Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Fall At Our House


We had a great visit with my cousin Courtney and her little boy Charlie, well sort of. Poor Courtney walked into a house full of the flu just waiting to explode! I was the first victim, then Kaley and Curtiss. Then Courtney! Isn't Charlie absolutely adorable?!!! We sooo enjoyed having them here, I just wish we hadn't been sick. We didn't leave the house the whole time!

Courtney and Kaley took the boys for a walk.


They had fun. That's Max that Josiah is holding, very important to him. He'll find him after leaving him somewhere for awhile and exclaim, "Hey Max! I miss you!" I was so excited to find a stuffed Max, from the book Where the Wild Things Are. It's his favorite book, I didn't realize there was a movie out, no wonder I found it.

Sweet boys!



Sweet baby!! He is smiling so much, hopefully we can catch it with the camera soon.




Kaley was out with me checking on some ladies, and we caught this sky. Around here we call this Carolina Blue, you can't find a sky like this in any other state ;)





Our new fire pit in the back yard. Our first fire was actually a bomb, it was too wet. The second one was better, some marshmallows even got roasted.



Max and I in some weird green light.



My elusive photographer! She is always taking pictures and never in them.
Well, now that we are better we are actually enjoying the fall a little. We went on a nature walk yesterday and did a nature lesson. We are doing school everyday and that is going great! We are baking up a storm. Cranberry bread, date nut bread and Grace made a gluten free cranberry bar recipe for Maura. We are decorating with natures beauty, collecting pine cones and different berries. The girls are good at it.
Better run, baby is getting fussy for daddy.
blessings






Sunday, November 1, 2009

Random Pictures/Updates

Hmm...having a baby makes posting on a blog kind of difficult! But here are some random pictures. Not much going on here, getting used to a little one again, doing school (yeah!) and enjoying fall. Not sleeping much, fired up the woodstove and had a fall party.




Max at 4 weeks. He has a lot of reflux but in the last few days he has really started being more aware of us all and smiling so big. He is soooo sweet.



Daddy and Max hanging out while Mommy gets ready for our date night.



Max getting sleepy. He nicely slept in the sling through our dinner out. He never made a peep.



What we found when we came home! Well, backing up, usually when we have a date night, the kids eat dinner and watch a movie. Our DVD player is broken and we don't have cable or anything. So, instead they were wonderfully creative. Hmmm, maybe we don't need to replace it! So during dinner, Kaley asked them all to think of a character they could dress up as and they took pictures. David was great at thinking up props and picture ideas. He's the duck at the bottom. Maura's sour face is because she is Mary from the Secret Garden, she and I are reading that.




Here is the duck flying off the couch.

Max almost smiling.

And Josiah got a new bed. So here he is all excited. However, he only manages to sleep in it every other night. And he is trying to give up his naps, or take one at 6pm and get up at 8pm and then play till midnight! So, we are working on that.
Well, Max is up and hungry. More later. Mom is coming to visit and bringing my cousin Courtney!!! Yeah!! So I'll have more pictures next week.
blessings