HELP

Ok, so I changed my page and put a picture in the header..Why in the world is it so dang big??? How do I make it my normal size header and still have a picture in it?? Any help would be great. Thanks!!!

Too Good to be True...

It was a nice thought, but as always its too good to be true. I guess there is always the Fiesta Bowl. Bye Bye Roses!!! Maybe next year.

GO DEVILS

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

I am in Az right now hanging with the Fam and loving every minute of it. I really missed the good ol Az heat in November. I wont be posting any pictures until I get home, so this post will have to do until after Thanksgiving. For journaling purposes, I wanted to say all the things that I am grateful for. First is FAMILY. I cant even beging to say how much I love my family. I have the best kids ever. They are all healthy, happy and FULL of energy. Each and every one of my kids has their own individual personalitys. They are all so different and I love it. Noah is smart and literal and helpful and kind and so tender hearted. Lani is friendly, a good helper with her little sister, sweet and so kind, loves animals and makes a friend anywhere and everywhere she goes. Tyson is the funniest kid alive, he has the best smile and the best laugh, he is a good helper and wants to be just like his Dad. Caleb is sweet and playful and happy and is always on the go, he loves his big brother Tyson and follows him everywhere. Avery is mild and happy and easy going, she loves her siblings and smiles any time she sees them, she is funny and already has a great, playful personality. I am thankful that I have a husband who is willing and able to work and provide for our family. I have the opportunity to live in the most beautiful place and be surrounded by Gods beauty. My parents are wonderful and helpful and they love my kids to peices. I am blessed to have a great mother in law whom we all love and the kids adore. I am really focused on family right now because I have missed them all so much and I am so happy to be here.

Im so pathetic, but I already put up all my Christmas stuff before I left so we could come home and jump into the Christmas holiday. It was weird decorating a week before Thanksgiving, but I know it will be nice when we get home. I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving full of family, food and fat pants. I know for sure that I will be ready for the first of the year to come so I can start my "no more babies diet" This means that since I am having no more babies to ruin my body, its time to get back into pre-baby shape. So let me tell you that I am livin it up this holiday season becasue this will be the last time for a long time that I will be able to touch anything that contains sugar, fat or anything that remotly tastes good. Have a great week and...

HAPPY THANKSGIVING.

A Day in the Life of a 9 Month Old

Avery is 9 months old.

Its crazy how fast a month goes.

Here is what our Monkey has been up to.

(Besides being cute)

Avery has learned that if she wants to play with something, all she has to do is grab it. Caleb doesnt think its funny. This girl loves to explore and gets into EVERYTHING!!!!

Avery has some new chompers. Her 2 top teeth came in at the same time on Nov.1 (she has yet to bite-what a good girl)They are the cutest teeth, they are spaced way far apart. We joke that she is gonna be a looker...helmet head, gap teeth and a butt chin. What a sweetie.

She has learned to throw quite the fit. She is so bi-polar. One minute she will be screaming and the next second, she is smiling. All you have to do is pay attention to her and she is all yours. You walk away and she lets you know play time is not over.


We love her big, bright eyes.
We just love this little monkey so much. She makes us laugh and we are so glad she is a part of this family.
She is the most playful baby I have ever had. She loves to play pat-a-cake and eensie-weensie spider. Just today she learned to do pat-a-cake herself. She has learned to wave hi, bye and night night, and does it all the time. She loves to stand, her favorite is to stand looking out the window. She loves her brothers and her sister and loves to watch their every move. She loves to snuggle and suck her thumb. She loves real food and wants nothing to do with baby food anymore. She does not like to be left with someone that is not her mom or dad. She loves me the most (this wont last long so im eating up the attention) She is my smallest baby by far-only 18 pounds. She makes the perfect last addition to this family. We love you Aves.

Photo opp..

This is kinda late, but 2 weeks ago, my kids had Mon. and Tues. off of school, so we decided to do something fun..and free!!! My kids have never been to the Salt Lake Temple, so we took them to see all the neat stuff Temple Square has to offer. We went to the Museum and the kids loved it. It was neat to see them so interested and loving church history. Noah was particularly obsessed with the pioneer trail and how far they walked.

While we were there, I decided to see if I could get some cute pictures. I sware its almost impossible to get all 5 looking at the camera at the same time. So, I guess this was just a trial run and we will try again soon.

Here are some of the pictures that "turned out".

