Landon's Newborn Pictures and some Family ones too!

We had these taken when Landon was seven days old. So crazy how fast they grow. Today he is seven weeks old and he already looks so big and different from these newborn ones. Loving my sweet boy!

Here are some of our family pictures and the sisters with their baby brother.

Here are a few of the girls. I actually took these individual ones right before our family pictures. I was kind of impressed with myself!

All things to be thankful for!

We have had so much fun preparing and learning all about Thanksgiving. Last week I feel like we were finally getting back into the swing of home schooling (this week is another story), and we were able to do a few fun things. I know I say it often, but I really do love home schooling and getting to do fun things with the girls and spend so much time with them.They were so excited all week with each thing we did. Even Avery is getting to participate more and more these days.

We read a few Thanksgiving books. I highly recommend both of these books. The one about the first Thanksgiving has tons of info about the history of the holiday. Jeff and I both even learned a lot and Aubrey was especially very interested. The turkey one is just fun and had us all giggling.

We have been working all month on our Thankful tree and bible verses. This has become a fun tradition of ours and one I hope to continue!

We had a mini Thanksgiving feast as we learned about the First Thansgiving. The girls made hats and place mats for the feast the day before to prepare.

Then on Friday we made a fun turkey craft with leaves we had collected outside.

Then it was Thanksgiving feast time! We had so much fun and now we are looking forward to our real Thanksgiving feast.

(Luckily baby boy is still sleepy and sleeps most the day. I'm not sure what I would do if he didn't. I guess I better figure it out! I do look forward to the day when everyone gets to be involved!)

One Month

It has already been one month since our sweet boy arrived. And what a month it has been! He is such a good baby and very rarely makes a peep. He is sweet as can be and I can't enough of kissing his cute cheeks. He has been much more alert the last few days, holding his head up really well and just looking around at everything. He has been going about 5 hours between feedings at night for about a week now. We are well on our way to sleeping through the night. Thank you babywise! He is on the verge of his first smiles and I can hardly wait for that milestone. I'm absolutely head over heals for this baby boy of mine and I feel so blessed to get to be his momma. He is our perfect answer to prayer!

It has definitely been a transition for me with number four. Things are chaotic of course, and things like laundry and house work are completely out of control. Will I ever get control again? Who knows, maybe when we are empty nesters.  There are many moments a days when two or three out of the four are crying or throwing fits, and there have been many moments when I have joined in. I'm sleep deprived and exhausted, stressed and over whelmed, but in the midst of the chaos how can I not be thankful and feel completely blessed to be the mommy to four beautiful children and to be loved by a wonderful man that takes such good care of us. I'm going to miss all of these moments one day and I'm trying so hard to hang on to them all. Thank you thank you God for abundantly blessing me!

Avery has loved having a baby brother. She is always climbing up on me and him when I am nursing and she just kisses him over and over. When she hears him crying she says "uh oh". She also loves to give him fist bumps which seriously cracks me up. I actually got one successful fist bump on camera.

See, she loves him!

Granny and Pawpaw came to visit and got to meet Landon for the first time right when he turned a month. We had a wonderful visit with them and the girls had a blast!

On his quilt Granny made him.

Happy Halloween

We had a fun Halloween this year and the girls loved every part of it. We first met up with our neighbors to hit a few houses on our street and then we took the girls (and Landon who slept through the whole thing) to a church down the street for a fall festival. The girls played games, jumped in jumping castles and went on a pony ride. Avery was so funny to watch on her first Halloween to participate in. She kept trying to skip the game and head right for the candy bowl. And any time we stopped for a second she went digging in her candy bag. That girl loves suckers so every time she got to choose a piece she would dig for a sucker. We finally had to convince her to find something else. She kept us laughing all night. And now we have way to much candy at our house! Here are the neighbor crew (plus some extras!)

Having fun playing games.

Love my girlies!

Riding the ponies. Avery wanted nothing to do with this!

Daddy and his girls.

My sweet little pumpkin. Love him!