The Pumpkin Farm

I love going to The Farm. We have gone there for like the last 6 years now. It is about an hour away, but it is a tradition to go there and get the pumpkins and see all the animals. This year was fun, a little rainy, but hey we are Washintonians; a little rain won't stop us!

Going...Going...Gone! Talk about stress testing the slide...

Well that was new...

I have been pooped on, by kids and dogs, I have been peed on, I have been spit up on. But today reached a whole new level of grossness. My daughter can sneeze. When she sneezes, she gets whatever is in front of her face wet. Normally, I can tell by her facial expressions that one is coming and I will either pull up the bib for her or place a burp rag up there for her to sneeze into.
Today I was not fast enough. She burped and I heard the stuff coming up so I turned my head to look for a burp rag to catch it, but while my face was turned, she apparently made the sneeze face. I turned back just in time to catch the tail end of it, but not soon enough to do anything about it. I got sprayed in the face with sour milk. Why is this grosser than just being spit up on? Because it went in my eyes, in my nose, in my mouth (I think I was starting to say, "Oh-shoot" or something like it) and in my hair. Every nook and cranny in my head. But boy was I rewarded with the biggest smile after that. I am glad she felt better.

Inside the brains of babies...

Here they all are finally. All 4 boys and all 4 girls. Each girl born within 2 weeks of their brothers second birthdays. Just call us mommies a bunch of freak shows for gaving boys together and then girls. Must be in the water....

Seriously this kids and their mommies have been such a blessing to me over the last couple years. And I am going to miss them all.

On a dark desert highway...

Well we made it. The kids did awesome on the car ride down. And lost it on the car ride home. I won't go any more into that because I still hyperventilate when I think about it. Here are the pictures. We got a lot accomplished. Sea World, Disneyland, In-n-out(only 3 times), found a place to live, beach, and oh yeah, got to see Daddys ship come home.


Bug and MJ meeting for the first time:
Giving her the left hook:

See the ship in the distance? The best sight in the world:

Waiting patiently:

Finally:

Notice the "just in case arm" in the back? I can't help it.

Loves his Daddy:

Sitting in the Captains chair:

The safest place to stand on the ship, the missile deck:

Sea World:

Loves his Elmo:

He wouldn't go near Big Bird:

This is me playing with my new super zoom lens from half a mile away:

And of course we squeezed Disneyland in:

He kept saying, "faster faster!"

Her first ear hat:

What is an "inhalator?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3kvW0cGZvQ


Barrack with out a teleprompter:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbpWonUzlrc

B says ba

Today we learned about the letter B. We were going around the house finding things that started with a ba-ba sound. He found "ba-ba-bananas" and then looked around for a minute and tapped my bottom and yelled out, very proud of himself, "ba-ba butt!"

four

I know I say this every month, but I am going to say it again. I can't beleive you are another month older. Where did it go? It feels like just the other day I was holding you in the hospital. And now you are so big. You love your jumperoo. Haven't figured out the jumping thing yet, but you love the piano and the green frog that spins around. And of course the mirror. You just love to look at the baby you see in every mirror and get so excited when she smiles back at you. :)

We went to the Dr today and you checked out fine. A little cradle cap, and a little diaper rash but he said you are doing great. You weighed in at 15lbs and 5oz and were 26 inches long. You are in the 90% for everything. And you still look like a dainty little girl.

You are not quite sleeping through the night yet, but you only wake up once. I don't mind, sometimes after you go to bed, I want to come in and wake you up because I miss you so much. But I learned with your brother that it is never a good idea to do.

You are singing up a storm too. You are always shy and quiet in public, but as soon as you are around just your brother and me, you let us know what is on your mind!

I love you Bug.