Decisions, decisions

While bathing the baby this morning, I was debating whether to take a shower before I pick up Sam and run errands after or run errands with just two kids and shower after I do school pick ups.  Baby made up my mind for me.  I wrapped him up in his towel and bent over to dump out the baby bath... and he spat up not only all over himself, but also all down my leg.  While I was wiping that up with his towel he peed down my other leg... Showering now sounded a lot more appealing all of a sudden.

Sad face

"Mom! My thumb won't stay in my mouth!"

This morning

Evelyn woke herself up this morning and came down stairs to me where I was doing dishes. She asked for breakfast and told me that her diaper was dirty. I went to get her a sippy cup and I hear her tiny voice behind me saying, "Mommy, I'm peeing." I turn around to see her standing in a big puddle. I pull up her pj's and she had taken off her own diaper and gotten panties out of her drawer to wear. Cute and all, but she's still refusing to use the potty consistently for the whole day...

Target practice

Seth's blessing

Sunday was good.  We had our baby's blessing along with his cousin Susan's baby blessing.  Both blessing were beautiful, urging the babies to learn and defend the gospel of Jesus Christ as well as love your family.  Seth's blessing was given to him by his daddy. Jer did an amazing job.  He urged Seth to be courageous and discerning like his uncle and his ancestor, John Alden.  Unfortunately, John and Diane's family had to go right after sacrament meeting... We missed them and I personally missed having the chance to take a picture of the cute little cousins in their blessing outfits. 

 

I am so blessed to have family that loves and surrounds us on occasions like these.  I think of a friend of mine that's an only child, whose mom died and doesn't have a close relationship with her dad.  Holidays are hard for her.  I look forward to sharing Holidays with our new baby.  I look forward to him and our other kids getting to know their cousins, grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc... as we celebrate life together.  Blessings, showers, farewells, welcome homes, graduations... each one a precious time that we have together.

 

 

This baby outfit was bought by my grandma, Elaine Ellis, for my brother, Seth's, baby blessing.  Thanks for letting us use it Sethie!

These girls love their baby.

Ada's Halloween costume

 

Finally got Ada's Elsa costume done.  Yay!  It's a little big in the top and a little small in the bottom, but she's thrilled with it.

This weekend

 

This weekend saw not only Jer saving a baby scrub jay from our cat and the kids begging to keep it, and grape picking time with our Robertson grandparents... it also brought with it my sister, Sharon's, family coming and spending the night in preparation for our baby's blessing.  Cousin Emma loved holding baby Seth, and all my kids LOVED playing with cousins all night long.

 

 

Cuddling

Lunch

We got to eat lunch with Ada today. It was fun even though Evelyn decided that the world was out to get her and she had a mental breakdown. Ada LOVED it and Sam had fun putting his crackers into his applesauce.

Catch up

I'm so busy trying to catch up with everything and get ready for this next weekend that I haven't really blogged about anything in the last week or so.

Things I haven't blogged about:

-Chalk the Block.  The kids had a blast drawing all over the Riverwoods mall sidewalks, and I had a blast visiting with my sister, Janelle, and trying the Waffle Love truck finally... delicious!
-Regional conference was awesome. 
-The Ogden Temple dedication was amazing.  To think, when I was born 33 years ago there were only 35 temples in the world.  Today there are 143 and there are 27 more in process.  It's really neat to also think that I've been able to attend the dedications for the Mt Timpanogos, Nauvoo, Winter Quarters, Ogden, Brigham City, Draper, and the Oquirrh Mountain temples.  How lucky we are to live in a time that allows us the opportunity to not only serve in the temple and bring ourselves and our ancestors closer to Christ, but that we can regularly do so.    I loved hearing Pres. Eyrings testimony about the covenants and blessings of the temple.
-Family night at the Discovery Park playing cops and robbers with the fun family of one of Jer's co-workers.
-My 6 week follow up with my doctor where I completely forgot to ask them a question that I've had in my head for the last 6 weeks... nice.
-Making Ada's Elsa costume for both her birthday and Halloween.
 
Overall a very busy and fulfilling week.

Bad friend moment

I am a complete dork. I was just rushing to get the kids to the carpool on time and sent Sam to the car with his toast, which had peanut butter on it.  Their oldest daughter is severely allergic to peanuts... And I know that! Now they have to clean out their car before she can ride in it again. I offered to clean it for them, but I sure feel like a dork.