At Home Today

A teething snotty, getting his ears checked later this morning baby, a upset tummy girl and a little boy with seven stitches.  Fun.

Taking Matters Into His Own Hands

Someone's mother was taking too long to get dinner on the table.

So someone solved the problem himself!

Habitat

Thomas made this humpback whale ocean habitat for school.

I think he did a nice job!

Growing Up

Check out Philip's work here!

He wanted to draw Lewis and got frustrated so I showed him how I would draw Lewis.  Two eyes, a nose, a mouth, a circle for his head, arms, legs and hair.  Philip added lots of fingers too.  And he copied the letters for Lewis's name as I showed him how to make them.  It also says Philip at the bottom but he wrote it right to left.  I've forgotten what the circle and the line at the very bottom are.  Very impressive!

Some More Progress

Just in time for some cold winter weather our siding finally got put up!  The guy who did it matched it really well to the old siding.  If you are right up close you can see the difference but in these pictures you can't tell the new from the old.  I'm really excited to put candles in those four big, new front windows for Christmas but it's too soon for that. (And my candles are buried in the garage and digging them out may take some work...)

Basement Campout

After a Major Cleanup Day around the house the kids got to camp out in the basement.  Jeremy built them a insulation castle.  Only Samuel and Thomas made it all night.  Philip ended up not feeling well and camping out in the bathroom instead and Julia got cold so she switched to her nice warm bed.

See the new framing?  Jeremy had a framing party a few weekends back and many wonderful wives donated their husbands for the morning.  Thanks everyone!  Hopefully soon the insulation castle will be depleted and the insulation will be on the walls instead.
Also if you could please say a prayer for Jeremy.  He has a test next week to see if maybe we've finally found what is causing his sinus trouble.  Thanks!

Nine Months

Nicholas was 10 months yesterday but we had his 9 month well baby check just last week.  Here's how he compares to the others at this age:

Samuel:  21 lbs 10 oz, 28 inches

Thomas:  23 lbs 1 oz, 29 inches

Julia: 20 lbs 8 oz, 27 ¾ in

Philip:  21 lbs 9 oz, 28 ¾ in

Nicholas:  22 lbs 13 oz, 29 inches

We have a trend going.  Thomas and Nicholas are always similar at the top, Samuel and Philip are always similar in the middle,and Julia brings up the rear by herself.  Interesting.

He's been walking for 5 weeks already!  He started the week before he turned 9 months old the stinker.  Samuel also walked at 9 months, Julia and Philip at 10 and Thomas at 11.  And I think I just realized I don't have a video of Nicholas walking yet.  Shoot.  Guess it's one of the hazards of being number five.

Here they all are: 

Julia, Nicholas, Samuel, Thomas and Philip