Dr. Visit

So Avery woke up in the middle of the night burning up. I gave her some Tylanol and put her back to sleep. She slept for about an hour and then was awake until 4. She finally went back to sleep only to wake up with another super high fever. I have been so blessed with her-she has not been sick her whole life. This is her first "real" sickness. I think ive only given her Tylanol one other time for her teething. She literally laid on me and didnt move for over 2 hours-not even a smile. I gave her more medicine and put her down for a nap. I went to check on her after and hour and she was just laying in her crib staring at nothing-and still burning up. I took her in to the Dr. and they think its just a virus of some sort because she doesnt have any other symptoms. They first thought it was a bladder infection because right now she has the worst diaper rash ive ever seen. (we are trying new food and its causing diareaha-yikes!!) They had to put in a baby cathater to get some pee out-poor baby, it was so sad. But luckily it came back negative. So hopefully this will run its course and she will feel better soon. So while we were in the office, the Doctor had some concerns about the shape of her head. When I took her in for her 6month check up, she had said the same thing so they did some x-rays and they all looked OK. The Dr. said that sometimes the soft spots in babies heads will close to early and the head will continue to grow, but not have anywhere to go so it grows oblong like. I thought since things looked ok and the sutures were still open, that she would grow out of it. Apparently not. The Dr. is still seeing some weirdness in her head. I dont see it so much, but Bill can. So, she is sending her to see a specialist and on the referal form it says "Helmet Therapy". My sweet little monkey might have to wear a helmet to correct it. Poor sweet thing. I know that its something she has to do and its for the best, but I just have a hard time with that idea.That just doesnt seem all too comfortable-and she would have to sleep in it and only be able to take it off for about 1 hour a day. Im still praying that its not as bad as the doctor thinks it is, but I guess we will see. Our appointment is on the 28th-so I will keep you posted.

On a completly seperate note, I have decided not to go private. I have thought a lot about this and have gone back and forth, but I think I will stay public. One of the things that I love most about this blog is that I can write down my feelings and my experiences and all the crazy things that we go through so that we can remember them. I love that everybody does that too. I love being able to see what my friends are up to and how their familys are growing and what things they are experiencing. I am also an admitted blog stalker. I love jumping from blog to blog checking out how different and similar other peoples lives are. I can honestly say that from doing this, I have learned a lot. I have found links to some really useful websits. If these were private, I would not have been able to do that. Im not saying that my blog is full of wisdom and useful information, but I would feel like a hypocrite if i blocked mine while looking at everyone else's. I know that scary things can happen, but as long as im careful about the info I put on here, then I think it will be OK. So on that note, I want to share some cool websites that I have found. I hope that these people dont mind me spreading the word, but they are too good not to share. My fav. cooking websites are: ourcookingsite.blogspot.com, pickypalate.blogspot.com, and pimpmydinner.blogspot.com. These have some really useful recipies and some supper yummy ones. I have already tried a bunch out and they rock. So, check them out. I also encourage everyone to do the same thing-share the cool things you find or learn from these blogs. This is really such a cool concept and if we use it for good, then it can only get better.

Thrifty

What do you get when you only have $80 to spend on snow clothes for your entire family....?

Well, if you shop at the coolest thrift store in all of Park City/Heber you get... 5 pairs of bibs, 1 pair of snowboard boots, 3 heavy duty, awesome, snow jackets, 3 pairs of snow gloves, and dont forget the ugliest, early 90's flower, star snowsuit for Avery (at only 3 bucks i dont really care much what its lookin like. You really gotta click on the picture for the full effect.)

And I owe it all to my super cool hubby who went to stand in line early to get it all. It was hard to let him go and pick it all out with out me seeing it first, but I was so impressed with what he came home with. Thanks Vili. So now my kids have all the winter stuff they need to have a fun winter in the blasted snow. Now we will just see how often it gets used because mommy never wants to go out in the snow because she is too warm sitting by the fire place drinking hot chocolate. Good times. Only 7 more months until summer. YEA!!!

Scary sight

What is this scary sight you ask???

Is it our mousy friends?

No way, we caught him last night, thanks to a good ol mouse trap.

(shh..dont tell Caleb and Tyson)

This is what happens when you wait too long to cut your familys hair. The dark hair is Bills alone. I should have taken a before picture because his hair was soooo long and shaggy. He was threatening me to go to Bikini Cuts if I didnt cut his hair soon. Now my family is all cute and clean cut. At least for the next month anyway!!!!

