July 30, 2014

what's a pirate's favorite letter?

rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
somehow we didn't get one of hazel
darn it!
but aren't they cute?

July 28, 2014

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 :)

July 22, 2014

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!