Felicity's surrounded

Here's a conversation I had with Felicity at dinner the other night.
Caleb was..well, being a boy, and burping. After I made him excuse himself, Felicity sighed and said, "There's a lot of boys in my class that do that."
"So do you tell them they need to say excuse me?"
"No," (waving her hand in front of her facee) "I just tell them it's gross."
"You know, " said her world wise mother "boys are going to be doing gross things your whole life."
Felicity: (sigh, putting head on hands) "If I ever find a boy that doesn't do gross things, I'm going to marry him."

Just thought I'd write this down for Future Reference.

October Busy-ness

Woooow! I can't believe October is already over, it's been a little more crazy than usual around here so I haven't had much time for blogging, but today I'm going to catch up with the Picture is Worth a Thousand Words method and only comment a little:On Seth's birthday, for FHE, we took the kids to the temple and talked about the "steps to the temple" from Sister Lant's talk in the Ensign. August's I think? Anyway, it was gorgeous there and (I hope) the kids felt the spirit. They were also excited to touch the temple, like President Monson invited them to do. You can see Farris and my shadows, we're trying to coax all of them to look at the same time. Not easy.

Our garden managed to grow some pumpkins this year, hurrah! So even though we had lots of fun at Grandma's Annual Pumpkin Party (which I didn't get pictures of, whoops, anybody have any to send me?) we had to carve some at home, too.

Caleb had picked out his pumpkin a long time ago and watched it grow.

Felicity loved cleaning out the guts of the pumpkin. Joseph, however, loved eating the pulp or even the top of his pumpkin.

Caleb's finished product (he did have his Dad help him).

Joseph's finished product (I helped him).

This is Farris' pumpkin. The dog stuffed animal was Felicity's. As those of you who know Felicity can imagine, she was not too hip on the idea.

The neighborhood kids like to play in our yard. One day we came home to find they had buried on of the girls completely in leaves. That set off lots more buryings, plus leaf fights and general silliness. I managed to catch this shot while they all threw armfuls of leaves into the air. I love how Caleb is standing there looking out from all the leaves raining past him.

Seth joined in the fun, throwing lots of leaves up in the air, too.

AND THEN...

yup, it snowed just a couple days later (and then melted the next day). When Caleb got home from kindergarten we dug out mittens and hats and boots and they played and played and played.

Seth got into it, too. But when his mitten fell off and he touched the snow, he was done.
Hot chocolate time!

One day Caleb came running in the house, telling me to get my camera. He told me all excitedly, "Joseph's doing something cute!" So of course I did.

Seth and his friend. While I was taking these pictures, Seth kept pulling Dominic's tail. He's a cute little bully, though.

The Brave Knight saving the Beautiful Princess from the Terrifying Dragon. And then we had a Really Cute Giraffe, as you saw in the last picture. We had a fun Halloween, with trunk or treating, trick or treating, and the best time, letting mom and dad "check the candy to make sure it's safe." I know we're not the only ones who do it.

Whew, now it's come on, Thanksgiving!

The belly button song

My kids were singing this song at dinner time. I love VeggieTales!






While we were looking for the Belly Button Song, we found another Silly Song that made us laugh:

A thought for the day

As I was folding clothes and listening to the washer and dryer chugging away today, I had a thought come to me. Women can understand the concept of eternity being one eternal round because so is laundry.

Seth's birthday pictures

Happy Birthday Seth! He loved the balloons, almost better than the cake and ice cream.

Happiness is a new puppy (toy)!

Denying the new pants, he just wants that puppy.

I made a barnyard cake with a gingerbread barn.

My sister, Nicki, gave me the idea to put our family's brand on the roof.

Approaching with caution...

Digging in!

After we pulled the barn off there was a bare spot on the cake.

Nicki put the animals there and titled it "Overgrazing."

Happy first, Seth!

Our little happy baby is a year old today! Although we (ok, just Felicity and me) were a little nervous about another boy joining our family, Seth Gavid has been a blessing from the beginning. He's almost always happy, sweet and cuddly, and has a huge curiousity that starting to make me a little nervous! He loves his brothers and sister, even forgiving them when they get a little too rambunctious or force their own ideas of sharing on him. It's been a fun year and we're looking forward to the rest of his life.

Not quite what we meant...

So today at dinner for some reason the kids (and Farris) were trying to touch their noses with their tongues. Boys, boys, boys, boys, and Felicity. Anyway, When Joseph asked me: "Can you touch your nose with your tongue?" I told him I couldn't and showed him, so he said "I can!" Then he started toward me with his tongue out. For the record, Joseph cannot touch his own nose with his own tongue, but he can touch my nose with his tongue.