{Home}

I am home now from my trip to Hawaii. It was wonderful and relaxing. I will post pictures soon after I get them all dowloaded. Thanks to my MIL for watching the kids. Wyatt didn't want anything to do with me this morning, and he cried when grandma left. I am glad all the kids felt so comfortable with her. It made me worry a lot less!! Anywho, stay tuned for pictures from paradise!!

{Buzz Cut}

The day finally came for Little Man to have his hair cut. Daddy and brother were getting theirs done as well. He woke up with pink eye and so he doesn't look too happy in these pictures but he didn't cry at all when Ryan was cutting his hair. He just had that look on his face like "what the heck are you doing to me?". After his hair was cut Ryan and I couldn't believe how much he looked like Ayden after Ayden's first hair cut. Seriously like a little clone!! I think he looks so much older now and having his hair cut makes his eyes stand out more too. Like they needed any help in that department!! He's going to be a heart breaker!!


Oh yeah and he is RUNNING now. He runs the circut like the rest of the kids do. Little booger, he is going to be 15 months on Sunday!! Where is the time going? I guess the only rainbow on my horizon with him getting older is nursery is just that much closer!! Yeah baby!!

{Let the FUN begin}

Ryan started night float on Sunday night and will be working nights for the next 6 weeks. It is usually a 3 month long rotation but Ryan's class opted to split it into two 6-week blocks to manage it a little better. It is a really FUN (read hard) rotation, or so I hear!! Anyway, the kids aren't usually up when Daddy leaves for work, hardly anyone would want to be up that early. So when it came time for Dad to leave for work Sunday night the kids were kinda funny about it. Meysa I think told him that she loved him like honestly 15 times and reassured him that she would see him the next night. I asked Ryan if he was planning on being gone for awhile and he said NO but you would think it with the way the kids were acting. They followed him to the door and gave more hugs and kisses and then stood at the window until his car was no longer in sight. As I sat watching this happen, I couldn't help but think I need a picture. I want to remember in 15 years what my kids were like when we were at this point in our lives. Daddy leaving, the kids sappy and clingy. I know it won't always be the same and even though there are hard things about Ryan being in residency and gone a lot, as a whole it has been a wonderful experience for our family. I feel like I "watch" my life a lot these days conscience that it won't always be so simple. My kids will get older and other FUN stages will be upon our family. I am really thankful for the power of pictures. They can freeze time for a second and allow us to remember the small things that we tend to forget. Boy I sound all sentimental. Maybe because I turned another year older today. Tell me 31 will be FUN ok?!!

He Who Had No Hair

Little Mr. here finally has some fuzz on top. For the longest time he had nothing, and I mean nothing. But as of late he has been sprouting some fibers on top as well as getting in four eye teeth AT THE SAME TIME!! He is in the business of growing it seems. Last night for dinner he had some french toast and just like a kid will do put his syrup covered hands all over his head. When it came time to clean up I couldn't resist using that homemade styling product to see what this mane of his could really do. He looked so cute. Ryan says he needs a haircut already. Darn it, it just got there!!!

This is the absent minded professor look!!

Makes a pretty good Mohawk too!!

This I had to throw in to show you how much of a boy he is. Notice all the red bumps, scraps or other such injuries. Honestly those are all from himself. He now finds it fun to climb on the arms of the couches like his older siblings and traverse to the other couch. He missed a few times, but that doesn't deter him. Oh no, he keeps at it the little booger!! Climbing INTO his toy box is another new hobby of his too, so is table dancing!! He should just join the circus!!

Happy BOO day to you!!

Well this Halloween ran a little smoother than last year!! Lauryn wasn't feeling all that well but she wasn't screaming her head off. So I consider that an improvement!! Ayden was a GI Joe white ninja, Meysa was a cowgirl {shocker}, Lauryn was Ariel and Wyatt was the traditional Gorilla. All of the kids at this age except for Meysa have been the gorilla. He was the perfect beast running around growling at everyone. We went to a friends Halloween party on Friday and that is when we got all dressed up. On Halloween day itself we had friends over to eat dinner and then just threw the costumes back on to go Trunk or Treating at the church.






This year the kids had a little extra fun because they dressed in matching costumes with their friends from across the road. With Ayden and Cayden it was kinda hard to tell them apart with their head coverings on. But Meysa and Marlee you could tell them apart. One is a toe head the other has brown hair. After Trunk or treating, and because we just didn't have enough candy{sense sarcasm please} we went around the block and let the kids trick or treat some more. Our neighborhood is the perfect one for trick or treating and the kids had a great time. Ayden was practically sprinting from house to house. I couldn't get him to slow down so I finally had to threaten him with holding my hand if he didn't stop running. He didn't like that idea!!! Dad took half the candy to work for the nurses and we are left with only a bowl of it. Another Halloween is over and now we are onto another holiday. I find it really hard to believe that we are already in November. Where has this year gone?!!