Thomas @ 6

Not the best replica of Thomas' school picture, but I love it!

 I know most people don't like school pictures and they don't buy them nowadays, so I almost didn't, but once I saw this picture I was so glad that I did. I think this is the cutest picture ever!

Anyway, a little about our Thomas:

Thomas is a really good kid and we are lucky to have him in our family, I can't believe how fast these six years have been.

He loves school and his teacher. He loves reading and working on his letters.

He's not afraid to be his own person, and won't follow the crowd; he will do what he wants to do or what he thinks is right versus follow the other kids.

He is very tender-hearted, and loves babies!

He's a home-body, he rather hang out with his brothers then play with friends. Which sometimes I stress about him not having friends because he rather stay home but at the same time I love that he loves being with us, I guess we are just way too fun here ;) 

He loves to draw, super heroes, and video games.

He tries his best in school and is always excited to show me his purple smiley face (that means you were really good in school) in his folder.

The librarian in his school came up to me one day and said that Thomas was one of the best kids she has known and that there needed to be more Thomas' in the world, that just melted my heart! 

He loves my home made rolls and asks for them constantly, and he loves Tacos and vanilla ice cream.

He can be a picky eater and likes his food a certain way and it can drive me crazy.

He's not very athletic, and I'm afraid he gets that from me. He likes to play soccer with his brothers and Dustin but that's about it. So maybe he will be more in the arts in school when he is older. 

We love our Thomas!

Our Little Announcement

I made this little announcement over a month ago on social media, but I wanted to document on here too. 

We were able to find out our 4th baby was a girl pretty early on because we took the blood test.

The story is kinda funny, Dustin called me from work, which he never does since he is a teacher, and said the Doctor called, then his phone cut us off!!!! I had been waiting for the call for about a week at that time waiting to hear the results.

I tried calling him over and over, then five minutes later he sends me a text that said "call the doctor".

So I called the doctor and they told me it was a girl, and I just started crying with joy and called Dustin and told him and his class. Then called my mother and mother-in-law, then later announced to everyone with this drawing.

So we are having a girl! And our world is about to change since we have been a family of all boys for so long! I admit this last pregnancy I was trying to stay neutral but deep down I knew I wanted a girl. The other pregnancies I was honestly fine and happy to have boys, but this last time I really wanted a girl, I don't know if it was because my first sonogram the doctor said she might be a girl (since my other boys have never been shy that we knew Peter was a boy from my twelve week apt) that just having the little hope made me want one. 

Anyway, we are excited, especially Thomas he has been asking for a little sister for a very long time. I'm due March 31st, so I'm 22 weeks along, half way, and already have gained 24lbs! I'm just one of those people that just puts the weight on when I'm pregnant. 

We still haven't decided on a name yet, I have a huge list of girls names, but the three we are leaning on the most are Elizabeth, Evelyn, or Eleanor -I guess we like "E" names, but Charlotte are Scarlett are up there too, We are just having a hard time picking, maybe because this might be our one shot of picking a girl's name we don't want to mess it up, ha ha. 

Anyway, hopefully this little girl will have a name soon!

Snapshots

This past month the two older boys and Dustin went to Six Flags with family.

I went to Waco Texas for a girl's day and had a blast, and eat way too much food.

And drawing is always big at our house.

Thomas Turns 6!

I can't believe I have a six year old!

Thomas' birthday was this past Monday. 

To say the least, it was also not a very good day. Peter ended up being really sick and we had to change a lot of our plans.

I like to have the cake and presents all out in the morning with a big Happy Birthday sign for when the kids wake up for their birthday. Well this year the cake started falling apart and the sign fell down, so it looked very sad that morning. 

But despite all the craziness Thomas handled it well and said he still had a good birthday.

I'm so grateful for this six year-old in our lives!

Halloween Festivities

We had a great Halloween this year, it's so fun to do traditions with our little family. 

About a week ago we frosted some Halloween cookies but I ran out of time to make frosting so I sent Dustin to the store to get some, and he came home with just blue, so our cookies weren't very Halloweenish ha ha, but the kids had a great time. 

Then Sunday we carved some pumpkins at grandma Lisa's. We almost didn't carve pumpkins this year, but I'm glad we did.

Then on Halloween for school they had a 50's day to celebrate their 50th day at school. Thomas was very excited to have a root beer float party.

Then trick-or-treating!  The kids were very excited about trick or treating!

For our ward party we all dressed up, Pretty sure Dustin and I were the only adults in costume. As a family we didn't have a theme this year, Dustin and I are Lupin and Tonks from Harry Potter in case you can't tell.

Pumpkin Patches

I don't know why blogging has been taking me forever to get around to, I have had these pictures edited forever ago and just now I am posting about it. 

The past month we have enjoyed going to some pumpkin patches. One night for FHE we went to the pumpkin patch near our house, the kids especially loved the maze part.

Then one day for playgroup we went to another pumpkin patch, the kids loved the corn bin. I'm still finding random corn in  my house.

 Gotta love a crying picture.

A boy and his Dog

Sorry for the repeat for those you follow me on social media.

About a month ago we were in Ikea when Peter saw this dog, I let him play with it planning on not actually buying it but he loves this dog that I didn't have the heart to take it away and ever since this dog has not left his side and it's the cutest thing.

September

I was really bad at blogging this past month, and actually this year.

Life just gets busy and I have been meaning to blog the past two weeks. 

What happened in the month of September:

Thomas was the student of the week and he got to take "Champ" the dog home, and of course when Champ was here Peter threw up on him, and he had to get a bath. The two youngest boys had that mouth, hand, foot disease for two weeks. That wasn't fun, we were stuck in the house and the kids had a hard time sleeping at night because they were itchy, it was a long two weeks.

Thomas is really liking school and is already reading awesome! He loves reading and loves going to school, at least for now.

This past month I painted our front door and build Thomas a book self.

Dustin has been pretty busy at teaching this year, he's says its going to be a challenging year but is still liking it.

One of the reasons I have been bad at blogging is I have been really into a book series that has taken over my life ha ha.

And before the month was over we had our Halloween up because I couldn't wait!