October Pictures

Other Pictures from the month of October

Aria playing with the streamers they shot out after the musical in Disneyland.
Cheapest souvenir ever

We had a couple of co-ops in the fall and  this is a picture of the 3 year old Co-op coloring together on the floor

Playing with/feeding the ducks

Aria made herself a crown

Parker wanted jelly and pomegranate seeds on his toast

Aria wearing nylons

For a couple of months Parker was part of a chess club.

He loved learning and playing.

My 3 super cute big kids.

Aria wanted me to attach this scarf into her hair so she could have long Rapunzel hair. 

Done!

Just my sweet sleeping baby

Our local library had a Star Wars day. I took three of the kids (Terra was napping I think?)

They had Star wars crafts, Star wars themed treats, a video and light saber battles. 

 My big kids thought it was awesome, and Corin liked sneaking treats

Sick and Tired

My little Terra got sick right before her birthday.

She was so sick that she was taking 3-4 naps a day, and crying and cuddling almost 100% of the time in between.

One time she walked away from me and I didn't hear from her for a bit.

 I went to go see where she was 

and found this:

Asleep in the hall with her blanket and a box of tissues (with used tissues on the floor)

Just in case I didn't know she was sick, right?

Sweet Dreams

I love that my almost 3 year old would still fall asleep in my arms sometimes.

She has fallen asleep while we hold her in church pretty much every other week in sacrament meeting for the past few months.

P.S.- is that not the sweetest sleeping pose?

Aria` just went and laid down on the stuffed animals and fell right asleep

This was in August and she has done it a few times since!

May 2013

Another post of random pics, the last ones came from April, these are from May.

My kids enjoy playing in our living room rug:

Different days, but both girls fell asleep at the table:

All 3 three with little mothers day gifts they made 

Goofy kid while grocery shopping:

The kids wanted some milk to drink, but asked for it in bowls, and then drank it like this:

They claimed they were being dogs

Silly kids!

Asleep

I don't know why it's so cute when babies fall asleep in their high chair- but it is!

Terra, asleep while drinking milk

The next one is awesome. I was vacuuming the living room and Terra was in the kitchen. I hadn't heard much from her so I look and she had climbed into her high chair by herself and fallen asleep. I took the opportunity to do a very thorough vacuuming (under/behind couches etc) and then vacuumed the rest of the house while I was at it. 

She slept through the whole thing:

When I was finished I came back downstairs and picked her up out of the high chair only to find that she was naked.... completely naked, she took off her diaper before climbing into her chair

Silly Baby!

And here's what Aria was doing at that same time:

using the rug as a bed/blanket to 'nap'

Snuggly

I love little kids in footie pajamas. 

And this winter all three of my kids have them:

They are so cute and snuggly dressed like that.

They're like my three little teddy bears!

Sleepy

Aria tries to fight naps, but she clearly still NEEDS to take a nap.

Meaning Our evening is going to be rough if she successfully avoids a nap.

One day she apparently decided she didn't want to sleep so she got up to read a book.

Clearly she wasn't tired

Sleeper

Terra is a bit fussy. Nothing works with her all of the time, but there are a few things we've figured out to get the crying under control (at least on some days).

One was to lay her on her stomach while she was propped up on a pillow.

Not only did it help her to stay asleep for more than 3 minutes- it was also adorable:

Beds

A little over a month ago- we moved the kids into bigger beds

Parker got a bunk bed (and he picked out his own bright red sheets)

which left the toddler bed for Aria to take over.

 Parker was so excited to get a 'big bed'- it was so cute- he was quite excited to actually get into bed the first night.

Aria transitioned perfectly. It was over a week before she got out of bed even once. I had to 'super-nanny' her back into bed for like 10 minutes and then she was back to being the perfect sleeper she's been since she was just 2 months old.

Soon we'll be pulling out the basinet for the littlest baby Tieman and readjusting the crib and such. I can't believe how fast my little babies are growing up

Tent

Basically, I'm the coolest mom ever.
A couple days ago I helped Parker build a 'tent' in his room. A few hours later he asked if he could nap in there and I said he could.
See? Coolest mom, right?

He was so excited, it was so cute.
Oh and do you see that shirt he's wearing? It's the 'guitar shirt' He loves this shirt. He knows when I do laundry that he can ask to wear it again. He sometimes asks even when I haven't just done laundry (just in case), if I tell him it's dirty he goes to the laundry basket to check.

Blanket Face

How Aria likes to sleep:

I know she's tired when she grabs my shirt (or anything else she can get her hands on) and pulls it over her face.

Parker used to sleep with blankets over his face too.

Parker at 3.5 months old.

Our Tree

Here is the Christmas tree we cut down earlier in the month:

We decorated it for Family Home Evening. Parker is nuts about Christmas stuff, so he loved it. He hung all of his ornaments in one little spot

Here is the 'after' shot of the tree:

And here is what Aria was doing while we decorated

And our wreath, We bought the stuff at Michael's last year after Christmas so everything was like 70% off or something, and then I made it when we went to decorate this year.