Play-Doh

This morning the boys and I played with Play-Doh for the very first time... it was a hit!

5 Years!

Today is our 5 year wedding anniversary! I am so blessed to have Thaddeus... he loves the Lord and leads me in His ways (even when I am unteachable and unwilling to follow). He is the best dad and I am so lucky to have such a capable partner in raising our children! I am so excited to see where God takes us and how He grows us in the coming years together!

Bath Time!

Bennett took her first bath in the sink today. I am a huge fan of sink bathing... I think it is so much easier than in a baby tub or the bath tub... at least for a 7 month old!

Before she got wet... seems happy enough! After pouring the water on her head... She loves the water! Must be a Seydel! Trying to pull her self up...This is Gunnar lounging... seriously who sits like that?

Christmas Tree oh Christmas Tree

Here is our tree... it's a scotch pine. We live across the street from Blackmore Gardens, so Thaddeus and the boys walked over and carried one home.

Conrad is putting his airplane ornament on the tree... he wasn't very happy.

Gunnar pointing to his train ornamentBennett sitting in front of the tree... she just started sitting on her own this week!

All the kids together after bath time... it's a little blurry, but still good!

Snow Day!

Earlier this week when all the snow came we were able to play outside... here are some pictures!

Gunnar really likes the snow and Conrad really doesn't! Gunnar helping me shovel

A car ran into the hospital sign on tuesday... I think there were 3 cars involved in the accident.

Bennett is 6 months!

Bennett turned 6 months old last friday! She is an ever changing bundle of joy!

Some things that Bennett can do are:

• Crawl (army crawl... it's all arms!)
• Roll over both ways
• Drink from a bottle (this took us a long time to conquer!)
• She knows her name
• She smiles and laughs a lot!
• She is on a 3 nap schedule
• She loves playing... her favorite toy right now is her brother's firetruck!
• She takes a pacifier now... for awhile she sucked her thumb but I wanted her off of that!
• She wants to put everything in her mouth
• She enjoys her johnny-jump-up a lot!
• She is very ticklish!

Yesterday Bennett had rice cereal for the first time and tonight we tried carrots... here are some pics!Her first bite of rice cereal... she likes it! Happy girl after eating! Always sticking out her tongue! It's been a busy month for us... sorry I don't write more often. I'll end with a very silly family pic, minus Bennett (she was napping).

Signs of Fall

You know fall is here (not that there was a question!) when your yard looks like this:

That would be my backyard after I raked this afternoon. I ended up filling 11 bags! Here's my yard after... We are renting this house and are very blessed to have a yard at all... but you'll notice how there's no grass! Because the house is so close to the business next door and the large tree cover, sunlight does'nt cover the entire yard, therefore grass does'nt grow. Needless to say it is very muddy! And here are my shoes after raking in my muddy yard... I think I was almost a whole inch taller! All in all it was a productive day outdoors! I still have my front and side yard to rake, but the weather is supposed to be great through the weekend! And I need more bags!