Audrey Dr. Appointment

Well, Audrey had her 6 month appointment today and she is doing just fabulous!!!! She is weighing in at 17 lbs and 9.7 oz and I think that they said she was 26 inches maybe 27, I can't remember exactly. It is funny because this is the first time that I have had a 6 month old baby under 20 lbs. She was so cute during her appointment because she was just sooooooo happy!!!! She was grabbing all of the Dr.'s instruments and just plain having a great time. Les was able to come home straight from work and so I was able to go with just Audrey and it was heaven. It was so nice not to have to worry about telling the boys to chill out and stop touching things :) Horray for my healthy baby girl!!!!!!!!!

Also today, Parker, Logan, Audrey and I were able to go over to my aunts house and see my cousin Becky and her kids. Becky is in town from Brazil visiting and I was soooooooooo EXCITED to see her. It has been about a year since I have seen her and we have both had babies since then. As kids Becky and I were beyond close and of course I still love her dearly. I am so glad that she is here for a few weeks and we will be able to spend some more time together.

Audrey 6 months

Audrey is 6 months old today, where has the time gone? Seriously, I can't believe how big she is getting and she is so fun. She has the best little personality. Everytime one of her brothers is being loud, she likes to join right in with her own yelling. She gives just about anyone her award winning smiles and practically jumps out of Les' arms if I walk into a room. She isn't exactly sleeping as great as she used too. For a while there, she was sleeping like 8 hours before getting up to eat. Well, not anymore!!!! Now I am lucky if she goes 5 hours. On the other hand, she has been doing really good with taking naps in her crib for reasonable amounts of time. I love that because then I can actually get some stuff done (when I feel like it). Not to mention, I can put her in her crib awake and she puts herself to sleep. I am not sure any of my others kids did that this early. She is such a doll and we are so blessed to have her part of our family.

This past week, I finally decided that it was time to give her some rice cereal. She grabs at everything and always wants what other people have so, I thought that she would really like getting some food.

I know it doesn't look like she was enjoying herself, but I think she was. One time when I let her hold the spoon, she of course tried to shove it down her throat.

Just letting it swirl around in her mouth a little bit. YUM!!!!

"What is this pastie looking stuff you are giving me" she says.

Something else that she been doing is trying to crawl. I am not sure I am ready for this I mean, wasn't she just born :) She likes to get up on all fours and really start rocking. She doesn't quite know how to actually crawl, but I think that she will be there soon. Right now she kind of pushes off of her kneels and will pull herself with her arms if she wants something that is too far away bad enough. This morning my dad placed a little car out of her reach and she pretty much leaped toward it.

The face of a beautiful angel. Seriously, isn't she just the most pretty baby?!?!?!

At last Twilight the movie!!!!

OK, so most know that I LOVE the Twilight series by Stephenie Meyer. So, on Thursday night a group of my friends and I made a night of it and went to dinner and then the midnight show. Personally, I thought that it was GREAT!!!!! I really enjoyed the movie and had a fabulous time with my friends. I know that there are many people out there that could find fault in it, but I will not be one of them. I am feeling only love for the movie right now :)

Of course, with all books that are made into a movie, you just can't put everything in. The movie would be at least 5 hours long (not that I would complain if it was with this movie :)). Would I have liked to see some of things that didn't make it in, of course I would. However, I am very happy with how it turned out.

My friend Melissa wasn't able to come with us on Thursday, but she really wanted to see it. So, being the great friend that I am (wink wink) I told her that I would go with her again on Friday (not exactly a sacrifice for me :)) I actually think that I almost liked it even better the second time. I already knew the stuff that didn't make it into the film so, I was able to just sit there and enjoy it.

As my sister and I were talking about this morning, the only thing we are dreading is the wait we are going to have to endure for the 2nd movie. Come on Summit, start making NEW MOON!!!!

Parker Q & A

After I did the Q and A with Bradyn (scroll down to see) Parker said that he wanted me to ask him too)

1. What is something mom always says to you? "Clean up your bedroom"

2. What makes mom happy? "No pickles on her hamburger" (This is true)

3. What makes mom sad? "When we don't listen to her"

4. How does your mom make you laugh? "By making us silly"

5. What was your mom like as a child? "She liked her costumes" (Not really sure what he is talking about here :))

6. How old is your mom? "27"

7. How tall is your mom? "Like this tall" (He held his hand up to my forehead as he said that)

8. What is her favorite thing to do? "Playing with your kids"

9. What does your mom do when you're not around? "Clean the house"

10. If your mom becomes famous, what will it be for? "Because you would be their mom or their friend"

11. What is your mom really good at? "Playing my candy land game"

12. What is your mom not very good at? "Fixing pants"

13. What does your mom do for her job? "Helping your kids play with Audrey"

14. What is your mom's favorite food? "cereal and milk and banana" (I do really love cereal)

15. What makes you proud of your mom? "When she wins all the time" (Ha ha)

16. If your mom were a cartoon character, who would she be? "Spongebob"

17. What do you and your mom do together? "I mess with you" (probably because I always tell him that he better not mess with me)

18. How are you and your mom the same? "I don't know"

19. How are you and your mom different? "I'm tall and your short." (these are his words)

20. How do you know your mom loves you? "Because she hugs me" (I try to hug my kids as much as possible)

Now I tag Lisa H. (with Brooklyn), Senta (with Nolan) and Faith (with Hope)

Q & A with Bradyn

My friend Penny tagged me to do a Q & A session with Bradyn so, here it is.


