3 Month Ryan

Ryan also turned three months on Thanksgiving, imagine that.  Ryan is just a good mellow kid.  He loves music, he'll coo and smile at you when you start to sing to him.  He loves his baths and all his brothers.  Ryan sleeps from 9 p.m. to 8 a.m. and has 3 good 2 hour naps during the day.  And when I go and get him from his crib, he is all smiles!  He then is content to just sit or lay on his blanket for the rest of the time, I tell he's a gem!  But if you do give him a little attention, he'll make it well worth your while in smiles.  Ryan's started to scoot on his back in an arch, I feel he's way to small to be doing this.  He's honestly the best little baby we could have asked for, we love having you in our family Ryan!

William's Three Months

William turned three months on Thanksgiving, he is getting so big!  William loves his brothers, he'll often follow Steven and Christopher around with his eyes and grab Ryan's arm while they are laying down.  He loves music, but hates his baths.  He sleeps from 9 p.m. to 8 a.m. with 3 good 2 hour naps during the day, I'm so blessed!  But he is pretty specific with his sleeping;  the other day I wrapped him in only one blanket instead of two and he was up every 2 hours after midnight.  And earlier I laid him the down the opposite way I normally do, and he did the same thing.  This kid knows what he wants and isn't afraid to let me know it!  William is just a sweetheart though and loves to coo and smile at anyone who will give him a little attention.  He has started to reach at toys when they are hanging in front of his face, but hasn't figured out how to grab them yet.  When he's not eating or sleeping, he's content to sit in his bouncer or lay on his blanket.   What a cute good boy we have, we love you William!

Soda Adventures

This past weekend we went to Soda Springs for a reception of a good friend of mine.  It was so great to see her and of course I left the camera home, so I didn't get a picture of her.  But know she was gorgeous.  

The trip started in the crazy snow storm.  We picked Jacob up from work and left from there, luckily the more we headed north, the better the weather.  A couple miles into the Idaho border we hit our first deer; I was driving.  There were 2 or 3 deer in our lane and one in the other, so there was no going around them.  Also, going 80 mph there was no stopping in time, so I tried to go in between two and hit the tail end of one on the passenger side.  It all happened so fast and I'm glad I had good instinct so there was really minimal damage to the body of the car.  Jacob said it felt like we ran over a cardboard box, I believe my first words were, "did I just hit a deer?"  We stopped probably a mile away, after the shock wore off, we don't know if the deer made it.  But our car ran smoothly the rest of the way and all the way home.  We were really lucky it wasn't as bad as it could have been;  I'm pretty sure the kids didn't even know we hit a deer.

Anyway we had a great time with family despite the rocky start. Steven took this picture to show what it looked like at Grandma and Grandpa's.  He begged my dad to build a snowman that night with a flashlight.

 but settled for jammies and a piano concert instead.

 The next morning we went out to play in the snow, but it was too powdery.  No snowmen were able to be built, but fun was still had.

I hadn't gotten all the snow gear out, so instead of boots they have plastic sacks over their shoes.

Great-Grandma with Ryan

Great-Grandma with William

Halloween

This Halloween was not as elaborate as ones in the past.  We went to a pumpkin patch with my family like years past, but I have a bit more on my plate and therefore wasn't able to spend a lot of time and energy on the boy's costumes.  Steven told me for months that he wanted to be a ghost and of course Christopher wanted to as well.  We thought of doing a Charlie Brown ghost costume, but realized that wasn't the smartest for small children, so I came up with these costume.  No they are not cat burglars, they are ghosts.

We had a trunk or treat the Thursday before Halloween where Christopher got his first taste of the joy of Halloween.  Then Halloween night after dinner at Grandma Morrise's we went out for a second time with these cousins.

William wore the giraffe costume that Steven did at their age and we bought this Zebra costume on e-bay for Ryan to match him.

Grandpa Morrise dressed up too.

* side note:  The night of trunk-or-treat I let the boys eat one piece of candy before bed, Christopher chose a long tootsie roll.  (You should know he's notorious for taking a long time to each things, taking them in and out of his mouth.)  I finally got sick of seeing this and set a timer that his candy would need to be gone before it went off.  This did the trick.  I need to remember this in the future.

Moments

I've been thinking a lot about the moments that make up our day.  After Christopher was born I lived for nap times, I felt like a horrible mother, but it was true.  But now I live moment to moment.  There are really hard times, but they are usually followed by sweet times.  I'm trying to be in the moment, not concerned with what needs to be accomplished or planned.  Trying to savor my children as they are right then.  

So here are some moments I'd like to remember in years to come.

Christopher apparently will lay by the door, stick his chubby fingers underneath and say something like, "daddy? no.  mommy? no.  bama? (grandma) no."  It's adorable, but kind of creepy when you see this from a dark hallway when you're child should be asleep.

William smiling up at me as I'm singing him before naptime.

Hearing Steven and Christopher screaming at each other, then hearing, "sorry Christopher"

Ryan smiling at Steven and Christopher playing near by.

Christopher in the car saying, "Eating yucky shoe."  At least he knows what he's doing is gross, a step in the right direction.  And yes, he was eating said shoe.

Watching Steven and Luke (his cousin) trick or treating.  After every house, they'd compare their treats, then walk and talk oblivious that the rest of us.

William and Ryan smiling and cooing at the same time.


Steven hugging me and saying, "I love you, mom"

Sitting by a duck pond with Christopher on my lap talking about ducks, with the wind blowing the leaves from the trees above us into the pond.   I felt like I was in a magical fall snow-globe.

Steven guiding Christopher down stairs when they wake up so Jacob and I can sleep longer in the morning.

Steven taking abstract pictures.

A picnic in the car up Nebo Loop.  All the boys were crying.  Jacob and I laugh at what a perfect moment it was to be surrounded by such beauty outside of the car and surrounded by beautiful chaos in the car.

Steven , Christopher, and I playing on the slides at the park...

...while these two sleep.

And these boys seem to be changing every time I look at them.

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