Easton Eve

It's E's Last Day to be 4! We've got a lot of pictures to post today.

Like, from the other night...Autumn has only recently discovered her toes. This is the second time I saw her grabbing them and I sent Easton running for my camera. He took this one:


And I snapped this:


Then he took off down the hall and took this one:


Then Dalton took over the camera, came back, and snapped this one:


We're a picture-taking bunch over here!

Here's a few more that I took yesterday when I was taking pics of the boys in their hats:




LOVE LOVE LOVE her hat!


Dalton being the baby yesterday:


And those crazy boys decided to play outside yesterday morning. It was 13 degrees. I sent Dalton upstairs to put on some pants and he came down in shorts. I told him he'd be very cold. He said, "Okay, I'll be cold" and went out anyway...I knew he wouldn't last long, that's why I didn't make him change...he wasn't gonna get hypothermia in his less than 5 minutes out there, people. It's just a comfort thing. And sure enough, less than 5 mintues later he came in saying, "I'm all done. My knees are cold" :)


I mostly laid around yesterday. The boys were sooooooo awesome while I was recuperating from my illness two nights ago. Today I'm much much better. Just don't have much milk for Autumn. The puking, nausea and subsequent dehyrdation and poor nutrition have taken their toll and the poor girl is just thirsting for more. :( Jason had to heat up a bottle for us last night because there was just nothing left and she was still hungry. I've been having her nurse extra and I'm sucking down the water to get it back up to normal.

This morning we had a big day...it was Easton's day to "walk around the sun" at school. It is very special and Jason had meetings so the other two and I had to all get ready and hang out in the classroom for a few minutes to observe. I was putting Autumn in the Moby wrap and E's teachers were like, "Oh that's neat! How'd you figure that out?" and I'm thinking how I sure wouldn't have thought of how to wrap that gigantic piece of fabric on my own, but had they not seen something like that in all their years? Hmmmm. Missing out.

Both Autumn and Dalton were awesome while we waited near the door and the kids did their morning circle time routines. Like writing down the date. Many of them read outloud as she wrote "Today is Friday..." and when she got to Friday they all started panting "fff fff fff fff" like letting air out of a tire in little bursts. Good ol' phonics. :) Same with when she wrote "January"...they're all "juh juh juh"ing away. I couldn't hold in my giggles for those. It was too cute. Little pre-readers. I have a video of E's actual walk around the sun but that's for us. Then they sing him happy birthday and he blows out the candle:


I'm bummed it's so blurry. :(

He sat back in the circle and they asked him if he was going to have a big bash (we're inviting a lot of, but not his whole class). He talked about his cake. He was so excited we were there:


After that was over, we blew him kisses and snuck out the door to run some errands. It's cold again today. Single digits earlier. A strawberry drink that was sitting in my car was frozen solid:


So Autumn (and the boys) are wearing sweaters today. And Autumn has her adorable hat again:






How perfectly do these cute little socks go with it all?


She's so cool. I really like how she's blossoming lately. She does stuff now. Like she kicks purposefully at her little bouncy seat:


And she's fancy enough to use her foot to bring the dangly parts to her hands:


Getting bigger!

So is Dalton. As I mentioned, he got new shoes the other day. Today was his first day to wear them and he put 'em on by himself. He puts on his boots by himself a lot. And Crocs, of course. But he rarely wears real shoes that he puts on by himself...not sure why. Probably because he wears boots and Crocs so much except for church (and even then sometimes!) but for church we're often hurrying and put the shoes on him ourselves. But anyway, he did them himself today:




So proud!


See the whole Toy Story gang on there?


Perfect shoes for little Diddles.

We went to pick up Eastie-Bug from school after awhile. He hung out with Autumn while I stalked the internet waiting for some baby gender ultrasound results from a friend:



Aren't they precious together? She adores him so.

Okay, Easton is patiently waiting to play some computer games and I've got some chores I could be doing so until next time...

Happy Easton Eve!