Oh Baby!

My little baby is 6 weeks.  Where did the time go?  Little Ben is smiling and starting to stay away more.  He rolled over a couple of times last week.  I know it was an accident because the poor kid doesn't like tummy time, but he still did it.  Stevie and Abbie are proud siblings and sometime a little too helpful.  I am thankful they love their brother so much, I just wish they weren't so enthusiastic.  Ben is going to need to learn to fight back and soon if he wants to survive.

We did his dedication at church today.  I feel truly blessed for all my babies. They are growing so fast.

  

Halloween

 Halloween time is here once again.  The kids had a blast trick-or-treating.  My cute little people.  Even Ben went with us, and slept until half way. We had batman and super dancing monkey (Abbie wanted to wear everything). Little Bennie bear was a bear of course.

Carving Pumpkins

We love when it is time to carve pumpkins.  It is always a family affair.  The kids are starting to appreciate the art of eating pumpkin seeds, but Stevie is not a big fan of scooping out the pumpkin guts.  I could not get him to participate for the longest time.

Abbie, on the other hand, had no issues.  She was diving right into that pumpkin and making a big mess.






Even Ben got in on the action as best as he could.


I think the favorite part is painting the pumpkins once we carve them.  I think the kids have more fun painting than anything.  We started to paint when Stevie was little because I didn't want to worry about the knives and the painting has stuck as the kids have grown up.

First Snow of the Year

Ready to get outside

Yummy!

We had our first snow and Stevie and Abbie were asking all day to go outside.  When it finally warmed up enough (whatever is warm enough since it was still a snowy day) I finally agreed.  We got all of our snow gear on to make the trek outside.  I don't think Abbie got too much time outside last year since she was still so young, but she had a blast once we got her gloves to stay on.  We just love the snow!

Trying to start a snowball fight

Abbie figured out how to fight back

Frustrations

So I need to do some major catch up on blogging, and I will get to it.  I have to go back about Christmas, soccer season, Abbie's milestones.  It feels like whatever I try to do is just not happening, because I am so tired all the time and Stevie has hit his 3's stage and I am going crazy.

Well we found out in January that there is another baby on the way.  I must be crazy to have 3 kids so close together, but my mom did it so I can too.  The pregnancy has just made me so exhausted.  I think I am finally coming out of that stage..yes!  We just hit 12 weeks and I have felt my energy coming back a bit.

I just feel so overwhelmed because of Stevie.  He has such an attitude and doesn't listen right now.  He has been causing trouble at the gym daycare about every other day.  He is hitting and pushing, and I just don't know what to do.  I try to keep him busy, we punish, we reward, but nothing seems to work.

My other baby is finally a walker.  She started taking steps in February and became a full time walker last week.  She is so funny waddling along, but at least she is trying.