conrad jay - week 23

We've been playing A LOT of pirates around our house this last week.  At lease sense digging for gold at a friend's house last Friday.  I though Conrad's photo was fitting.

My pictures are a little lacking this week.  I have a good excuse though.  We were potty training.  Three days with no pants on and dropping everything about every 15 minutes.  Those were some LONG days.  BUT, we've come a long way.  Still not accident free, but he is telling me when he needs to go and now going #2 in the potty. They look sooo much bigger with underwear on.  His brothers have been super helpers with the whole process.

I've been dreaming of the day that I look up and see him reading a book.  We were eating dinner.  He had finished and then grabbed a book to read.  This one is still above his reading level, but it doesn't stop him from trying.  He's been having a blast picking out "Chapter Books" from the library and reading them all before we go back the next week.

The weather was just screaming to get outside on Friday, so once Dad got home, we loaded up the bikes and hit the Ruby Jack trail.  Now that Amos has a bike with gears, he leaves us in the dust.  Silas pedaled his little heart out.  He had to work the hardest on the packed gravel.  Ivan and Conrad were great riders.

Silver Dollar City was on the agenda for Sunday and with friends!  Everything's more fun with friends.  We got to show them all our favorite rides and even try out some new ones.  Amos and I rode Thunderation for the first time!  I was glad I got to be there with him on his first "real" roller coaster.  He loved it.  He's got the taste for it now and I"m sure there will be more to come.

Moire digging for pirate treasure.  It's times like these that I'm glad we have no actual grass to speak of and I could care less that they are digging a big whole in our yard!  

conrad jay - week 22

We were working on Halloween costumes this week and I'll give you a hint as to Conrad's costume.  He's so happy about it.

Here are two of the others.  Knights and Dragons.

Pictured: Adorableness that is Amos reading to his brothers.  Not pictured: the previous screaming and shoving that happened as Ivan clawed his way in.

Rosy cheeks from just waking up!  He's waking happy these days.  And always excited to see Mama!!

JENGA JENGA JENGA!! "Hey Mom, cut it out. I'm trying to concentrate."

You may recall Ivan's previous accident last Sunday.  It was shortly followed by getting a pole swung at his face.  The cut wasn't too deep, but we didn't want to take any chances.  It's pretty much gone down.  When Ivan chooses a face, he commits to it.  He later fell on the other cheek and had a matching bruise. This one.

I see the smile behind this ones tough look.  He's a lover.

And Conrad has been debuting his little tongue!  Can't get enough of that cuteness.

Friday pancakes turned into a game of pancake man.  Amos had him singing and dancing before he consumed him.

Friday's have become time for Poetry and tea.  I wasn't sure how it would go over, but the special cookies, special cups, and actual tea won them over.  We take turns choosing poems to read and laugh over.  

 Dinosaur books, dinosaur figures, and then dinosaur play.  We're all boy around here.

My Knight in Shining armor fixed (got it back to passable condition) the CR-V.  We, again, have two derivable cars.

Loving the outdoors!  

And our big excitement for this week is Potty Training.  I'll let you know how it goes.  He sure is happy with himself.

Even though the weather keeps playing with us, I'm pulling out the fall clothes!  Baby in a Jacket = cuteness!

conrad jay - week 21

How can this little one's first year be speeding by so fast?!?  He visited the fire department for the first time. He was perfectly content in his strollers, but next year, he'll be climbing up in the truck just like his brothers.

We practiced "STOP.DROP.and ROLL" These two were pretty good at it.

Amos took his role in the fire engine very seriously.

Ivan merely tolerated it.

I love my little people.  And they love life.

If it's high, he will climb it.

Lots and lots of day outside this week!  We love this kind of weather!  Windows open, attic fan on.  

Aunt Audrey came for a short visit on Thursday evening.  The boys were all kinds of wound up trying to impress her.

I caught this one of them trying to climb up in the tree to get something.  Danger adverted.  For now.

Conrad and I went to my parents house this weekend for my cousin's wedding.  The rest of the boys were going to join us, but I backed into a tree as I was leaving and now were are down to one car.  It worked out ok though, because Jason's family was just going to come for a short visit, and they ended up staying longer.

We got the cousins together.

Amelia and I helped out with hair for the wedding.

And Conrad and I got some Mommy and me time!  That's hard to come by being number 4.

And then on Sunday, this guy took a spill down the stairs.  He was going up, so we don't really know what happened.  He has a bit of a swollen nose, and a nice bonk on the head, but otherwise is fine.  Definitely gives us a run for our money.

This guy is getting more and more active.  He's banging all these toys and jumping all over the place.

Ivan loves being wherever his brothers are.

Reading about beavers and their dams brought around our own exploration.  We found out that we are not quite as good as beavers.

This one...hahah!