5 Months Old

 Lyvi is 5 months old today. She weighs 13.8 pounds and is25  inches long. She is so cute! She loves her sisters so much and can't wait to play with them. Yesterday as the girls were playing in the SNOW Lyvi just watched them and really wanted to join in. She is quite the eater. She can eat 3 bowls of oatmeal or rice cereal. We started her on squash and she does NOT like it. The first time I gave it to her she spit it at me, (yep got that on video) and laughed about it! Now when I feed it to her she just makes faces. She rolls over but doesn't like to do it, she prefers to cruise around in her walker. She is getting pretty good at sitting up by herself, and she can stand for about 30 seconds holding onto the couch! Also, she throws her toys all over and then looks at us like "aren't you going to get that". She still thinks it is so funny to pee on me, I don't. My favorite milestone is that she has really learned to love her bath. She seriously LOVES bath time! She kicks and splashes everywhere, soaks me all the time. She also likes to drink the water so we have to really watch her, but she could spend hours in the tub. She is really such a happy baby, and is sleeping 10 1/2 hours at night (and has figured out how to stick her binky in her mouth)!! But no matter what time she goes to bed she wakes up at the same time, so no sleeping in for us ever.... if we could just go to bed when she does. She is finally getting to a stage that I really enjoy. She loves to talk, laugh, and interact with us. Also, she has discovered how to scream like a dying cat. She really likes to do this when it is quiet, like during church, it is actually pretty funny! Lyvi loves books and loves it when we read to her. She also likes to eat them and anything else she can put in her mouth, still no teeth yet but you can see all 4 now they are so close. She is such a joy to have around. I don't remember what life was like before her, we sure love her!
 

Produce

I really can't believe it has been so long since I have posted. 

We have been having fun around here. The girls have been passing around a cold, I think it has finally made it's way through everyone. And we have been harvesting all our produce we received. I find it funny that even though we didn't plant a garden this year I have had so much produce I wasn't quite sure what to do with it all. We ate as many cucumbers as we could. I made a ton of zucchini bread. I dried a ton of onions, that made the house really stink! The tomatoes were the challenge though, we got a ton of tomatoes. I canned a ton of salsa, but I still had so many tomatoes. We ate a bunch, but in the end I made a HUGE batch of tomato soup and froze it. And..... I still have more tomatoes ripening! Also, now I have a big bag of carrots to peel, chop, and freeze. I really missed the spaghetti squash this year we didn't get any of that, too bad. The real bummer is that we didn't pick the apples in time they all fell off, and there was only one tree that produced this year.

The girls have been enjoying the fall weather we have had. They are really hoping to see the snow we are suppose to get this week. I don't mind as long as it stays off the roads!

The girls are all ready for Halloween and so excited. I have looked at our schedule and I feel like the year is just flying by. I realized this morning that Lyvi will be 5 months old in 3 days, and Kaite's birthday is coming up really quick. The good news Ky will be done with this semester around then.

One of the funniest things I have done lately is patch pants (I should have taken a picture). The reason that is funny- Kaitlyn! Kami hit a growth spurt and grew out of all her size 4 jeans, well I got looking and the size 5 jeans were destroyed! They didn't survive Kaite! I got thinking and remembered that she also destroyed the size 6 jeans. I had to move her up to the 7's early because it was so bad. So, I spent an afternoon patching a huge pile of shorts and pants that were Kaitlynized! I saved the ones I could but some have holes in other places besides the knees. I just had to laugh because that is Kaite. I also noticed she has started destroying the size 8's. We decided that since there are two more girls that need to use them we are just going to get some new ones, I resolved myself to the fact that this will happen with all pants and shoes, yeah she destroys those too! You just got to love her! That brings me to my next addiction...e.b.a.y. I looked for cute jeans around here for Kami and could only find cute ones for aver $30 and I am not paying that much for kid jeans (wrong time of the year to be buying). I did find awesome ones on e.b.a.y, some new with tags some gently used. I did well and bought her 5 pair for less than $30 and that includes some with tags on them, and they are super cute! I have also been watching for cute leo's for Kaite, and I have found some I really love!

