Jim, Becky, and Kids

Wednesday, October 11, 2017

September Stuff

We spent the month of September re-establishing normal routines and adjusting to the busy life of six kids.

Brigham stayed in the sleepy newborn phase for about six weeks. Jim was attempting to keep him awake in this picture.

I walked into our mudroom one day and walked back out again without noticing Laurel. She was laying in a big pile of brightly colored bags and my brain registered her clothing as another bag. Ha ha!

Sweet sleepy baby. One month old here.

We've continued participating in Bountiful Baskets for much of our produce. One weekend I took a before picture.

I brought home 84 pounds of produce that day! Isn't it beautiful?

Amazingly, everything that needed to be refrigerated fit! (Including ALL of the apples and peaches.) Since we'd eaten almost every scrap of produce in the house before this haul, I was able to fairly accurately note how much we consume in a week. We really do eat about 50 pounds in a week! Wow!

Jim has been AMAZING with this baby. Brigham is my first baby that doesn't nurse to sleep; he wants to be snuggled. He falls asleep best for Jim, so Jim has been the one putting him to bed quite often.

I tried a new recipe with cauliflower this month: buffalo cauliflower.

My first small batch was so amazing, that I immediately made another larger batch (with slight variation). Yum!

I took my girls to have their hair cut with a friend. She offered to style their hair as well, so Annie and Laurel came home with cute braids (Abby declined having her hair fixed).

Cheeseburger soup! Yum! We'd forgotten how good this was!

My little girls love to dress up.

Abby was holding Brigham one day and she called me over. She'd dressed him up. Ha!

Sweet Abby.

I was taking a lot of food pictures to share in our baskets group to help boost numbers. This was showing a way to use frozen produce.

Kids Say

Abby looking at the sunset, "It's pink and purple and blue! It makes my heart fixed!"

Me, "Put some clean underwear on." Abby, "But my brain isn't working!"

Abby, "Did Jesus say you could put mousse in my hair?"

I was nine months pregnant and we were standing in the grocery checkout. Alex looked at me and said, "You look a little bit pregnant."

The kids were asking Jim how his belt buckle broke off and Jim said, "I don't know. It just broke." To which Alex replied, "Maybe you just grew!"

Unnamed older child, "I've actually been changing my underwear lately." Pause. "I know I'm nasty." (Shocked mother moment.)

Abby looking at our wedding picture, "You're beautiful in this picture, but Dad's not beautiful. Only boy babies are beautiful." Then with an assuring nod, "Heavenly Father said that."

Me, "Go to your room; you're crying." Abby, "No, I'm WHINING!"

Abby whining about something small, "I don't want to do it anymore!" Me, "Oh brother." Abby, "I'm not a brother! Stop calling me a brother! That's only boys! BOYS! BOYS! BOYS!!! BOYS!!!"

I sang 'You Are My Sunshine' to Abby. Her response was to sing her own thoughts back at me, "I want to keep you. If you die I will be sad. If you die I will be saaaaaaaad!"

Me, "Who taught your (church) class today?" Abby, "Lizzie's daddy." Me, "What did you do in class today?" Abby, "Eat marshmallows and fruit snacks. That's all."