Happy Birthday Enoch!

I can't believe it has been three years since you were born!  Just one week before Thanksgiving, your birthday starts our holiday season running.  I love you so much and have tried to really enjoy every stage of your little life.  I know you are the last one, and since the other three are so close together, I feel like their early years are kind of a blur.

Your sweet personality and eagerness to be in on all of the action make you so much fun, everyone wants to be with you.

I can't wait until you grow out of your running away phase.  I won't miss calling the police to help us find you.

Enoch loves Elmo, phones, and his big brothers and sister.  He complains when I say we are not going to the gym in the morning, he loves it there.  He has been in every room of the child center and started going when he was 7 months old.

His newest obsession are these fabulous glasses.  He wants them first thing in the morning, and generally falls asleep with them on.

Thanks to my friend Cami for the darling cake pan, I think it is actually kind of cute, it was way too sweet for me though!

 

You have the deepest brown eyes, just like daddy...

can fall asleep anywhere, even on the plane...

you love to take pictures with my camera, and could play for hours on the computer and  you love to take pictures of yourself on the photo booth on the apple.

We love you Enoch, hope we have many more birthdays with you.

Love, Mommy

Me Organized?

Ok,  So I have a problem with school papers, and spelling lists, and lunch money tickets, and so much more.  After much thinking, this is what I have come up with, and it works pretty well for me and my kids.  I have told a few of you about it and you wanted to see it, so I thought I would share with all who want to see.  Here it goes...

I have a binder with these pocket dividers in them.  Each child has a pocket and I keep the weekly newsletter, spelling lists, book report forms, anything I have to keep from the teacher to help  with homework.  I also have the Soaring Eagle forms in each of their pockets, and Golden Sneaker papers.

This is Bailey's pocket, today I put in his history project papers too.  On the other side I have the lunch money forms,  I always used to lose them!!
Camden and Deidre share these,  I found one side is enough for each person, then I know exactly where it is.  

I have blank paper for doing spelling assignments in the back.

A very cute pencil bag, so we don't even have to chase one of those down.

All in this lovely binder.  I always know where the things are, and can tell the kids to go get the binder!!

I also decided to put the ward lists I have accumulated and then I only have to keep track of one binder!!

I hope this gives you an idea.  It has made my life so much easier this school year.

Crazy Mamma

The other day we loaded in the van to take the boys to TaeKwon Do. I hopped out to run back in and get something for Enoch. When I returned, Deidre said, "Mommy, I thought you went back in the house to get a chainsaw to kill us all!"

Needless to say, we had a bad morning full of cleaning the bedrooms, yelling, crying, and fighting with mommy.

That made me feel so bad. Sorry to my wonderful kids for making you think I was so mad I could actually get a chainsaw and kill you. Here's my promise, I will not ever kill you with a chainsaw. I also will check on your rooms more than once a week so that it hopefully doesn't get that deep again!!

Halloween Fun

We had quite a diverse group of costumes this year, I guess the days of me strong - arming them into being what I decide are over!

  A kangaroo, Kabuki girl, death keeper, and a nerd, that about says it all!

 

 

Enoch was so hot in his costume he got pretty upset by the end of the night.  I can never win!

We went to lunch with our friends and got a cookie for wearing our costumes.

 

Everyone needs a tail.  Wish I could have gotten a video of it, but he actually chased his tail when he discovered it.  Priceless!!!

I can See!

Camden complained one too many times about not being able to see the board at school.  I think he looks cute, what do you think?

He says he can already see so much better.  Cute bud!