My Baby

Aaron's not quite sitting, but he loves to be propped up with all his toys. He's a pretty happy baby most of the time. :-)

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Aaron is getting so big. He will be 9 months old on Tues. He doesn't sit, doesn't crawl, doesn't roll much, except from his belly to his back, but he is a pretty happy baby. And Joel loves him. Right now Joel is taking pics of him with his toy camera.

These two are either playing very nicely together or at each others throats! They are the closest in age of all 4 boys so it will be interesting to see how they interact together as they grow older. All the boys love books. We have been going to the library every week and checking out stacks of books and they all love to sit and look at the new finds each week. Yesterday Joel got up from his nap and went and took a stack of books back to bed with him to look at. I was surprised to see how long he stayed in bed looking at his books!

This boy's trouble! :-) He is definitely at a very active age. He likes to hang around mommy and is at the age where he likes to test his boundaries. Keeps me hopping but he's definitely a sweetie, especially when he says, "Love you mommy!"

Aaron loves his exersaucer. He spends large portions of time in here, especially because he doesn't sit. He has just started to really like his infant cereal and its so funny to see him open his mouth wide as the spoon comes toward him. We are starting to see his unique personality more and more. I love how when I pick him up, he curls his body in and snuggles into my shoulder. He always has a happy chirp when I get him up from his crib.

Daddy snoozing with the middle two boys.

Solitude

Here's Andrew's solution to escaping his younger brothers:

Climb in crib in order to work in peace!

Great Minds Think Alike

So funny to see the boys copying each other years down the road...

Here's Andrew sharing all his toys with Noah when Noah was about 3 months old.

He was completely surrounded!

And here's Joel sharing all his toys with Aaron!

Orthodontist anyone?

Andrew's double row of teeth.

Noah's hat

Trying to get a picture of Noah's hat...

oops, missed...

mid-twirl...

gotcha!

Grandma V made the boys each of these nice warm hats for the snow, but they get worn inside too. :-)

Andrew's to-do list

Andrew asked me to write him a list which he dictated to me. While I was cleaning tonight, I found it with each item crossed off and checked as he finished them.

Frog in a blanket

Brotherly Love

Yesterday the boys were playing downstairs and I heard Noah start crying (rather theatrically) and then Andrew's frantic voice as Noah came up the stairs to "tell on Andrew": "Noah, punch me, Noah, punch me!"

Girls already?

It was just Andrew and I last night while Daddy took Noah and Joel to visit his grandparents and Aaron was sleeping. So he and Mom sat in the kitchen and had some hot cocoa. Andrew started asking me about all the Christmas card pic photos on the fridge and then said, "Mom, next time you see Lydia's mom, can you ask her for a picture of her family?"

"Why do you want that?" I asked.

"Because she's pretty," he said, "Did you see the pretty blue Sunday shirt she wore?"

And so it begins. :-)

Family Night Out

No pics, but we had a family night out tonight. First stop, Arby's with our coupon. Total cost for dinner? $8.36 (it helped that the boys had some bread around 4 PM). Next, Toys r us to try and buy Andrew some playmobil with his bday money, but couldn't find what he wanted. Stopped in at Burlington and then on to Menards. Bought a toilet, water savers for both toilets and light fixtures. Final stop: McDonald's for 4 icecream cones. Cost: $4.72. Boy, way too exciting for me, I'm ready for bed! :-)