eleanor loves jude, olive's last day of cheer and playdough

eleanor loves jude so much

i don't know that it's mutual quite yet

but i'm sure it will be soon

 olive had her last day of cheer/tumbling last night

i don't know that she learned much doing it but she had fun 

now she's ready to move on to soccer this spring

 henry is a little jealous lately

and likes to be on me while i'm feeding jude

this morning he drank his sippy on my legs while i fed jude

 playing with the nativity before school

 henry and eleanor love to play with play dough

 they finished by making an ice cream cone

and then henry got mad we were cleaning up and he threw play dough all over..

good thing they're so cute!

thanksgiving break and smiles from jude

i love that even on baby number six, he's still a doting father

 eleanor got a big haircut!!! i couldn't take her long hair anymore

i'm so happy with her little bob

she loves it, too

 hot cocoa for the whole fam...except jude

 a doting little mama with her baby 

  always on the counter

he's cleaning his dinosaurs

 days off of school mean staying in your pajamas

and making lots of messes

they were having a "farmer's market" 

which it turned out was just a ploy for noah to get his siblings' money

he wanted to buy a lego set and needed the money to cover tax :) 

they had lots of fun

and even cleaned it all up with lots of prodding

 at 7 weeks and two days jude FINALLY started smiling

noah got a picture for me

 the cute blondies in the family

 olive taking a selfie

 on thanksgiving we had a nice breakfast at home and went to the moody's for thanksgiving

jude looked pretty cute in his little gobbler onesie for the festivities

 little cutie in his Christmas jammies helping me decorate for Christmas

 michael took olive on a date so hazel was certain it was her turn for a date, too

i took her to the village and the date got cut short by fussy jude

so we went home and ate treats in my bed while watching flubber just her and mom and dad

she loved it

 jude slept for 8 hours straight and gave me lots of smiles!!!

 we were going to get a Christmas tree at our usual lot but it wasn't there

so we went to horseshoe bend and picked out a tree at a little tree farm

 it was so much fun!

 they had marshmallows and chestnuts to roast, too

 we had fun decorating it when we got home

 heading out the door to church

 my pretty view while nursing jude after church

 the whole fam after church

helping me clean

 jude was eight weeks old yesterday!

it feels like the fog has finally lifted a little bit

jude is sleeping better (napping during the day and longer stretches at night)

and smiling! it makes it all worth it

boise holiday parade and the weekend

friday eleanor had a preschool thanksgiving feast

she was a native american

 we went to cafe rio and target (per usual)

and hazel was the only one who could get jude to stop fussing at target

 i've been locking henry out of the girls room during the day while they're gone

and they didn't want to wait for me to unlatch it so they could get their pajamas on

so they took things into their own hands

michael thought it was irresponsible of me to take a picture before helping

but it's just too good

 a sweet, content jude

whose baby acne has finally cleared for the most part

hooray!

 saturday we went to the boise holiday parade

 henry colored a picture for crystal

 saturday night we had a family movie/pizza night and watched finding dory

michael built this star and covered it in lights while we watched 

 he is going to put it on our roof 

 sunday morning

olive holding jude for hazel

so hazel could button her dress

it was so cute and sisterly

 we literally spent 2.5 of the 3 hours at church in the mother's room

 sunday nap

henry asked to hold jude

and when jude fussed, henry shushed him 

and then said, "grumpy baby"

 all ready for bed

i love that he still likes to be swaddled

 the kids have the whole week off for thanksgiving

so we enjoyed a lazy morning

and the hunts came over to play for 4 hours