June

What, two posts in two days?  This is crazy talk.

I call this video "An Interview with a Junie".

She is pretty funny, because she loves to copy us, especially with the baby.  If I am feeding the baby then she is feeding her baby, and burping the baby, and wrapping up the baby.  She also loves when we tell her that she is doing a good job.  Which is the exact opposite of her sister, who would stop doing whatever she was doing (she still does) if I praised her at all.

Seriously, It has been a Long Time

Alright, I apologize that I haven't blogged very much lately, I have this weird notion that I should get all my work done before I play.  Which leaves little to no time for playing, and when I do get time to play my brain doesn't think "hmm, I should totally blog right now!"  

I have tons of fun projects  that haven't progressed since November.  For example I was basically two hours from finishing June's quilt and boom. . . it has sat there since the fall.    I started a hat, that was going to be done before Winter was over, and guess what it's not.  Those are just two examples, I have others but I don't need to bore you more than I already am.

 I am not trying to complain, I am very happy with my life.  I just have a lot of work to do.  Having Luke around takes up a lot of time, but I am working on that.  The new year means I have all my new year chores, which might or might not be done by the summer.  Also Gem has homework which I have to be personally involved in everyday for about 40 minutes.   I have also decided that I am going to play a violin solo in church in April, so that means I have to be very diligent in my practicing.  Plus I am trying to exercise once in a while.

I realize that all of this work that I have has been basically imagined up by me, but still it is better than sitting around doing nothing all day right?   I just need to not ignore my children too much, and I will try to still blog at least occasionally.

So let me update you on each of the kids.

Gem is becoming more of an actual person.  She wants to know everything.  We got her a map that goes with her leapfrog pen, and now she thinks we should go to Canada and Mexico because they are so close.  Also she asked me the other day when we will be visiting the Taj Mahal.  Plus she tells me all the things she knows about Russia "the biggest country in the world".   She also wants to know about every animal that has ever lived on the earth.  When she goes to the library at school instead of bringing home fun stories, she brings home science books.  I have had to read to her about rats, clams, Mother Teresa, and many many hard to pronounce dinosaurs.  She is learning to read lots and lots of words, and she is basically a normal kindergartener.

Levi still drives me bananas.  Whenever we are at home he only wants to be at "papa's house" and he cries whenever it is June's turn to pick a show to watch.  He doesn't sleep at all at night, and I blame him for the fact that everyone in this house is exhausted today.  He loves to play with my kindle even though he still only throws the angry birds in the opposite direction, I think he likes watching them hit the ground, it is actually a little disturbing.

June is finally in nursery, but it doesn't really matter because the babies have only been to church one time this winter (it seems like) because someone is always sick.  And if one of them is sick, all of them are sick, that is an unbreakable rule.   June really really likes to accessorize.   She always has at least one necklace on, plus fancy shoes, or a hat.  Her favorite hat these days is Gem's underwear. But she has to pull all of them out of the drawer to find the one or two that go best with her outfit.  If anyone in the house has a hat on there will be no peace until June is also wearing a hat.

Luke is slowly learning to conform to the household.  Some days are better than others. If it was just me and him, he would be a perfect baby, but alas he is number four, so I am not able to shower my undivided attention on him.  He is two months old, and every so often he will flash a quick smile, but you have to watch carefully because it is gone in an instant.  I can't wait until he is big enough to fend for himself, because it is a jungle around here.

Baby Luke

I was going to post when Luke turned one month, but things have been really crazy around here.  We had Luke's blessing last Sunday, and Tyler left that day for a six night business trip, and then Levi and Luke both got sick.  So I am just barely catching up with things.

 Anyway Luke looked pretty darn good for his blessing, and we were happy that so much family was able to come support him.  

Hopefully I will be getting back in the swing of things around here and can take some good pictures and video of the kids to post.   They are all cuties, and even though I am typically exhausted I wouldn't trade in any of them permanently (just for a night or two).

Two Cute Babies

How many babies do we have around here?  That is a good question, it depends on what you mean by baby.  If  baby means you are not potty trained, then we have three babies.   (Yes, that's right, 50% of our six person family still poops in their pants.)  If baby means you  aren't  talking, then we have two babies.  If baby means you can't eat a cucumber than we only have one baby. 

 June turned 18 months yesterday.  She is getting to be quite a big girl.  She still has all of her baby plumpness, she loves to eat, and she snorts a lot when she laughs.  She is my little piggy :)  I can kind of put her hair in a ponytail now.  And the next day her hair looks like these pictures.

 

 Luke turned two weeks old yesterday, and he is still too small to be much fun.  I have to take him with me everywhere in the house to protect him from the other larger un-potty-trained individuals.  His two talents are peeing all over things and spitting up all over things.  We still love him a lot though, we just wish we could fast forward a few weeks until he is sleeping through the night.

Some Pictures

 Here is Luke in his Sunday duds, ready to head to Sacrament meeting.

 Here are Gem and Levi with Santa, Gem was so excited to talk to Santa and then when we got there she was super shy and only whispered one word answers.

June obviously didn't want to see Santa and she cried when we got to close, so no picture of her.

Merry Christmas from our Christmas Baby

Newborn pictures always look kinda lame, but this one is ok.  If you actually want to see if this is a cute baby you will have to come visit him in person.   By the way, the only thing that appears to be different about him, compared to our other babies, is that his hair is strawberry blonde. 

Introducing Luke David Ross

The new little man is here and he's pretty cute.

Luke David Ross
7 lbs 2 oz and 19 inches long.  Born at 2:50 pm on 3 December 2012.