The Family Blog

Sorry for no blog yesterday, Autumn was awake the whole time Dalton wasn't awake during our regularly scheduled "napping/quiet timing/computing hour" so I hung with her instead and also did some tidying up 'round here.

Boy did our house get out of control with nearly 2 weeks of bedrest and then 3 weeks of C-section recovering.

On Saturday, my two oldest friends came over to visit and meet Autumn and Kelli made us enchiladas. Jason took the boys up to work with him (something he couldn't do from home) and so I just sat with the gals and their kiddos for a couple of hours. They live way over on the opposite side of the metro area from us and I don't see them quite as often as I'd like to. But there's Tonya (holding Autumn):


She has Emma who is 8 months:


Then there's Kelli who has Connor and he's almost 18 months:


But anyway, when they were here I realized just how out of control my house is/was. Good thing they've known me for so long other wise I would've been completely embarassed, however, I'm sure they'll still be my friends.

It was after they left I decided I'd need to host a playgroup here at the house for motivation to get this place picked up a bit so I sent out an email that day hee hee!

After Kelli and Ton left, the guys arrived home and we just hung out until it was time to eat Kelli's delicious enchiladas. What a treat, thanks again, Kells!

On Sunday we went to church as usual. Autumn looked mighty pretty in an inherited outfit from Kaiya:

I loved it all...right down to her little kimono shoes (also from Kaiya).

And there's the pretty bow from Amy's girls too:


After church we headed home for football! Hooray for the first weekend of the NFL!!! Broncos and Saints were both on in the early time slot which makes it tricky to watch, Autumn gave up trying to keep track:


But Jason was firmly planted on that couch the whole time...

...even ate his cheese dip from laying down like that.

Actually I'd given him our sleeping beauty, got Dalton down for his nap upstairs, Easton started on some quiet time, the games were at halftime and I actually left J with all 3 of them by himself for the first time while I ran to the K-Mart up the road for half an hour. :) It's a start.

When the games were over and kids were up, Easton and Jason ran to exchange some bad pots (emphasis on the s) I had gotten for Christmas. We've all probably got Teflon coating our insides now thanks to those old pots. Hopefully these next ones will hold up much better...anyway...while they were gone, Dalton asked to hold Autumn so I took pictures:


Look at how he's just checking out her little hand:




Snuggle!

Doesn't his head seem so gigantic next to her? Yikes! I don't think he has a particularly large head...and her's is 55%...anyway...

Sunday night we headed to small group for some games. The boys had a great time with all the kids in the basement. They decorated prayer mats.

Small group night means the boys get to bed really late for them. Which also means they get up extra early. And that's what happened Monday morning. Actually, Dalton stayed asleep. Autumn too. Luckily I was able to leave the littler two with Jason while I ran Easton up to school. Jason headed to work and Dalton and I hung out till Autumn finally woke for the day at 9:30. Sheesh! We ran a couple of errands before going to pick up Easton. Then I had it in my head we'd make a quick stop at Target. I had to return something and wanted to pick up a few things but let's just say it didn't go well and I made my return and decided we'd need to go back home. Darn minimal sleep the night before (for the boys)!

Things were better at home after food and resting. But as I'd said above, this time Miss Autumn didn't want to sleep so much:


Although she sure acted tired:


Easton wanted to hold her while he watched his show during quiet time:


I tried all kinds of tricks and places but Baby Girl just would not fall asleep. Eventually I gave up, nursed her again and stuck her in the car seat so we could all head up to meet Jason at the mall. He needs new jeans, I needed to do a few things there as well so we met for dinner. Food court because Easton wanted pizza. :)

Last night was another late night for the boys because Easton wasn't asleep by the time J brought Dalton in for bed (usually we stagger it like that). It led to a whole bunch of mayhem and eventually Easton was removed from the room to our room to fall asleep. However, he didn't go to sleep and when Jason went up to move him, Easton was sitting up in our bed just waiting. Ugh. And yup, he was up extra early again this morning. Argh! The day of our playdate hosting!

We got doughnuts in us and re-attempted our Target trip (went much better!) and Easton did just fine. Our playgroup went quite well. It was just two girls from Easton's class: Emily and Tabor. Emily is his pal from his old gymnastics class and Tabor is his pal from his summer gymnastics class. Emily and Tabor have been friends since they were, like, 10 months old. They go way back to Gymboree class. Tabor has a brother Holten who is D's age (remember?) and then her baby sister Berkley was born this summer like Autumn. There are not quite 6 weeks between Berkely and Autumn as "Broccoli" (as Dalton called her) will be 9 weeks tomorrow and Autumn was 3 weeks old yesterday. Yes, already! That's old, huh?!

Even though Autumn never really saw the kids (she nursed a lot or slept in the sling) apparently our playgroup really took it out of her and now she's crashed on the couch snoozing happily:

I'm beginning to think it's about time to start put product in Miss A's hair. It's so out of control a lot of the time. :) I washed it last night...she still loves that.

Anyway, you're all caught up once again so I guess I'll wrap this up and go eat the rest of the doughnut holes leftover from playgroup. Toodles!