Four years and Four months!

Brig turned four years old this month and Lila turned four months on the 16th. I took them in to the Dr. together for their well checks. It was pretty entertaining. Brig is much more out going than either of the other boys ever were (sometimes that is not a good thing either). Anyway, the Dr. asked him his shapes and colors which he did great on and then he started asking him his letters and numbers. He is not so great at those but unless you saw what the Dr. was pointing to you would never know. He just randomly said different #s and letters and didn't get any of them right but never stopped to say he didn't know what it was or anything. The next question was if he knew his address or phone number to which he replied with out so much as a pause, "1,2,3,4,5,6". The Dr. had a hard time not laughing on that one. He already gets a kick out of Brig cuz when we were in with Alden for his well check in May he asked Alden to "show him his guns" to which Brig asks the Dr "Do you have the tickets?" The Dr. totally confused asks the tickets to what? and Brig says "To the GUN show!" "BANG! BANG!" as he shows his muscles. He now mentions that everytime we go into his office. Brig was well and healthy though even though he is small just like the other boys (not as small as Alden though).
On to Lila...she is tiny as can be she was only 11 pounds, but she is healthy and definately growing she is just going to be little like her brothers only more so since she is a girl. Dr. was wanting to know if she rolls and stuff and I informed him that she sleeps on her stomach because that is how she likes it and she rolls all over. The picture above she rolled until she got stuck under her swing and got mad cuz she hit her head on the tile. Poor thing has a mean mom that has to run and grab the camera for a picture before I can rescue her.

This picture didn't turn out very well cuz my camera was on the wrong setting and she wouldn't hold still but she just looked so cute. Today was the first day cold enough to pull out the long sleeves and she got several comments on how cute her outfit was today so it became blog worthy. The sad thing is with all the different bows she has not a single one was the right color pink. What's a girl to do! I ended up just sticking a plan white one on her. She is lucky her Aunt Tanya and Aunt Kim know how to make bows. Kim has taught me how but I need lots of practice mine are not the greatest. A trip to the ribbons & lace is going to be in store for us really soon though with this outfit and a couple others in hand.

more creepy crawly things

So apparently scorpions and bugs are not enough we recently found out that this house has termites as well, since the property management company could care less who knows when we will actually get those taken care of though. Scott has faxed, emailed and called trying to get them to do something about it and they did send someone, once (to the wrong address) so we wait and call some more. In the mean time though. A couple of nights ago I was checking on Lila in the middle of the night, like 2 am ish and stopped in the bathroom on my way back to bed. I didn't have my contacts in but I could tell something was on the floor it was a dark spot next to the bathtub and so I sat there staring at it waiting for it to move because I was sure it would. Yes it did move and I thought to myself that is very weird it doen't really move like a spider or a scorpion so I turned on the light to see what the heck it was....

This is the crab that belongs in our fish tank. It scared the heck out of me. I ran and got a cup like I usually do to trap bugs and things that I need Scott to take care of for me and covered it up. I know there was no chance of it getting out of the cup but I had to set a bottle of hand sanitizer on top just to be sure. Then I went back to bed and told Scott when he got up he needed to take care of his crab in the bathroom. He must have been very tired or something cuz he just said okay he didn't even question what I had just said to him...

So back in the fish tank where he belongs. We watched him because he disappears all the time and we can never find out what happens to him and then he will randomly show up again. We actually caught him in the act of escaping. he climbes up a plant that is too close to the little filter thing that sticks down into the water and gets on that and climbs his way right up it and into the filter. Well he is totally out of the tank when making that transition there is a small opening on the back so he either decided to take a new trip or he fell then he would have had to fall off the shelf the fish tank sits on and walk all the way across the house to the bathroom. Quite an accomplishment for a little guy like him. Needless to say at the top of Scott's "honey do" list is to fix the fish tank so he can't get out any more. I don't need scares like that in the middle of the night anymore!

Pumpkin Patch Field Trip

This is our 5th or 6th year coming on preschool field trips to the pumpkin patch. The kids love it. Brig is lucky this year to have his cousins Jalyn and Ryker in his class with him. His other cousin Gavin is in the morning class with the same teacher and Logan got to come because I was babysitting him. So it was fun to have all the little cousins the same age together. Getting them to all cooperate for pictures though is a whole other story. That and combine it with the worst picture taker in the world and this is what you end up with.

When Alden was in preschool they use to let them paint the pumpkins. That was probably funner but definately messier and harder to get the drenched in paint pumpkins home without getting paint all over the car. Now they do the craft foam sticker which is much easier.

The kids always have fun going on the hayride. This year they started doing something new and keeping a tour guide person with us the whole time. It was kind of weird at first cuz we are so use to just running and doing our own thing but it actually made it run more smoothly and it was not such a long wait to get on the hayride or to try to get the pumpkins, I guess they are figuring out ways to make it work better since they are such a popular place so that is good.

I traded and left Lila with Uncle Ryan and took his two kids with me so it was really nice to not have to worry about keeping her out of the sun and trying to feed her and everything. I think it worked out well for Ryan too since Heidi was working and he is trying to hide his face these days :)

Happy 4th Birthday Brig!!!

Brig at Three years old

Brig at 2yrs old

Brig at one year old

New born Brig

Brig at 6 months

Brig has the cheesiest smiles. His cousin Gavin sitting next to him is almost 5 and is really big! He makes Brig look so tiny, infact he make Dallin look small. We all know Alden is small.

For Brig's birthday we went to see the Toy Story double feature 3D movie. He has been a fan of those movies for as long as I can remeber. He got to take a couple cousins along that he likes to play with. They all loved it and had a great time. They loved wearing the glasses.

Brig wanted an Easter egg hunt for his b-day. So creative Scott put together a scanvenger hunt for him by taking pictures of items/places in our house and Brig had to follow the clues to find his present. He had a blast doing it. There were only a could of things he needed help on the door bell (he thought it was a CD) the bbq grill and the fish tank rocks (which were very blurry). Now the other boys want dad to do the same thing for them when they have their next b-days.

Brig is probably way to big for the present he got but he has wanted a guitar for a long time (why I really couldn't tell you except he thought it would be funner than air guitaring all the time I guess). Anyway there was no way I was going to spend money to get him a real guitar to break in a day so this was the next best thing. He loves it. The strings move and make noise when you touch them so it works for him. Yes, the boys are attempting to dance, pretty entertaining actually, too bad they take after their mom and have no skill.

I do realize that I do not post pictures in order and all that but i am too terrible at this and it is way too complicated for me to try to fix it after I get it on here so yes it is messy and not in order but you get the idea right???