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By Moriah on January 13th, 2012
The other day the kids were all showing me how “good” they could hold Ethan. It was hilarious, them talking about how they can hold the baby for sooo long.
*No babies were harmed in the making of this post.
My bookend boys. Love.
I think I’m going to like our new Thursday routine, which, incidentally I made up just today. I used to have it MADE with the carpool situation. Nicky pulled James out of school this semester and so now we have to drive more. Anyway, there’s a perfect amount of time between when I drop off the carpool kids and when I pick up Adelaide from preschool to do a grocery run and bonus! only four kids in tow.
I let them pick out their lunch. (A lunchable once a week won’t kill them, right?) I also brought the leappads in the car and there was not ONE backseat fight the entire length of carpool. It was awesome. Score one for mom.
And then also today we made blueberry muffins for a close family with a newly-birthed baby,
snuck candy,
ate potato soup a la Gretchen (turkey bacon! not bad!),
with salad,
and apparently placed Arianna a little too close to the butter.
one way to waste money
By Moriah on January 9th, 2012
Leave the stool in a place where the 2 year old can reach the stamps.
Over the river and thru the woods to Grandmommy’s house we go. And back.
By Moriah on January 4th, 2012
We’ve been back for a couple of days, I’m totally unpacked (yay!), Drew’s birthday was yesterday (later post) and so I’m ready to start the new year. (You know, after I get my Christmas cards sent out.) These are random shots from our visit, before and after Christmas, excluding the ones from Drew’s party.
This is soo Adelaide:
The kids did lots of coloring,
and painting…
(with only one disaster involving Arianna, lesson learned),
hanging out with Papa,
playing games…
taking care of new babies,
going to the library (not shown), playing the leappads,
and I got to have lunch with Mer. :)
That night Andy and I had a date at PF Chang’s (yum) and then went to Mission Impossible 4. Very fun. Saturday was spent celebrating Drew and packing and then we got a babysitter for 4 of the kids and went out to dinner with my parents for New Year’s Eve.
Too bad Ethan won’t remember all the fun things he gets to do.
Christmas highlights
By Moriah on December 28th, 2011
My mom always makes Swedish Coffee Buns on Christmas Eve. All three of my girls got in on the action, twirling, buttering, and sugaring the dough. Arianna slicked her hair and face with the butter when we weren’t looking. Not surprising.
Building a little gingerbread village:
Drew’s was a train.
Before Christmas Eve dinner at my grandparents’ house:
(I’ve had a haircut since then.)
On the way to church, goofballs:
It’s so hard when you’re 4. You have to wait for everything at Christmastime.
Christmas morning:
Breakfast, after stockings and before gifts.
Wherein Rebecca and Emily come to live with us.
Papa flying his new toy.
Carrissa’s surprise iPad.
Drew kept hiding behind the chair to play legos in peace.
One of the most beautiful dolls I’ve ever seen,
with THE cutest boots.
Watching football? Can’t remember…
Dollhouse minivan that plays 4 stations of music – HILARIOUS to watch her dance.
Hope your Christmas was merry!!!
Merry Christmas!
By Moriah on December 25th, 2011
Funny thing about our Christmas card this year – Olan Mills took a sweet forever to send me the CD with the digital file and permissions. (We went ahead and used a photo from the church directory shoot – not my preference but, well, there are 7 of us.) Anyway, so I JUST got around to picking them up at my mom’s Costco yesterday, which means none of our friends and family have even seen it yet. Oh well, Merry Christmas!
And here we are
By Moriah on December 23rd, 2011
Big post long overdue but I’m sooo tired so we’ll see how it goes (ha – I wrote this last night). We drove the 20 hours to my parents’ house on Tuesday. We left at 3:45 a.m. and about 30 minutes in Madeline acted like she was going to throw up. It was pitiful and scary and we wondered if we should just cancel our entire trip. She’d been coughing so hard it was making her gag, poor thing. She ended up being completely fine! Whew! Kids were great on the trip, so thankful.
