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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Grandma's Visit

My mom came a few days after Mitchell was born to keep my house in order for a week while I slept (and fed the baby). I don't think she got to shower more than twice, I know she never had a full night of sleep, but I'm pretty sure she still had a 'good' time! Right, Mom??? She's done first bath for all the kids. NOT my favorite job, so I'm happy she 'likes' to do it!
We spent one morning while Emily was at school doing her Christmas shopping for the kids. Once Em crashed and Mitchell was fed, she wrapped gifts, while I continued to work on Ben's crocheted blanket that is taking much longer than I expected!!!
Grandma loves to scrapbook, so she and Emily spent one afternoon creating some baby Mitchell pages.
Then she spent the evening scrapbooking with Ben and Annie. They all love creating pages with her. Very interesting to see how differently they like to do them!
More scrapbooking...
Staying up late on a Friday night 'watching' a movie - the night before Grandma flew back to Texas.
Building with Lincoln Logs on a beautiful November day!
Emily finally getting a turn with Mih-ell Mi-el. Yes, he's wrapped in a pink blanket...it was convenient and I didn't want to go down the stairs to get another one... :)
After bath #2 - super-duper curly hair! (And yes, Annie is pretty much always where Mitchell is, especially during bath time!)
Finally some quiet time to love on the baby by herself!!!
Apparently I have a cousin that lives in Michigan 4-5 hours away. I have never met her. (My mom has 7 siblings; they each have several children - I have a lot of cousins...even another handful or so that I haven't ever met!) Wendy was grown up and gone before I was even in existence! She saw on Facebook that Mom was coming to visit, so she and her family drove down to visit! SO FUN!!! This is her little Sydney (who is in between Annie and Emily). I was shocked looking at the pictures of how much Emily and Syd look alike - yes folks, these are the Mitchell genes!!! Now I have a new favorite cousin (because she lives the closest to me!) named Wendy that we are going to visit next summer!
Oh, the hours that were spent playing Memory...
Their last outside hike with Grandma. She was such a good sport! Thank you for all the early mornings and breakfasts for the kids and sweeping and dish-doing and leaf-raking and diaper-changing!

Trying New Things

Occasionally I will pick up some sushi for Andy at the grocery store. (Disclaimer: ever since we watched a show called Monsters Inside Me - I WILL NOT buy anything uncooked.) Ben decided he wanted to try some. He quite liked it and wanted me to post this! (Leftover sushi was his bribe this year for participating in the Primary Program at church that he pretended to sleep through last year.)
Little Emily has also started going to preschool two days a week. She was accepted with an IEP for Speech, just like Ben and Annie. (Hopefully little Mitchell will escape the speech issues!!!) She started going toe week before Mitchell was born and LOVES her class! She already has a little best friend that she plays with each time she attends school. Emily just can't remember the little girl's name and keeps asking us. We all have her name memorized! I'm grateful for a fabulous teacher and aide who send me little notes home about what Emily did during the day so I can 'understand' what Emily says! They also sent a list of the kids in the class so I can figure out who Emily is talking about!
Sassy little girl! She got off the bus looking so big, I really though she was Annie for a second!