The Family Blog

Autumn spent most of yesterday continuing to snooze on the couch...every so often she'd change the position of her hands so I'd take another picture of her sleeping. Not that exciting but I still think she's just precious:




She is a goober in that she whole-heartedly prefers to be unswaddled. I'm a big believer in swaddling...I have bunches of special swaddling blankets, some bought just for "Wabie". I swaddled both boys till they were at least 6 months old. But no, Autumn likes to have her hands free and doesn't sleep well at all if she's wrapped up like most babies would prefer. Trust me, I've tried to just get her used to it...she doesn't like it. She's my third kid, I swaddled in hospitals for 6 years, I know what to do, what to try...but it's not for my Autumn Girl. Oh well.

She also prefers to be right in the midst of everything...hence her day spent sleeping on the couch instead of somewhere quieter. She snoozed and snoozed while the rest of us went about our day playing:


And cooking:


She sleeps right through it and wakes up if it gets too quiet. :) While we got the boys ready for bed last night, she stayed on the couch and listened to music through the TV and our voices through the baby monitor. We made sure to stay plenty lively for her as I snapped pics of the boys in their Halloween p.j.'s. Easton has been asking for "bone jammies" for awhile now. I'm sort of against the whole "skeleton" part of Halloween but bones? I suppose that's just fine.








Love how they're looking at each other with J looking down at them. Such love all around:


Wednesday's are a school day so last night I set out the kids' clothes like I've done the night before school for forever now (okay, a year, not forever). But this was the first time Autumn's clothes were set out too and it just looked so cute to J and I...so I took a picture. Yes, of outfits...


See...and here's two of 'em in those very outfits!



How precious are they?!?!?

We just hung out while E was at school:


Autumn hasn't got a lot of neck strength but I've got her sitting up here:


This is part of why she prefers her hands free:


Look, it's Blue Steel:


At one point Dalton, Autumn, and I went to A's room to put some clothes away. She laid in her crib, he played with blocks on the floor and finally Autumn fell asleep. But, to prove my "she likes to be in the midst of everything" point she woke up crying the minute we left her room. Silly goose!

When we went to pick E up at school one of his classmate's mom said, "So you've got 3 boys now?" because Autumn is not wearing a bow, she was covered with a hospital-issued/stolen receiving blanket and not looking particularly girly. It didn't bug me because clearly there was not much to indicate gender either way, but it does make me want to get her some more bows...some of those big ones that just shout "I'm a girl here!" :)

To make us feel better, we came home and put on some bling that arrived in the mail from Jessica the other day:



Too cute, isn't it?

She also got this in the mail, but it wasn't a surprise like the bracelet. I ordered this:

I still need a better one I could one day leave her unattended with...those crazy beads are major choking hazards so this one is likely staying with her car seat.

Anyway, Dalton is my non-napper today so I've got to go take care of that. Adios!