Mohawk??

This morning as we were getting ready for church, I hear Dan come out of the bathroom with Aaron and say "Do you want to show mommy your hair?" So I head out to see what they are talking about. This is what I find....
It actually looked pretty cute while it stayed, but about an hour later it started just looking kinda trashy - so this evening he got a buzz. :)

This week has been kinda crazy busy - not with anything terribly exciting, just usefully busy. I finished each day tired - but a good kind of tired. We had fun with friends, doctors appointment (and the baby is still doing great!) choir, preschool, piano, Relief Society Broadcast, service and life to keep us busy.

The Relief Society Broadcast was wonderful. An evening full of good food, good friends, and most of all uplifting messages. Now I just have a week to wait for General Conference (and to hope that I actually get to hear any of it...) :) Dan leaves town this Friday, and I hope to get a bunch of dinners made before he goes so that I don't have to worry about cooking much while he is gone. Gonna be a busy week again. :)

And for anyone who in interested, here is my 22 week belly... It was such a pain to get Dan to take this picture, that I doubt there will be many more.

Aaron

Aaron has kept up a constant stream of chatter all day. He just told me "Mommy - all the boogers moving around in my tummy are making me laugh!" His nose has been running all day - he's not sick - just drippy - I think he and Evie must have a slight allergy to something in the air right now.

Birthday Girls

Well mama didn't get her birthday wish.... actually, Dan and I would have been happy to just get through one day this week with out cleaning up one kids poop. Despite this - Dan did his best to try and spoil me - including making me a YUMMY angel food cake!

Well - I won't gross everyone out by going into poop details, just know that there was WAY too much of it this week - and the problem was not any one kid in particular, but the three youngest combining their efforts to make this week rather stinky....

Evie's birthday was also this week. On Friday, we had cupcakes and let her open her presents. She loved the cupcakes and has been trying to sneak one from the leftovers ever since. She enjoyed opening her presents. She got a couple birthday cards - both with cats on them. With each one, she opened it and looked at it very seriously. Then she looked at the cat, cocked her head to the side and meowed at it. She also loved her cute outfit and socks (which she has insisted on wearing every day since) and the pillow pet from Mommy and Daddy.

Since she has figured out how to climb out of her bed, we went this weekend and got a mattress for her. She is now the proud occupant of a big girl bed. I just wish she would use it for something other than a trampoline.... Unfortunately, this has led to 2 very late nights for her. She can't seem to go to sleep with so much to entertain her. Tonight, more than an hour and a half after laying them down, I went upstairs to find her in the kitchen, trying to steal some banana bread and wearing Aaron's clothes. Aaron was fast asleep. She had also gotten into his drawers and scattered his clothes all over their bedroom. I don't know why she hasn't passed out yet - she has been EXHAUSTED all day! Sigh - oh well - hopefully she will get used to this and get into a routine before too long.

Thursday evening, we went to look at some more houses and found a couple that we liked, but we still aren't so smitten that we are making offers. We aren't in any rush to move, so we figure we will wait until we know for sure.

Friday I had an appointment with the ultrasound people at the hospital, we got to see the newest little Jones and we now know that we are expecting a little boy! And here is our first pic of our little man!


Saturday evening we went to a ward potluck. Yummy food and good company and letting the kids run amok with other kids their age = a fun evening. :) But we left a bit early because we had some VERY tired kids....

What Mama Wants for her Birthday

After two days filled with more bodily excrement than any person should have to deal with, I have decided that what I really want for my birthday is a day off. A day where I don't have to clean up poopy accidents and wet accidents. A day where I don't have to spent 15 minutes in the Wal-mart bathroom cleaning up my son's underwear and pants. A day where I don't find poop smeared all over the kids bathroom. A day where I don't have to pick up my daughter from school wearing pants that aren't her's because she had an accident in her own.
Sigh....
well a girl can wish can't she??

Insane is my Middle Name....

...well, not really, it's Lynn, but it might as well be after this weekend... So for the most part Evie - after figuring out how to escape the crib has wreaked minor havoc on her room - then fallen asleep on the floor. She has however decided that her favorite way of wreaking havoc is to change her clothes, and in the process, remove her diaper.

This Friday we had a bunch of friends over for a pot-luck fondue party. The party was Dan's idea and he planned it in his head, but I wasn't totally sure what he had in mind, or what he had told people. Plus, he kept inviting more people last minute. I was rather paranoid that there would not be enough food. We ended up with 6 families (with their kids too) plus the missionaries. There was more than ample food however. The food was delicious, we ended up with delicious appetizers, yummy cheese dip, great meats and dips, and of course Chocolate....mmmmm. We had a great time with some great people. We have been trying to finish the dishes from the party for the last 3 days now....