Mourning

It is not a happy time in the Lomu house right now. We are all still pouting about ASU's loss on Sat. night. I know its only one loss, but it was their game and they threw it away. And what makes me even madder is.. that I even care. Its football for cryin out loud. But I do care and that will never change. They could be 1-8 and I would still be cheering on my Devils. We still love you ASU. We will be cheering for you next week all decked out in our ASU gear and hoping for another win.

GO DEVILS!!!

Mousy, mousy

We have a lovely house guest that the kids have named mousy (creative, I know). This mouse is the quickest little thing I have ever seen. We have really only seen flashes of it as it darts across the floor to its new hiding places. Yesterday when I got home from dropping the kids at school, I walked into the kitchen and the mouse darts out from somewhere and runs under the kitchen table. I freak out and get Bill. He grabs the BB gun and heads for it. The boys were loving this-they wanted to get this mouse. All of a sudden, I think it hit Caleb what was going to happen. He runs after Bill and says "Dont shoot it, it a baby". He kept saying it was a baby mouse and he was really upset about it. It was the cutest thing I have ever seen. We dont really see a whole lot from Caleb because he usually copies everything Tyson and Noah do, so this was unusual for us. How can you argue with that? As much as I hate mice, and it creeps me out knowing there is one in the house, I guess we will have to let Mr. mouse trap do its work.

Happy Birthday!!!!

I just wanted to say Happy to Birthday to my wonderful Mother-in-law. I am so lucky to have an awesome mother in law that I get along with and that I love so much. The kids adore her and love it when we go to "Grandma Sandys" house. She is such a good grandma, also. She always plays with the kids and always has something fun for them when she visits or just because she saw something that reminded her of them. The kids miss her so much and cant wait to visit and see "Harry". She is always doing nice things for others and when I was in the Hospital for a week after I had Avery, she watched all 4 kids. She also came to help when we moved to Utah and was the fastest unpacker I have ever seen. I know it was hard because my kids are crazy, but she did it anyway and I so appreciate all she does for us and for our kids. We love you Sandy.

Happy Birthday!!!!

Holy cow...its over

Can I be really honest and say that I really dont like Halloween all that much. Maybe im just lazy mom, but after the 5th time of dressing your kids up and getting, yet again, more candy, it starts to get super lame. BUT...I love seeing my kids so happy and loving their costumes. This year we had a school carnival, a trunk or treat with the ward, school parties and then the great night itself. Our trunk or treat was pretty fun-Park City residents dont take it lightly. I couldnt believe the stuff they had: full size candy bars, popcorn balls, full size fun dips, handfuls and handfuls of candy. By the looks of the buckets you would think we had been to 100 houses.

This is my very lame attempt at decorating our car. You cant see, but it had spiders and scary skeletons and what not. I think we won last place.

Avery discovered her passion for the good stuff. She went nuts with this bowl and even though she didnt have one taste, she had the best time with the wrappers.

I also really really hate to carve pumpkins. I think it more hassle than fun, but again..its for the kids. Thankfully Bill takes over this activity and lets the kids design their own and then he carves them. I cant wait for the year that I feel comfortable with my kids playing with knives.

This is our quick attempt at pumpkin carving. We wait until like an hour before bed so its always rush, rush.

(ps. I way lightened this picture becasue the real one was to dark to see-the pumkins are glowing and its actually super dark and freezing cold.)

Avery thought the best part of carving the pumpkin was eating the scraps. MMMM... yummy!!

We decided to spend Halloween at Scott and Andreas neighborhood because they have way more kids, the houses are closer together, no hilly driveways and the best thing..its like 10 degrees warmer, although once you get below 50,in my book, its lost all its fun. I stayed in the warm house with Avery, and Bill and Scott took the kids around the block. (the cute crimpy haired girl is Claire-she was the cutest kitty I have ever seen. Mason was a fluffy dog-so cute and sooo warm.) Noah thought he was too cool to stay with dad, so he took of with a friend. I guess this is the age it starts.

Avery was a devil again, but she looked more like little red riding hood to me.

I think the kids had had it by the end and we were all so glad to go home. They all fell asleep on the journey home and went straight to bed (without brushing-ahhhhhh. The dentist is going to love this family!)

I cant wait until next year!!! Im sure you will see a recycled costume or 2. Im with you Julie, I hate spending money on costumes. The kids had fun, but now its time to put away the pumpkins and spiders and get out the christmas decor-oh I mean thanksgiving. I usually skip those decorations and head straight to the good stuff. Oh joy, I love this time of year!!! I love soup and fires and the music and the baking and the eating and the spirit of the holidays. Its a great time.

