I think our bed is my new favorite location to take pictures of the kids. A few weeks ago I snapped a few photos of Luke to document his 5-month birthday while the older ones were napping.
Three
Life with three little kids can be exhausting. The other day I realized I had put the milk away in the pantry. Yesterday I found a hanger in the dryer. I nearly locked the baby in the car by mistake a few weeks ago (yikes!). Sometimes it's all I can do to keep up with the crazy pace of life and just try to hang on till bedtime.
But other times, I get brave. I decide to get everyone dressed up and singlehandedly attempt to wrangle them all into position for a few pictures. This is a herculean feat and feels something like trying to catch a small herd of greased pigs. As soon as you get one in place, the rest have squirmed away. And you can pretty much count on the fact that at least two of the children will be making a weird face or crying in every single shot. I'm planning a blog post of some of my outtakes, because they are pretty hilarious, but here are a few of the better results we got today from our little 3-minute "session."
Happy Thanksgiving!
Took the kids out for a Thanksgiving photo shoot today. I guess there's no reason to call it a Thanksgiving photo shoot except that I'm thankful for them!! :)
These two really love each other. So, so sweet.
Video Thursday
It's Video Thursday! Not that we've ever done Video Thursday before, or probably ever will again, but I figured I'd post a few recent clips of the kids in action since all you ever see are still photographs.
First up, Luke in his new exersaucer. Carter and Amelia love talking with him, playing peek-a-boo, and trying to get him to smile.
This one is from about a month ago. Carter's atonal rendition of Jesus Loves Me with Amelia looking on.
I love how she says "Hi, baby Luke" in her sweet little voice when she gets down next to him in this clip.
And here's Amelia doing her best to quote John 3:16. It's a lot of words for a little girl. :)
It's a wonderful life we have!
Amelia's birthday
I'm only about a month behind in blogging Amelia's birthday pictures. That's not too bad, right? :)
Our sweet girl celebrated her 2nd birthday in the middle of October. We had a little party with extended family about a week later, but the day of her birthday we kept it simple and just had fun at home.
Carter helped her open her presents. He even made a drawing for her and requested that Daddy write "To Amelia's Birthday" at the top.
Her magnadoodle was a big hit.
So was the punching balloon... although Carter enjoyed it just as much as she did.
After months of drooling over the cakes at the grocery store every time we went shopping, she finally decided on a simple chocolate cake.
She was pretty happy with her choice.
Did I mention this was around 10:00 in the morning? We figured 'breakfast dessert' was acceptable on a birthday.
Love this face. : )
She also requested this candy apple, so we enjoyed slices of that too.
Then Amelia and I went on a little Mommy-daughter date together. We hit Chipotle for lunch, then picked up some balloons at the store and walked around to take some pictures.
She's great in front of the camera; doesn't mind having her picture taken at all.
Happy girl.
How we love our Amelia Praise! Happy (belated) birthday, little girl!
A Bug's Life
Monday was Halloween. We don't take the kids trick or treating or anything, but we thought it would be fun this year to let them get dressed up a little just for fun.
While we weren't expecting this kind of weather the day before Halloween...
...we made the most of it and got the kiddos all dressed up after their playtime in the snow. Amelia and Anna were matching ladybugs (each with a stuffed animal or doll to match) and Carter was a bee.
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