December 2, 2012

December 2, 2012

Benjamin asked me to take a picture of him eating crackers and cheese so his “Grandma’s” new that he was eating healthy food.  Although it is spray cheese and I don’t think that it is too healthy, baby steps right? Emily has been doing everything with her baby Rapunzel that she got a year ago. It is so funny because the other night at dinner the doll had to sit in the baby high chair and she fed it chips. She dances with it, it has to be in pictures, and she swings with it. The other morning she was nursing it. I know interesting but what can I do about that? Especially since I hear they are coming out with nursing dolls. Not that I am for that but I can’t tell her it is wrong since she sees mommy feed the baby that way.  We set up Christmas on December 1^st this year. It seem to be a good day for us this year. It was really hard for mommy to let the kids take over and decorate because they really wanted to. But they had fun and overall it doesn’t look too bad. They opened their first Christmas present  of the season a Christmas Book of Christmas Stories.  The boys had a dance recital, well kind of dance recital, on December 1^st.  The studio is preparing for the Nutcracker and they allowed all the children in the younger classes to go up and perform. They didn’t have any direction, they were allowed to perform how they wanted.  Poor Joey didn’t know what to do. He was schedule d to go on the stage at 7:20 pm. I felt prompted to leave at 6:30. We live 10 minutes from the location. We ended up in the middle of an accident so it took us almost 30 minutes to get there, (they were still working on it when we headed home)  we walked in thedoors at 7:00 and we sit down and at 7:05 pm.,  they called his class on stage. I was freaking out! I rushed to get his shoes on, he ended up in Ben’s shoes which I didn’t know, 2 sizes too big. But he made it. I felt bad because I didn’t give him the chance to prep him what he needed to do. That it was a time for him to just express himself. I was so happy I listened to the promptings of the Holy Spirit so he could be on stage with his class. Ben and his friend Grant were able to dance on stage with another little girl. They normally have about 12 kids in their class but they didn’t hand out the paper to his class. I think the only ones that attended had siblings with papers that is how we knew and then we told the Lawrences. It was fun and the kids did great. 

November 25, 2012 Thanksgiving Pictures Too.

November 25, 2012

I can’t believe it has been almost a month since I last blogged. Not too much has really gone on. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving that we spent with our fun family friends the Lawrence Family. We started the day off around 9 am watching the parade at our house. We snacked throughout the day. We had lunch about 1:30 p.m and then we hung out and played games like Pictureka and Beatles rock band. We then went to see a movie. We saw Wreck it Ralph, and the boys loved it. Emily was up and down a lot and Isaac fell asleep. It was a fun day. 

We did a Thanksgiving tree for family home evening one night. The boys have been obsessed with Ninjago lately and they even added their own Pink Ninja. She is too adorable. They also participated in a coloring contest. The picture of Isaac dressed like a girl was done by his big brother Ben. So when he sees that picture later in life he will know that it was not done by mom. 

The boys made a video of Ben exercising with Isaac and Joseph is singing the back ground music for the workout video. Too funny! I love my babies. 

November 4, 2012

This week for family home evening we painted and carved pumpkins. It was a lot of fun. Joseph painted the very large pumpkin, Ben created the Green Ninja Pumpkin with his own pattern, Emily painted her pumpkin every color imaginable and Baby Isaac was sleeping, but mom carved him a pumpkin.  Ben also had a pumpkin he got a the pumpkin patch for school that was silly looking so we made it a Mr. Potato head pumpkin. 

 The kids were really excited to have leaves this year. They made a pile and since it was too small for them they threw puppy Chief in it. 

 Emily was Pinkalicious for Halloween.

 Joseph was a GI Joe for Halloween.

 Benjamin was the Green Ninja from Ninjago for Halloween. 

 

Isaac was a little chunky Monkey for Halloween. 

 We had a busy Halloween. At 3:00 pm. we met up with the Lawrence Family at the Uptown mall in Richland for Trick or Treating. About 5:00 we went with the Lawrence Family around our neighborhood Trick or Treating and then at 7:00 we went to the Church for Trunk or Treating. We came home around 8:00 p.m. Eric and Ben went around the neighborhood until 9:00 p.m and come home with a ton of candy.  The rest of us relaxed.

 Isaac had his first succor. Can you see the drool? He was very happy!

 Two Saturday's ago, Toys R Us had a day where the kids got to go and get a free Halloween lego pack and then they were able to take home what ever legos they could build with. I should have gotten a pic of the items they built but I didn't, disappointed in myself.  This pic of Emily is an upset pic when she realized she was too little to build legos.

 

Ben got in trouble for being loud while Joey was trying to sleep. I told Ben he had to sleep on the couch till I Joseph was asleep. I went to check on him a short while later and this is what I found. I think he might have tricked me if it wasn't for the doll head.