Five Months

My beautiful number five is now five months!

Crying Over Spilled Milk

The other day I went to upload my photos from my camera to my computer.  There were some great ones.  Drake had just turned two and I had taken a bunch of cute pictures of him with his cake and opening his presents.  We had also just had Halloween, so I had taken loads of pictures of my kids in their costumes and at their school Halloween parade.  When my import was finished, I found that every picture had been deleted except for these. . .

This is all I have left to remember my child's second birthday and Halloween 2011.  I am sick inside.
The picture of Tad - was NOT taken by me, so I figure whoever took it, did the deleting. I really got after my kids, so I don't think they will dare touch the camera again for awhile.  At least the picture of Tad is cute.  It would have been an even bigger tragedy if I had lost all of those pictures for something like a picture of the TV screen, a transformer, or an elbow.  Kids!!!!!!

It's Autumntime

A few pics from this year's fall "leaf lookin'" excursion. 

I love Autumn!

Four Months

Tad is now four months old.  I enjoy him so much.  He is a really good baby and entertains the whole family with his huge smiles, cute laughs, and fun "talking".  We love him and can't get enough of him!!

Chores

This is pretty typical of what happens at our house if the boys are left on their own to do chores. The other day I asked the boys to clean their room. When I went to check on their progress, their room was still a complete mess and they were nowhere to be found. I went outside to look for them and found this on my back porch.

I walked a little more and saw this.

Yes.  That is Jack riding his bike in his underwear.  Dallin and Thomas, I can only imagine, are scheming about how they are going to get out of this one.  As usual, the room got cleaned by three very sad little boys.  I'm such a mean mother.  But, I must say the artwork is cute!

First Haircut

My little Drakers finally had his first haircut. It is always a little hard for me to let this happen, but Drake is almost 2, so I was actually kind of glad that he finally had enough hair for a little trim.  I took him over to GG's (his grandma) salon and she did the honors.

 Before the cut.  Thin, wispy hair, but a little scraggly.

 During the cut.  He was really good!

After the cut.  Looking much more grown up.  It's good I have another baby, or this would make me a little depressed.

Bookshelves

My oldest boys' room is a constant struggle to keep clean and organized.  I want them to have a lot of books, but we had this book basket that was always overflowing and driving me crazy.  It was a big basket, and it seemed like the only books that were ever read were on the top.  I saw this idea, of using Ikea spice racks to shelve books on the wall and thought that would be the perfect solution to my book storage problem.  However, the nearest Ikea to me is in Tempe (three hours away), and they do not sell these puppies online.  Well - - my awesome sister-in-law, Margaret, heard that I wanted them and so she went to Ikea, bought them for me, and mailed them down here.  Super generous huh?!?  I painted them white and Jeremy installed them for me in the boys room and they really are a great solution to our problem.  I was surprised that the racks held all of our books from the overflowing basket and they are sooo much easier to access now.  I think they look pretty good too.  Thanks Margaret!  I don't know if you read this blog, but the world needs to know how grateful I am for your generosity!

P.S. She sent me two more racks as well, for the little boys' room.  We love them!