Our 'Peeper'

I love this little boy! He is Always, Always smiling!

I also find that he is looking more and more like Tanner every day too. He continues to be such a dream child. He is sitting on his own now, which I love, and he loves to sit and watch his older siblings play. If I had to guess, I'd say his favorite things to do would be bathing with Tanner and Hattie and watching Tanner play with balloons (or pretty much anything Tanner does).

He is also super obsessed with paper - books, to-do-lists, newspaper, magazines, you name it. If it is in paper form, he wants to eat it. If there is a book in the room, he can't focus on anything else unless he gets ahold of it or it is removed from view. Crazy. Neither of my other kids cared for paper like Peter.

Ha ha, this is a typical shot from around 4-5 months. He would puke on my shoulder on the birp cloth and rub his face in it. I wouldn't know until I would put him down and see puke all over his face. Yuck! Lucky for me, he has stopped puking this past month (a full 6 months earlier than his other siblings).

And this is my baby boy enjoying his first taste of 'big people food'. It was a baby rice cracker, and he inhaled it and hasn't looked back. He loves food, and is a really good eater. Happy days cause it keeps his belly full at night, which means longer sleep spans. Ya hoo. Keep it going!

Pink and Pictures

There's nothing our family does better than dressing up. Hattie is always wanting to dress up as a princess, but she wants to do it her way, which never seems to be the right way. The other day, she came strutting out of her room (or rather shuffling in the large heel shoes) and asked me to take a picture of her like a princess. Ha ha, how could I resist with pink heels, pink jammies up top, a hot pink satiny blouse in the middle, and a pink silky blouse with her leg though the arm whole and a wicked wedgy. She went to the 'picture spot' in the basement and posed for me. Hot stuff!

She then returned moments later dressed in even more pink frills (including a hat for a necklace)for more pictures.

Not an hour later, she piled up every stuffed animal and dressup on the couch to watch a movie with her. Larry gets so frustrated putting her to bed because she has a million dolls and stuffed animals in her bed with her and she knows exactly how she wants them placed and which one she wants to sleep under the blanket with her. I can't help but endulge her because I was the exact same way. I was so worried one doll or animal would think I didn't love it by not having it in bed with me. Oh little girls.

Tanner-talk-alot

Larry often gives us 'Indian' names to describe our personalities, and Tanner's is:

Tanner-talk-alot

for no other reason than he talks more than anyone on this planet.

Two small examples from the past two days have been church related. The missionaries have been over quite a few times lately and Tanner talks their ears off! He says, "Hey missionaries, hey missionaries" until they say 'what' then he tells them something. Even before they can respond he's shouting, 'hey missionaries, hey missionaries' again. He says interesting enough things and asks decent questions most of the time, so we just let him be since he idolizes them. Also, today Larry took him with him to the church to set up chairs. He said Tanner didn't stop talking for two second and talked to every single person there about the chairs. Apparently he thought his dad was super cool and super strong, so he had to tell all the other men there. ha ha ha! Oh, that reminds me too... our bishopric came over a few weeks ago and when they walked in Tanner said, "Hey, what are you doing here, you live at the church?" ha ha, funny what kids notice and think. I sure love that boy even with all his talking (though all too often I have to make him play the game of trying to see if he can not talk for x number of minutes)

Not a dull or quiet moment with Tanner around!

Blood - through a 4-yr-old's eyes

Okay, so this pictures has nothing to do with my story, but I was worried I would forget it before I had time to get a good picture.

We were at the park and Tanner tripped and fell on the sidewalk. He started crying and was bleeding pretty bad. Through his sobs he said,

I'm wet inside! (sob, sob)

I drank water (sob) and now it's coming out RED! (big sob)

I couldn't stop laughing. What a kid. He comes up with the funnies things constantly. I keep thinking I need to have pen and paper with me at all times to write down all the funny things he says.

Typical summer weather

This summer was horrible in terms of weather. On the longest day of the year I almost broke out in tears because I hadn't been outside to play with the kids yet and the forcast said we wouldn't for a long time still. Any day that wasn't pouring rain had hurrican winds or was cold. Now it's September and I feel totally defeated in my efforts to make the only 2 months of warm weather we get in this city fun outside.

Oh well, now that it's September and thus fall in my brain, maybe I won't mind the continued cold weather and I'll just bundle the kids up and try to squeeze some fun at the parks in.

"Good thing you don't just have a mom"

So, Larry might not like this picture, but I wasn't fast enough at grabbing my camera to catch the real drama.
9:30 at night and Tanner is still wide awake in his bed as usual. Suddenly he starts screaming for me, so I hurried into his room. I found him sitting in his bed with one leg inbetween the slats of his headboard. His leg was stuck.
I tried several different ways to get it out but the only success I had was in making him scream louder. So I had to go get Larry and went to grab the camera. Larry was in the room for less than two seconds and Tanner's leg was free. What??? How did he do it?
All I had to say is, "Good thing you don't just have a mom Tanner or you would have had to fall asleep with your leg still stuck."

Father's Day 2010

A little past the day, but I had to include it in my blog.

Larry on Father's day with all his kids. Ha ha and all their unique personalities.

For Father's day at church Tanner's teacher had them make ties for their fathers with stickers. Tanner was SO excited to give it to Larry. Then Tanner decided that his dad looked so cool that he took off one of the stickers and put it on his tie so he could look just like his dad.