Family Pictures

Back in July, my friend Amber took some family pictures for us. We got up REALLY early in the morning, so it wouldn’t be too sunny or windy. The big kids were great, but that baby boy would not look at the camera very much. He was much more interested in the creek and the grass and the trees…anything but where we wanted him to look.

I am so glad they are done for the year!! Thanks to Amber for being so patient with all my kiddos and doing such a great job.

9 months old

We are having a hard time at this house believing how fast nine months has gone by. This boy is everywhere now. He wants to crawl up and stand next to everything, but is having a bit of a difficult time figuring out how to get back down. We have officially reached the stage where no matter how hard you try to keep them safe, they still hurt themselves every 20 minutes or so.

I still have no idea what to do with his hair. It is getting long, but it still wants to stick up like crazy in the back. I am worried if I cut it, it will ALL stick straight up. Paige loves to get her hands wet and spike it. I am not quite sure it is my favorite style.

I heart these blue-eyed boys.

Cooper has been my only baby that hasn’t hated the feel of grass. I thought he would just hang out on the blanket, but he took right off.

My boys and teeth

We have been waiting and waiting for these little teeth to pop through.

He would not sit still for me to get a very good picture, whenever he opened his mouth wide enough, he would bounce up and down so fast, I couldn’t take a picture fast enough! We think these 2 pearly whites make him look quite cute.

The day that Cooper cut his first tooth, Carson was trying to take these trios apart with his teeth….

and ended up like this. He came running out to me saying “My tooth is loose!”

He was a little bothered by the blood, but excited at the cash left by the tooth fairy.

Coopers favorite toy

I used to have this little basket of cute wicker balls.

He makes a bee line, when he sees I have cleaned them up.

We are down to about half of them, because after he plays with them for a while this is what they look like. A little before vs. after shot.

First Day of School

A week ago, we had our first day of school. These girlies were pretty excited about heading back to school. I think they get a little sick of hanging out with me over the long summer.

Paige let me get a cute picture of her in her desk. Morgan was a little nervous about going to her class, but a little embarrassed that I would need to walk her to class. So, we certainly did not try to get a picture.

This little boy was REALLY sad when I took his sisters to school, and told him he would have to wait a few hours before it was his turn. He asked me every 30 minutes if it was time for him to go.

He insisted on wearing his new Boise State shirt, that we HAD to buy so that he could match his dad. As we were driving to school, he looked a little nervous, so I asked him if he was OK. He said “I a yittle bit nervous.”

So cute.

I hope he says yittle for a while still, we don’t even try to fix it when he says it wrong.

After the first day!

I told them to stick up the numbers of fingers, so we would know what grade they were in. We tried to get Carson to make a K….I guess backwords works.