Random May Pictures

A few random pictures from May:

Jammies laid out before bathtime

All in their matching red moose jammies

 There was a Cinco de Mayo party in our neighborhood

complete with a candy drop from Shawn Beckstrom 

 Everyone's running to the candy...

Jack is a little overwhelmed and running away

 James got one piece and shows me :(

There were some awesome bigger boys who shared though

This is Jack watching the biggest steam engine

in the U.S. make it's way from Ogden, UT to Wyoming

for refurbishing

It's number 4884, the "Big Boy"

Easter

Some pictures from Easter:

James made a brown egg

 The Easter candy was hidden everywhere in the living room,

like a candy-cannon had gone off

 Toys were in on the fun

 The next morning the boys got to see their Easter baskets,

and then collect all the candy

and put it in a bucket in the middle of the room

to share.

 Then we headed outside to collect the dyed eggs

Each boy had a carton 

Church for us is at 1:30, so then we were able to

still get ready and focus on the resurection 

of our Savior Jesus Christ.

Preschool Field Trip!

 The spring field trip for preschool was to the Ogden Dinosaur Museum.  It's a really neat place, with life size dinos all over the park, and you walk through on the path.  There's also a fun playground and indoor museum part where you can watch paleontologists work on restoring real dinosaur bones and other fossils.

 The kids also got to make a stegosaurus in the educational building

Jack had a good time too, he'll be in preschool next year!

Fun Preschool Friends Oaklee, Austin, and James

and siblings Jack, Elise , and Cole

Let Sleeping Babes Lie

 Sleeping Jonathan...this has taken work, but it has paid off as he is doing really well sleeping at night now.  The colicky stage seems to have passed.  He can either go to sleep if you lie him down in his bed or in your arms and he's rocked to sleep. Sometimes he'll wake up only once at night to eat, but technically speaking, that is so great for such a young babe. 

 I use the babywise technique of a 2.5-3 hour schedule, starting

at roughly the same time each day, and having the cycle of

eating/awake time/sleeping in that order.

It seems to have paid off because at exactly 8 weeks

he slept through the night!

I feel like a new woman with that stretch of sleep!

 Grandma has helped by taking the two big boys for me sometimes,

even for overnight for a few days when Nathan was traveling,

because if Jonathan would finally sleep for me then Jack would wake up, or even 

James, and I was feeling like a zombie trying to be awake,

let alone doing anything fun or educational.

Grandma always makes sure they have "liveary"(library) books

and a special treat.  Here they made nests right before Easter.

It has been a real blessing having these grandparents close so that they can help so

I can focus on my baby while he's a baby.

 Jack likes to pretend that HE is a baby sometimes :)

 He's so cute when he sleeps

 I still have a restricted diet of no dairy, chocolate,

or some greens like broccoli and asperagus, 

but it is so worth it

to have a baby that is sleeping

James likes to try to make him smile

and is always watching out for his younger brothers

When he sleeps well, he looks like this,

all smiles and coos and I just love 

kissin' on those cheeks!

Nathan Plays with Lightroom

 Nathan's been doing some photo editing with Lightroom,

what do you think?

Grammies' Visit

 Grammies got to stay a little bit longer after Boompa went home.

We got some good pictures:

 At the park

 Jack at the top of a slide

 Mommy and her three boys

 This little guy is just getting better and better

(and he loves being held)

 Grammies could get Jonathan to fall asleep 

in her arms all the time.

The thing is when holding a sleeping baby,

you can get pretty sleepy yourself :)

Kira came up for dinner one night too!  

It was wonderful that she could come,

and she got some math help from Nathan

while here. Thanks for coming up Kira!

Boompa's Stay

 This post features pictures with my dad, Boompa and the kids while he came out.

I am loving this new camera, but there are so many pictures to sort through that

it is taking longer to get blog posts up. Here's some of them:

Jack wearing Boompa's red shirt around, being a 

red sort of ghost.  I don't think he could see, and he'd just stick right there,

but he didn't take it off for a long time, just being silly.

 Boompa, James, and Jonathan.

He likes to hold the baby :)

The many games Boompa plays with them: chase, horsey chase,

paper airplanes, reading books...

And the kids would just keep going, and so would 

Boompa.  I remember the zombie chase game 

as a little kid, I called it monster chase while

James has changed it to zombies. 

I also remember playing horsey too with my Dad.

 Lady had a friend for the weekend too, their dog Ellie!

 Boompa and Jonathan

We can't wait for Boompa to visit again!