Way to go babe! For this wonderful accomplishment he received a certificate for dinner for TWO at the finest restaurant in Monticello! Like really, so fine that we haven’t even been there on a date because it is quite expensive.
Luke really is working hard at school to find new and improved ways of reaching each and every student. Add to that working on his first semester of his doctorate program we have one busy Daddy!
Are they holding hands??
Everyone enjoyed being outside and the weather was just perfect.
We obviously wore these folk out. I couldn’t resist getting these sleeping pictures. These were after two hours of sleep and they still didn’t move.
I joined everyone for dinner over the campfire then brought the two little ones back to sleep in their own bed.
We really enjoyed this Labor day weekend with family and are so glad they came down to join us!
Abigail turned 6 months old-----two and a half weeks ago. She is absolutely by far the most “spoiled” of any of our children. Let me explain should her older siblings ever question what I mean by that. Miss Micali and Elijah only got to be in our bed for the first 6 weeks of their life. I quickly moved them into their own bed and let them cry it out and was soon only up maybe once with them in the night and ALWAYS returned them to their own bed. Their bed time was at least 7:00 EVERY single night.
Well, now let's talk about Princess Abigail (Eli’s favorite thing to call her is Princess). She stayed in our bed until well past two months before I decided to move her to her own room. She quickly decided she was okay being in her own space and at 3 months after being rocked to sleep would stay asleep for 12 hours from 8 to 8. Then we went on a LONG vacation (over two months). She slept through the night the first few nights. Then she figured something out. If she cried I wouldn’t just rock her and put her back in her own bed. I was so nice I would just quickly pull her in bed with me so that she wouldn’t cry long and wake anyone in the house up. She has become very used to this way of life and so far even after being home nearly a month is still being brought into my bed –mostly because I am too tired to do anything else. She stays up until we go to bed and wakes up when we do in the morning. I am going to do something about this soon however right now I don’t know when that will be. So, little Abigail it is recorded now—as far as your sleeping habits they are pathetic and you mostly prefer to sleep next to your mommy. Now don’t get me wrong. I love having you as snuggle bug but it’s got to change so I can get some BETTER sleep.
Now just look at this sweet thing and see if you could deny her of ANYTHING she wants……
--Abigail loves her feet---all five toes can fit in her mouth at once.
--She can roll from front to back and back to front
--She loves Micali singing songs to her
--She laughs while watching daddy wrestle with her brother and sister
--She has started eating some food—right now more comes out then goes in but she has tried, rice cereal, oatmeal, applesauce and green beans.
--She is chewing on everything and when someone is holding her she tries her hardest to get their thumb in her mouth to chew on
--She is only sleeping 3-4 hours at a time at night (but plans are to change that---SOON!! I think.)
Our church building is currently being remodeled so we have had to share a single building with four other wards. That has made our 3 hour block schedule quite interesting. The first two wards start at 8:30, we got the later time starting at 12:30 with sacrament at the end starting at 2:30. So far it hasn’t seemed to be too hard on the kids as they sleep right through sacrament meeting. The part Luke and I have missed the most is our treasured Sunday afternoon naps as a family when we got home at noon.
Here are some pictures of our morning yesterday. Mostly of Micali…
Reading stories with Daddy.
Curlers in the hair.
A curly mess.
All ready for church. Thanks to Aunt Kayla for the freshly painted nails. She was so excited to have a dress that matched Abigail.
We are back home in Monticello! School has started and we are getting back into a schedule. Little princess Abigail weighed in at just over 17 lbs at her 6 month check-up. Micali was 17 and a half on her 1st birthday. Looking forward to getting this blog updated!
