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Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Cute Pic Post -- August 2015



All three boys at three months.
We went to friend's going away party and they had pony rides. All three boys rode it. ;-)
It's that time again... busting out.
Smiley little brother!
This was probably one of the best days of my life.
sleepy baby
Did they plan that?
My new cup from the Target Dollar Spot.
outfit picture
A hunt for the discontinued one saved big money and I love it!
Sweet Baby selfie.
PB & J sandwiches for Small Group
Mr. Greg lead us in some songs during Small Group. Austin helped.
Seriously busting out now.
The Little Brothers.
SMILEY MAN
Contrast in Sprite. Still yucky tasting.
No walking faster than 11 mph.
My boys find feathers and bring them to me. :-)
The Swirl on this kid.
ps. Another finger sucker!?
We celebrated this guy's 37th birthday at Meso Maya with his family.
One of my favorite things about this event... We just talk and talk and talk!
"hope is near!"
 But it was STILL hot!
Working on Tummy Time.
The AC stopped working so we went to Chick-fil-a to "celebrate."
Our new favorite place--Taco Cabana!
I did try to do some Summer School stuff over the summer this year. It was sparse, but I did some. This is them putting beads on pipe cleaners to make bracelets for Nonnie. I was told not to expect Graham to do a great job, but he did even better than Austin.
Then we colored in shapes. Graham's were bigger than Austin's. The task was to not color outside the lines. The success was so-so for both of them.

He's not ALWAYS smiley.
This was a preview of my future.
But this was the only time he's done it.
Austin had VBS, so I shopped with just two.
It felt so easy.
I totally bought it. One for me, one for LG.
Graham saw this and was like "Austin's on the box!"
Has anyone had this? Is it good?
blech.
Squeaky-clean Baby
Marcone sent us a picture of him and his sister AND a picture he drew. Melted my heart!
Some days I have a very full lap.
Once every other month, I get to go to dinner with two lovely ladies. It's a chance to bust out my party earrings, have a drink, my dinner to myself, and awesome conversation!
I bought some shorts the last month of summer.
We spent a day in West, swimming at Cousin Carrie's pool. I spent most of the day inside with Carson, and Seth spent most of the day in the pool with the boys. Both went off the diving board with no problem! We lost Austin's puddle jumper, so we borrowed one from Spencer & Cheryl. That's why Austin is wearing a pink one in the following pictures.
Carrie's fridge makes awesome ice! Kenmore Elite.
 Here's a video of Austin and Graham jumping in the pool from the diving board.
Carson went floating for a tiny bit. He was in heaven!
In the car for 5 minutes and they were all asleep!
This is like my new mantra.
I bought this off Facebook and Graham is a huge fan.
Another activity I created, making colors of whip cream and food coloring. I wanted to use Cool Whip, but Target didn't have any, and I was not about to make a special trip to another store for it. I bought a can of whip cream instead and used it all during the following activity.
yellow and red
orange!
red and blue
(kinda) purple
I put it in the sink and this happened. I thought it pretty!
Austin pointed to the "3" and "E" with a pencil.
I have concerns of dyslexia/other issue, so we're watching it.
I haven't read it yet, but you know I want to!
This guy got a hair cut. I just took the clippers to his whole head to even everything out. 
He did a great job!
Seth took the boys to play put put and it was free because of their ages. Score! Austin had been begging to go golfing for forever and now talks about going even more!!
I very much wanted a jumpy thing since it's our last baby.
I thought "it's coming soon! hold onto the hope."

An Amazing Example of a 2015 Daddy.
A new recipe I learned at church. Super good.
He loves the exersaucer!
As soon as people started going back to school, I lit it.
We all know school starts "in the fall."
My view a lot this summer.
Got a free week of Hello Fresh. LOVED it.
These snuggles don't happen all that often anymore,
so I had to catch it "on film."

When he's your last and he has a blow out, cut it off and throw it in the diaper pail!

This was us over the summer.
Nearly constant fighting.
My tire had a nail, so we spent a few hours in Discount Tire. 
It actually wasn't bad! Thanks to Chick-fil-a and an ipad.
sweet little brother
Here's a video of Carson eating. He's a machine already!
We finally got their dance pictures!
This happened.
I guess someone didn't care that cone was there.
Movie Education Mondays continued. Prize for you if you know this one!
Here's a cute video of the brothers being brothers.

Sunday, August 30, 2015

Spofford Kid Birthdays -- August 2015

Now that we don't get together every quarter to celebrate kid birthdays, we decided to still make time to celebrate the Spofford kid birthdays. Last year we exchanged gifts while on vacation, but since this is an off year, we decided to create an event and went to Chuck E. Cheese's. We each bought our kids tokens and then watched them play/collected their tickets for them until it was time for pizza followed by redeeming all their tickets, then we ate cake and opened presents. We ended up being there from 10am to 1pm and everything was great. The kids got along, they really seemed to enjoy being there with their cousins, not just playing the games (though that's obviously fun too), the impromptu cake was good and everyone liked their gifts. Carson was a dream the whole time and I'm almost sad we won't be doing it again next year. (We'll do it on vacation again next year.) Here are some pictures from our time there.

If you're first in, you get all the tickets coming out of the machines already.
jackpot!
Watching Chuck.
Such a great Daddy!

We had a serious amount of tickets!
 Here's a super short video of some tickets being redeemed.
I stopped at Tom Thumb and grabbed a cake at the last minute.

Two of the gifts we got, being modeled for us. They LOVE these!

Thursday, August 13, 2015

Carson's Progression Photos -- 4 Months

Carson had a Well Child visit this month where he got a bunch of shots. He cried and that broke my heart, but Austin and Graham crying out "he's sad! That hurts him!" did a combo hurt/warm thing. That happens often lately, where I'm in this combination of sad and glad all in a quick second. It passes sometimes so quickly that I don't have time to grab ahold and examine it. And it almost always involves my three sons.
Once again, he did great!
baby feet!
cowlick
These two pictures are totally him.


Here are his stats from his 4 month visit
weight 15.5 (51%)
hieght 25.5 inches (65%)
head 16.75 (76%)