Time Flies...when you're busy

It's been an interesting November. I'll start backwards and go from there. Tragon had his 4 month checkup today. I forgot to get the little printout, but I'm pretty sure of the stats:Height: 26" 50ish % Weight: 12lbs 6oz 8% So, he's still tall and skinny, like my boys have all been...must take after their daddy. :)
Tragon is an absolute joy and probably been the best "baby" so far. He sleeps great, eats great, let's me actually put him down, and adores his older brothers. They are much better entertainment than myself and they love to play peek-a-boo and try to tickle him. He's starting to laugh, smiles all the time, and can almost roll over.
Haha, this is what happens when I get distracted doing the dishes or cleaning. I think Damon and Tragon were both sleeping and so I let Logan use a marker to do some preschool activity books (gotta love the dollar store). Anyway, I turn around and he has blue everywhere. Granted it was a Mr. Sketch marker, and really who can resist smelling them.
It was too funny that I just busted up laughing and got the camera. This is Logan's, "what's so funny mom" look. My boys sure keep me on my toes!

So, sadly no more pictures, but here's the rest of the month, this past week we attended a funeral of one of Morgan's cousins who died very unexpectedly and was about Morgan's age. I'm not much of a funeral person, in fact if you ask any of my friends from high school I vowed I would never attend a funeral, even my best friend's. I guess I matured a little bit, but I'm still not a huge fan. This funeral was different. There was just a different feeling there. I'm not saying people were happy, because we are all definitely going to miss him and there was a sadness about it, but there was such a certainty of the gospel plan presented that it was hard not to have a testimony building experience. I think I was able to keep my emotions in check until I gave my aunt a hug and then I was just speechless for fear I would start sobbing. I can't imagine loosing a child so young. My prayers will definitely be with them all for quite some time, but I am grateful for my knowledge to know that families can be together forever and that our Father in Heaven loves us and will be with us always.

This month also marks the passing of our 4-way inspection on our basement. We're definitely making some progress, so we'll have to get some pictures up soon.

I started a playgroup with a neighbor, we trade off every other week for about 1 hour and half one day a week. It's been fun. Logan definitely likes having friends over and he seems to behave pretty well at other houses too.

On the 13th, it was Morgan's 31st birthday, and on the 6th it was 26th birthday. It was pretty low key for both of us. We decided that our fireplace was our real birthday present...and Christmas present...for about the next 5 years. :)

We're part of ward dinner group thing and we're a host family. Towards the beginning of the month we had our first dinner. We had 3 other couples over. It was really fun. A little hectic because that was also Morgan's late day, so he was getting here about the same time as everyone else. They had some games going at the church after everyone's dinners, but my kids had been sick the week before and we were both exhausted and couldn't find a babysitter so we stayed home. We're looking forward to more dinners and being able to get to know more of our neighbors.

We're planning on having a lot of fun over Thanksgiving, so I'll post about that later, so until next time...

Happy Halloween

What could have been a not so fun Halloween, ended up turning out really well. These are a few pictures from the day.Logan had been asking to carve the pumpkin all week, but we just kept getting too busy, so finally on Saturday we carved the pumpkin face. :)
I don't think Damon really had any idea what Halloween was about, but he did great following Buddy around.
Tragon was a good sport about the whole thing. I forgot to take off his bib so you could see his Halloween outfit, but oh well.
Since we've been working on the basement, we're at the place where we needed to finally move the TV upstairs to get some things finished...
I sure hope it doesn't stay up here long. And this was a rare TV dinner sort of day while I was trying to get some other things taken care of so we could go trick or treating.
Logan was Batman. The first time we put on the costume, he freaked out an hated it, but then when it was time to actually go out, he kept running around saying, "I am Batman!"
Damon was Robin. I'm glad we got a picture before the glasses broke. It was so cold, he ended up wearing a beanie anyway. :)
Batman and Robin. Logan even called Damon Robin for the night and when he couldn't see Damon he would ask, "Where is Robin?"
Here we are carving the pumpkin.....I still don't think they are quite old enough, I spent the latter part of the carving trying to get them to stop throwing the pumpkin guts on the floor and taking the pumpkin saws away. We survived though and I think it turned out pretty good.
The boys picked out the owl picture from our carving kit. I'm glad too, the other ones would have been a lot more difficult to do with the kids.
And the finished product. We didn't have many trick or treaters. We all went together anyway and just left a bowl on our porch and it was pretty much all there when we got back. We went later than we wanted, but we had to wait for the rain to let up and it finally did. I bundled Tragon and we headed out around the neighborhood. The kids did really good except they still think they are supposed to actually go into the houses, I guess it doesn't help that the first few people we went to were houses that actually did invite us in for a while. :)

Just as we were about done, Damon tripped on the sidewalk and wasn't too happy for the rest of the night. And just like we thought, Morgan ended up carrying the two boys while I had Tragon, the umbrella, and the baskets....yeah, should have grabbed the wagon when we had a chance. Oh well, it worked out and it was a fun night. We got home and put the kids to bed and fell asleep watching a movie. Sunday I woke up with a sore throat, and this morning, Damon woke up with a little cough, so hopefully this week we'll get a chance to rest and recover. Until next time.....

