Fun Times

Tuesday we went to Iowa to visit and have dinner with Leah and Tyler (Matt's aunt and uncle). Our first stop was to Rick and Ginny's (and Skyler's too of course). We always have a blast when we visit them (or when they visit us). Surprisingly though I did not get any pictures while we were there. Very strange I think...

The next place we went was to visit Matt's great-aunt Lolly and Peggy. If was nice to visit with them and catch up. I think it had been since Thanksgiving since we had seen Lolly. Hopefully we will be back to visit before too much time passes again.

We then went to the mall to see Grandma Fairlie (she works at the mall) and to pick up Matt's wedding ring. There were a few stones loose so they were fixing it. We have a blast at the mall. The women in the jewelry store are wonderful and my kids love them.

Our final stop for the day was to Leah and Tyler's. They fed us a delicious meal. Thank you so much for that. G1 and G3 loved the cats. G2 isn't much into animals (she gets that from me). We also went out to see the horses. G1 and G3 threw apples to them. G2 got down after a while and picked up apples for Matt to throw to them to the horses. G1 got to get in with the horses with Uncle Tyler. He really enjoyed it. He did get spooked when a horse jumped from getting bit by a horse-fly and bumped G1's head.

The drive home was nice. The moon was absolutely beautiful. I wish I could have gotten a better picture of it than I did.

Wednesday we decided to go visit Marcia and Jacob. While there we got to spend time with Jessie and Aiden. We walked to the park and of course had a blast. On the way back Aiden and G1 held hands. It was absolutely adorable.

We went to Jacob's parents' house for dinner. I love spending time with his mom (his dad's great too, I've just never really spent any time with him). The piano was a big hit with the Gs. It was fun watching them play.

We decided to stay the night and continue having fun longer (which actually that happens most any time we go visit them--so I wasn't surprised).

Thursday morning Aiden came back over for Marcia to watch her. We made bread and the kids all played. It was a lot of fun. Hopefully we will get to see Jessie and Aiden again before they move. Thanks for hanging out with us Jessie and Aiden; thanks for letting us crash at your house Marcia and Jacob.

After we got back home the kids were all pooped. They ended up taking a 3.5 to 4 hour nap! It was wonderful. I was able to get most of my book read in that amount of time.

Friday afternoon I took G3 to get her stitches out. She didn't like it but she did really well. I tried to get a picture of how she looks but she didn't cooperate very well. I also included another picture of G4 just because I wanted to.

2-Month Check-Up

Yesterday G4 turned 2-months old. She was in such a good mood all morning; until her check-up. Poor baby got shots. After that she slept most of the day and if she wasn't sleeping she was crying. :-( She didn't nurse too well yesterday either (so today I hurt!). Her stats are:
11 lbs 9 oz (75th percentile)
23 1/4 inches (90th percentile) and her head is in the 98th percentile.
She is growing great. We don't go back until she is 4 months.
Here are some pictures from getting ready for the day yesterday. She was making some silly faces at her siblings.

This Makes For Not A Very Happy Mommy!!

While I was paying bills the other day the older 3 were doing well playing with each other. When I heard them laughing I didn't think too much of it because they do have a lot of fun together. Well, when I heard G4 start to cry I looked and this is what I found:

G2--she is the one I found holding the tube of diaper rash cream

When I went to check on the girls the other night this is what I found (G2 is the one on both beds):
Just too cute to not post:

Our shrub is doing really well. I swear every day I am taking picture of it because it is so pretty--and every day it looks different than the previous day.


Another video of G4 being sweet. If you turn up your volume/listen carefully you can hear her "talking"

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Racecars

Last Saturday we went to Burlington (well actually West Burlington) to see the racecars at the mall. Rick, Ginny and Skyler joined us. We had fun. We also got to see Ben and Bryan, Grandma and Grandpa Fairlie and Benjamin. GMF x3 seemed to really enjoy themselves. At one point G2 ran into one of the store's windows--that was pretty funny. Anyway here are some pictures from our day.

Even though it's spelled wrong this was pretty cool!

G2 thought she needed her picture taken with it.

Also thought this was pretty cool despite the spelling.

I wanted a picture of this because it's kind of like "Grammy Coo-Coo" like G1 sometimes lovingly refers to Mom.

G1 got to sit in a racecar and he thought is was pretty cool!

G2 running for who knows what!

G3 climbing on a racecar.

Pretty girls.

On the way to Burlington I heard a muffled G2 voice. Wondering what was going on I looked in the rear-view mirror. What I saw was a G2 with a finger in each nostril. So, of course I immediately told Matt to get the camera and take a picture and a video. It was pretty funny.