Mila Sittin' Pretty

We officially have a sitter!! Mila just learned how to sit on her own this week. She's also starting to pull her legs up under her and then rocks back and forth. I'm not ready for her to be mobile yet!!

The Count is on

Tonight we made chains for the kids to countdown until Thanksgiving and Christmas. They are really excited to see their cousins for Thanksgiving and ask every morning how many more days...so I decided to give them a visual.

Our week...

This is what Carter purchased with some of his birthday money. Jason lectured him that when he falls off he doesn't want the hear him cry. So the couple of times he's fallen off he gets up and says "maybe I could be done ramping today" trying not to show that he's hurt. (Hopefully we don't end up at the hospital with his great purchase.)

SICK KIDS!!....I'm beginning to wonder if Leah and Mila are ever going to get well. It seems like just when they're starting to get better they start all over again.

I know this is gross, but I had to get a picture of this...She was eating ice cream and every time she would take a bite, her snot in both nostrils would blow up like balloons. I couldn't stop laughing. SOOOO GROSS!!!

Mila is teething AGAIN!! This time she's been running a fever and crying non stop unless she's being held. She also got a rash all over the upper half of her body and her eyes had bright red circles around them. I was going to take her to Urgent Care on Saturday night, but everyone thought that it was just how her body released her fever. Good thing I didn't go and spend $50 and expose us to the other sick people for the whole night, cause when she woke up on Sunday she looked much better and seems like she's starting to feel better.

As yucky as she was feeling, she was still smiling for everyone.

My mom is now moving into her house so we've spend every night there unpacking boxes and putting things away. We're starting to finally see some progress. Jason and Jeff have been building her a built in barbecue grill and it's looking really good. They should be done this week. We'll see...

This is a picture of Jason keeping all of the kids entertained. He found some vinyl gloves and thought it would be a good idea to put one on Carter's head. Carter didn't go for it, so Jason put it on his.

Then he was blowing them up like balloons.

Carter has been wanting to grow his hair out again and I'm having a hard time with this. It's starting to just look negelected, and I can't stand to look at it. We'll see who wins...

This is how he came out of the bathroom yesterday. He says "do you like my hair?"

Jason said these are his mug shot pictures...

Coco & Toast Memories

This morning we woke up to a freezing house, so I decided to make the kids hot chocolate and toast. This was an all time favorite at our house when I was growing up, so I don't know why I haven't given it to my kids until now. Leah LOVED it!! She pretended that we were having a tea party with the grown-up mugs and she said it warmed up her heart.

YUM!!

Mila has discovered her feet. If she has socks on she'll pull them off just so she can suck on her toes. Too Cute!!

We've been robbed...

Well not really...My mom took her 70 inch TV and her Wii to her new house this past weekend and I'm starting to realize how much we enjoyed having them here. I MISS 'EM!!

Pebbles...Cave Man...Jaguar??

This morning I asked Jason if he would get Mila bathed and dressed for church while I did Leah's hair. I told him her clothes are laid out on her changing table. So Jason goes in there to dress her and I heard him asking her, "What is this, your cave man outfit?" And then we get to church and sit down and Carter looks over at Mila and whispers to me "Mila's dress looks like a Jaguar." I didn't know it was going to be such a big deal. I thought her dress was really cute; I got it as a hand-me-down from Stacey.

Doesn't she look cute??...

Schnepf Farms Field Trip

On Friday Carter had a field trip to Schnepf Farms with his kindergarten class. I was able to go with him, which he loved because he was a little bit nervous. The highlight of this field trip was the bus ride to and from the farm. This was the first time that Carter had been on a bus and he loved it! Their day consisted of playing on their big playground, a petting zoo, a hay ride, and a walk through the huge garden.

There were 3 classes that went at the same time, so to start with they had playground time. This is a picture of the off road tricycles that they ride through a maze. Their tricycles were well used, so if you got one that actually worked and had a seat you were pretty lucky.

Here is a picture of the 1,000 pound bull that they have in the petting zoo. This picture really doesn't do it justice. It was HUGE!!

They had a goat there that was hilarious! (My video didn't come out very well on my camera.) Every time the kids would get close to the fence to pet him he would turn really fast and spit at them. (You probably had to be there to know just how funny it was.)

On the hay ride they took us around the whole farm. We live just down the street from this place and I would have never guessed that it was that big! They have a large peach orchard and in the section where the peach trees have died they put deer. Who would have thought that deer can live in our Arizona heat?

Here are some pictures of Carter with his goods from the garden. They let each of the kids fill up a bag full of radishes to take home. (Too bad we don't like radishes...)

Their garden made me want one of my own. Maybe someday.

This was a really fun day to spend with Carter and his class even though it was really hot.

Mila is 6 months old!

Mila had her 6 month Doctors Appointment the other day and she weighed in at 16 pounds 11 ounces and was 26 & 1/2 inches long. She had to get 4 shots, but she did pretty well. Here's what she's been up to lately:

• She's starting to learn how to sit up and can roll wherever she wants to go.
• She loves to play with the kids. They can really get her to giggle.
• She's not interested in baby food whatsoever. She loves cereal but doesn't like anything with flavor.
• She's about to get her two top teeth, so she's been a drooly mess lately.
• She grabs everything that is within her reach, and if she sees it and wants it, she can eventually get to it.
• These past couple of weeks she has really discovered that she has a voice.

She is so fun and we're so grateful that she is a part of our family!! WE LOVE HER!!

HaLLoWeeN

This year was a very cheap Halloween for us. Carter wanted to be the cop that he was last year, Leah wanted to be a princess with one of her dress up dresses, and Mila was a ballerina with a tutu my neighbor gave me. Gotta love it!!

Please ignore Carter's teeth...his front baby tooth just won't let go, so he looks so funny. Plus notice his Safford Police Dept. arm patches...thanks to Officer Brad Reynolds; they really made Carter's costume.

We went to my sisters house and had a potluck with some of their neighbors, and then went out trick or treating. Leah didn't last very long, which was OK with me cause we didn't need anymore candy in our house.

Close to the end of the night Leah was going up to people and telling them "trick or treat" then she would give them a piece of candy from her own bucket. She didn't have much candy left.

Halloween is my dad's birthday. (He would have been only 55.) Stacey bought an ice cream cake and put 15 candles on it, one for each grandkid. They sang Happy Birthday to Grandpa and then blew the candles out. Grandpa loved ice cream, so I thought it was so fitting. Hopefully this will become a Halloween tradition with the grandkids, he loved them so much! Thank you Stacey for being so thoughtful. It meant a lot to everyone to be able to honor him after such a fun night. We miss him everyday, but we know we'll see him again.