PROPS!!!

I just have to give props to my Devils. They killed last night and remain undefeated at 8-0. I was so happy to be able to watch the game-only the 2nd one this season, but I really wish I could have been there. This only makes it harder to be here and not there cheering on our Sun Devils. Good luck next week with Oregon-this will be an awesome game.

GO DEVILS!!!!!

Thoughts

This week has given me a lot to think about. I go through spurts of not really trying to think of much because it causes me way too much stress, but then there are times that I am given opportunities to put things into perspective. Ive had to take a good look at my life and the way that I live it. Ive come to the conclusion that it will never be how I picture it should be. I put way too much pressure on myself to try and "DO" it all. Im not one of those moms who volunteer for everything and people dont ever come to me in search of help and advice like I know so many people have to deal with and I am a little thankful for that. (I did volunteer at the school bookfair for 2 days, I felt pretty good about myself =) I just try to fit it all into one day and by the end of that day, I have not accomplished anything. I try to clean until its clean, but that never happens and I end up cleaning all day and ignoring my kids, husband, dinner, and everything else I should be doing. I have this picture of perfection and im so not a perfectionist. I did take on some traits from my Dad though, sometimes like when im cutting hair, it takes me way too long becasue it has to be perfect, or when I start a project (projects are my dads specialality) it takes longer than it should because I find more ways to organize. Its weird that I can be so picky about some things, but when it comes to my home, Im just not and I cant figure out why. I go to my sister in laws house and it is always perfect, Its clean even when its got toys on the floor, its way too cutely decorated and her kids are always the cutest. Im so the opposite. My house is always a mess and its always unorganized even though I spend hours organizing it. I really have no decorations at all and my kids are never clean. Tyson is a little obsessed with clothes and he thinks he knows better than me what matches and what looks good, so he is always a little mismatched. The second I put clean clothes on Caleb, they are no longer clean. (We dont call him pigpen for nothing). I for some reason think that everyone else has it together and I am just a mess all around. It gets really discouraging after a while. I am litterally making myself crazy. I want so much, but I cant do it all. I think I know that now. I have been praying for help in this area for so long and I felt that this was never going to end, but I think Ive had a revalation of some sort. Its like all of a sudden, my alzheimers temporarily left and I saw the truth (or my husband showed it too me, same thing right?) I really have to be happy with the person that I am and the situations that im dealt. I dont really know what anyone else is going through-they might be going through the same stuff but they are just masters at hiding it. I have 5 kids and in that is a lot to deal with. I am always going to deal with messes and laundry and dirty faces and pee all over the bathroom and food all over the floor and toys all over the house and a husband who likes to spend all day Saturday watching football ( i just had to throw that one in there) Lani will always cut her own hair no matter how many times we have to chop it, Caleb will always have a dirty face and runny nose and he will always make the biggest messes just cause he can. Tyson will always "attack" Caleb because he took his toy from him and in the process wake the baby from the yelling and screaming. Noah will always whine because he has to do chores or because the little kids got into his room and trashed it, and Avery will always be high maintance. And "ITS OK" It really is. Its ok if they are always the ones who are running through the house and screaming, or if they are the only kids talking and lauging when its supposed to be quiet ( church is a whole other post) and its ok if we go out to the store and they are straight out white trash, even thought I always said i would never be that mom who takes their kids out with no shoes or a messy face or dirty clothes, but I am that mom because I dont have the time to change their clothes for the 10th time that day or because I have to run and grab something fast or if I forgot the wipes to wipe them down after lunch. Its OK. My kids will never be the best behaved or the quietest or well dressed, my house probably wont ever be the cutest because I could honestly care less about decorations and I would way rather spend my money on something else. I will never be fully organized, I will always find something else to organize which will create more unorganization. Its how I roll, and its OK. As long as my kids are happy and as long as we teach them the important stuff and as long as they know how much their mommy and daddy love them, that is ok with me. I will do all that I can and that will have to be good enough. I love being a mom and wouldnt trade it for the world. I was sent these kids for a reason and for that reason I will keep on keepin on (We are all Brady Bunch right now) I love watching the kids play and laugh together. I love listening to Noah read to Lani her princess book. I crack up everyday because Tyson has the whittiest (sp) comments. I melt when little Avy smiles at me and gives me the hugest slobber kisses. I love when Caleb gives me a spontanioius hug or kiss or pinches my bum and says "tooshie" and runs away laughing. I love when Lani trys to save the little animals (like our little mousy house guest) or crys because she has the sweetest tender heart. I love how Caleb doesnt want to go anywhere without Tyson. I love when Noah laughes so hard because he just told a not so funny joke. I could go on and on. I just love my sweet kids and their energy and their different personalities and for who they are. I am so blessed to have what I have even thought its so dang hard and tiring and crazy and time consuming and so much more, but by far the good out weighs the bad. I know that with each stage comes different trials, but I want to enjoy them right now. I dont want to worry if my kids think im crazy because im dancing around like a nerd, I just want to have fun. I want to be more involved instead of cleaning (or blogging) all day.
Sorry if this was so all over the place, but I really just wanted to get this out for my own purpose, so when times get crazy, I can look at this and remember what I felt and why.

