Rock Chalk Babyhawk

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Mr. 300!

Papahawk won a special award for his bowling league for his perfect game (see earlier post):

His team (Matt is missing):

Papahawk had so much fun being in the league this year and hopes to do it again next year!

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Visit to the Great Grands!

We took off on a journey to visit the Great Grandparents in Western Kansas... The road trip there was a long one, so we did our best to have a good time at it.

This was Tinyhawk's longest trip in the car by far:

Babyhawk is a pro and did her best to entertain us all:

Once there, our time was filled with lots of fun and snuggles. Bubbles were very popular:

And of course visitng our special great grandparents:

Tinyhawk had a blast with her cousin:

And then we were back on the road home:

It was such a long trip, but it was so good to see everyone!

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Perfect Game!!!

Papahawk threw a perfect game tonight in the Law League!! I was there to catch the 12th strike in a row!
All for Grandma Chappel.
We love you!

Friday, February 11, 2011

Happy Valentine's Day!

Tinyhawk,Babyhawk,J&J would like to wish everyone a Happy Valentine's Day. We are all going to have to big snuggle to celebrate.

E had her first program at SP&P. It was a blast!!

These two are stealing the show!

My heart tells me so.

Not sure anyone knew what to do here.

Busted!!!

And Finally, happy birthday to great grandpa Chappel, he will be 93 this Valentine's Day!!!

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Tummy Time!

Tinyhawk flips right over whenever you put her down, so we had some fun playing with toys on our tummies today:

Friday, February 4, 2011

Welcome to Holland

by Emily Perl Kingsley

I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this...

When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The Coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting.

After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, "Welcome to Holland."

"Holland?!?" you say. "What do you mean Holland??I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy."

But there's been a change in the flight plan. They've landed in Holland and there you must stay.

The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It's just a different place.

So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.

It's just a different place. It's slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around... and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills...and Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.

But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy...and they're all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say "Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That's what I had planned."

And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away... because the loss of that dream is a very very significant loss.

But... if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things... about Holland.