Hold the Baby

When Terra was new, the older kids wanted to hold her a lot- now the excitement has 'worn off' but they occasionally want to hold her still. 

I love when Aria does because she's so small and Terra is getting big.

Pants and Jackets

After a record breaking summer we're happy to go outside again.

We've been going to the park at least a couple times a week, at least.

And then it cooled down and we put away the shorts and pulled out the pants.

And for some reason I think kids are just so much cuter  when their dressed for coll/cold weather.

Halloween

Forgive me while I play a little blog catch-up

Halloween 2011:

Do I have cute kids, or what?

We carved a pumpkin the day before Halloween- and neither of my kids liked touchy the yucky insides. I blame Jason for passing on his genes to these kids.

Baby Food

Terra is old enough to start eating baby food.

Time to pull out the high chair:

She looks so tiny in there!

I love that smile!

She's even cute with a bib on

Taking a bite...

"Hey, that tastes good!"

She's good eater, and she loves to smile and chew on her spoon

So far she has had rice cereal and sweet potatoes and loves them both!

Tolmachoff Farms

Every year since we've had kids we have gone to Tolmachoff Farms.

2008

2009

2010

We love it. This time Jason's work schedule made it hard for him to come so it was just my mom and me with the kids.

Here are the fun pictures of our day at the farm.

4 Months!!

Can you believe this little girl is 4 months old already?

Well, she is. She turned 4 months a few days ago and we took her to the doctor today.

Here's what she's up to:

She can roll around (and scoot a tiny bit- but it's FAR from crawling still)

After rolling-No I did not lay her down away from her blanket, burp rag and toys.

I had layed her on her back so this was just more than a 360 spin.

Speaking of toys, she loves to play.

It is SO cute to see her chubby hand reaching out to grab stuff and especially putting stuff into her mouth.

Terra 'talks' all of the time. She makes the cutest noises and will do back and forth 'conversations' with me.
She also yells. She gets into some kind of mood and just yells (loudly, but happily) for a couple of minutes.

Even though she is an expert smiler, she doesn't laugh yet.

When we play and tickle her she does this sort of yelling/squealing noise- which I think is her version of laughing.

Anyway her stats from the Doctor today are:

25" Tall: Almost 90th%
15lbs 4oz: around the 80th%
Head circumference: 95th %
Just like every appointment I've ever been to with any of my babies- my kids' heads are just big.

And now that she is 4 months, the Doctor says I can start feeding her food

I think she's ready

A few more pictures from the past month- because I just can't get enough of those chubby cheeks.



This was at the aquarium near our house- she was mesmerized by the fish



I love, love, love this little girl.

Happy 4 months Terra!

Parker Pictures

Now it's Parker's turn for a post full of pictures

This was like one day after I cut his hair, and I cut it shorter than normal- I don't really like it, but he's cute anyway

 These next few might look similar- he kept saying something like "Take a picture of my funny/silly face, this is how I make a silly face"

Looks like a silly face to me!

Is he handsome or what?

And here are two pictures of both of my big kids making funny faces

Can you tell I'm a bit obsessed with my kids?

I can't help it- I'm crazy about them!