four boys in a tub! Bryant can’t sit up by himself, but he can sit up in the bath with the help of his bath seat and foam support. He’s super excited to be able to reach and grab things in the tub now!
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Bryant Update 4 and 5 months
Yes, I’m well aware that I completely forgot to give a four month update, so for all those waiting patiently, here’s his stats from November 23rd.
Weight: 15 lbs. (75%)
Height: 26 1/2 inches (greater than 97%)
Head: 17 3/4 inches (90%)
He continues to be the “wonder” boy of our kids and trying to do things early. He’s not sitting up yet, but he is crawling! He started around Christmas day. He’s been getting stronger and stronger in his legs and trying to push himself forward. Finally, around Christmas day, he became more deliberate in propelling himself forward and by the next day, he was pushing/commando/hopping forward! And here’s the video to prove it!
Bryant Crawling-Five Months Pt. 1 from justabunchofcharacters on Vimeo.
Bryant Crawling-5 months pt 2 from justabunchofcharacters on Vimeo.
He’s a very happy baby and his favorite past time is watching his brothers and sisters. He thinks they are all equally goofy. He also loves to reach for us when we walk by. I’ll post next week about his eating!
Happy Thanksgiving 2010
Yep, I know. It’s almost Christmas. I know. I’m a month behind. But this was worth sharing, for the first time ever, we actually had guests for our at home Thanksgiving celebration! Mark had to be on call this past Thanksgiving so we actually had to stay at home! I can’t believe it either 🙂 Mark’s parents were able to come and help us celebrate so we pulled out all the stops. Place card settings, beautiful folded napkins (by Zoe), fine china, and our nice tablecloth. Not to mention our first ever whole turkey roasted, sweet potato casserole, cream corn, green beans, homemade dressing, and the cranberry jelly from a can (yuck on that one). And for dessert, apple cake and pumpkin pies.
We all enjoyed it and I think our guests did too!
Mark was the turkey man. I bought it (on sale for a great price) and found the recipe, and he dug out the gizzards and such, and cooked it! We’re a great team. He also got to carve it.
Stop taking the picture already and give me some food. Peeaaasss!
Campin’ Out
I have been asking Mark if we could schedule a camping trip sometime before the spring. We never really could settle on a day and he wasn’t really looking forward to sleeping in a tent with a newborn (at least until we knew how well he could sleep). After oogling over camping gear at a store one night, we finally agreed to plan a trip and settled on the weekend before Thanksgiving.
And we had a blast! It was nice and cold at night (which meant lots of snuggling) but just beautiful during the day (no coats needed). We traveled to Hunting Island, SC, which turned out to be not too far from home and the towns we passed on the way were very nice. Hunting Island is a state park so there was a lot of naturalness to it. The campsite was full and we met a lot of nice people too (most of them couldn’t believe we were tent camping with ten kids!).
Ceili Rain and Josiah were in heaven with all that dirt and sand! And Ceili Rain has clothes that will be thrown away to prove it (thankfully they were one dollar or less clothes).
We utilized our dutch oven this trip. It was given to us by some camping friends and I love the oven. Unfortunately, we forgot coal briquettes and had to purchase them at the camp store. Anyway, the above picture is of a most extremely yummy apple cobbler deluxe. It was awesome!
Bryant’s first trip to the ocean, out of utero!
Okay, so the weather was nice but the water was freezing! That didn’t stop our water lovin’ children. They kept wading in more and more until they just came out plumb soaking wet! And grinning from ear to ear.
Ceili Rain was still a little timid around the waves but loved playing in the foam they created.
This is the lighthouse on the island. It is no longer functional but very pretty!
Sister love! (It’s so much fun catching these sweet moments)
This is pre-dirty Ceili Rain. If you look closely you can see the smudges beginning to appear.
In the process of taking a dirt bath.
And finished with the dirt bath!
I was bound and determined that they were not going to take a shower while we were there (that’s just a lot of work with all the kids) but by Saturday night, we couldn’t stand it any longer and threw Ceili Rain in to be washed. The next morning, she got up and within five minutes we could no longer tell she had a bath the night before.