Family Pictures 2010

We got our family pictures done last weekend. I was a little hesitant to do "family" pictures and not just Tragon pictures, but I'm really glad we have some family pics now and I think they turned out really good.


This one is my favorite of Tragon. We got some really good smiles from him.





All my boys. I love them all so much!


And now we're back to just my pictures. Tragon has been such a good baby. I was actually able to snap a few while he was sleeping. I think babies look so peaceful when they sleep.
Damon favorite thing to do with cars is to build a "parking lot" By the time they were done, they had both sides of the ottoman filled up. They are pretty good playing with each other...most of the time.
We had some friends over last week and so spur of the moment we did a little craft/activity. We painted some pumpkins and put faces on them. Damon was trying to take a nap, but when he heard me say paint all I could hear was this desparate voice saying, "I paint too?" I caved. Actually I think Damon is almost done taking naps even though he probably still needs one. There are days when I don't give him the option, but if he's playing nice and is happy I'll let him stay up.
This is Tragon's famous look he gives me. He likes being in the high chair at the table and when I'm cleaning the kitchen and it's much easier for me to have him there than on my hip.
This is a cute outfit Grandma Hadlock got for him when they went on their Alaskan cruise. It finally fits. I love it.

This little guy does not really like the binky. :( We still use it, but most of the time during the night and to fall asleep, he's content enough with just his fist and fingers.
We were getting some good smiles from him the other day.
He's been such a sweet boy and Logan and Damon really love him. Well, that's all for the picture overload. Not really a whole let else going on. We're still surviving P90X, we're on week 4 of 13 now. Woohoo. It's been fun to have something that we do together. Morgan just home today from a 3 day campout with his Scouts. And...right now, Tragon is screaming desperately for some food, so I better go. Until next time....

P90X

We love it and we hate it. Morgan and I both started the P90X workout this past week. I'm determined to finish the whole 90 days this time since last time I found out I was pregnant about 3 weeks into it, so I didn't finish. We're on the second week now. The first week we were both so sore, it was really hard to get up and down with the kids during the day, I'm surprised I was able to hold any of them at all last week.

I haven't really taken many pictures this past week, but we are having a friend do some baby/family pics this weekend, so hopefully we'll have some good pics to put up soon. Life is sort of falling into a routine right now and I like it. We're still working on the basement, although to we haven't been able to work on it much lately, but this weekend we'll get some good work in. We're still waiting on our house in Oklahoma to sell so that we can really have an extra financial push to get the basement done.

Logan is fully potty-trained now and I hardly ever remind him to go. He does still wear a diaper at night, but he does wake up about 6 of the 7 days of the week dry. Sometimes I'm still working out when they wake up and the door is still closed so the diaper is a good thing.

Damon acts like a 2 year old. He still loves to get messy and dirty and loves his trains. He is my little tantrum thrower and trouble maker, but he also so sweet that I think we'll endure this stage and look forward to the next. :)

Tragon is getting big way too fast. He sleeps through the night from 8:00pm-5:00am which is perfect for me, then I can get up and workout before the other boys wake up. He is awake more during the day and likes to have attention and loves to hear the boys playing and talking.

Well, that's about it for the update. Until next time....

September is over?

