Lerdleluh's Birthday!

My mom turned SIXTY! Haha, not really. Eli just thought she was. Actually she was born in 1953. Oh well. It all seems the same when you're four. Too many sets of tens. To celebrate, she came with me to sacrament meeting to help me watch my kiddos. (Whit was on nights.)

After church we had dinner together, opened some gifts and had some cake. (Which I made. Don't look too closely. We had some frosting issues...)

The hot guy in blue was Whit getting ready to head into work. Poor guy!

Lerdleluh shared her flowers around and also let everyone help her blow out the candles.

Oh and a bonus shot of Dad. Now when you hold the baby, Dora sometimes comes around and asks to get up on your lap too.

Misc Kiddies

I snapped some shots of the kids the other day. Their hair isn't done, and you can really tell with Eli when you see his big rooster tail--in the front. Oh well. He just jumped in to be part of the action. I have been horrible about photos lately. Boo for me. I noticed the girls were both in strawberry outfits and thought I'd snap a few shots.

Emmy looks scared!

But she's happy here...

All three are happy!

Eli's a good person to lean on when you need it. Haha.

He loves to hold his big fat sister!

Birthday Party

I made it to a birthday party for a girl in Eli's preschool class--the kids had a great time, and I discovered one of the moms went to high school with me. Small world!

Hummingbirds

I am no photographer. BUT we have hummingbirds outside our breakfast room window all day every day, so I thought I'd document it. They are really cute.

(Even when they are mating! "Mommy, why do the hummingbirds keep falling down?")

First Time Eating Out

A week or two ago we went out to dinner as a family. It's the first time we've been to a "sit down" (non fast food while travelling) restaurant since the baby was born.

It looked like a nice place online. Not so much in person, but it was pricey! HA!

The kids were rambunctious and it was... interesting. We haven't been out since. Might have been a bit premature.

Look! I was there, too! I took a turn at entertaining baby Emmy.

Children's Museum

We went to the Children's museum with Jackie and her kids... and we had such a good time I didn't get any photos really. Here are like three I took in the first 2 minutes. It's hard to go with three kids, even when you have grandma there to help. (Thanks mom!)

We are sure glad to have grandma and Jackie and her crew close... Come back to Texas, Jackie. Phooey on Utah! :P

Emmy

Emmy is ALMOST 4 months old. I am so happy and also so sad! I am not sure if Natalie will recall this but I said I wanted Emmy to be pink and fat like Greta. She's definitely pink and fat. Much fatter than Greta ever was! Check out this kid....

Love those blue eyes. Almost as much as I love when they're closed.

Huh?? Are you serious mom?

Oh and props to me. For anyone who's still reading down here at the bottom I will say--Emmy is almost 4 months and I AM STILL PUMPING. I must love her after all.

Dora is a busy little bugger

Today we played with stamps and scissors, glue sticks and paper. We do that a lot lately.

Dora did this.


Then I saw her.


She had tried to clean it up.









That darn kid!!

I wasn't even going to take photos but whit helped me with some perspective.

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I get a bad rap

Because I'm not sleeping great. But I'm pretty cute sometimes.




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I have a new blog

http://onefrazzledmomofthree.blogspot.com/

Emmy cries a lot

Today she wouldn't stop crying. I decided to go make dinner. I came back to find this.

Guess she wore herself out.









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Five years. Holy moly!!

I'll write more later. Headed out on a date now. But five years was celebrated with jewelry, a shotgun and some home decor. You can guess who got what. One hint... The home decor wasn't for Whit. Hooray!!







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You ever what me do

In an emphatic voice, "You ever what me do!" Dora says that a lot. It means, "Don't imitate me." Or, in a commanding voice, "You never do what I do."

It cracks me up! There are a few other funny things she says but I have trouble remembering them until I hear them.

She just said another one. "What's that noise numey num?" That means, "What's that noise?" Or, "What's that noise coming from?" She was going potty in the toilet at the restaurant last night and heard a lady peeing next to us. (One stall over.) She said that, in her tiny voice, and the lady next to us starting dying laughing. Her tiny little voice is so cute. Of course, then I had to say, "That's a lady peeing next to us." Haha. What a funny little girl.

Also if you ever tell Dora it's time to do something, like go home, she will inevitably reply, "Couple days."

Okay Dora, couple days.

My kids on a Sunday afternoon

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New furniture

Our new family room furniture came in. Now we just need the new rug. Fancy pics once the rug is in.





The sofa has recliners on both sides. Neat!


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