Zoe has been learning to cook and her first task was learning to scramble eggs. She does a great job (even if she’s on pins and needles as she works because she doesn’t want to mess it up)! She loved helping out during breakfast time. (Check out Mark’s “Love Me Tender” pj pants…oh yeah!)
And the coolest thing that we barely caught on film occurred Saturday night. We were eating supper and I heard a noise in the leaves beside us. I turned and saw three deer. One doe and her two fawns. They were just standing there and then slowly walked through the camp. All of us were in awe! I don’t think I’ve ever been that close to deer before.
State Park Field Trip
Our local homeschool group had a field trip to the state park. It was a ton of fun and the kids reviewed a lot of what they’ve learned about life cycles of various animals. Zoe and Ceili Rain are pictured above with some friends from church.
Walking across a log= a blast from little ones!
Checking out a real deer antler.
Ceili Rain enjoyed looking at the life cycles of frogs.
The nature center is full of interesting hands on activities.
These two hit it off the first time we stepped into the church we are now attending. They do fight like sisters but in general enjoy each other.
More log walking exercises!
Reunited
While visiting with Ge & Granddaddy, we also attended a reunion of my grandmother and granddad’s families (on my dad’s side…got it??? Just know we’re all cousins). I got to see a lot of family that I knew growing up but hadn’t seen in a while. I have two great aunts and one great uncle who is still alive. My great aunts are awesome! For my wedding, they showed up in matching dresses. And they’re not twins. They, mostly my Great Aunt A, have an awesome sense of humor and I love to hear Great Aunt A laughing. I visited her home once when I was younger and I just remember everyone there being so happy and laughing (maybe that’s not how it always was but that’s what I remember). My great Aunt A is in the middle in the green.
Oh, she also took my dad with her when she was dating! And my dad will be quick to tell anyone that she also bought him his first Easter outfit.
Cousin J, leading the circus wagon!
It was a little warmer this day so all the kids enjoyed playing outside.
Uncle J was too sweet in helping Ceili Rain eat.
Let me just also put in here that my family knows how to cook!
My Aunt D with one of my cousins. There were lots of cousins!
While there, some people told stories from growing up and dad shared this story about his great grandfather. It’s really true and he was really involved! We used to have an article that implicated my great grandfather in the predicament but I’m not sure where it is. It’s so believable that he was involved…dad’s told other stories about their pranks.
Meeting Yaya and Family
We traveled to Ge & Granddaddy’s the first of November. This was the first time that Bryant got to meet his aunt, uncle and cousins.
Needless to say she fell in love! And he returned the love with lots of snuggles.
Granddaddy got some good lovin’ in too!
Liam just had a good time with their dogs.
And outside was the funnest place to be for the whole crew!
We also celebrated my birthday while there. I got adventurous and we had Thai food for the first time and I loved it. Maybe even more so than Chinese…I said maybe.
I also got the most awesomest pair of sandals called Ssekos. Unfortunately, that weekend was the coldest weekend of the fall and I couldn’t wear them. I did get to a couple of weeks later when we had almost eighty degree weather. Gotta love the South.
It’s Catch Up Time
I can’t believe it’s been over a week since I’ve posted! Please forgive me! We have had friends, been camping, celebrated Thanksgiving, and gotten ready for our celebration of Christ’s birth. But just you wait, these next few weeks will be catch up time for me.
So get ready to view some absolutely cute little characters!
Christmas Cards 2010
Gifted Tag Christmas
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A Day at the Park
I’m getting out of order with pictures but couldn’t resist putting these wonderful pictures up from last week. My friend, Tracy, did these unofficial professional pics! I thought she did an amazing job.
It really wasn’t that cold…but he was not very happy about this one.
Did I mention we were invaded last week by our good friends from Transueland???
While getting pictures for Christmas cards, I also snuck in some pictures of Bryant to update our wall!
The Christmas Card picture!
Is this a Gap baby ad or what???
Best Buds!
He found the dirt!
Spot the Ceili Rain!
I’m telling you she loves to ham it for the camera!
That’s one determined little boy.
