The little things

These are just a few things that have been going on lately. Benjamin finished football and loved it. We have loved cousin time, aunt time and grandparents. Benjamin and Emma both met their A.R. goals for the first quarter. Emma was a pilgrim in her first grade Thanksgiving program. The kids are goofs and loving the nicer weather. Four kids fills our home with lots of laughter, homework, tears, meals, movie nights, bedtime stories, and love.

Navy girl is 3 months

Baby Navy is 3 months! I can't believe it was three months ago that we brought this joy home from the hospital. She is so sweet. Navy startled to giggle this month and we are all loving it! Her giggle is the best sound ever. Every time she wakes up she is the happiest little girl. Her entire body moves with her giant smiles. She loves to have conversations with us. Benjamin and Emma help with feeding and calming her down. Noah loves to entertain her. She is so spoiled with all the love she gets. Emma calls her, "my best friend" it is the sweetest. She loves her sister. We all do! Navy's neck is getting much better. She can look both ways now and the stretching isn't bothering her as much. Her progress is so great for just a few weeks in physical therapy. She is on just formula now and starting to grow so much. Navy still absolutely loves to be swaddled and loves her binky. She is very entertained with watching her little toys and lights.

Halloween

This year we had a zombie football player, Benjamin wanted face paint and that is what he came up with. Emma was a little deer, Noah was Nemo, and miss Navy was a our little pig. Emma and Noah all wanted face paint for their costumes and I love being able to do it for them. When I picked up the kids Noah was in the car yelling at everyone that walked by screaming, "Happy Halloween! I'm Nemo!" over and over. He was having so much fun. We started off at the kid's school carnival. We always have so much fun at this every year. The school goes all out with booths, games and bounce houses. Jake and I love watching the kids have so much fun. Halloween night we went trick or treating at one of the best neighborhoods in Vegas. We have been the last few years and every year they go full out. Almost every house decorates, our favorites are the spider house and the pirate ship house. We went with almost everyone in Jake's family and all the cousins had so much fun together.  Happy Halloween!

Navy 2 months

We are just loving life over here! Navy is so sweet and her smiles are the best. Every morning she lays on the bed while all the kids get ready. As each kid comes by they all stop and say hi and she smiles at each of them. I love how it makes our house all smiles in the morning with everyone. She does great at holding her head up. She loves tummy time. We are sure spoiling her! She likes to go to sleep a certain way and she is held all the time! Navy and I got spoiled with a new rocker and we both love it so much! Her hair is so cute. I thought it would fall off but so far it's just growing. She definitely gets some crazy bedhead! Her hair has lightened up a lot since birth. It was black and now it's a brown and has some gold high lights in it! She loves her binky and if she doesn't have it she will  find her fist or her arm and has even left hickies.  It's crazy how fast she is growing. We love her and her little noises she is making.
Navy has torticollis. It is where one side of her neck isn't as strong, weak, kinked.... she can't turn her head to the left. She is strong enough that she will just move it the other way if you move it. So we started doing stretches at home and she will have to start seeing a physical therapist a few times a week. She cries so much when we move her head that way and it breaks my heart. She looks so uncomfortable and you can tell it hurts. We are doing our best at home till her appts start and we are seeing some improvement. Her doctor thinks she will be fine since we caught it and because we are willing to do anything! We will watch her and continue working. This girl is an angel and we love her so!

Benjamin's been playing flag football!

We have had so much fun cheering on Benjamin. This was his first time ever playing football. We were all a little slow catching on to the rules but got really into the games once we did. :) Soon we had dads and grandpas all cheering and loving it like the pros! He sure loves seeing nana, papa and aunties come cheer him on. Papa loves watching his boy play too. Jake is the assistant coach so him and Benjamin have been able to spend time together at practices and games. We have loved our times we have and memories of lunches, errands, bowling, mountain and chill time we have together after games.
Benjamin has had some awesome passes and catches. He had a great catch surrounded by other players and then got tackled in flag football haha.

Noah is three!

Yay! Noah is having a party! We sure love this kid! He is so smart and things he is the boss of the house. It is crazy how much he talks like an adult. So dang cute, but just shows how fast they grow up. The other day he came up to me and said, " mom, I'll give you 5 dollars if I can have a juice box" haha he is the best! Noah is so polite and kind. It sure makes me a proud mommy. Noah loves to color and play games on the iPad :/ He had his first dentist appt This last month and did great. He likes balloons, fruit, juice, blue, p.j.masks, Curious George. He is my buddy and helps me all day.

We started out his birthday at Benjamin's football game. We love cheering him on! After we headed to mcdonalds for lunch. What better then a happy meal and playing on the gym. For an activity we decided to go bowling. Noah hasn't been before and had a blast. Every time he went he would throw his arms in the air and say yay I got it! I have to say I killed it! At one point I got three strikes in a row!!!!! I said it was for Noah's third birthday! We love him! I also took pictures of everyone's faces as they turned around after their turn! LOL I love you all! 

Noah isn't big on cakes and cupcakes. We decided to make caramel apples and strawberries and pretzels. Kylee and I worked so hard on the apples and they looked professional! We did s'mores, white chocolate, milk, and m&ms. Noah got so spoiled! A balance bike, a pirate ship fort, easel, lots more and eggs with a box..... yes, Aunt Kylee knows how Noah loves to try and make his own eggs in the family room. He was like what I actually get to smash these eggs! Haha all the kids smashed a couple into the box! We had a fun night playing and setting up toys. 

Thank you all who came and sent presents. He loves his family and was so excited for everyone to come to his house for his party. Happy birthday baby boy!