Halloween 2012

It's only about a month late...but here are our Halloween pictures.    We had a really fun time this year on Halloween.  The kids went trick or treating in our little section of our  neighborhood with our good friends the Thiens.  Jayce and Brayden are best buddies and they had a blast trick or treating with each other.  We also really love hanging out with Christie and Matt, so it was a bonus for us too :)  Halloween night was a pretty chilly night.  We bundled everyone up and got way too much candy! 

 My two beautiful Lady Bugs!!

 She's trying to crawl in her bunting. She's ambitious!

 Best Friends Batman and Hulk

 What I don't get any candy?!?!

 Happy Halloween from Hulk, Little Lady Bug and Big Lady Bug

Fall Family PIcs

A couple weekends ago we went out to a park near us and took some family pictures with all the fun fall leaves. We didn't do this last year and I was upset that we didn't take advantage of the beautiful colors.  So this year we made time to do it.  So here's to picture overload. :) Every time I look at these pictures, I just grin.  I am so grateful! I am so thankful for such an amazing family! God is so good and his blessings are abundant!                  

 

 

   

8 months ago.....

Brynna joined our family.  I can't believe that she's already 8 months old.  8 months seems so old, but she's just so petite that I don't see her as being 8 months old.  I just love this girl to death! I forgot to post about her being 7 months old, but she has grown so much in the last two months.  During her 7th month, we had to do some sleep training.  She was awful to get to sleep....and one night Layne and I were up with her for several hours because she was just crying and refused to go to sleep.  Sooo...after a couple rough nights of teaching her to go to sleep on her own, she is now an excellent sleeper and will go right to sleep after we put her in her bed.  Brynna is also now CRAWLING!!! While Layne's mom and grandmother were here for a couple weeks, she progressed from an army crawl to the full crawl. She is now getting all over the place.  She has yet to try to climb up the stairs, but I'm sure that will be next.  We are trying to figure out what kind of gate we need to get to put at the stairs.  The biggest issue we have is that we have two sets of stairs in our house...so I don't really want four gates in the house and the older two would hate having gates too.  So this is our first battle with that.  We never had that issue with the other two because we had a one story house.  Brynna has also started to eat some foods.  She will eat fruits and sometimes veggies if they are mixed with fruit.  She loves yogurt.  She likes eating soft chunks of food.  She loves puffs and food that she can feed herself. She just doesn't eat much food.  I can use one jar of baby food over the entire day.  She still LOVES to nurse.  I got sick last week and was taking some medicine and my milk supply was going down and so I tried to give Brynna some formula to try to supplement her, but she REFUSED to drink it.  She gagged on it and then pressed her lips together.  So out to the store I went and got some fenugreek.  It's an herb to help with milk supply.  And it's working great.   So at 8 months old Brynna is..... -in size 3 diapers -6 months clothes -about 16lbs -nursing 6-8 times a day (24 hours period) -taking much better naps....one long nap and a shorter nap. Varies which time of day she naps longest due to what we have going on -wakes up once a night to nurse most nights -taking a bath in the big bath -crawls every where -always looks to find her brother and sister as soon as she wakes up -she doesn't care to give Daddy kisses because of his goatee (she doesn't like the way it feels on her face) -gives Daddy the biggest smile of the day as soon as he walks in the door from work  -during month 7, she was having some major separation anxiety, but is doing better now. She will go to others without crying.  -Still isn't doing much talking or sounds  -Can wave hi and clap
I have a feeling her brother and sister will do the all the talking for her.  She understands quite a lot, but just smiles at you and says nothing. We are over the moon for this girl.     We took some family pictures a few weekends ago while the colors were changing with all the leaves...so here are a few of those.    

I am blessed beyond measure by this precious little girl! God is So good and has completed our family with this beautiful little girl!

Trip to Hershey, PA-part 3

On the final day in PA, we went to Hershey Park. What a great place for little kids! I was very impressed with all the rides that my kids could ride.  We were there for Hershey Park in the Dark.  They are closed for the regular season and only open for special events.  They opened up at 2 on Saturday and closed at 10.  We weren't planning on staying that late especially since we were driving back home that night.  So we stayed until about 8.  By that time, the kids were worn out and we were beginning to get cold.  Layne and I even stood in line for way too long and rode a roller coaster. It was pretty scary. But we both hadn't ridden a coaster in.....we couldn't remember the last time. So it was nice to do it again.  Thanks Nana and Mamaw for coming up to visit us and taking us on a fun little vacation! We are blessed to have such great family!

It was hilarious watching them ride these cars.  Ryleigh was actually pretending to talk to people in her backseat the entire ride.  After it was over I asked her who she was talking to and she said that she was talking to her kids in the backseat. :) Silly girl!