Proud Parenting Moment

I walk into the family room just in time to catch Eden drawing on Wyatt's arm with a purple pen. I had to repress my urge to yell. She had just begun to mark up her little brother only after inking herself up rather well. One hand and wrist was pretty well colored along with both shoulders (how did she know that's the proper place for a tattoo?). Anyway, I took the pen and told her that if she thought it was okay to draw on herself and her brother, then Mommy gets to do it, too. So, I held her down while she was screaming "No" and drew a lovely curly mustache and little beard. She was trying to squirm away saying, "I'm going to wash it off!" Of course, I took her to show Daddy first & and he needed a picture. So, here is the picture of her screaming while I'm trying to hold her hands down. Okay, so it may not be my proudest parenting moment, but I doubt she'll write on her brother anytime soon.

Dairy Trip

I have missed SO many entries, because my computer began to slowly die and I could no longer transfer pictures to my computer. It finally bit the dust, so now I have a "new" hard drive, so I will try to catch up a little.

So, before summer, we went to the dairy farm for Jake's preschool field trip. I have been to this dairy about 5 times, but we had a "first" this visit. After the tour of seeing all of the bigger cows, we have the chance to go into the milking barn to show the kids how the cows are milked. This is high tech, so there is no stool and pail. Oh no, we are talking about 12 cows backed in to these raised stalls (this position will come into play soon) and then they are hooked up to the milking machine. The kids can see the cows up close, feel the milk, see the huge tank it goes into & all sorts of stuff. So, when you walk in the door to the milking area, you are in this small rectangle galley with cow tail swinging slightly over your head. We are warned before that we may get pooped on, so to not scream and just step aside. Ummm, yeah...did I mention we had 3 and 4 year old children with their moms? We are bringing up the rear of the group & as Eden goes through the door, she gets hammered by poo. If the nice lady taking us on the tour had not scooped her up, she would have been completely covered! I don't know what made her scream louder, the cow unloading on her or the stranger grabbing her, but I tried to grab her to take her out before we caused a stampede. I cleaned her up the best I could with baby wipes and cleaned the little bit off the rest of us, too. Whenever you ask her about the dairy, she will tell you, "A cow pooped on me." And yet, she is still smiling with her "I love milk" sticker!

Baby Pilates

Here are some of Wyatt's latest moves to keep his "chubby bunny" physique!

Lock 'em up

I have SO many pictures I haven't posted, but I had to put this one up. Angela and Brynne found this onesie and had to buy it for Wyatt. He has got to be the cutest baby boy in all the land!

Eden's 1st Big Girl Haircut!

Eden was very excited about her first big girl haircut. Here is her 'before' picture with her slightly crazy long hair.


And here is Eden during her haircut & her beautiful 'after' picture. Thank you Erica!

Getting ready for Christmas

We've trimmed the tree, played in the snow, taken the Christmas picture in front of the tree & visited Santa. Christmas is almost here! When the kids visited Santa, as always, he asked what they wanted for Christmas. Avery replied "keyboard", Jake answered "race car track" and Eden said "trick or treat!" I guess we need to separate the holidays for her a little bit.

Thanksgiving

My sister, Angela, and her family hosted Thanksgiving this year after both of our families debated leaving to be with in-laws. Obviously, we all ended up staying home, except for my Mom. Ang and I had a fun cooking day the day before & Jim made a delicious turkey in an infrared cooker. Alyssa & Eric had the enormous turkey legs. What you can kind of see in the picture is Alyssa's green cast to her face, because she had already feasted & wanted no part in reuniting with the turkey leg for a picture.
Anyway, the kids all played & got along famously (as always), Brian, Matti & Zack all came & we watched a movie together while recovering from our food comas. It was a great, low key Thanksgiving. Thanks for hosting!