The girls had their primary program this past weekend. They did good. I wasn't sure if Kami would even do her part she was so nervous. When we practiced at home she would only whisper, so I told her to just look at me and she would be good. The poor thing couldn't find me at first and I think Monica thought she forgot her part, but she did it and we could hear her! Ash and Kaite did awesome and I loved hearing Ash's class sing, they did great. I was so disappointed though because we had 4 boys that thought it was funny to yell instead of sing so we really couldn't hear the kids sing just those boys yelling. It really detracted from the spirit. That's our ward though.....I recently found out what the other wards in the building say about ours, they are right on.

 We had the missionaries over for dinner last week and they are a fun group. I think I have enjoyed Ky's calling more than him. I have enjoyed getting to know each of the young men we have had. I do find it funny that most of them are from the south, we just freeze them out! Also, I am glad he has the calling now and not in 6 years when we have teenagers! Been there done that! I do enjoy that they just drop by at times, they are more relaxed then and not so stuffy!

Another post on Friday with Lyvi's monthly update (hopefully) Fridays are so busy for us!

Catch Up

Alright, since I haven't had much time for blogging (or much of anything else) I figured I needed to just catch up all at once. Here are some pics of what we have been up to.

I finally got Ash's bed done; I also got Ky's dresser painted but no pics of that. I think Ash's bed turned out so cute.

 

 The girls enjoyed spending time with Lyvi during spud harvest. I enjoyed sleeping in, well sort of.

 We have had some gorgeous sunrises.

 Lyvi has started to cruise in her walker, she loves it. She also thinks we are funny when we get so excited because she moves it.

  Mar took Ash in to get her hair highlighted. This was her b-day present to Ash. We weren't on board with this at first, but decided you have to pick your battles. She looks cute as always and I love the way they styled her hair.

  The girls earned more ribbons during skills week. Kami got 4 and has been doing awesome with her back-handsprings (spotted). She was so happy. Kaite finally earned her green ribbon. She had to do a cart-wheel dismount off the beam and get her windmills down on bars. If she gets her standing back-handspring (solo) and middle splits down she will get her blue ribbon, she is working hard.
(The girls have different skill charts so a green for Kami is different for Kaite)

Two weekends ago we headed up to look at the leaves. Once the smoke finally cleared out I could see that the hill was all lit up with the fall colors. We had fun and the girls really enjoyed it. The pics don't do the colors justice.

 We stopped by the cabin and put the boat away, here is a view of the river from the bridge.

 More colors

  We stopped by upper falls on the way home. Kaite was giving us the grand tour since she just had her field trip there a couple of weeks ago.

 Us girlies

 The falls

 So I was really excited to see the red leaves and this was one of the only pics I got of them.

 The sunset was gorgeous!

 

 The mountains in the background.

 

 We had a fun trip and we even saw a skunk crossing the road, the girls loved that. Ky honked at it and it tried to spray the Tahoe....silly boy!

 Ash had her friends party awhile ago. I let her invite 7 friends (not sure what I was thinking). They had fun hanging out at the barn. They ate pizza, played games, and had fun.

 

 And there were presents.

 Silly girls... Camille, Kenadee (her BFF), Ash, and Azlynn

Kaite and Mar playing Cory's xbox.

She had a fun party and I am glad it is over!

Okay so I think I am caught up. Oh except for this last weekend. We spent Friday night at the barn watching Avengers. The girls were so excited Kaite can't stop talking about it. They watched it 3 times in a couple of days. Mar and Cory joined us for a few nights of dinner (homemade lasagna) and a skunk spraying! Yep, last night Cory was lucky he didn't get sprayed. I think the skunk was on the deck when he cracked the door open it sprayed the house and wow did it stink (and still does a little bit). He is so lucky! I used a whole bottle of vinegar trying to get the smell to go away, but we still can't open the deck door. Ky is going to try to get it tonight.

 That is our crazy life for now.