Saw lots of these, which for some reason really intrigue me:
We didn’t tell my parents we weren’t going to stop, so it was fun to surprise my mom when we were relatively close. (I thought it would be hilarious to send her an iPhone pic of just the St. Louis arch but we got sidetracked with the camera and took a wrong turn and then forgot. Plus I wanted to be a lot closer before we said where we were.)
SNOW!!!
Arianna stayed out in it the longest. SO glad I went ahead and got her snow pants.
Wednesday night we ate supper over at my Grandparents’ – they live in the same neighborhood. This picture cracks me up; how it appears Ethan chose to sit with Dad when really he just got plopped down there.
Still sucking that thumb.
My mom took this photo of my dad and me yesterday and I love it. (One of the FEW times my hair has been seen down lately – it’s awful and needs a trim).
Hope you’re all having a merry week!
DPP – just so you know ;)
By Moriah on December 16th, 2011
Well…. I’m letting myself off the hook for the December Photo Project. I may or may not keep it up or just skip random days. We’re going to my parents’ for Christmas and it’s a HUGE trip to get ready for and I feel overwhelmed just thinking about it.
That said, I did snap some shots of Arianna playing yesterday morning when it was quiet and the other kids were at school. She drug around Ethan’s carseat and buckled her babies in a bunch of times.
DPP 12 – cinnamon toast
By Moriah on December 13th, 2011
I have the hardest time getting my kids to eat a good breakfast before school in the mornings. They’d eat bacon or sausage every day if we had it. They also always ask for cinnamon toast, and I blame my mom for introducing it to them. ;) Andy always jokes (in his best mimic-them voice) “we’ll eat… sugar bread and… fat.”
DPP 11 – cradle
By Moriah on December 13th, 2011
We had lunch over at my cousin Vangie’s house on Sunday after church. My girls loved the wooden cradle – Arianna was in and out about fifty times.
And, some bonus photos… Sunday was also the children’s Christmas program at church – Cookin’ Up Christmas. So cute. (Video clip HERE, you can see Adelaide and Drew great!)
DPP 10 – bad girl
By Moriah on December 13th, 2011
We’re 4 for 5 for climbers.
DPP 9
By Moriah on December 9th, 2011
While I was at church eating chocolate, Andy and the kids made chicken corn chowder and had big fun doing these Christmas projects I found 60% off at JoAnn’s. (I spent a whopping whole $10.) They LOVED it. Give my kids foam stickers, felt, glue, and glitter and they are in h-e-a-v-e-n.
DPP 8 – Christmas Dinner
By Moriah on December 9th, 2011
Last night was the Ladies’ Christmas Dinner at church. Pictured here we have Italian Creme Cake, Kahlua Cake, Candy Bar Brownie, Peanutbutter/Pecan Pie, and Fruit Trifle.
No, I did not eat it all.
(December Photo Project)
DPP 7 – Twirl
By Moriah on December 9th, 2011
She never stops.
DPP 6 – fun mail day
By Moriah on December 6th, 2011
I LOVE Christmastime/post Black Friday mail. Makes even a dreary rainy day better.
DPP 3, 4, 5
By Moriah on December 5th, 2011
This was from Saturday morning and completely coincidental but an awesome baby book shot. Could not have planned it better!
He’s a non-discriminating thumb-sucker.
Sunday afternoon…
Help! My big sister is trying to give me a mohawk!
And from this morning, before school. Found them in the ditch.
Yes, she did.
DPP 2 – Before & After
By Moriah on December 2nd, 2011
This afternoon the kids were walking around trying to balance various items on their heads. Then they’d stand on one foot or attempt a scale.
Adelaide’s hair has been driving me more and more crazy. Finally tonight I pulled out the scissors and took care of business.
She looked in the mirror and goes “oh, that’s cute.”
The back…
Okay, I feel better now.
DPP 1 – well here we go
By Moriah on December 1st, 2011
There’s nothing particularly noteworthy about that photo except it was taken outside by the fire at Starbucks tonight, on my coffee date with the girlfriends. Yep, they let us out of the house.
December Photo Project info here.
