Month Five/Six - Piper

At five/six months I:
* Am forgiving of my mom for having to combine two months together
* Roll around to get places (flump, flump, flump)
* Chew on everything
* Choke a lot
* Remind my mom that her house is full of dangerous things everywhere
* Can sit on my own if someone puts me like that, though I would fall over if no one was around
* Almost need a certain amount of wild, brotherly attention per day
* Have a 1/4 inch of hair fuzz all over my head
* Started eating solid food: beef bone broth soup, sweet potato, chicken stock, rice mush, bananas
* Like to look up to the ceiling, squint my eyes, and make funny noises because people laugh at me
* Enjoy being read to
* Have such a sweet disposition
* Cry like my brothers did when anyone besides my mom holds me
* Have blonde hair that can look brown or reddish at times
* Went back to waking up a few times a night instead of just one
* Love to watch TV whenever there is one around
* Have scrumptious baby fat legs and the cutest, little belly button and tummy
* Need baths more often then my brothers did (aka, good at diaper blow outs)

My four month photo.

Twenty Thirteen

Fresh start. So new. It is funny how we think each year will bring bigger and better. This past year was full of bigger and better. I will celebrate the bigs (for better or for worse) and I will thankfully invite the betters. Life is worth living.

Andrew's family has a great tradition of writing everything down that you did in the past year and writing what you want to have happen in the year to come.  Both are put into the pot and set ablaze to put things in the past and send our hopes and wishes to the sky.

December 30th

It is December 30th.  One more day until it becomes the New Year holiday.  Time to look back on a great Christmas:

Ellen & David's tree.

Aunt Shirley & Uncle Jim
provided props for another wonderful
Christmas Eve Pageant.

Everyone played a crucial role.

Time to eat.

Impromptu jam session.
They let me join in on harmonica to practice
Christmas carols.

Holy cow, Santa stopped by.

Opening gifts.  Yipppeeee, I got a Roomba.
Blake calls it the Roombot.

A great crew.

Now time for Christmas day at my parent's house.
The boys loved their new rubber band guns.

Great Nana opening the garden stepping stone the boys
made for her.

Another great bunch.

One of many Lego sets to be constructed.

Foodies

Everyone ate well throughout the whole Christmas season.  Piper joined in on the fun:

At It

Cousins.

Appropriate reading material.

To be read to cousins.

Men playing dominoes.

Teaching Mia how to change a diaper.

Chairs left behind to watch the game alone.

Dinner before the big Christmas Eve dinner.

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Finishing up some cookies.

No Rush

Andrew has taken the last few days off and this house is moving at a relaxed pace. Some "things" haven't turned out like they should so it looks like we might be spreading New Year's Cheer instead of Christmas Cheer. No one else is in a hurry right?

Six hands around to knead some dough.

Festive fridge.

I took the initials off of A & I's stockings
so all three kids now have their
own hung off their beds.
Someday, I will make A & myself
new ones.  

Fire Station Cookies

We made cookies for the firemen at our local fire station. They were very nice and let the kids check out the fire engine.

Reade's fire hat got crumpled so Blake let
him wear one of his fireman shirts.  Reade
opened the costume box up and got out the
helmet and the sword saying he was a
Fireman Knight.