Saturday morning we got up and met a real estate agent to look at houses. We saw some stuff we liked and some stuff we didn't. Nothing that we fell in love with and had to grab right away, but there were a couple houses we aren't totally ready to discount either. We still aren't really sure if we want to do this now or in 6 months or so, but we figured we might as well look :) We spent the whole morning looking at houses, then we quickly drove back to the house for me to change and grab lunch before heading off to Denver for the Rockies game. The Colorado Mormon Chorale (and me included) got to sing the National Anthem at the game. It was rather exciting to be down in the outfield at a major baseball game singing The Star Spangled Banner! After I met up with Dan and the kids and sat down to watch some baseball. I tried to explain the game to Eileen, and explained enough that she got very excited when we had scored 2 home runs in the first inning. It's funny, the Rockies have had a rough season, but they have done well the only times we have gone to see them! Unfortunately Aaron wasn't feeling good, and threw up all over Dan in the second inning.... we went home after that.... then he threw up again in the car about 30 seconds from our house. My sweet loving husband dealt with the car (which I couldn't have dealt with without throwing up myself) while I stuck Aaron in the bath tub. Fortunately, he seems to have got out whatever was bothering him - he's been fine ever since.

Sunday was Stake Conference. 2 hours with 4 wiggly kids is exhausting in itself, but Dan also helped out with ushering, and I joined the choir (last minute) since I knew the songs already. Some how we survived with no serious damage done and Dan and I even managed to feel the spirit and learn a thing or two. :)
Dan has been learning how to make balloon animals. The kids LOVE it. They are so excited when ever he gets out the balloons and pump. Eileen has decided lately that she wants to learn how too. So Dan taught her how to make a dog and a mouse. She can now do all the twists and such to make a dog or mouse all by herself! As you can imagine, Anna and Aaron also want to try and they have fun twisting and playing with the balloons until they pop.


Evie is a very polite little girl and is prompting her older siblings to being more polite too. Any time anyone does anything for her or gives her anything she says "Tank you Daddy!" Whether or not it's Daddy who is helping her. It's so cute and she says it so often that it's a common occurrence to her it many many times each meal. Oddly enough - for being the youngest of 4, she is not a loud child, so her sweet little voice is so kind and gentle saying it!

Evie's new trick....

Evie has officially learned how to climb out of her crib....

Yesterday, I laid her down for a nap. Within 20 minutes or so, I heard the pattering of little feet on the floor, then banging on her door. I went up and checked on her - she had a stinky diaper - I changed it and put her back in her crib. Half an hour later, I heard more little feet on the floor. Then about half an hour after that I heard the toilet lid closing and flushing. I dashed upstairs and found Evie - totally naked in the bathroom. She told me "pee pee - pee pee!!" I took her back in her room, put on a new diaper, put her clothes back on (which were in the clothes hamper) rescued the other 3 sets of PJ's that she had pulled out of drawers - put on, taken off and then discarded to the hamper and gave up on nap time.....

Anna is the Best

Last week at school Anna collected the most 'gold coins' of anyone in her class. The kids are given gold coins for behaving well and doing good things, and black coins for disobeying or breaking class rules. Last week, Anna earned 39 gold coins and no black ones - she even got a coin during Friday Fun Time (which is the reward for kids with 10 gold coins or more.) She was so excited and proud of herself. She told us "I'm the BEST! I got 39 gold coins. I'm even better than James and he's taller than I am and he's six! I'm the BEST!!!

Labor Day Fun

For Labor Day this year, we packed up and spent the long weekend up at the cabin. We were joined by the Bessendorfers for a wonderful weekend!

We spent the the weekend walking the beautiful trails, cooking over fires, enjoying nature, playing games and letting our kids run amok! The kids had fun exhausting themselves together. The weather was perfect and the company was wonderful. The weekend was relaxing and fun.

Eileen and Zoe were thick as thieves. Evie got VERY attached to Zoe and Jacob and Adena and spent the whole time talking about, or talking to or just calling their names and looking for them. She still keeps asking about Zoe and where she is.

The kids loved campfire cooking - which of course HAD to include s'mores. Mmmmm - yummy. Evie couldn't wait for her marshmallow to be cooked - she just helped herself to what she wanted at the table.

Anna was enthralled by an old hula-hoop she found. She spent most of the weekend playing with it, and has since been telling us over and over that we need to get her a hula-hoop of her own.


The kids were all exhausted when we got home, and we sent them to bed early to get ready for school the next day.

Last week was a bit crazy - besides the usual craziness, we had the sewage shut off in our neighborhood on Thursday. Becky was nice enough to let me crash there until I went to pick up the girls - at which point, we expected the water to be back on - they had said no more than 8 hours.... well after about 12 hours it was turned on.... How they expected a pregnant woman and 4 kids to go 12 hours with out using a bathroom - I don't know....