1. What is something mom always says to you? "Stop" (Nice!!!!)

2. What makes mom happy? "Me listening" (That is true)

3. What makes mom sad? "onions" (I really do not like onions one bit)

4. How does your mom make you laugh? "By tickling me"

5. What was your mom like as a child? "a girl"
(Because apparently I no longer am :)

6. How old is your mom? "27"

7. How tall is your mom? "17 inches"

8. What is her favorite thing to do? "Riding bikes" (I am not sure if Bradyn has ever seen me ride a bike before)

9. What does your mom do when you're not around? "cleaning, sleeping and watching TV." ( everything but the sleeping part, I have to wait until Les gets home for that one, Does watching Dora count for the TV part?)

10. If your mom becomes famous, what will it be for? "By having a lot of money" (I wish!!!!)

11. What is your mom really good at? "Folding the clothes"

12. What is your mom not very good at? "Driving a plane"

13. What does your mom do for her job? "Helping the baby"

14. What is your mom's favorite food? "Rice" (When I was pregnant with Audrey, I couldn't get enought rice however, I don't love it as much as I did now)

15. What makes you proud of your mom? "That I love you" (Such a little sweety pie)

16. If your mom were a cartoon character, who would she be? "Katara the water bender from Avatar"

17. What do you and your mom do together? "Stay home"

18. How are you and your mom the same? "We have the same skin"

19. How are you and your mom different? "We have different eyes."

20. How do you know your mom loves you? "Because I was your baby" (I always tell him that no matter how big he gets, he will always be my baby)

I tag Lisa (with Genna), Becky W. (with Nathan) and Beth A. (with Lindsey) and anyone else that wants to do it.

Silly Parker

Parker can be so crazy sometimes. Today he had preschool and a lot of times my friend Lisa will bring him out to the car for me (her daughter is in Parker's little class) so that I don't have to unload my little ones. Aren't I so lucky to have a friend like her :) Well anyways, apparently when she was picking them up one of the teachers told her that during preschool Parker told her that he wasn't going to talk today. And I guess he held true to that promise. When Lisa told me this I asked him if he talked in preschool today and he told me, "No". I asked him why and he said that he didn't want to dance. I guess they were dancing today he apparently didn't want to so, he decided that he wasn't going to talk. He can be so funny sometimes. When he says that he is going to do something, he does it. He is such a smart little boy and truely amazes me a lot of the time. I just love my little Parker. I just hope that his teachers find him endearing and not difficult.

Halloween Night

On Halloween the weather was awesome. Last year we were in Texas so of course the weather was great, but 2 years ago here in Michigan the weather was FREEZING on Halloween. So, I was really worried that it would be cold this year too. Because who wants to be freezing while trick or treating, I know I don't. So, it was so nice to be able to take the kids without having to cover up their costumes with coats and hats. We didn't even have to put sweatshirts on under their costumes. This year we went trick or treating the boys friends Ty and Gage. They just loving playing together so it was fun to go with them.

Here are the boys all decked out. I thought that this picture was funny because it looks like Logan is in a Spider-Man pose. (I think that he was actually just hanging out)

All my little kiddos!!!! They are such a joy to me, I just can't get over it :)

The boys with their friend Ty. I don't think that Ty's little brother Gage wanted to get in the picture.

Ready to head out. Logan has already taken his mask off and the other two followed shortly. This is one of the reasons that I don't like masks, the kids never keep them on.

Trick or treating was very tiring!!! This is how Audrey enjoyed her evening. Hey, I am not complaining because it worked out really well. (Notice her holding on to one of the petals)

Pumpkin Carving Time

Tuesday night we gathered around the table to finally carve the kids pumpkins. They had been looking forward to this since we picked the pumpkins up at Bradyn's school a couple of weeks before. I picked up a couple of pumpkin carving kits at the store (since I didn't exactly want the kids or my husband cutting their fingers off) and we went to work. I think that it is so funny to see the different personalities of my kids. Bradyn did not want anything to do with touching any of the goo. Logan I don't think cared to much either way. He was fine with sticking his hand in there, but I think it was kind of hard for him to really dig it out. Parker just loved gutting his pumpkin and he did a really good job. I only had to help him a little bit.

Bradyn being brave and sticking his hand in the pumpkin. Of course this is after Les completely scraped it out.

Bradyn's idea of cleaning out his pumpkin :) He is such a nut!!!

Parker really working hard. He did such a good job.

Logan trying his best to clean out his pumpkin. Can't you just tell how much fun he is having. The final product. With the kits I bought came some outlines we could use. In order it goes Logan's, Parker's and Bradyn's. (Didn't Les and I do a really good job tracing them out :))