Kelly, Kelly, Kelly

Conversation with Kelly this morning:

Me: So.... today is Monday! What do you guys do on Monday again??
Kelly: I don't know. But Nathan has to finish his witch.
Me: what?
Kelly: Nathan didn't finish his witch on Friday so he has to finish it today.
Me: But what are you going to do today??
Kelly: I don't know.

And really... who cares what Kelly is doing, right? Why would that be important when there are important things like Nathan's unfinished assignment. She keeps tabs on EVERYONE, it's hilarious!! Girls.

know-it-all

I love it when I catch these conversations. Nate and Brad were fixing our table....

Brad: I know what that's called, it's called a scwew dwiver.
Nate: This is called a drill actually.
Brad: That's what I meant to say.

Practice Practice Practice

(Just so you know, this is not our baby :) She is not scheduled to be here until the 10th of November... sorry for any confusion :))

Last night Chris and Stephanie and their new little baby Sophie came over for game night. We decided to let the kids (Luke was already asleep) get out of bed and come see the baby. This was the girls' first time seeing/holding her. So they were excited! We've all been so excited for Baby Sophie to get here ;). I let Charity hold her first, and then as I was passing her to Kelly, our little baby hungry, baby boy reached out and totally grabbed her almost away from us.... Noah was very anxious to hold her apparently! So after Kelly had had her turn, Noah got his fill. He is so dang cute with babies!! Very sweet and soft surprisingly! Although towards the end he does start to get more and more comfortable and eventually pushes the envelope with the touching. So we'll see how well he does with his baby sister in a few weeks! Bradley even enjoyed holding her a little. He's definitely not as into babies as the other three, and I'm sure had Luke been there, he would have passed on holding her, but it's fun to get the kids all excited and used to the idea of a baby. Fun stuff.

Mr. Mom

I just cannot get over how sweet this little boy is!!! Or how into babies that he is right now. I can't help but think that he was meant to be a big brother. This was on Monday (sorry all of these recent posts are out of order, my camera was all the way out in the car and I was too lazy to go get it), just as we were getting ready to leave to go to the park, he started playing with this doll. He was pushing her in the stroller, feeding her a bottle (which I'm not really sure where he learned that), and wrapping her up in blankets. He was just being a regular old Daddy. SO CUTE!! Well, I offered to let him bring the baby with him and this is how he ended up carrying her out to the car :) I guess he is a boy afterall :) Not exactly the most gentle way to carry her, but gets the job done ;) When we were at Carl's I made him leave the doll in the car, and when we came back out to the car he was just OVERJOYED at the sight of his "beebee". He loves babies.... what can I say :)


And while I'm on the subject of good dads. I have to mention how much I am grateful for Nate right now. He has been AMAZING with this pregnancy. I don't know how the rest of you are when you're pregnant, but I know I'm not the best at controlling the mood swings, overcoming the fatigue, and overall just being a regular human being. But Nate has put up with SO MUCH with me. He's stepped in and made dinner probably more times than I have in the last couple of months. He really just goes above and beyond pretty much all the time for me and I really don't know what I would do without him. He even took ALL of the kids grocery shopping the other day so that I could have a break!!! Pretty amazing huh! Well, anyway. I love you Nate! I hope I am back to "normal" soon and can make it all up to you!!

Flying the new plane

For Brad's birthday we got him a little remote control jet. On Saturday we finally got to take it out and see what she could do. I'm pretty sure that all of the kids had a blast with it. We all had to take turns holding the remote, throwing the thing into the air, and chasing after it. It was a nice time to spend together.

Cute little Noah enjoyed the playground by the baseball field... it was so much easier to get up to the slide and down it by himself.

I think this is cute with Noah watching his big brothers chase after plane. That thing really went far!

I really had no idea that something so inexpensive could be so much fun and so exciting :) It's not even broken yet either!

Now this kid just cracks me up with the camera lately. Any time I have it out, he is right there making faces for me and then wanting to see them after.... what a nut. Here are a few.

Noah wasn't all that thrilled about posing for pictures. It's really lost it's thrill with him. Kinda makes me sad, but that's what they all do as they grow up! darn kids.

What a fun day!