Ok, so on a totally unrelated subject, my sister told me that on the Tylenol website, you can download a $5 dollar coupon because of the whole cough and cold fiasco. So thats pretty much a free bottle-so take advantage.

FREAKY FRIDAY CARNIVAL

Friday night was the kids school "Freaky Friday" school carnival. All the kids dressed up except Caleb who was havin none of it. He did eat the food, though.

I think this picture sums up the night for Scrubs (Calebs nickname) I just love his blue eyes!!

This was not a normal school carnival. Things are always so above and beyond in this town-such a change from good ol Robson Elementary. They had game after game, a huge rock climbing wall, choo-choo rides, bounce houses, obstacle courses, a not so spooky haunted house and way more. My favorite part of course was the cake walk. You should have seen some of these cakes people made-they all looked so yummy (that ones for you, Bill) We all got together and all went in at one time so that our chances of getting a cake was better. Thanks to our lucky Ty-bo, we won, but not before our dream cake was snatched right before our eyes. Way to go Ty!!!!

Tyson and Caleb could have ridden this choo-choo 100 times. I even rode it with them-I thought the whole thing was going to collapse. Yikes!!
Sweet little Av's was our little devil for the night. This costume seems to fit because she has been a little devil lately. Teething is NOT FUN.

We were so lucky to have Barb, Blake, Sophie, and Ana visiting with us for the weekend. They came with us and joined in the carnival fun (as much fun as you can have standing around doing nothing. Its not the same when your kids arent involved. Thanks for being good sports !!!!) The kids loved having cousin Ana here to play with and to babysit. Thanks Ana for coming. We loved having you!!!

Im so mad that I didnt get any pictures of the weekend, but Barb is more of a camera phobe than I am. Us together ='s NO pictures.

Lani decided to be a girl pirate. She looked so cute. I will post some real halloween pictures after halloween. She will completly fit the part now because she just lost her front tooth. Hilarious.
The boys and Lani loved playing games with their dad. Im so glad he is a playful dad becasue there is nothing I hate worse than carnival games.
This weekend we are having a trunk or treat and then the kids have Monday and Tuesday off of school and then Wed. is Halloween. I better put on my creative hat and make this a fun, spooky weekend.

Happy Halloween!!!!

Random

I have a bunch of random pictures that I want to post, so this might be a long post.

We got school pictures back and I was pleasantly surprised. School pictures never, ever turn out in our family, so I was so happy these ones did. My kids look so old and grown up. Time goes by way too fast.

Noah was so proud of his picture. For some reason, he just cant smile normally, so we have been working on getting a natural smile. He actually did it and he just thought his picture was soooo good (and I thought it was too.)

Lani is our exception the the no smile rule. She always smiles and looks so cute in her pictures. Last year, right before christmas, she decided to cut her own hair and it wasnt just a little cut, it was the whole left side of her head all the way up above her ear. We had to CHOP off her hair right before our christmas pictures (of course). So I love that her hair has finally grown back-but this happiness is short lived because she got some tape stuck in her hair and thought the only way to get it out was to cut it out-so yes, she will yet again be getting a hair cut before picture time.

