A baby

I found Jocelyn asleep curled up in a ball like a new baby! Doesn't she look adorable? Little does she realize that she's not going to be the baby in the family much longer! That's right, we're expecting another new addition. This little peanut happens to have a little peanut = boy!! We're very excited to get Drew a little brother!

We decided to keep the pregnancy a secret until Max's homecoming when I'd be 15 weeks. We figured that I'd be a lot bigger at that point than I really was. We ended up telling people because most couldn't tell until they were told that it was a new baby and not left overs from previous pregnancies!

We are expecting new baby boy Wadley approximately March 31st!

Drew turns 5!

For Drew's birthday party we had pumpkin bowling. They rolled the pumpkin down the hill and tried to knock down liters of soda pop!

They tried to avoid getting touched by the balloons on the trampoline, not so easy to do!

Drew wanted cupcakes and a pumpkin pie for his birthday. He wanted an insect birthday party so we made his cake and pie into a spider! The only problem we ran into was that I was so busy I forgot to add the sugar to the pumpkin pie - it didn't taste too good!

Drew thought it was fun to make himself a mustache. One day he'll understand why this is so funny.

Drew is getting so big - he reads, knows all his numbers, goes to preschool, and is turning into such a boy!

For his Kindergarten shots, which he doesn't need for another year, we got all his stats.

He is 36 pounds = 16%. He is 42" = 30%. Instead of measuring his head, they give you the BMI - crazy to be thinking about that already! When he was two he wasn't even on the BMI scale, he was below 0%! He is now in the 15%! 

Jocelyn got her check-up at the same time as Drew. She was 18.81 lbs = 3%, 29.5" = 24%, and her head was 17.9" = 40%! She's getting pretty big too!

Drew is such a good little helper, he helps to clean the bathroom, does laundry and cleans his own room. He has a very active imagination, which leads to my walls being colored frequently! He loves to catch grasshoppers and pull their jumping legs off so they can't away. He still loves fruits and vegetables. He especially loves steamed broccoli, carrots (cooked or uncooked), cucumbers, and tomatoes. We love him lots and we're glad he gets to be ours forever!

Celebrating

Eating lunch at school with Alexis! The kids loved being able to go to school for lunch with Alexis and Alexis was equally excited for us to come and eat with her!

For Drew's fifth birthday and Alexis' reading reward we went to Pizza Pie Cafe. The food wasn't too bad, which was surprising. The kids loved the salad bar and they thought that the dessert bar was too sugary! What parent in their right mind is going to complain about that?

Steph and Ikani came up for Drew's birthday party day and we went to Golden Corral.

Have I mentioned that my kids LOVE buffets? If you look at all the kids faces, you'll notice they're all covered in chocolate. They have a chocolate dipping fountain and my kids LOVED it. Drew preferred the strawberries with no chocolate though!

Lagoon '11

On our way to Lagoon we saw this super cool toy driving down the road!

This is pretty much how empty the park was! We only had to wait a couple of times to get on the rides! The kids rode rides all afternoon and probably rode more rides than most people can fit in a day!

Can you tell that Drew is super excited to ride Bombora again?

John took Alexis and Drew on the sky ride and then the Ferris Wheel. The kids thought the sky ride was super cool! We didn't dare take the two younger squirmers on the sky ride for fear they'd fall.

Alexis was finally big enough to ride on some of the "big kid" rides. She loved the White Rollercoaster and The Bat. Both she and Drew enjoy getting their blood pressure raised due to fear!

Our future nerd

Jocelyn has a serious attachment to the computer keyboard and mouse. She will throw a royal tantrum if she can't carry both of them with her, wherever she goes, up and down the stairs, to the table, in bed, you get the idea. 

No need to fear, they're still making messes!

 

Hot pink nail polish on the television. . . 

. . . on the speaker and wall. . . 

. . . on the television stand. . . 

. . . and all over Madison and her dress. 

Drew and Madison found a hot pink nail polish and decided to have a painting party. They tried to tell us they didn't do it, but it was VERY obvious who had and had not been involved in painting. Drew was sneaky and snuck into the tub before we realized that he was a part of the painting party too.

While John and I were downstairs assessing the damage done by our munchkins Jocelyn decided to fill the toilet with toilet paper and top it off with some air freshener.

Finishing Sept.

John bet Grandpa Rod that BYU would beat Utah. John lost. He looks a little too smiley for having lost though.

Jocelyn is getting so big! She loves to get her nails clipped and she loves to try to clip them herself!

John is such a trooper and the kids love playing with him on all the park toys.

Do you see that little tiny person in between the tree branch and the trampoline? That's not a baby sasquatch, that's little Jocelyn! Jocelyn likes to stand out on the deck with Annie (the dog) and play. Usually when Annie starts coming inside it means that Jocelyn has come back in and found something new to do. This particular day I didn't see Jocelyn come back in, but the dog was in the house so I figured she was in. About five minutes later while doing dishes I noticed that little person walking around the back yard by herself! She has such an adventurous spirit!