Things I have been meaning to post....

It has been a bit crazy around here and I have not had time to update the blog. I know my loyal readers have been disappointed time after to time to find no updates! :) I can not promise to do better in the future, sorry. The pictures did not upload in the order I wanted, but I don't have the time to fix them so you will have to look at them out of order, again sorry. Here is our front porch and topiaries decorated for Christmas.
Ryleigh turned 5 months old yesterday! She smiles constantly, tries to grab our food and drinks away from us, resulting in lots of messes.
She can now roll from her back to tummy and from her tummy to back. I lay her on a blanket in the living room to play and she is always somewhere else besides the blanket when I look over at her. The other night I found her under the Christmas tree, looking up at the lights.
She likes the boys toys better than her own. Here she is sucking on a power ranger action figure. I tried taking one of these action figures away from her the other day and replacing it with a baby rattle or something and she got very upset. I gave it back to her and she stopped crying! :)

The boys making sugar cookies. I totally cheated and bought the sheets of cookie dough from the store. That way when I needed something to do, I could just say "Hey! You guys want to make cookies?" And not have to wait to actually make them.
My dirty little boys. Here they are after playing for 2 hours in a dirt pile with cars in the back yard. In this picture they don't look too bad, but you should have seen the bathtub. They probably were not too clean after taking a bath in grass and dirt.
The boys continue to do things that make me shake my head and pray I make it while raising them. The other day I went to lay Ryleigh down for a nap in her crib and the bottom fell out of the crib and with Ryleigh on it the mattress fell. Luckily it caught on the way down and she did land on the floor (of course it woke her up though). I called the boys in her room and asked them what they had done. They have strict orders not to get IN her crib, I guess I should have told them that they are not allowed UNDER it either. Apparently they were playing under the crib, lifting the bottom up with their feet. I told Aiden what happened and this was his response: "Did Ryleigh cry when the crib fell?" I said "No" Aiden - "Well, she is a VERY brave."
Our palm tree, decorated. I still have a hard time with it being so warm around Christmas. I still dress the boys in jeans and long shirts and sweaters in the morning because it is December and that is what we should be wearing. By the time we go outside I have to change them because it is 78 degrees out.
The upstairs window with little Christmas trees

Ryleigh taking a nap in her swing. I have to watch the boys carefully when she is in here. Sometimes I find them swinging her so high she could flip over or fall out. Ryleigh has like 100 guardian angels.
Our tree and mantel. It finally got cold (only lasted like 2 days) and we could have a fire in the fireplace. Thank you Grandmom Jeanie for Ryleigh's stocking! Jason and Ryleigh hanging out by the fire. She grabbed his dog tags and was playing with them.
Ryleigh has Jason wrapped very tightly around her finger.
Another cookie making picture, out of order.

"Welcome to the show". That is what Aiden told me when he asked me to come in his room and look what he had made. In each window of the bay in his room he had different things set up and they were all part of a "show".
In this window he had two Thomas the train trains set up and he would make them both go and crash into each other.
Stuffed animals were in another window. They never got their moment to shine because Kyle knocked them over to climb on the window.
This is the result of Aiden getting the PJ's and Daddy getting him dressed. There was a day when I would have changed him. Those days are long gone.
Ryleigh having fun playing in the living room. Aiden got her to smile. He saw me get out the camera and he said "I can get her to smile mom, watch." And he did. :)