Catch up

I've been so busy it seems all I post is catch ups! Well here they are:



Cassiah is now 6 months, so we started solids. Well we've tried, she won't eat them! Her tongue is used to breastfeeding, and it just kicks out the food. All of it! Then after about 2 bites she purses her lips together and will NOT open her mouth! Stuborn little girl. I hope she realizes she can't have Mommy Milk for the rest of her life!
Cassiah enjoys the walker on our laminate flooring. She cruises around so easy but it's not so soft when it comes to play time on the floor. She's now rolling all over and doesn't stay on the blanket very well. Anyways, she likes to "help" with dishes! Although luckily she pushes it closed with her tray as she gets closer, so luckily she can't reach, but she sure tries!

This is as far and she can get and as much as she can reach!

Every Friday till the end of the year (2009) is "Crazy ______ Day", well today was Crazy Hair Day. Garrick's is blue with pink spots and then a blue dot in the middle. He thought he was pretty cool!

Aleksia was pink with the tips of her 3 ponies purple!

So Trestin goes potty in the toilet now (diapers only at night) so we bought him a fish too and 3 little snails, for a grand total of $0.76!!! Sometimes my kids are cheap to bribe! Well Bolt is adjusting to the water, and is 1/4-1/3 the size of Ariel and Buzz Lightyear! Luckily they didn't think he was food and eat him....yet!

Than plotting out his pumpkin design as we carved pumpkins for FHE.

Yeah, he scooped his own goo and didn't "puke" this year!

Aleksia grabbing out the goo

Wasn't too happy that Dad smeared goo on his tummy!

I was hoping to have her sit in the pumpkin for a cute Anne Gettes type picture, but no luck. So she just stood since she didn't fit!

The finished products. Daddy's "puking," Trestin's, Mommy's, Cassiah's, Garrick's, and Aleksia's

The pumpkins out on the front porch with our couple other Halloween decorations!

Cassiah in a so cute outfit that Aleksia wore too. It's almost too small, so we had to get a pic quick!

Garrick putting jello on his cupcakes for school. The idea was that the jello would soak through and create orange blobs, but it didn't work so good! Oh well, he had fun using a syringe and squirting jello onto the cupcakes!

So I was lazy and recycled a costume for Cassiah too! She was Tinkerbell, that I made for Aleksia's first halloween when they where Peter Pan and Tinkerbell. Her favorite part was eating the dress!

Robin and Tink before our little halloween party. Due to conferences Aleksia didn't get a Halloween party and get to wear her costume to school, so she had some of her K friends over and their at home siblings over for a little party!

The "quickly thrown together" pinata. Alissa remember when we made a pinata with Hillary and Elis? Fun times! Everytime we make one I think back...... ah memories!

Our eye ball cupcakes! Garrick made some of these for his party at school too.

Soup cans covered in halloween paper held the candy corn and chocolate covered pretzels (idea from Tennille's reception. Kudos to your Mom for making that many, all I can say is WOW!!!)

Kids at the party; Buzzlight Year-Zane, Mario-Lance, Wonder Woman-Aleksia, Batman-Roman, Robin-Trestin, Dorothy-Olivia, Gandolf-Trevor, Little Red Riding Hood-Lucy, and hiding is Flower-Gwen, Bumble Bee-Jeannie, and Snow White-Tatum. Here they are coloring their pumpkins and BINGO boards.
Picking up all the candy after the pinata was thrown on the ground by Trevor since it broke off the hanger that was holding it attached to the rope. Oh well, they got candy and that's all they care about!

Kathleen brought her parachute and had some fun with the kids!

One pooped out little Tink! Too much partying for her!

Cassiah in her pumpking shirt chillin' on the couch!

Trestin tried on Garrick's old Peter Pan costume. It was alittle short, but otherwise fit. Yeah, more dress up clothes! He wore it all yesterday; while my Activity Day Girls where here, to Garrick's B-Ball practice....

At the Truck-or-Treat at church, not many trick-or-treating pics since I had to work all weekend!

One tuckered out little girl from the Trunk-or-Treat

Yesterday for ADG we made pumpkin pies! I love these girls!!! I have so much fun working with them! We had 11 come yesterday, that include 3 friends!

What we've been up too...

