what's a pirate's favorite letter?

rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

somehow we didn't get one of hazel

darn it!

but aren't they cute?

henry is four months!

this little love is four months! 

he has been sleeping up to 10 hours at night

sometimes less but we're grateful for what we get

he is ticklish and likes to eat his hands

he loves attention from everyone in our family

he likes to eat a lot

and rolls around and around

and even scoots a bit! 

he doesn't mind the car as much as he used to

but his reflux seems to be flaring up lately which isn't fun for any of us

but he's typically a pretty happy boy

and we just love him!
....
we decided to let henry try rice cereal for the first time tonight
on his four month birthday
because we thought he might like it
and the dr said we could start adding it to his formula a while ago
but i didn't feel as good about that so we waited until today

it may be hard to tell in the pictures
but he loved it!
he ate the whole little bowl full!
this little boy loves to eat
and i'm so glad we started him early

every day nothings

michael reminded me i should blog last night

and i couldn't think of anything that had possibly happened in the last week

but then i went through these pictures

and realized that while nothing has happened, i like looking back at the little every day nothings

and that's what blogging is about, right?

so this one's for you, michael :) 

 eleanor has inherited my love of cleaning

and often makes messes just so she can clean them up, it seems

the other day she threw a bunch of blueberries on the ground and then immediately ran for the broom

it's a little frustrating but i know she's just two 

 henry usually naps in his crib

but he fell asleep with me on the bed the other day

and i thought he was so sweet laying there

look at those thighs! i just want to eat them up

 olive and eleanor love to fight over me

it can make me a little claustrophobic but they're cute

 olive and michael doing tricks

 i love this stop sign in our neighborhood

it makes me smile every time i pass it

 olive and eleanor playing on the playground while we waited for noah and hazel

to get out of dinosaur art camp on their last day

 here they are with their final creations

 when we got home they showed me everything else they had made

all out of paper

crowns, purses, money, paper chains, hats

 olive felt so special that noah had taken time to make her some things 

like a crown and hair

 eleanor just saw another mess that needed to be cleaned up :)

 olive cut out a dinosaur while wearing noah's "death crown" with a laser that makes people weak

 saturday morning we were on our way to the park and saw an old car show

with mosly corvettes 

and stopped to look

 the kids thought it was pretty neat

and michael liked it, too

 saturday was a good mail day for michael

he finally got his masters degree in the mail!

 sunday i wore one of my favorite dresses with my new favorite shoes

 aren't they fabulous?

i love them

 later we spent some time on the trampoline

and i wanted michael to get a picture of all of us on the tramp

but first he took some of just me and the kids

and that was about as good as it got

later michael said, "can you believe they're all yours?"

which i thought was funny since they're his, too :) 

but yeah, that's a lot of kids! 

 it didn't work as well to get all of us in a picture

but these three are cute, anyway 

so, a pretty boring week i guess

but that can be the best kind

and michael left me a note every morning to find

which i loved 

and michael and i watched all of season one of prison break

so that was time consuming and nerve wracking 

annnnd we're thinking about building a house

which is exciting and also nerve wracking :)

tidbits

this hat is so funny

i think we thrifted it in utah for olive

and now noah, olive, and eleanor all fight over it

and eleanor loves to have me wear it 

 i've been taking inventory of clothes i've purchased for the kids

to know how much school shopping we need to do

i've already bought all noah's size 8/third grade clothes over this last year

all on clearance/sale from gap, jcrew, children's place, h & m

even some vans and nikes and all super cheap

plus a few thrifted pieces

so he doesn't need a thing

isn't that the best?

sadly, i tried to do the same for hazel but she's still lacking

so we'll still need to shop for her

 olive has become a good helper lately

she helped me set the table the other night and did a great job!

 eleanor...

 cool tricks noah!

 michael took olive and hazel to the store the other day 

and i was amazed how much fun noah and eleanor had together while they were gone

they played peek a boo all around the living room and it was so cute

 i love how happy they are

 here's our new basketball hoop

 noah and hazel are at dinosaur art camp together this week

so far so good

and olive doesn't seem to hate having them gone :) 

 while i was making chicken fajitas last night, eleanor swiped the sour cream off the counter

and started eating it by the spoonful

she loves cream and doesn't care if it's sour cream, ice cream, or whipped cream

i guess it's really good she outgrew her milk protein allergy!

 mmmm.....

 then she and noah and olive moved on to the olives

olive loves olives and whenever we joke we should eat her

she says, i'm not the food olive silly!

 last night for family home evening we took the kids to the boise temple to walk around the grounds

 then after the temple we went to costco 

and i wanted a picture of our cute twinners next to each other in the cart..

 sillies

i love how different they are

 henry is getting really good at sucking his thumb

and even hooking his nose with his fingers

so cute

ps.

michael and i have been running off and on for like 5 weeks

and last night i ran three straight miles! holla!