Just Playing Around

Katie, Bella, and Brownie Bear




















Katie and Jack




















The Boytim Bunch




















Jack finds his bellybutton!

In the Bluebonnets

We took a trip out Montgomery way and found our old bluebonnet patch is still there! They are putting in a subdivision all around though, so it may not be there next year.




















Katie age 10 (almost 11!)























Card age 4




Bella age 3 and Jack 19 months

Prepping the garden

Daddy and his sidekick on the, as Jack calls it, Ticka Ticka.











Card being very "hands on"













We started tilling the ground in the garden




























Daddy (again) with his two most frequent riders.

Various

Jack enjoying his first watermelon













If you can spot them - there are 4 deer. This is up near the front of our driveway - where some fruit trees happen to be.....












Jack found his sisters pink hat and it has become a favorite!

















Card painting his boat that Uncle Edward and Aunt Julie bought for him.