Confused

My boys are confused.

Ben put on Emily's princess dress.


With his Superman cape.


After spinning around for a moment,


he said, "Princess aren't superheros. They can't fly."
And promptly took off the dress.

Noah attempted to suck his thumb for the first time last night.

Through the hole in his pacifier.




I wonder if he will end up sucking his thumb instead of his pacifier.

Storytime

I think by now we all know that Ben is just slightly obsessed with superheros. I had bought 2 spiderman books at the dollar store ages ago, but he wasn't into them at the time. Now, he can't get enough. We read this book about 10 times and he memorized every word. I mean he literally does not miss one word. Of course his sister is jealous because she thinks he can read.

Seriously Ticked Off

David and his Dad went to the movies today. That left me home alone with 3 kids.

I decided to play dress up with my little doll.

He's rather accommodating for about 15 seconds.


Then, he got seriously ticked off at me.


Of course, I laughed because he looked so cute mad, which seemed to make him even angrier. He already has my spunky temper. God help me.

She Loves Him, She Loves Him Not?

She definitely loves him.

Now that Noah is past his due date, he doesn't have to be sitting up to eat. This was Emily's first time feeding her little brother.


I asked her to watch Noah for a second while we did bedtime rituals with Ben. This is how I found the two of them when I went in her room.




She's a great big sister. I love the way she looks at him.

All In A Day

Emily is at school all day and Noah sleeps all day. My attention gets focused on Ben and oh, what a wonderful subject he is.

First thing in the morning, he changed out of his Superman pajamas and dressed in his new Spiderman costume that his Grampie bought him. Grampie is visiting from Florida for 2 weeks.



Spinning Webs


Then came the Buzz Lightyear costume change. This was supposed to be reserved for Halloween, but I just can't resist how cute he looks.


To Infinity And Beyond!


Flying off the sofa


Buzz Lightyear wearing a Power Ranger mask. How's that for creativity?


Another costume change into Spiderman to help Grampie pick (and eat) tomatoes.


Emily comes home from school and is not as eager as her brother to pose for the camera.


Ben dresses as Superman and flies around the house before bedtime.


Noah has caught a little cold and is sleeping all day.


Now, Ben tells me he wants to be a vampire for Halloween. Oh brother!

How Do You Like Them Berries?

Our garden was a total bust this year. The pumpkin overtook everything. Then, some weird bugs came and ate the pumpkins. The only thing that grew were a ton of tomatoes. We have tomato plants where we didn't even plant tomatoes.

The only other thing that produced were our raspberry plants. We are still getting handfuls of delicious raspberries every few days. The kids love them. They are gone as soon as I pick them.

These are golden raspberries. Never heard of them? Me neither. But the plant was on sale last year, so we went for it. They taste like the red ones pretty much.


Don't these look so yummy? They are!


Next year, we are going to plant some blackberries too. Berries are so expensive, might as well grow them. They do really well up here too. The raspberry plant has sprouted up in several other places around the original plant. It may end up looking a little wild, but I don't care. I just like the fruit.

Due Date

Today was my due date.

I thought about this a lot today.

A part of me will always be sad.

Sad that I missed the last few months of my last pregnancy.

Sad that I didn't even have a moment to realize what was going on as I was too high on magnesium.

Sad that I didn't take any pictures of my belly with him inside me.

Sad that David and I didn't get to see Noah be born.

But, I'm so blessed that I have a healthy beautiful little boy.

I'm happy that I don't have to lose all of that extra baby weight that I would've gained in the last months.

I'm happy that the NICU got him on such a great schedule.

I'm happy that I've gotten to look at him every day for the past 8 weeks and enjoy his noises and expressions, and his smell, oh I love how he smells.

I'm happy.