ALOT! Here are some of the highlights

Getting ready for Halloween! The kids are recycling last years costumes since I made them HUGE! Yeah, one less thing to do. Although I did sew some costumes for a coworker, which you will see lower down. Since Garrick is now full day school, he gets a party at school. Aleksia won't because the week of conferences is during Halloween. Well conferences mean half day, aka no school for K which is half day anyways. So the crazy feel bad for my K daughter that I am, decided to have a small Halloween party for her and her K friends, plus a couple more. So pics of that up coming event at a later date. But we've also been decorating. I have the most decorations for Halloween, except Christmas, out of all the holidays. Plus the kids made some more this year! In years past I bought blank wooden pumpkins, with the intent to create them into decorations, well we finally did. Here is a (fuzzy) blank one

Than even got into the whole thing! Here he is painting with Aleksia.

A closer look

Havin' fun painting the pumpkins orange

Then was the designing of the pumpkins! (no pics) They would draw the face on paper, then I'd trace it on, outlined it in sharpe, painted the inside yellow, then I applied glow in the dark paint to the back sharpe outline. And now they are hanging on our windows with a string and suction cup. Very cute and the kids had a blast! I'll get a final pic of them on here later.

One of the last pics of our thumb sucking little girl. She didn't suck it much, just usually as she was almost alseep to get herself fully asleep. But no more! Kinda sad.
Garrick's bottom teeth where too big for his mouth, so after loosing the first two the normal way, he had to go into the dentist to get 2 other teeth pulled to make room for those 2 big teeth to come forward. The dentist said that he may still have to have braces later, but atleast these two teeth will be where they are supposed to be (not 3 mm behind!) leaving the rest alittle sideways. He did awesome! Yes cried for the novicaine, and SCREAMED for the 2 extractions, but was a trooper! Here are the holes!

The holes again, but fuzzy. It wouldn't focus very well.

Look at those monsters! There was more root below the gums then above! Instead of getting $1 per tooth, the nice tooth fairy left $3 for compensation for all the trauma!

All three kids are still in love with Cassiah. They still fight over her. Who got to hold her last, you got to play with her last time, quite hogging her... Garrick is entertaining her here while I did some laundry.

Cheese!

You can't see very well, but Cassiah was facinated by the quail out at the bird feeder! Oh, there are some of our pumpkins!

Little Miss Smiley! What a happy baby we have! Some days all you have to do is look at her and this is what you get! Love it!!!!

Open mouthed smiles

She's trying to sit up by herself, but won't do it by herself!

Silly girl! At 5 1/2 months old she is still only rolling from her back to her tummy, then gets grumpy 'cause she's stuck and can't move. Her length on her tummy before she gets grumpy is getting longer, but hasn't figured out how to roll back over. And won't sit up on her own yet. Compared to little Ava who's only 3 weeks older (family friend) who is CRAWLING from what I've heard, we are a bit slow! Oh well, I'm not ready for another mobile child!!!!

The squirrels are back, and still not shy!

I know we shouldn't feed them, but one time won't hurt? Plus is was old bread anyways....

Yesterday Garrick's class at school earned a trip to Ferdinands for filling up the "Marble Jar." From what I can gather a marble goes in the jar when they do "good stuff." They rode the transit bus, since it stops right across from the school. Well since we live right by the school we tagged along on the bus, instead of paying for metered parking at $0.25/1o minutes! Here they are at the bus stop across from school ready to go!

So if you've been to Pullman, you know Ferdinands! YUMMY! They use the milk from local WSU cows to make ice cream and (expensive) famous Cougar Gold Cheese! We watched videos on how they make both, then got to eat some ice cream while watching them actually making it from the observation deck!

The kids where awesome and good troopers! Maybe because they got a banana split with strawberry & mint chocolate chip ice cream with sprinkles and gummy bears. Not my choice, obviously, but not a too bad of a combo.

Killing time before the bus showed up, they played duck duck goose.

Waiting for the bus across from Martin Stadium, for those former cougs!

Daddy getting a quick little snuggle with Cassiah (notice the costume on the couch on the top right, explanation is below)

Then the camera flashed and she was up, ready to play!

