{Macy 7 weeks}

Macy is growing so fast! She is starting to smile and coo but you usually only get these right when she wakes up from a nap. She has officially grown out of her newborn clothes. She loves to listen to you talk and stares intently at you while you do. She is patient with her siblings as there is always a lot of noise. She has had a few run ins with the big brother but only lets out an angry cry when he touches her wrong. When he comes around her now you can tell she gets a little nervous but she still trusts him enough not to scream and cry when he gets close. I am sure the time will come. She is finally on a schedule for the most part. She goes to sleep around 9 wakes up around 12:30 for a feeding back to sleep and then up again around 6:30 to eat again. Some night she is up every three hours but lately she is starting to sleep longer. Thank heavens! During the day she eats every 2.5 to 3 hours, hangs out for about an hour and plays either listening to Mom talk and play with her or just kickin' it on the floor or in her bouncy seat. When she gets fussy I rock her for a few minutes and she sleep for the next hour or so until we start the process all over again. I have tried just laying her down for her naps and she throws a big fit. I have tried letting her cry it out but after 20 minutes I feel guilty and she is so ticked at me she doesn't even settle down for several minutes even while I am holding and loving her. She usually stops crying the second I pick her up in normal circumstances. Since she is my last baby I am going to snuggle and rock her to sleep. I don't care what any of the books say! I have yet to capture a good smile picture. This is the best I have captured so far and the little stinker turned her head at the last minute. At least you can kind of see it. Here she is hanging with Daddy. When Macy sleeps she burrows her head in my armpit (lovely I know) or she covers her head with her hand (see below) She gets that from her Dad. She also loves to sleep on her stomach. (Yes, I know "back to sleep" is the rule) I just love to see her little body all scrunched up. Aren't her little pants the cutest!?!

Brigham Turns Four

I can't believe it has already been four years. Four years ago our little B came along and we have loved life with him since. He has such a fun personality and keeps us laughing every day. I took the day off work and so we could spend the day together. We went to Gringos and ate lunch, they sang to him which was imbarassing for him but he handled it well. Then we went to Wal Mart and picked out the toys to put in his party bags for his sisters and cousins who would come to his Birthday party that night. Brigham was hard this year and every time we would ask him what he wanted for his bday he would say nothing. We took him to Toys R Us to inspire him with some ideas and still he really didn't care about anything kept saying he didn't want anything...even at Toys R US. What!?! Scott and I were on our own and decided to get him the new Fisher Price version of Legos, a tool kit and bendaroos. At the last minute he decided on a birthday theme of Transformers so we got Transformer birthday products to decorate with. Getting ready to blow out his candles. He got this fun new UNO game from Grandma and Grandpa McGarry. It is pretty cute and I would recommend it to anyone with preschool age kids. He picked out this balloon at Broulims. The lady helping us was really fun and even got on the microphone and announced to all the Broulims shoppers that it was Brigham's fourth birthday. He thought that was pretty cool. He had lots of helpers when it came time to open gifts. Haylee and Brock opened the legos and color book that Brock, Aunt Michelle and Uncle J gave him. He did't seem to mind as he was busy opening his other gifts. I didn't find time to make him a cake so we picked one up at Broulims. I bought some fondant and put the Transformers logo on it so we could tie the cake in with the theme. He was happy with it. Happy Birthday B, we love you!

The Latest

The kids are out for Spud Harvest and we had great plans to head to Utah on 10-7 and stay for five whole days. My nephew Wacy is entering the MTC today and my other nephew Ben is getting baptized on Saturday so it was a perfect reason to go spend some time with family. Our plans changed when Ashtyn and Brigham woke up with 103 degree fevers on Tuesday. We are all really bummed that we are still here but we are making the most of it. I made home made play dough,got a new movie and each of them their own Sprite. We only cry when we realize that we should really be in Utah right now. Bummer. They are feeling better so maybe by Friday we can still make it down. For now, here are a few pics from the last week or so: My little helpers. They all love helping with Macy and I must say I appreciate the help and actually trust them to hold her. The Ricks' family has six people with birthday in October alone so we just throw one big birthday bash to celebrate. We had it at our house this year. This doesn't look like much of a party, but it was fun. We got out the chocolate fountain, had homemade pumpkin pie, turkey, potatoes etc. We didn't even eat the cake because we were all too full! It also snowed this week. Here is Macy and her first snow. Here are the girls playing in the snow. Brigham threw a big fit over his winter boots so he choose not to play outside. Maybe next snow (and now that he has new boots) Macy is officially 4 weeks old. Here she is with Haylee, she is getting big way too fast! Also notice that Haylee lost one of her two front teeth on 10-3. She was so excited.