It's January!!

Well, it's actually almost February, but it takes me awhile to update this blog. You know how busy I am and all. Between changing diapers, doing laundry, making dinner, teaching school to 6 kids, taking care of Tom (!), etc etc, I don't have a ton of time to put pictures on my blogs. (My list of things to do was just thrown in there for free--no one asked for it!!)

Here are some pictures of the kids from January. They're having a great time playing in the snow--usually at night, in the dark. Crazy kids. It's waaaaaay too cold for the parents, but they seem to like it. Ethan goes out for about 15 minutes before he comes in and says that he's cold. It takes longer than that to get him all dressed! The boys are thrilled with the snow--more shoveling business. The girls have been making forts and hideouts and houses. The cold doesn't seem to affect them at all. Oh to be young again :)

Haven with new toy

Sweet baby feet :)

Sarah with her doll

Just because he's cute :)

Daniel and Ethan in the box from Christmas!!

Ethan's in there! Actually, Ethan and Haven
both had a great time playing in there. They loved
being in with the lid on (loosely) and having Rachel
push them around the room. They were both laughing :)

Haven and Dad spending quality time together

Sarah, Rachel, Ethan, and Haven watching a video

Isn't he sweet with his arm around Haven?!?!

Innocent??!! No, she was eating a book!

Rachel

Sarah and Rachel

They love to sled down our 'hill'

Rachel

Ethan found my pan lid :)

Haven decided to play, um, eat a game!!

Quite proud of herself ;)

Ethan put on someone's OSU sweatshirt inside out
and found some rope to use as a whip! He had a
great time whipping his brothers (I think
they even called him 'Master'!!!)

A Few Pictures from December

Here are a couple of pictures I thought you might enjoy. Oh, Haven finally cut tooth #8 yesterday (the 8th). Hopefully, she's done for awhile and her nose can stop running. She also figured out how to get to a sitting position all by herself this past week. She really needs to stop growing up--I want her to stay a baby! She'll be 8 months old this week :( I just noticed that she has a lot of '8' things happening :)

Ethan and Haven watching a Baby Einstein video

Ethan and his friend at church 'ran into' each other :(
Ethan got the worse end of the deal!

Dad and Haven

Ethan fell asleep on the family room floor--
notice his sweatshirt hood and teddy bear!!

I think Haven wants to watch another video ;)

Not the best picture, but it's our Christmas tree this year!
We decided to skip the ornaments and only do lights,
ribbon, and candy canes. It was actually very pretty at night.

That's it for now. Time to correct school papers--yippee!!