Typical Saturday

Saturdays are the days we just hang around the house. Marshall works, and there's no way I'm taking 3 kids out in public when the rest of the world is off work and out and about. Here's a little glimpse into what we do on a typical Saturday.

Just a little disclaimer: Some of us pick out our own clothes, and some of us just stay in our jammies!

Some of us fix a house . . .

some of us play doll house . . .

and some of us just stand around looking cute!

Update

There may be a few of you who don't know this yet, so I will share with the blog world that my mama had a small stroke Saturday morning. She spent four days in the hospital and is currently at an inpatient rehab facility for a couple weeks. Thankfully the only things that seem to be affected by the stroke are her left arm and leg. At this point she is ready to receive some intense therapy to help gain strength in her arm and get her leg moving again. We've received so many kind words and prayers and we appreciate them more than you can know. Please keep them coming! This Mama/Granny/Ninny is ready to have her hands full again!

Nine Months

At nine months Sam is:

- crawling everywhere
- pulling up to his knees consistently and has made it all the way to his feet a few times
- less interested in baby food
- enjoying cheese quesadillas, grilled cheese sandwiches, cheese pizza, and just plain cheese :)
- still nursing 4 times a day
- sporting 6 teeth (two bottom and four top)
- the proud owner of two new blue tubes, one in each ear
- just recovering from another ear infection (post tubes), but we actually caught it because of the tubes
- regressing with his sleep habits and over the past week has been waking between 5:30 - 6:30 (I just feed him and put him back to bed, but it throws the rest of our day off)
- into everything and his brother and sister are not loving it when he gets their toys
- still the happiest baby I know

Dedication

Yesterday our church had child dedication and we got a two for one deal. We've never had Anna dedicated before due to several logistical factors, but this time around we were actually in town when the dedication was scheduled so we were able to dedicate both Anna and Sam. All of the kids did great on stage looking out at our very large church crowd. At one point Jack said to me, "Mama, I just can't stand up any more." and then he proceeded to squat down, but compared to the screamer in the family beside us, he was great! All four grandparents made the trip to town to support us, and some very sweet friends made a special trip across town to our early service to see the kids on their special day. Thanks to all of you - we love you!

Grandy & Granny with the kids.
(Anna would not put down her new bible.)

Pop & Grammy with the kids.

The best we could get of our family of five.

Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 22:6

Beach Party

In case you've missed it, Anna has been sick all week so we really haven't ventured out of the house much. By today, I was going stir crazy so we mixed things up a bit and had an indoor beach party. We put on our swimsuits, cranked up The Beach Boys, and had a blast!

We went swimming in the ocean . . .

played with the beach ball . . .

dried off from all the "swimming" . . .

and did a little sun bathing!

We also had a picnic and a lot of dancing at our beach party. It was so much fun we just might do it again tomorrow!

Typical

This scene is pretty typical in our house these days. Jack being extremely loud, the dog barking, Sam getting into everything. The only thing missing is Anna and she's been sick all week, so I did not include her recent charming attitude in this video. You're welcome.





Sam is a champion crawler these days and just pulled up to his feet for the first time today - on Jack's train table. Guess we will have another Thomas fanatic in the house!

Our Potato Head Family

We were playing with 'Tato Heads (as the kids call them) today and Jack wanted to make our family. Then, of course, we had to take pictures! From left to right: Anna, Mama, Sam, Daddy, & Jack. Notice that Anna has two sets of eyes (she insisted) and I only have one ear. Guess that means my kids are so loud it just doesn't take two ears to hear them; or maybe it means I only listen to half of what they say . . . .

Jack wanted to take a picture with the "boys."

So then Anna had to pose with the "girls."

Snow Day #2 - round two

Once Sam went down for his morning nap, we hit the snow one last time. At this point it was starting to melt pretty quickly and we were getting pelted with chunks falling from the trees but we had fun.

Jack finally got to make his snowman and he was thrilled.

Then he destroyed it.

Anna looks like she's missing her hands, but her mittens were wet so we pulled out the plastic wrap and a pair of socks. Seemed to work just fine!

Jack was all about a snowball fight - until I hit him in the face and he told me I wasn't allowed to play anymore!

Jack had fun throwing snowballs in the air for Hank to catch.

It's funny how long we played outside. If there hadn't been snow on the ground there's no way we would have left our warm house to go outside. We all had a blast, though, and it was a nice change of pace from our usual Saturday morning routine.