My birthday

I feel old and emo.
Today is a yucky day for a birthday, cold, dreary, and drizzly. Where's my sunshine!? I know I shouldn't complain, birthdays are a good thing, but as I said before, I am feeling emo.

Other than it being an old lady day for me, things are going well. Baby N is 9 months old and into everything. She is soooo cute and hilarious. She loves to laugh and it's contagious. Big brothers are both happy in their half day classes and looking forward to big brother E turning 3 very soon (b/c that means more cake!). I still can't believe how fast time is passing! He acts like a 4 year old so it's sort of hard to imagine that he's not quite 3 yet but wow it has flown by.

I love them all so much, truly I am happy for this emo birthday!

5 months- aka where did my baby go?

Baby N, how are you now 5 months old? You are such a joy to us, I honestly can't remember life before your whole face smile! You scrunch it up and make anyone who sees you feel proud that you showed them that smile!

In the last month, you started sitting up for short periods without assistance along with that crawling thing. All you want to do is get to your brothers' legos and trains. You are great at smashing the legos around and getting them to fall apart. Such skills for such a young person! You are rarely sad, unless you are in the car at dark or hungry. At your 4 month appointment (we went late!) you weighed a whopping 12.9 lbs. You are much too busy to eat for very long at a time but you appear very interested in table food so we are planning to enter that world within the week. What will you first meal be? Hmmm...stay tuned to find out!

4.5 Months

Sweet baby is now crawling.
We are so happy for you because you have been working hard but it is impossible to turn our back for a second because you crawl like a streak of lightning, almost too fast to see you!
It's so hard to watch her grow so fast, why must time pass so quickly?
She has made it so easy to have an extra little one in the house.
Rarely cries, only smiles, giglges, and now crawls on her merry way.
Sigh.
Love you so much baby N.

Halloween

The Woody, The Buzz, and the Catepillar

We celbrated Halloween the entire month of October. We visited numerous pumpkin patches, corn mazes, picked apples, and rode as many hayrides as we could fit on.

A few highlights:
cowtrain
they called this their corn bath

Hello Autumn

County fair
colorful people
human cannonball
owen thought boat ride was an adult ride
carousel spinning faster than a washing machine
ice cream
fishing and picking up ducks

School days are here again

well, our big 4 year old is now in preK. That means pre-KINDERGARTEN in case you didn't know. How is this happening? We are happy for him but wow he is growing so fast. He has had an adventurous first week with a few teacher changes but things are settling down and he's as happy as can be. We love their school so much. As far as we know, we will be keeping them at this school through 8th grade.
E is now going two days a week to the 2 year old class. He loves it soooo much but again, it's so hard to see these little ones grow so fast. Our sweet E, with his love of all things beebo is in school now. My life is one big bittersweet symphony right now.

2 Months- N

Where is the time going? How are you suddenly two months old? N, what a fun first two months you have had!
First order of business, you have started ROLLING OVER (belly to back)! You started two days before your 2 month birthday, beating out your brothers' records by a matter of days. You have been working very hard on this for weeks and were so surpised when it finally happened! I tried to get a video, this is the best i could capture:
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