To Do To Do To Do To Do To Do TO DO

No that title doesn't make sense and most likely neither will this post. I am having an aaaarrrggg moment. I have too much to do and nothing is ever done! My home is supposed to be a home of order right? How on earth are you supposed to have order with 6 kids? I like the good feeling you get when you complete something but I feel like everything in my life is a work in progress that never gets finished. Sometimes I feel like my head is going to explode. Ok I feel a tiny bit better now.

nine months

My baby is growing up so fast (she actually turned 9 months a couple of weeks ago but I am just now getting to write about it). She crawls like a champ, stands on her own for long periods of time, just cut her first tooth and is showing promise of possibly having hair some day (still bright red).

Evie is a still a sweet and mellow little girl. She has started laughing really loudly when she wants attention (always better than crying) and she takes the "love" of her siblings very gracefully. SHe crawls quickly now but still uses one foot and one knee, so cute. And I love that she still sometimes wrinkles her nose when she smiles. She is a perfect little punkin.

You have to have a good nudy picture.

She just cut her first tooth but she can eat cherrios like a pro.

Fun Pictures

I thought that I would add a couple of pictures from the past couple weeks. I'm not so great at this whole blogging thing and I meant for this picture to be the last one since it is pretty much the result of the other ones. Brock took this on a Sunday afternoon when Aaron and I snuck in a quick nap (collapsed in exaustion).



I took these next couple pictures after church when the kids were still relatively groomed. What a family!



This last one is one of my favorites. Aaron works most evenings on his computer and Evie enjoys sitting with him and trying to type so we gave her Mia's toy computer to keep her occupied. It worked pretty well.

I love Evie's gimpy crawl!

Evie has such a cute crawl right now. She started crawling a week or so ago and today I was able to get a video of it before she progresses to a more normal crawl. Evie has been such a sweet and mellow baby, I am sad that she is growing up and now crawls around, stands up to furniture and gets into a lot more trouble. On the other hand she is so dang cute, how can I help but love her sweet gimpy crawl.

Our Parrot

We recently acquired a parrot. Actually we developed one. Mia has hit that stage where she parrots many of the things we say and so far it is pretty amusing (this is where you hear all the things you didn't realize you say). A couple of the things she says are not the greatest like when she suddenly says "I'm a dork" or "I'm annoying". I swear the kids must have told her the second but I will admit that I have called her a dork, in a very loving way of course. The other night she was stealing cookie dough and when I stopped her she said (in a very pathetic voice I might add) "but I'm a hungry monkey". My sister Becca's favorite time is when she heard Mia tell her brother, "that is a piece of junk". There are lots of other things she says that you can tell she is repeating from us and we have fun listening to our little parrot.

Face Art

Both Liam and Mia have surprised me lately with random acts of "creativity". Liam came in the other day with stickers stuck all around his eye. Liam was happy when we all admitted he looked pretty cool but the happiness faded when it came to taking the stickers off. He had some over his eyebrows and one even had some eyelashes in it. Ouch.
Mia created her work of art with my mascara. You can't really tell in the picture but she coated her eyelashes quite well for a 2 year old. When I saw her I had visions of her as a teenage goth or a punk rocker trying to bring back 'Kiss". She found my makeup again a few days after I took this. She used the lipstick that time.

My Valentine

This is a picture taken over 10 years ago when Aaron and I had just gotten engaged. Now six kids later I love and appreciate him a whole lot more. Aaron was out of town the three days before Valentines day which meant that by valentines day I was tired and a bit grumpy but very grateful to have such a wonderful husband. Love you Aaron