LadyBugs

Sometimes it's the little things that are exciting. Caught a lady bug in the windowsill.

Shrieks of delight over who got to hold it first.

We released him in the neighbors' kale while he was still living.

Sometimes bugs we are holding die because we are too rough with them.

Bunk beds, Bugs and a Bloody Nose

Sleeping so peacefully.

Hailey loves to try on Daddy's hats.

Evan learned how to pull himself up into a standing postion while hanging out in the laundry basket. While he was showing off he tipped over and got a bloody nose.... pretty pleased with himself.

It's been rainy so we have been eating lots of homemade soups out of our Blendtec

and chilli.

After about 10 days our little seeds started to sprout.

Laughing at his own jokes. This baby cracks himself up!

HA, Finally Hailey is not around.... and he can get into all the fun stuff.

He can reach up to the third shelf.

Now that Evan can pull himself into a standing postion we decided to set up the bunk beds. Once Hailey gets transitioned to the bunk beds he can move into the crib.

Jumping on the new mattresses.

.

 

If you are going to put up one bed you may as well do the other at the same time.

Yep, fallen off the ladder a few times already.

The bed is so much fun to play in and build forts in. We were hoping the transition from crib to bed would be easy. The first night she screamed for 1 1/2 hours straight becuase she didn't want to sleep in that bed. This week she's been getting up between 3-5 times and scream bloody murder and we have to hold her down for long periods of time utill she calms down and cries herself to sleep. So traumatic.... jeez!

We bought some little toys and if she wakes up in her own bed she gets one... so far that hasn't been enough motivation for her yet. Right now nobody is getting alot of sleep. My visiting teacher told me it took her kids 3 weeks to adjust to bunk beds.

Right now we put him in the crib to play and take naps during the day. Not sleeping well enough to spend the night in there yet; still up several times during the night. (Extra night waking due to teething; my poor kids have no pain tolerance, they must get that from me.) 

Gillian made it home from BYU to hear Kendra's farewell talk in church. The kids were thrilled to see her.

We were glad that Judy and the Cammster graced us with their presence for lunch after Church.

They must like us because they brought cupcakes.

Our ladybug larvae finally showed up.

They came in a test tube. We started with 11 and now have 3 left that are still alive.

Such a contagious smile. Little Evan is now mobile and has started to crawl. Sometimes he gets stuck because his legs are so chubby he can't get them in the right spot.

Hanging out with the little people

We read "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" then made cookies.

We bagged some up to share with our friends. At least that was the intention; one bag got opened and gobbled up. 

Between diaper blow-outs and Evan's reflux problems we have to do laundry everyday except Sunday.

Another simple dinner. Chop up some salad.

Mix it.

Eat it on toast instead of in a wrap.

Yesterday we read about Jack and the Beanstalk and the Mean Giant...... and before you know it there is a Giant (doll) in the Calico Critter Chateau.

It was so warm today we had to come back inside and change our clothes because everyone was roasting outside.

 Instead of watering the grass like I wanted she wanted to water the street.

So fun.

Evan has been super interested in playing with toys and putting everything possible in his mouth.

Trying to dry her dress out. 

Our daffodil bulbs are just starting to sprout.

Hailey has been really fascinated with all sorts of bugs lately so we decided to get a ladybug habitat. Pretty soon we should receive our live ladybug eggs that we will watch hatch and grow.

While we have been waiting for the eggs to arrive we have been catching little bugs we see around outside. I have been telling Hailey that spiders bite so she won't touch them. She woke up in the middle of the night screaming about spiders and wanted the light on. I guess we should be careful not to scare her.

Steve brought this fun puppet home from work. Usually it "eats" fairies and other toys, but today it is eating Hailey's hand.

She is trying to make Evan laugh by using the bear to nip Evan's face.

She finally conked out reading one of our Halloween books that has spiders hidden on every page.

We have been trying to increase our fruit and vegetable consumption... hence lots of green smoothies.

Evan gets really jealous when he sees people eating and drinking. He has a grip like an iron fist. I am not ready to let him eat real food yet, but once in a blue moon he gets a tiny taste of what's to come.

I just know he is going to eat us out of a house of food as soon as he can eat real food.