Fall Highlights

I'm a bit behind on blogging the millions of pictures I have.  Fall is such a busy time of year for occasions and excuses to bring a camera along.  So here's a picture dump of September and part of October!  More in the days to come.  Here ya go!

Dear baby boy, about a month old was really angry at these beautiful flowers.  Cracked me up!

Cray-zay 2 year old!

My mom, sister and I canned our brains out this fall.  We did about 100 jars of peaches, about 100 jars of pears, and over 50 jars of apple sauce.  I also got in a few batched of jalepeno pepper jelly, and 10 quarts of frozen tomatoes.  It's been hard work, and we'll enjoy every bite!  I'm forever indebted to my sister and mom for helping out while I spent most of my time with babes.

As Ollie's eye sight slowly continued to develop in the first month or two his favorite thing to stare at was my wall art. :)

Playing with baby brother.  Ollie LOVES this swing and it was probably the best $20 I have ever spent.

Sofie had pneumonia in September and missed quite a bit of school.  Jungle fever and bored out of her mind, I had a hard time keeping her busy.  Here's the cake she decorated, I think it's a snowman.

Lots of this.  Not complaining.

We have had some really beautiful skies!

Ollie's 2nd favorite toy.

Derek, the kiddos and I got to take the Halloween Heber Creeper train.  The girls had a blast (even if the show was actually REALLY lacking...)

The haunted spooky train car

Sitting on the Heber Creeper train. 

 I'm sooooo grateful to be unpregnant, unsick, and finally out doing things!

Meimei and Daddy enjoying the train.

Ollie is growing and growing and growing.

Still not sleeping much at night...

It's REALLY hard to get a picture of this kid smiling, but he's really good at it now and it's darling!!

In this blurry picture you can almost see his dimple.

Also, the runny nose, poor little guy has been sick for a while, just like the rest of the fam. :(

The 5th Birthday!

The Birthday Girl!

I couldn't ask for a sweeter, more beautiful, and more brilliant little girl!

She was soooo psyched about getting Polly Pocket!

It ended up being a really great gift.  I don't think I've ever given her something that she has used so much!

We had our traditional party at Wines Park.

In line for the Pinata.

The Pinata!

My dad and Noah enjoyed teasing the Pinata-ers a little toooo much!

Some of the party-ers!

It was such a nice day!

Sofie wanted an Ariel birthday.  I was shocked that the grocery store actually had an Ariel cake.  She's not as popular as she used to be!

Twinners!  Kind of freaks me out.

Ollie's little toes poking out of the nursing cover. Only 2 weeks old!

 So precious! :)

This is where I spent most of my time, nursing Lil' Ollie.  Derek was home with sick Meili.  I wouldn't have been able to throw it all together without everyone else's help, thank you so much!!

These two turkeys...

Sofie told me, "We were being boys." Hahahaha!

Milestones

Sofie started Kindergarten this fall!  She barely missed the cutoff for her birthday, and I'm so grateful because she's way too bright to keep in preschool another year!  The morning of the first day she was sooooo excited!  She had stayed up late of course because she couldn't stand the suspense, so that morning was really.....fun.  She wanted to go as soon as she woke up, so getting her to get dressed, eat breakfast, do her hair, etc. was pretty much impossible.  She was beastly.  I was not one of those teary eyed moms, clinging for dear life to their darling 5 year old.  I couldn't get her out soon enough!  Here are a few examples of the range of emotions Sofie graced us with that morning.

Daddy trying to talk her through her emotions.

Mom, "Seriously?  Am I having to deal with this and a newborn, all at the same time?"

Eventually we got a smile.

The next morning, in front of her school.  A lot less anxiety for her.

Another wonderful milestone! 

Meimei's hair is long enough to do piggies!!  Just wish she'd leave them in longer than 5 minutes.

The First Few

*Warning: I think my baby is extremely cute, so there's lots of pictures!

At home at last!!  We came home on Saturday morning and the girls were SOOOO excited to hold Ollie.

He's a very good baby!  Mostly he is happy and sleepy.  He lets me know when he's hungry (which is unfortunately too often, every 2 hours some nights is a bit excessive, especially when it takes nearly an hour to nurse him!!)  Such a change from our cranky baby Meili!

My mom came to help every day for almost 2 weeks.  Sofie started Kindergarten and I needed some extra help getting everybody up and ready to go!

Love it!  (I guess I'll keep the 4 hours of sleep at night in order to hold this cute thing during the day too)

Everyone was sick!  My kids, my parents, my sister's kids, etc.  

Still chunky, but less than he was at birth.

Ollie's first week "birthday"

Real life.

This is Baby Boy snuggled up in his daddy's baby blanket...I need to find a picture of Derek in it too!

The best duh-face EVER!

Daddy's boy

Learnin' to be awake!