I'm not sure why September has passed so quickly. We had a few things going on this month, but I just can't believe that it's almost over.Damo had his birthday and turned 2....and acts like it. :) We had grandparents over for dinner on his birthday and he got to open a few presents. We went down to St. George that weekend to visit my parents too, but I forgot the camera, so I didn't get any pictures. He got lots of train stuff this birthday. He loves trains!
He hated the fire on the candles, but loved the cupcake, at least the cupcake part. Logan would eat the frosting/top for him, and then Damon would finish the rest.
He loves his Handy Manny tool shop. We've had a few battles over this toy, but they are learning to share....sort of. :)
Logan is a good big brother. Not quite sure how the birthday thing works when it's for someone else, but that's okay because Damon needed a little help opening his presents.
Logan loves to "hold" Tragon. He sits on the couch with the Boppy. I love the look of admiration on Tragon's face. They sat like this for over 30 minutes. It was really cute.
He're some more birthday pictures. Logan of course, hamming it up.
Some animals from Grandma and Grandpa Hadlock. His favorite song right now is 5 Little Monkeys (teasing mister Alligator....I'll have to get a video of Damon singing it, it's hilarious).
"Oh wow! Thanks!"
Damon did pretty well opening the presents, but still needed some help to get them started.
Classic Damon. Logan always runs for the tissue, but Damon is content to wipe it on his arm. I have to be more diligent when he has a cold, or he ends up with a forearm covering in dry boogars.
More loves from Logan (my pictures got out of order somehow, but I didn't care enough to fix it)
This is how Logan watches his shows on the computer. Arms behind the head chillin' It's pretty funny when he falls asleep like that too.
And my sweet Tragon who is growing just wonderfully and sleeping through the night.
We were finally able to catch a few smiles. He is smiling more often now, but I never have the camera around.
He has been such a good baby. It is getting a little more challenging with him being awake more during the day, but so far we're still alive. I guess that's about it for a quick update to get me back on track. Hopefully I won't fall behind another three weeks. Until next time....

Tragon's Blessing

I have loved getting some rain lately. This picture doesn't do it justice, but there was an awesome double rainbow over our house last week.I like how you can see the sun glowing off the raindrops.
This past week has gone by fast and been busy and fun. I have to explain the beanie as it is definitely not beanie weather yet.
Whenever Logan gets hurt, he refuses to wear a band-aid, but if he hurts his foot, he immediately needs a sock to make it feel better.
This day he bumped his head pretty hard and as he was calming down said he needed a hat. We got the first hat we could find and this was it. I think he wore it for the rest of the day, even though it was about 90 degrees that day. :)
Damon is my little cheeser and troublemaker. He loves to test his boundaries and has definitely reached the "terrible twos" but he is so sweet and innocent looking that it's hard to stay upset for too long.
And Tragon is so patient with his older brothers who "love" him so much. He sleeps through all the crazy ruckus and loves to be in the same room as his big brothers.
This past weekend we blessed Tragon. All three boys have been blessed in this outfit. We didn't have quite the photo op that I was hoping for, but we still had a great day and Morgan gave a great blessing.
He's starting to get a little chunky and feel less breakable.
I love this little almost-smile. He has shown us a few big smiles, but I've never been able to get it on camera.
We tried to get all three boys, but Damon was not cooperating, so we had to settle for a few with Logan. We'll have to get some family pictures done here pretty soon.
We had quite the gathering at our house for the blessing and had a blast. It was fun to get to hang out with family that we don't see too often for a few days.
Of course, there was also a little napping going on. We did have 7 kids age 3 and under all together and considering that, they actually did really well together. Logan and Damon loved playing with their cousins.

Papa got some good quality snooze time in with Tragon.
Kashlynn snuggled right up to Morgan and read stories.
At one point I think he had about 4-5 kids around him listening to the stories. The kids were so worn out from running around, that most of them fell asleep while listening to stories....even Morgan. :)
Everyone headed home Sunday night, so we had Monday to recover before work started. We got a few errands done, I got a nap in (trying to get over another cold...blah) and the weather was perfect. We were outside playing with water, so we decided to wash the cars.
It actually kept the boys entertained for almost an hour, but we did realize that they only have the attention span for one car. We tried to wash the van too, and they just ended up splashing all the water around.
They felt so big helping daddy wash the car.
They were both soaked to the bone by the time they were done, but had a lot of fun. Other updates include the basement. Morgan, my dad, and brother worked pretty much all day on Saturday before the blessing and really hammered out a lot in the basement. We are very close to having all the framing done. I think Morgan could probably finish it with about 2-3 more good Saturdays of working. After that we'll get the rough electric done and then the rough plumbing. It's so exciting to see it all coming together. I know it's still going to take a while, but we are really making some good progress.

Logan has been doing great at potty training. We didn't last very long with the little potty, he goes on the big potty with a little potty seat now and I very rarely remind him to go, unless it's been quite a while since he's been. It's helped that he only gets a treat when he poops and not when he pees, I think that cut down how frequently he went by half. :) He still refuses underwear though, so he's my little commando boy. He's already trying to teach Damon how to use the potty, which is great, I only have to potty train one, and then they can teach each other.

I'm looking forward to some cooler weather and hopefully the Fall will be long and drawn out and we'll get some good times in before it's the bitter cold of winter. I love the snow, but I hate driving in it. I might have to cut my grocery shopping down to once a month in the winter. :) Anyway, until next time...