So here are the costumes that have caused me much anxiety! There is no pattern for a Violet Incredible costume, so I had to make one. Well two actually. So I had a pattern for the red shell, then "created" the rest. WOW, not much to it, but trying to create it, was a challenge! But they turned out super cute, and now don't want to part with them. But I got some pics, and will give them to her tonight at work. They are out of fleece, and SUPER warm. So a light pair of clothing under them will all that will be needed on a chilly Halloween night. I hate that the costumes are so stinkin' thin and then the kids have to be bundled up, then no one can tell what they are. Problem solved!

Trestin trying it on.

Sweet siblings! Most of the time

Closer view

Happy 33rd Birthday Honey!

Today is Than's birthday. Well I guess it's now yesterday seeing as it's after midnight. Oh well. It probably wasn't his best one, seeing as I had to work and he had to give a talk in church today. Well I wanted to be there to hear him, so I got 3 hours of sleep before church, went to only the 1st hour, then came home to sleep some more! He did a great job on his talk, and like he mentioned, it's a great birthday 'cause now it's (the talk) over! I tried out a new recipe I found online the night before, Caramel Apple Pork Chops and boy they where good! I made twice baked potatoes with LOTS of bacon and cheese, then we had his favorite cake for dessert. DQ's Snickers Blizzard Ice Cream Cake! Yummy!

Here's a picture of the yummy cake! He loves the "goo" they put on top, so I ask for a big smiley face, so he can get alot of "goo."

Blowing out the 3 candles for 33 years old. Notice Aleksia "helping" from a distance.

We should have left the cake out alittle longer, but I had to get to work. Luckily he has big strong muscles!!!



A side view; snickers ice cream on top, then cookies, fudge, and vanilla ice cream! Soooo good!

Rolling Over

Cassiah rolled over for the first time from her back to her tummy on Friday!

Here she is starting to roll...

... keep going Baby Girl...

... tada! Look at me!

The she rolled onto her back, and bonked her head on the hard floor. Guess it's time to get a bigger blanket for her to play on. AND make a gate for the stairs going down! It won't be long before we need it!

Lost tooth!

Garrick FINALLY lost his first tooth last Sunday (yeah I'm late. It's been crazy at my house and now that I'm at work and it's sloooooow, I'm playing catch up). His other tooth is coming in behind, so now he needs to get the other loose tooth out beside it, then we get to take him to the dentist and have the 2 beside them pulled. I'm not looking forward to that, I'm sure it's not going to feel very good! But from what I've heard it's pretty common, and it will shorten the time for braces in the future if he needs it, so I guess it's going to be one of those necessary evils.

Here he is (red eyes, sorry) after he lost it! It was his bottom left from center tooth.

It's very blurry, sorry, we where running late for church so had to get one quick picture.

He was pretty excited, the Tooth Fairy left him $1. She wasn't sure what the going rate was now a days, but oh well!

p.s. Like my new signature? It took me a while to figure out how to add it, and if you asked me how I did it, I couldn't tell ya! It was a trial and error thing and can't remember what I did.

The Palouse Empire Fair was last week (Sept 10-13) and the kids had a ball! For the 3rd year a coworker and I ran the Baby Barn and as usual was a huge hit with the baby/toddler crowd! I personally used it alot this year in feeding Cassiah! It was a crazy time with kids in school now! On Thursday and Friday Trestin, Cassiah, and I would head out early and Than would get Garrick and Aleksia off to school then head off to work. We'd be back in time to pick Aleksia up at school at 11:10, eat lunch, and then Trestin would go down for a nap. By the time Garrick got home at 3pm Trestin would be awake and we'd head out to the fair again! Saturday Garrick and Than went fishing in the morning while Aleksia, Trestin, Cassiah and I went to the fair, then they met us with food at lunch. The kids did the rides on Saturday also, so it was a very tiring day for them! Two of my Activity Day girls (sisters) showed steers for the first time and they did amazing! I was so proud of them out there in the ring with these HUGE animals that make me nervous. I am VERY much a city girl! It was so fun to watch them, way to go Anna Lee and Caralena! The kids all entered stuff in the fair again, which they love to go look at and awe at their ribbons (which everyone gets, but I'm not going to burst their bubbles). All in all it was a long but fun time, and they can't wait till next year!