{all about bennett}

Wow, this kid...where do I start? How about some recent pictures? His blue eyes and thick lashes truly melt my heart every day. Where he got them? I haven't the slightest.

This kid is THE BEST big brother. He is so good to his siblings and loves them so intensely! I know Bennett was meant to come to our family as the first child.




This kid has such a thirst for knowledge. He wants to know everything and he wants to know it now. The poor kid is already bored of summer. For example, the other day he sat there as shown below, and read ALL FIVE of his Dr. Suess books out loud to himself. I think it took about two and a half hours, because, these books are long! Have you read Cat in the Hat lately?

Also lately he has been questioning order, and the subject of alphabetical order came up. So I had this great idea and made perfectly cut out word cards with at least two cards for every starting letter. I gave him five cards to start. He easily put them in order and asked for more. Well, to make a long story short, about 30 minutes or so later, he had all SIXTY plus cards in perfect alphabetical order on the floor...without my help! I came down from folding laundry, and voila, he was done. So much for my lesson that I thought might take up a few weeks of the summer...What do I teach him next?
This kid is too smart for his own good!


Thus, when he had Career Day at preschool, I kind of chuckled when he said a doctor. Oh, but not just ANY doctor. He wants to be "one of those doctors that checks on babies." Oh, like "Dr. so and so, your pediatrician?" I answered. "No, mom. Like the one that checks on the babies when they are in your tummy and then helps them to come out." Oh, one of those doctors.

So I found an XXL men's t-shirt at Target and sewed it into "scrubs." Because that is exactly what my doctor wore when he checked on my babies.

So here is Bennett the OBSTETRICIAN.


Okay, so funny thing is. I'm sure this kid will definitely have the BRAINS to pursue this kind of employment, but the problem is, he CANNOT stand the sight of blood or even me putting my contacts in my eyes! He turned white and almost passed out when he watched Coy get his immunizations. And he would never be in the room when I was administering Russ's antibiotic through his PICC line these last few weeks. (I think the poor kid gets it from me.)


And as if missing preschool isn't enough, soccer ended a few weeks ago, too! I felt SO BAD that we missed soccer pictures since it was in the midst of all of Russ's illness, so I was glad when one of the other mom's took this picture the last game and e-mailed it to me! Bennett did such a great job and improved so much throughout the year! I think he made 5 goals on this last game! Now he is working on running a race. He wants to run our local 5K this summer with me. Yesterday we got him some running shoes, and to practice today he ran across our yard and touched each side of the fence 100 times, counting each time loudly out loud. He didn't even take a break until he was done. That is Bennett for you. He always wants a challenge and something to work towards.

{last of the easter posts}

Here is my last installment of Easter. Yeah! I made it!

Easter is a fun excuse to get the kids some new dress clothes. I'm having so much fun buying matching clothes for my boys. I got their shirts at Children's Place and ties from Peanut Posh. Mylie got an Emily Harkness original. Thus, the crookedness in the seams, etc. Oh well, she only cared that it did pretty darn good twirls!

Love my blue-eyed boys!





Mylie did a lot of twirls and dancing on Easter. In fact, she even said she needed to use the bathroom during stake conference...but really I found out, she just needed some time in the hall to do some twirls.

I Love Traditions!

Something I have looked forward to for as long as I can remember is the Easter hunt my grandparents have every year! It is so fun seeing the joy through my children's eyes now! Sometimes it really hits me that I have three kids of my own! Crazy. At times I feel like I'm playing house or something, like I'm not really old enough or grown up enough to be the mom. Anyway, there are some sidetracked thoughts for you... It's just hard to believe my kids are experiencing the same things that I experienced what only seems like a short time ago! Life is good! And like I said, I love traditions! It's always fun to have things to look forward to that break up what might be the mundane parts of life...~like really, I'm scrubbing the floor again?~

My grandparents have the most beatiful yard! It is the perfect place run around and hunt egss!





Coy loved the little rubber ducks dressed up like sheep and bunnies. He was perfectly content to sit on the blanket and chew on them. That is all he needed!




Here's grandma giving some pre-hunt instruction!




Still chewing...




Aren't my boys cute in their matching outfits. I love the cute shirts I found at Target, but apparently so does everyone else that has a little boy. I've pretty much seen it everywhere: church, preschool, photo shoots...People know when they've found a darling shirt at an amazing price. Have I mentioned I really like Target?


Oh! And the Easter bunny didn't disappoint. She showed up for the day. Kind of a little mix of holidays. Anyone else thinking...Christmas Story?

(Actually this is really my cute niece, Olivia, in case you were wondering.)

Easter Hunt at Home

Here's my next Easter post! On the Saturday before Easter, we start the day with our little Easter hunt at our house. The kids each get a new outfit for that Saturday and some dressy clothes for Sunday.





Apparently what the older kids got was more interesting to Coy!




I just love the messy morning hair!




I decided to make Mylie her Easter dress this year. I just kind of made it up in my head. Of course, it didn't quite turn out the way I'd imagined it, but it ended up being pretty cute. I'll show some more pictures of the kids in their clothes in an upcoming post! I'm sure you are so excited...

{coloring eggs}

I really have a lot I'd like to blog, so I am going to try and play "catch up." Right after my "I hope" post, things got a little crazy (i.e. a rare and crazy serious infection in my hubby's spine which put him up in the hospital for a bit), but things are getting mostly back to normal. So my "I hope" I blog easter is coming to pass!

We had a great time coloring Easter eggs again this year. The kids always look forward to it.

And of course, we immediately have to eat some right after! These two love boiled eggs (well at least the white part which I am totally OK with).





More Easter posts to come {I hope}.

You need to see this beautiful girl!

Check out her baptism photos on my PHOTO BLOG ~please~

I told you I'd get them done!

Now that it has been almost two months since I took these pictures and it's about time for new ones, here is Coy at 7.5 months. Now that they are done, I just need to figure out which ones I am going to put on my walls... Hmmm. At the rate I've been going lately, he might be 2 years old by the time I do.































Sorry...there are just some things I don't want to forget!!