Selfie Skills

 I'd like you to take a moment to appreciate these mad selfie skills. These are selfies taken of me and Donovan, D facing backwards, me facing backwards/forwards, and my arm twisted around backwards to get us both in there.

 

...and here's my super amazing long distance backwards foot-hold selfie...

ok fine. Ryan took over ; )

"the rebellious years"

 

Goth, punk rock, emo...Our little girl's goin' all rebel on us. I came out the other day to Kaila shaving the front of her hair with toddler sizzors.  It's probably all the bad influences at that public, "non-christian" pre-school she's been to twice now. Lots of trouble makers there.

Daddy Date!

Ry took Kaila on a train ride for her birthday...all day and then for the next week she kept talking about her special time with daddy ; )

Happy Halloween!

Spiderman and Butterfly Princess had to earn their sugar this year. We stepped out into a drizzle and sprinted back in a minor down pour. We trick or treated until we were all (minus cozy Donovan who stayed dry, warm and asleep the whole time) respectably dripping wet.

  We never put much effort into Halloween, but it's fun to walk around and say hello to all the neighbors, not to mention that they LOVE getting trick-or-treaters and seeing our super cute kids all dressed up. The only negative was that the kids almost started crying at a 6 inch skeleton doll shaking it's hips, dancing, and singing "superfreak" on the doorstep of one of the houses.

 Post trick or treating warm pjs, sugar highs and veggie tales.

Our third little guy woke up to enjoy the cozy fireplace, the sound of rain on the roof and cozy family time. Such a sweet time in life : )

Family of 5

  We've officially been a family of 5 for two weeks now (not counting pregnancy)...

The little ones are adjusting well and the littlest one is so mellow, so far.  Here's a quick snap shot of a few things I've been doing during my "recovery" weeks.

Family Movie Nights outside.

 Donovan's firsts...first bath at home!

First experience getting man-handled by the siblings. Notice Ryan's concerned face.

Kaila= "I wanna hug you and squeeze you and kiss you.."

Kaila LOVES baby Donovan. She kisses him gently, "pets" him, strokes his head, holds his hand, rushes to him...

On the other hand, she finds out what is not ok, like pulling the bouncy chair all the way down and seeing him bounce up off the seat a few inches and squeezing his little nose. She is heartbroken when she realizes her action made him cry and I am always quick to hug her and help her understand what happened. I keep telling people that she is like Elmira, from Animiacs, the cartoon I used to love growing up.

 

Just trade that red hair for blond hair and put any small, defensless, relatively cute thing in her hands and BAM, you have our sweet, loving Kaila.

Happy Birthday...Happy Birthday... oh wait, Happy Birthday!

Thus it begins, Birthday season in our household.

October 6th- Happy 2 Week Birhday Donovan!

 

 October 9th- Happy 4th Birthday Josiah!

 

 Big thanks to Leslie for offering to host and plan this little get-together. I was in NO shape to be planning a birthday. Love this little 4 year old boy!

 November 1st- Happy 3rd Birthday Kaila!

 

 ...yet another big thank-you to our friend Amy who offered to plan and completely throw this AMAZING girls-only Princess Tea Party for three different birthday girls (all born within a few days of eachother). It was such a fun time with our sweet little girls.