Love these guys...

The three "Mustacheteers" sporting the facewear I made them with my Silhouette machine.

Four Months Down

Sophie is officially four months old (as of a week ago).

In the past month she has:

Visited the zoo...



Had her first haircut...

Goodbye mini mullet!

Hello stylish bob!

Been inside the Atlanta Temple...

Decided that the monkey toy on her bouncer will taste so good...if she could only get it in her mouth...

Wore her first Easter dress...

And discovered that she likes to sit up in the Bumbo seat...

At her four month appointment yesterday she weighed 12 lbs. 10 ounces and was 24 inches long.  She is in the 20th percentile for weight and the 40th for length.  She can almost roll over, but gets stuck as soon as she sees her thumb sucking hand. 

It's been an exhausting exciting month around here, luckily we have Miss Sophie to entertain and delight us!

I Love to See the Temple

Yesterday we played hookey.

Chad took the day off.  We didn't send the boys to school.  I didn't mop the kitchen floor (even though it badly needs it since Kade spilled orange juice and even though I wiped it up with a wet rag my foot sticks to that spot every time I walk by and it is super annoying...but I guess not annoying enough to induce me to mop it, HA!).

Instead we loaded everyone up in the car at 7:00 am (ok, 7:12...it's hard to get four kids out the door!) and headed south to Atlanta to attend the open house for the renovated Atlanta temple.

The boys were pretty excited, more than I expected them to be anyway.  Kade asked me where we were going as I was getting him wrestled into his Sunday clothes and I told him that we were going to see Heavenly Father's house.  He went around telling everyone that we were going to see Jesus' house for a while.  Then he came up and asked me if His mother would be there too.  Gotta love children and their simple logic!

They were so well behaved in the temple, I hardly recognized them!  In each room I would stop and read the signs that were posted so that Kade and Trevor would know where we were.  In the baptismal room Trevor was looking down at his program and walked smack into a glass wall.  Blake and I got a fit of the giggles over that one, but contained ourselves pretty quickly.  Now I am wondering how many other people have run into that glass, since it is in kind of a bad spot for traffic flow!

After the tour we went to the Hospitality Tent or "Cookie Tent" as the boys called it and enjoyed peanut butter cookies and gingersnaps. 

Our original intent was to stay in a hotel last night and drive back early this morning, but the weather was pretty nasty, and we really couldn't find anything indoors that didn't cost a ridiculous amount of money in to do after the temple.  We walked around Underground Atlanta for a while (it's like an underground mall) but Chad and I started to get worried that we were going to get mugged (Seriously.) so we took off and started the long drive home.

We talked about stopping in Chattanooga at our favorite cheeseburger place (Cheeburger Cheeburger), but as we were driving through Acworth, GA we remembered that one of the moms on Blake's baseball team told us about a restaurant there called Henry's, we were hungry so we figured we'd stop.

We were glad we did!  We haven't had good cajun food since we left Houston, and while I am not a huge fan of it, I really enjoyed what I got.  It was their signature dish called the Louisiana Ooh La La.  It was spicy shrimp and spinach over angel hair pasta in a cream sauce.  Mmmmm.  Chad was jealous cause he only got jambalaya.  Don't worry.  I shared.

Sophie as just happy to be out of her carseat.  She yucked it up for everyone and wore her mardi gras beads with style and flair.

All in all it was a loooong good day and we were really happy to drop into bed at 9:30 last night.

Back to reality, I'm off to mop some floor.

From the Mouths of Babes...

Trevor is always good for some entertainment.  The majority of the time he doesn't even realize that what he is saying is hilarious, which makes it even more funny.

~A few weeks ago he was talking about being born on Leap Day. He asked me how many years older than Kade he is and when I told him three this is what he said:

"So when I am 99 Kade will be 96...and Blake will be dead." 

~We were all riding in the car one particularly beautiful Saturday evening a few weeks ago and I told the boys to look at the pretty sunset.  They all turned their attention to the window and this is what we heard:

Trevor said, "I'm so glad I am not old." I asked him why (and braced myself for his reply), "Cause old people can't see sunsets that are that far away. Well, old people and Blake."

 Blake was offended.



~Not too long ago we had some friends come over for dinner and we were happily enjoying some adult conversation when Kade came running in all proud of himself and exclaimed the words that every mother dreads:

"Mom! I wiped my bum all by my own!"

~While driving the other day I told my mom that I would be turning around in the parking lot of the liquor store.  Kade got all excited and yelled:

"The LICORICE store?! MOM, we have to go in there!"

~I was working on putting my shopping lists and coupons together and gave Kade a scrap piece of paper to draw on.  I joked later that he got to be my favorite for the rest of the day when he said:

"Thank you for my paper Mom! You so pretty!"

~Every so often when I nurse Sophie Kade gets curious and comes over to watch really closely.  If the poor kid ever thinks back to his early childhood it may scar him for life when he remembers this one.  I was switching sides and was a little "exposed" when he got too close.  He asked me what the "button" was for.  I explained that the milk comes out of there.  Then (and here comes the questionable parenting part...please keep all angry "you are warping your child" hate mail to yourself!) I showed him by squirting a little milk out.  He thought that was pretty cool and without missing a beat said:

"Cool! Let's do that again!"

Don't worry.  I didn't.

~I have been watching my nephew for the past week since my mom has been out of town and it has been fun to watch Campbell interact with Sophie.  Not having any siblings yet he is not really used to being around babies, but he is very gentle and sweet with her.  I was getting ready to nurse her and he came up and sat really close to me on the couch.  He was very curious as to what I was doing so I explained to him that Sophie drinks the milk that my body makes.  I then told him something along the lines of when he was a baby his mommy gave him milk in a bottle and that is how he ate.  He looked at me like I was crazy and said:

"Nah, my mommy feed me candy!"

I wish I could remember more of the funny things my little people say every day that make me laugh!  I am so blessed to be able to be home with them and watch as they grow and learn about the world around them.  Even when they make me nutty as a fruitcake it is worth it!