To the movies (and everywhere else) we go....

I took the kiddos to watch how to train your dragon Friday & Saturday night! The movie had a slight hiccup on Friday so we left a bit early, we watched it in full Saturday night which explains the two nights in a row cinema! EJ, G, & E were excellent! I took them by myself and it went very smoothly! It surprises most people that I do so much alone with the kids I grocery shop, take them to doctor visits and trips to the post office. I rarely have anyone watch them while I am out and about. It is not easy but I think it is great for them. It teaches them to behave and also gives us an opportunity to talk about tons of new things! EJ & G learned all about germs at one of my prenatal visits. While I use to think it would be nice to drop the kids off at mom's day out or at the grandparents house while I ran errands I have decided to be very optimistic and look at the positive:)! I have never had those options anyway, kids never went to mdo or preschool and until now we lived 7 hours away from our closest family. So, life lessons it is:)!

Yes, our movie theater is really this small!!! the parking lot is DIRT! can you believe it?!?!?!?

Vintage plus Red....

makes my heart sing! The chairs and a two person glider (not pictured because not yet purchased) is my birthday gift from my mom! I love them because they needed no refurbishing! They are reproductions! No work for me! I love old vintage and distressed, I often buy but rarely refinish or restore such items. These are PERFECT! Thanks mom!!!

Fish Pond!!!

Uncle Jamie & Aunt Tina gifted us a bunch of ceramic frog yard ornaments! EJ & G wanted to put them out by the health hazard or water feature. I spent a whole afternoon cleaning the nastiness out! Much to my surprise there were two goldfish swimming in it! The water was so dark and green we hadn't noticed! The kids had a blast putting out all the frogs and bird houses once everything was cleaned up. They selected the placement of everything.
before and after photos!
Our new fish! Before!

Before.....

Bird Houses he gave us in the nooks & crannies of our home!

see above caption:)!

Wind chimes.

Frogs!

After!!!!

CLEAN(ish)!

Frogs!

8 Months!

Evergrace is such a little handful! Josh & I are in agreement that she is our most rotten child! She LOVES to be held and walked around, no just sitting in your lap. This child needs to be entertained! It doesn't help that her older siblings indulge her every whim. When E yells they come running. If she fusses the tinniest bit they want me to pick her up. Last night she did not want to sit in her highchair. She prefers me to hold her and she eats off the tray. Anyway, Guice told me that I was hurting her legs and to stop and just hold her! She loves her bath but is not a fan of getting her hair washed. EJ & G supervise to make sure I don't get water in her eyes! It is not me that is spoiling her, OK, it isn't just me:)!

*She isn't really crawling just kind of.....super hard to learn to crawl when someone is always holding you!

*She says Dada. She will not say mama for love or money.
*E is eating wonderfully!
*She has SEVEN teeth. She cut 5 in one weekend!
*She loves being carried in the moby wrap hates the sling, she bites me when I make her ride in it.
*Yes, she bites. A LOT! Not just me, she has bitten Guyboo.
*Evergrace is super loud.
*The moment her bottom touches the floor she hollers and screams and kicks. Zero to one hundred in under 60 seconds. It stops as quickly as it starts the moment she is rescued.
*She doesn't sleep all night. Still nurses around 3-5 times. When she is ready for me to roll her over she throws her arm over her head and arches her back. It is her signature move. She can so roll over but will not at night! Queen B waits until I do it for her!
*She can pull up.
*Likes her sippy cup but loves drinking out of my water bottle.
*Hasn't had a baby bottle or formula and I have no plans on giving her any.
*Puts up a fight when EJ or G try to take what she is playing with.
*Takes one big nap a day about 2 hours.
*Walks when I hold her hands and help.

Just Last Night!

We were leaving church last night, an older lady said to Guice in a sing-song this is how I talk to a baby voice "Look Guyboo its dark outside." Guice responded "Yes the sun has gone down and I feel that it is cooler."
Emery Jai always sits with the older people of the church. She is drawn to the senior citizens for one reason or another. I think it might be that they agree to everything she says because they can't really hear what she is saying:). As we were leaving last night she looked over at Don, he is a young 79, and said "Don I hope you have a great week!"

This & That!

in the most random order imaginable.......
*Evergrace is pulling up!
*Emery Jai introduced herself as Princess Emery Jai at a birthday party last weekend. She was completely serious.
*Guice has gotten in a very bad but way funny habit of saying things along the lines of "Get me that toy or I will throw out all your groceries" and "Take me outside or I will pee on your couch"
*EJ & G both want the old furniture back....we don't let them eat on the new:)!
*Guice told Josh to buy him a new snake because he loved him.
*I have lost all the weight I gained with E and with G still working on the EJ lbs:)!
*We are using cloth diapers 100% of the time now. I was using disposable at night we made the switch about two weeks ago and it has been great!
*EJ has her first tball practice on Friday she is very excited! I think G is going to flip out when he doesn't get to play.
*Homeschool is going great. We took a week off but are starting full force on Monday! Still planning a full post on curriculum and such.
*Josh joined the gym and is really enjoying working out.
*We are loving the new church. The youth group is growing almost weekly! Praise God!
*Emery Jai is having an issue with the truth. As in telling it. I asked her to go get Tylenol for Guice. She brought it to me empty, when I questioned her about it she responded that she had no idea where it went, it melted into thin air.
*We have been playing at the park a ton and enjoying play dates! The kids love meeting their friends.
*Gluten/dairy free is going great! We have had a couple of slips, the kiddos went to a birthday party I couldn't tell them they could not eat cake. It is much easier than I ever expected! We, kiddos included (Evergrace excluded:) lost weight.
*Emery Jai & Guice are practicing a song to sing at church. EJ wanted to sing Something Beautiful but I talked her in to This Little Light Of Mine :)!
*I trying to go sort all my old pictures and print them. Guice & EJ were looking at some and G asked "Where are all my baby pictures?" Oops! As a last child I feel his pain:)! I am also working on getting my blog turned into a book. This is honestly my baby/scrap book. If it was lost I would be devastated!
*One afternoon at the park there was a duck that had died. I told EJ that it was sleeping, she said "Umm mom is it sleeping or is it dead?"
*Guice calls long sleeves down sleeve and short sleeves up sleeves.

Our little ones!!!

BLESSED!