(No, her face is not dirty, she has had a rash for the last 2 months-I think she is allergic to Utah =)

There are a few things that I love about where we live, and one is that they are really into extracirricular activites. I signed the kids up for ice skating lessons, and let me tell you that it is pure comedy. Lani doesnt move anymore than a few inches at a time, and Noah thinks he's a pro. They were falling like every minute

This picture is kinda blurry, so sorry. When Noah saw that some of the kids were skating fast, he thought that it must be easy. He took off and then fell so hard. When we first got there, we didnt see any boys and he told me that ice skating was for girls and he wasnt going to do it. I told him that if he wanted to play ice hockey, he had to learn from the bottom. We saw boys when we got inside, and that made him happy. Notice the back of his shirt is soaking wet. This was only after about 20 minutes on the ice. The kids are having so much fun doing this. Next on the list, learn to ski/snowboard. The school takes them every friday during ski season and teaches them. Noah will snowboard and Lani will ski. I cant wait!!!

It was a semi-nice day, so I sent the kids out to play. Tyson is the funniest kid. He loves to make things out of anything he can find. He created his own drumset. We dont have drum sticks so he used my wooden spoons (which were both broken by the end of his jam session) I love the helmet and his glove with the fingers cut out. We love this guy.



This was the project that I did at my enrichment night. I havent got the ribbon for the sides yet, but you wrap in in ribbon and tie a bow on the top. I think they turned out so cute. I did each of the kids names in a different color. (it says "I am a child of God" in case you cant read it)


We had a lazy dinner night the other night and Bill made breakfast burritos. Tyson decided that he didnt want them and he was going to make his own. Caleb thought it looked so yummy.
I think he took one bite and decided the breakfast burrito was better!!


And last but not least....
Lani has had a loose tooth for like 2 weeks. This thing will not come out. We tried wiggeling it, tying dental floss around it and yanking it. It is the most stubborn tooth. Of course, now that I missed pictures with the changing leaves, she is going to have a toothless smile and short hair. (and a red nose from the cold) I guess I learned my lesson on why procrastination is not a good thing.

I guess it was only a matter of time...

I just got home from a super-fun enrichment night and I heard a horrible story about what yucky people can do with your pictures-especially your kids' pictures. I have been thinking about going private for a while but not really wanting to do it. What are your pros and cons, concerns and issues with blogging non private? I know the odds of something happening to me or my kids is way high, but ive just started becoming slightly paranoid. Honestly, my favorite thing to do is jump from blog to blog and I really would feel bad shutting mine off when I stalk so many people myself-but I know that im not a bad stalker-just a nosy one. Im going to give it a week and then switch over, so all you peoples out there who check in often, periodically or whenever, please leave your email address so I can add you to my list of stalkers. I really dont care who you are as long as you know me through some friend of a friend of a cousins brothers uncles aunts.....whatever. I know im so not cool in anyway, but if you think its worth it, leave your info.

Anyway...I just made the cutest craft at enrichment. Its a glass block with my kids names saying I am a child of God. They are soooo cute. I just need some ribbon and then I will take a picture and post it. They are too cute not to share. I also have some school pictures. I am really happy with how they turned out-for once. Have a good weekend!!!

Happy Eight Months!!!

My sweet baby princess is 8 months old!!!! I cant believe how fast time flys. She just started crawling about a week ago and she is already so fast and way too mobile for me.

She got her first tooth on Wednsday and her second one came in just 5 days later. I'll just say that one bite and she's done!!!
Avery is so animated. She has about 1000 different facial expressions. She has mastered the dirty looks. I was trying to take some pictures of her and she was not havin it. She just wanted to crawl around.
We have a storage closet in our house and I was rearranging it, I walked out for about 30 seconds and when I came back, this is where she was. The step ladder was closed.
Avery loves to put anything and everything in her mouth. She has figured how to pick up the small things with her fist, and then she puts her entire fist in her mouth and gets the prize. Her favorite....CHEERIOS. At least its healthy.

We know that Avery is tired when she falls asleep anywhere. She is such a habit creature that she can only sleep in her crib. Sundays are hard because we are at church during her big naptime. She is so cute when she sleeps. The second you give her her blankie, she puts it to her face, sucks her thumb and crashes.

When she wakes up, she wants to be picked up right then. She will cry and cry, but the second you walk in the room, she is all smiles. She loves when her brothers come in to play with her after her nap. One day, I went in first and she looked right past me looking for Tyson and Caleb to play. I love the way she looks at her brothers and sister. She lights up when they are around and vice versa.

We are so blessed to have this sweet angel in our house. From her big slobber kisses to her big, bright eyes, she is such a light in our home. I get so sad sometimes because she is growing so fast and I am really going to miss her sweet baby face and miss her cuddles. But I also really enjoy watching her learn new things. Happy 8th month sweet girl!!! We love you so much.