Saturday, October 15, 2011

Noelle Eats A Lot

And so I have a lot of time to read. This is the series I've become hooked on:


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I yanked this pic. from Carola Dunn's website.

Carole Dunn writes the Daisy Dalrymple mystery series, set in England in the 1920's. They have an understated Britisy-type of humor, which I like, and they're clean, which I love. I wish I had started with the first book, though, because Ms. Dunn doesn't go into deep descriptions of her characters in each book, or give lengthy backgrounds or previous action. Which is nice if you're already familiar with what's going on.

Anyway, if you like mysteries, British people, cloche hats, or historical fiction, you might want to try these books.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Top Two Most Common Phrases

Ian: "Can I smell this?"
"Can I run faster than a _____(insert any animal, bug, machine, or mythical creature here)?"

Kellan: "No, Ian did!"
"Noelle's sleeping?" (As he's being chased away from the newly awakened baby)

Jesse: "What's wrong with them?!"
"Is Noelle hungry?"

Haley: "Kellan, your underwear and pants are on backwards."
"Ian, calm down!"


Monday, October 3, 2011

Update

I just took Noelle to the doctor the other day. She has acid reflux, making that an even 100% of my children who have had it. She's also drooling like crazy and chomping on anything that gets near her face.


Here she is wearing a hair clip that Chelsea made for all of us sisters-in-law for her wedding:



She weighed 15 pounds, so she's just below the 90th percentile for her almost-16 weeks.

She learned how to roll over last week and has since perfected it. Now she is in that frustrating stage where, even though she's bone tired, she'll roll over instead of going to sleep. Then she sits there and cries because she can't fall asleep on her stomach yet. Once you do get her asleep, she usually rolls over during her sleep.


Ian is in a preschool co-op we're doing with ladies in our ward. (Did I already mention this? Oh, well....) He won't write his name, or practice writing his letters. I'm sensing he won't be starting kindergarten next year.


Ian loves using scissors. I hid all of the scissors in my drawer, and he found them during one of his "naps". He took them in his room, cut holes in his sheets, cut a shoelace, and cut a bunch of palm fronds off of the plant in his room. When I came in and saw the fronds (other victims of his spree were discovered over the course of a few days) I must have had a look on my face, because Ian blurted out, "The wind did it!"

Kellan is still Kellan. Really sweet and nice one minute, beating up Ian the next.


Jesse is taking classes at EWU for pre-physical therapy. And even though I already knew BYU was a steal as far as tuition went, we're now experiencing first-hand how colleges nickel and dime their students.

Here's Jesse with some of the garden's harvest: