Friday, November 4, 2011

Happy 4th Birthday Janie

Jane was SO cute on her birthday. Just saying she is four has helped her grow up a bit. She hasn't thrown as many fits, and when she does I remind her she is 4 and she snaps out of it much faster. She is such an angel girl, so loving to her sister (even when Paige could care less and pushes her away). She shares everything with Paige and just loves her brothers too. She will be my sweet girl who will always love hugs and snuggles. She was my greatest surprise after years of wanting a baby!





I think Paige enjoyed jane's birthday presents more than Jane did!




halloween





We had a great halloween. It seemed to NEVER END!!!


We had a birthday party for Jane Friday. A ward party on Saturday night. Break sunday. The boys dressed up for school on Monday for the Halloween parade. Jane had a party at preschool that day. Then we went trick-or-treating on Monday night. CANDY galore! It was aweful.


SO...once again the halloween goblin came to our house. Monday night after trick-or-treating the boys ate as much candy as they wanted, then picked out 10 pieces to save, and put the rest in a sac. The sac was no joke, 8 pounds! They traded it for a cool lego set I had gotten at a going out of business sale earlier this year and was saving for such an occasion! They were happy as could be, because it was a cool set, and I was absolutely thrilled!


The result: only one day of wrappers and candy eating before it was all gone, and then no more messes or popping candy round the clock! Well worth the money to me. Now what to do with the candy? Save the best ones for the christmas stockings (hey, why not?) and send the rest up to the office for the girls to eat over the next month or so.


Oh, and a side note: our friends had given us a hair dye for Cameron (he is Messi the soccer player who has shaggy black hair), and Braden INSISTED on his being black as well. So a few days before, Braden again INSISTED on being first, we dyed his hair. After seeing the results, Cam chickened out! Braden loves it. Seriously loves it. Cam used spray dye and he looked grey. Oh well. He wore a beenie. Now Braden has black hair, because it was a permanant dye. funny boy!

Paige

So my little paige is now 19 months. She is the cutest little thing ever. We all just eat her up!
Yesterday in the car I looked back at her in my mirror and she was nodding on and off for about 10 minutes, and then finally she closed her eyes for good....or so I thought. Not one minute later the song "if your happy and you know it" came on (paige's absolute favorite) and just like that her eyes popped open and she was laughing and singing and clapping! It was SO FUNNY!!! I had to turn off the music so that she would actually go back to sleep after that.

Love that happy girl!