In November we got some snow. We got enough snow to play in and we even tried to make a snowman. The snow melted the next day but it was fun to play in after church that day. We even invited the neighbor kids to play for a little while.
Maybe we will get some snow for Christmas?
We started giving baby P some rice cereal. He seems to enjoy it and is getting better at keeping some of the food in his mouth and swallowing it. He seemed to enjoy sucking the cereal off his hands at first but he is learning how to eat it off the spoon now.
Last week we got our Christmas tree. The kids helped decorate it, so it is unevenly decorated. They had fun so I guess that is what is important. Baby P loves to look at it and I will give most of the credit for his rolling across the room to him trying to get a better view of the Christmas tree. The kids still like to move the decorations around the tree.
Last night Jake and I wrapped presents. We left three out for each of the twins (from Mom, Dad, and Porter). While I was getting ready they each started opening their present from Dad. He is very unhappy about it and has been discussing giving the presents to someone else. We moved the presents so it won’t be a temptation again.
So I know the months keep passing quicker and quicker. P is now 5 months.
He has been a joy and it is fun to see him grow and change.
One of my favorite days of the year is pie day. It is held Wednesday before Thanksgiving and all the sisters and nieces who can attend. We make a ton of pies and always try something new and often we have a few family friends come join the fun.
This year we made at least 22 pies. Some went to other Thanksgivings but the majority stayed at the Stewart home for our Thanksgiving feast. I even learned a new trick to get the pie crust into the pie pan (thanks Carolyn). Unfortunately my sister Sally wasn’t able to make it to Pie day and she usually rolls the pie dough so I did a lot of the rolling.
My niece also helped me make chocolate covered Oreos for a teacher appreciation gift. So we ended up making a lot of yummy treats.
So it seems we have been abusive parents lately. A few weeks ago Thing 1 slammed Thing 2’s fingers in the closet door (his hand was in the hinge side). The next day Thing 1 ran around the corner to the bathroom and into the door ending up with a huge goose egg on her forehead. The next day Thing 1 slipped on a piece of paper and hit her head on a little table in her room getting another goose egg on her forehead. Friday we aren’t sure what happened exactly but she woke up with two black eyes that progressively got worse throughout the week. They looked the worst when we were seeing family on pie day, Thanksgiving, and for our trip to Boise. I even put makeup on her when we went to have some pictures done with family in Boise.
I think Jake took a few while we were in Boise but you get the idea. It was a bad couple weeks at our house, but luckily Thing 1 is looking better.
Baby P had his 4 month appointment which meant we got all the measurements and stats.
It also meant shots. As I was sitting in the office waiting I was thinking about how much I love Baby P and don’t want him to have to suffer. I also know that the diseases we have immunizations for are much worse than getting the shots. P doesn’t know this or can’t see it now.
I thought about how much our Heavenly Father loves each of His children and how he doesn’t want us to suffer but gives us trials that make us stronger so we won’t have to suffer so much later. Maybe we can’t see the benefit while we are in the middle of our trial, hopefully we will have faith that our Heavenly Father knows what we need, just like I know what P needs.
Today while I was at work the kids made a tent. Looks like a lot of fun. I think even baby P got to go inside and roll around.
All the kids had some belly time today. Baby P rolled from his back to front today. A few weeks ago he rolled from front to back and has done it a few more times. I’m afraid we will have a mobile baby way to soon.
We were woken up to it snowed on October 25th. So we got the kids all dressed in their snow clothes and let them go out and play in the inch of snow. It was before 8 AM and they were back inside in about 20 minutes. But you can tell from the smiles that they were excited and had fun. It was a good trial run for the snow clothes. Thing 1 needs some new boots and I hadn’t got to ordering Thing 2 some snow pants yet. So hopefully we will be ready next time it snows.
So tonight on my way home from work I got pulled over for the first time ever. I was talking to Jake on the phone and said oh crap and hung up on him. I knew my blinker doesn’t work in my car. I just drive it to work and home so I figured it wasn’t a huge deal. When I got pulled over he said there were two reasons first my tail lights weren’t on at all (with day light savings it was pretty dark at 6:45) and my registration had expired.
He was super nice and tried to help me turn on my tail lights (the headlights were on but we couldn’t get the tail lights to work). He asked how far I had to drive home and it is about 3 miles on a highway so he told me to drive with my hazards on. Then he checked my license and registration (expired in July—right after P was born). No ticket, hurray!
I made it home and Jake played around for a few minutes and got the lights to come on and showed me how, he says there must be a short or fuse problem because they didn’t automatically come on. Someday I will get a nice car to drive to work, but it won’t happen until we pay off the Acadia and our student loans.
Some days I feel like I drive the junkiest car of all my coworkers and I’m a pharmacist. I do feel blessed that it still runs and has had few problems it has 230,000+ miles on it and still starts every morning.
We got dressed up this morning for the story time costume parade. I got some good pictures this time.
Here are the pictures from the last 3 years of our Halloween costumes. It has been pretty fun doing coordinating costumes. I'm glad we have been able to persuade them to be what we want them to be for Halloween. I will post this years costumes tomorrow, hopefully we will get some cute pictures.
Jake has been trying to find a good picture with all three kids in it for our desktop for a while now. He had this one from the hospital that I took from bed for a while. A few days ago he took this one with all three kids.
The second picture happened while I was headed to work. Jake was finishing up his shower and P was waiting in the bouncer in the hallway. When Jake came out he found Thing 1 reading “Perfect Piggies” to P.
A few weeks ago we went to visit Jake’s parents. Grandma Whipple helped the kids pick some pumpkins from her patch. I told Jake there was a perfect pumpkin and it was big. His mom said it was the biggest one so Jake went out to pick it. He picked the wrong one, but it made a fun jack-o-lantern anyway.
Last Saturday we let the kids paint them with our paint markers and they had a lot of fun. Then Jake set to work carving the huge pumpkin. I cut out a face with my silhouette and he used his sawzall and a rotor tool.
I got these the same day I got the disk for the family pictures. These are from when P was just over a week old. It’s amazing how fast he is growing.
