November

I am determined to get caught up on photos!!! So here's November in pictures. :)

Jayla lost another tooth. This one has been loose for a while, and it is the first one she pulled completely on her own!

Some dear friends gave me a baby shower just before Joe arrived! What fun!

The dirty diaper game! Too funny!

Jacob and Jack LOVE trains. They had a close-up view one day while Jayla was in dance class!

Jacob turned 6 on the 10th!

This lady at CiCi's gave him a dollar and a balloon. :) He talks to anyone and everyone, so he just melted her heart and she wanted to do something for him. I don't think she even spoke English very well!

His main/big gift was GeoTrax. He doesn't like "trains with faces" anymore, so we got TWO TUBS of these (about 5 sets) for a great price, and he LOVES them!

Homeschool Thanksgiving & Talent show dinner

 

Jayla and Jack! Haha!!

The chicks are growing fast!

Growing up!

Jonathan finally lost that 2nd front tooth. My kids have all been late teethers (Jonathan and Jack were 17 and 15 months when their first tooth appeared), and now, apparently, late teeth-losers too! And it looks like they will have to have some baby teeth pulled soon (Jonathan and Jayla) because all 4 of them have crowded teeth and will likely need braces. They get that from their daddy!!! ;)

And here he is, also working on that walking stick. Man, he's growing up way too fast! I can't believe my kids use such sharp objects like a saw and knives (mostly just Jonathan still) and have even mowed a little!

Jonathan's tooth!

It FINALLY came out! It was really bugging me! Haha! I actually pulled it out, but I was just trying to see how loose it was. I knew it was loose and has been ready to come out for a while, but it hurt him when he wiggled it. Well, I decided to try something different and I pulled down on it rather than out like he usually did, and it just popped off! We were both shocked!

So now his mouth looks weird because he has this "just-pulled-a-tooth" hole sort of on the front of his gums since his other tooth was pushing it out, and you can already see his new tooth in its proper place. Dangit! I was really wanting to get some professional pictures of him with no front teeth, but I guess it wasn't meant to be. :(

If this kind of thing grosses you out, then don't look at the next pictures, at least not too closely. This was soon after it was pulled, but it has already stopped bleeding. Oh, and he had been swimming, so he's all wet and shiny. :)

My blueberry lovers

They got into these one morning before I got up. I guess they couldn't wait for breakfast, but this is a very healthy one! Messy though! :) I don't know why Jonathan insists on making such a horrible face all the time, and I wish he would just pull that tooth already!!!!

Catching up

Okay, I think this was from two weeks ago. We went to the Lowe's Build-and-Grow kids workshop. Jonathan has been before but I don't think the others have, so it's been a while! I've already signed them up for the December one, which will be gingerbread houses. They look so cute!

In case you can't see the picture very well, you can click to enlarge, but it is Jimmie Johnson's (NASCAR driver) hauler and car. The kids had a blast making them. I was helping Jacob and Jayla both, and we were ahead of Myles and Jonathan for a while! They've really had a lot of fun playing with these. I wish I'd gotten a side picture, but Jonathan took this one and another of them upside down. LOL!
As sad as this may be, I believe this is the only picture I got of Jacob on his birthday! If you look closely you can see that he is standing in Jack's walker and holding it up. That silly kid!
I can't believe he is already four years old! He keeps us in stitches but is still also in that trying stage. He's maturing though, I can see it nearly every day. Just the last couple of days he has eagerly helped clean up his toys and has also shown a lot of kindness to Jayla since she has been feeling a little under the weather. He has been so sweet to her. :)

So for his birthday, we started the evening with a birthday gift scavenger hunt. We wrote clues down that he had to figure out on his own and follow until he reached his gift! He received Cranky the Crane (Thomas the Train toy) the night before, and then for the hunt he tracked down the games of Perfection and Uno and also a pirate dress-up set! He loved that the most, of course! What little boy wouldn't? :) Then we went to his favorite pizza place as a family. It was the same place as last year, and he even got a birthday balloon hat like last year, from the same balloon guy. Afterward, Daddy wanted to take him to pick out a gift from him and he wanted him to choose something that went with Cranky the Crane, so he chose Jeremy the Jet plane with the airport. Now he can connect the two together with the tracks. That is pretty much all we did, but he had a blast and is loving his new toys.

Jonathan lost a third tooth! He has only lost three on the bottom, which is weird to me. I thought number 3 and 4 would be the two on the top! Oh, and when it first came out, I commented on a "pool of blood" and a huge gaping hole, so he called it a 4-star hotel. LOL! I have no idea why he said that, but it was funny, for some weird reason!
I think I'll save the Girl Scout camp for a separate post, and I'll try to get to it in the next few minutes. :)