Since it's been months since I posted I thought I'll do a quick overview of our last 4 months.

This little man turned 6.

We spent lots of time at the pool

I spent all my free time getting ready for my consignment sales.

Chad took the kids to family fun day at his dad's church in Winston Salem.  

This sweet girl turned 8!!  

Did two consignment sales.

Chad had a birthday.

We had Canadian Thanksgiving with my mom and bob.

We went to the beach.

We went to Disney World.

We went to the mountains.

I had a birthday.

We went to the Christmas Show.

I went to Boston.

Went to Winston for American Thanksgiving.

Got a Christmas tree.

Back to Boston but with Kennedy this time.  

My sweet little helper!

Parker loves to help in the kitchen. We're taking dinner to someone from our SS class tonight that just had a baby and he's helping me make mini cheesecakes for them.

Someone doesn't want to go to sleep tonight!

Emerson on her date night.

Date nights with the kids.

Ever since Reese was born Kennedy has felt like she wants more time with just her and me. She often cries about it at bedtime and it breaks my heart. She is a really wonderful oldest sister though, she's so sweet and loving and helpful to/with the others. After reading the Five Love Languages at my mom's and reading a bit how it applies to children as well I'd say her love language is quality time.

So this week I took her to see Brave (FYI, not the greatest Disney movie in my opinion). Then of course Chad had to take Park the next night and then he just took Emerson for ice cream, which she was happy about, the night after.

Date night!

Reese is a crazy climber. She is constantly climbing on something. It's maddening trying to keep her off the table. Yesterday she decided to try to climb in to her crib, she didn't actually want to be in it (I put her in after watching her try several times and she cried to get out), I think she just wanted to know if she could do it.

Happy Birthday Reese!

Today is Reese's first birthday.  I can't believe it's here already, this year has passed faster than any year in my life so far!

Reese is taking lots of steps but isn't walking confidently yet.  We're okay with that though, she's getting in to everything as it is.  This week she's being staying asleep better and going back to sleep faster after I feed her during the night, some nights anyways!  Hopefully that continues to improve as one of the very few things I'm actually looking forward to about no more babies at our house is more sleep.  She still doesn't like to eat very much.  We did discover last night that she really likes spaghetti.  At least she did last night.



Kennedy, Parker, and Emerson still love her just as much as when she was born.  I thought the novelty of a new baby might wear off but it hasn't.  They are all so good with her.  Kennedy even changed a poopy diaper this week.  I was just joking when I asked her but she said ok and went and did it.  A few weeks ago Parker was playing with Reese on the floor and I hear him saying to her "Baby Reese I love to be with you".  Just yesterday Kennedy was telling me for the hundredth time how much she loves Reese and that she was just the perfect baby that she had been wanting.  Emerson loves to try to carry her around like the older two.  Unfortunately for Reese she usually ends up with her arms just around her neck nearly choking her or dropping her.  She wants to be such a big helper but she is just too little at the moment.

Reese's First Steps!

Today Reese started walking a bit.  She has been going from sitting to standing without pulling herself up on anything for several weeks but any time we tried to get her to take a step she would fall down.  Today though Chad set her on the side of the pool to get her to jump in and she turned herself around and just started walking.  She did it again several more times today.  Not long ways but several steps.  And she just woke up after sleeping all of 20 minutes so I'll have to finish this another time :)

This weekend we had Kennedy and Emerson’s ballet recitals.  Unfortunately they were on two different days.  As always, thank you so much to everyone that took time out of their busy weekends to come to not one, but two performances!!  We appreciate it so much and it means so much to the kids as well to have their family come and watch.   Chad taped their performances so I'm going to try to upload the videos somewhere so everyone can see.

This picture makes Reese's hair look red.  Not sure if it really is or if it's just the lighting.  Her craze hairstyle is thanks to her daddy.

 Someday soon I'll get around to making a slideshow of our trip to Disney.  Here are just a few of the thousands (yes, thousands) of pictures from our trip.