The Family Blog

I don't even remember why I didn't post yesterday. But I've got some pictures from the last few days, of course.

Even back to Thursday...I only posted dentist stuff and not how Easton did the laundry for me:




While Dalton did some 52 card pick-up:


And Autumn played in this bouncy seat. She has started reaching at things and she intentionally kicks at the little dangly animals on the seat:


Here's Friday...
My favorite color on Autumn is most definitely purple. And with her middle name of Violet, I think The Maws were definitely onto something in choosing this sleeper in her "signature color"...I loved the deeper purple color and I was excited for her to grow into it. I love it on her!


Dalton chose a pretty cute outfit for himself that day:


Easton was at school...no pictures of him from Friday morning. But here is a picture he drew:

First thing I noticed how a family member is missing. I just wasn't sure who. You see, he and Daddy share a favorite color (blue) and I noticed all the rest of us were drawn in our favorite colors. Yep, I'm the gigantic purple one with my hair sticking straight up on the top of my head. Turns out Daddy is the blue one. Easton drew it to remember us. So he didn't need to draw himself. I love it. I love that Dalton is orange and Autumn is pink. Blitz is black. Perfect.

Speaking of pinky, here is how Miss A has been napping a lot...she puts her nose right on the side of the swing and leaves it there:


Friday afternoon we were going to meet Jason for dinner at Sweet Tomatoes. It's a buffet that starts right when you walk in. I knew Autumn would get hungry while we were there but I didn't want to wake her to feed her before we left. It doesn't usually work too well for us to do it that way. If she's not truly hungry yet then she doesn't really eat anyway. So, because of the buffet I decided I'd pump her a bottle before we left so any of us could easily feed her while we were buffet-ing. However, she got hungry on the way. And Easton was all too happy to help out:


And he even helps with his brother now at the restaurant too. When we just had two kids, Jason and I would each push a kid along the buffet in one of their rolling high chairs. It drives me crazy that my nearly 5 year old prefers a high chair at this particular place, but he does. However, he's been given the job of pushing Dalton's chair through the buffet for us instead:


While at the restaurant, the strangest thing happened. Three Santas walked in. I'm not even kidding, they were Santas...one was wearing a Santa patterned shirt, one was wearing red velvety overalls...look at 'em!


We were a little caught off guard because how to explain 3 Santas? We said it was Santa and his brothers and if we had a kid with us we'd take a different route so we wouldn't pass their table inviting more questions/explanations. We let the one who came to visit us be Santa:




He gave each boy a candy cane (which he had to mooch off of one of the other Santas) and a business card which said, "Keep being good. Love, Santa":




Jason even saw Santa at a urinal. Talk about awkward. :)

When we finished dinner, Jason headed home with the kids to get started on the bedtime routine and I headed to the jewelry store to pick up my CZ/peridot ring. Here it is with my other two:


Saturday was a big LSU game, so Autumn dressed to support the Tigers:




However, she and I didn't have plans to stick around for the game with the guys. Instead, we left the male folk here and she and I headed down to my mom's neck of the woods for a craft fair. My mom and I like to go annually and this year Autumn and Lauren joined us too.

My mom bought us earrings and some honey roasted almond butter for me (since Autumn requires I stay away from peanuts). And fudge. She bought Autumn some adorable bows. I love that fair. It makes me feel like getting crafty. I wore Autumn in the Hotsling and everyone always acts like they've never seen something so clever before. And they all ask how old. And several told me I needed a picture of how we looked right at that moment. It's sweet but Lauren was like, "Do you ever get sick of people asking that?" :) Everyone was so complementary and sweet and saying how much they loved babies...till we were leaving. And one of the vendors (selling bread) goes, "I'm so glad my 'baby' is 22." And I just smiled and said, "Oh really?" and she goes, "Yeah, I see all of you kids walking around here with babies..." and I'm all, "I'm 31!" Perhaps I should've been flattered she thought I was so young but I was offened by her attitude. Oh well.

We got back to my moms and Autumn had lots of words for Lauren (which you saw on the video posted over the weekend):


And I just adore this little picture I caught:


Autumn and I came home and LSU lost. That night Jason and I watched "Dirty Dancing". His first time, can you believe that?

Sunday was church. Jason played hooky and did some work on the yard instead. It's just really hard to find the time for everything sometimes, ya know? But the three kids and I went. Here's Miss Pouty Pants showing off her outfit I got at JBF:


We also had Saints football during the day and small group that night. The thing that sticks out the most with small group is Dalton poo'ing his pants because he was having too much fun playing baby dolls with our host's daughter. Thank goodness for underpants that contained the mess and my husband who cleaned him up. Eew! Dalton has been pretty good with accidents and such. Bummer.

Monday Jason had to report for jury duty and so I had to take all three to drop off for E at school. No biggie. But it meant the other two were dressed far earlier than normal for them. Autumn was sporting one of her new bows so I had to get some pics. How cute are these little sibs?


And her butterfly bow:


I told my mom she had the perfect outfit to match the bow...and she does, see?


Yay bows!!! I was telling my mom, "I could make these" and she was all, "But you won't" pointing out that I have 3 small people around all the time. :)

Monday night was potato soup and Broncos on MNF. Broncs lost but somehow the Saints are still undefeated after the weekend. Never before have they been 8-0. Exciting for my Louisiana man!


Today was doughnuts. The boys ate them "like a picnic" in front of the new episode (finally!) of Dinosaur Train. When I was cleaning Dalton up I had to use my firm tone with him and he whined, "Owie!!!! You hurt my feelings!" Goober.

Then I noticed he and Easton playing all sorts of snuggly fun so I had to snap some pics:




See Dalton laying on E's back? :)




Whoa!




After all that they got dressed and we headed to Walmart for this week's groceries. The boys went into the McDonalds in there with their "free apple juice" coupons and ordered them all by themselves. I think it's adorable when they do such things.

The trip went really really well. I love the big Walmart carts that hold all three kids and groceries. Good stuff. We came home for lunch and after quiet time we're going to make the lactation cookies Katie gave me the recipe for. It's been at least a few nights since Autumn has had one of her amazing long stretches of sleep. And somehow I'm feeling much more tired than normal (I ran out of iron supplements, perhaps this is why?) So, I'm of course wondering about milk production again even though I haven't been working out in the least and I've enjoyed several batches of chocolate mousse from my Magic Bullet...anyhoo, I'm gonna make some of these cookies. We'll see what happens.