Long time no post

Sorry about that. Life has been busy blah blah blah.

The baby is now 9 mos old. Wow. Lots of cute blond hair. No need for a haircut yet. Making all sorts of ba ba ba da da da ma ma ma noises. Will stay in the crawling position, but has no idea how to move. We are still working on that. Loves Mom way to much. There is love and then there is throw-a-fit-everytime-he-sees-mom-and-she-doesn't-pick-him-up. Oh my.

Today I took him out to feed the chickens with me. the girls were at Piano and my choices were to leave him inside to cry the whole time or take him with me. I grabbed his bumbo, a bucket of chicken food and off we went. I had let the chickens out earlier to do a little free ranging, so I hauled him around and the bucket of food and we got those chickens in their coops. There were a couple of stupid chickens, but eventually they all went home for the night. I then put the baby in his bumbo near the coop with smaller birds. He stared with wonder. It was really fun to watch his reactions.
I fed and watered the flock and then he had had it. He was cold and wanted his mama. So we went inside and I fed him near the fireplace.

My oldest is turning into quite the little mom. She loves her little brother and takes every opportunity to play with him or haul him around. He doesn't mind it if she gets him up in the morning. She just grabs him and puts him on the floor in her room while she gets ready. This usually happens because I'm in the bathroom or something like that.

The girls love piano and reading. They both love school, although C told me today she wants to be a 2nd grade teacher. Something about multiplication being so HARD. LOL. A wants to be a doctor today. I told them both that it sounded great.

Hubby and I have new callings. He in the Elders quorum pres. and me in the primary pres. so that along with 9am church has us running crazy at our house. Although, we now can take an afternoon nap on Sunday. Unfortunately it goes something along the lines of whomever gets to sleep first gets the nap. The other one is stuck with the baby. So far, I keep losing. He can fall asleep so fast! And usually when I haven't even thought about a nap yet.

I am going to try and write more in this blog. I need to write more so that I can record Baby E's important moments. Like how he can roll over, but doesn't do it much. Just not interested. To many people ready and willing to cart him around. How he loves to play with his feet. Today he has been playing with his tongue. He chews on his thumb instead of sucking on it. And he chews on binkies also. So no binky babies here. Dang it . His goodnight song is Twinkle Twinkle little star. Every sunday (it seems) there is a family that spends all of sacrament getting him to smile (usually behind or to the side of us). Last Sunday that resulted in him yelling in his high voice (think Pistol pete fireworks). I felt bad for the people in front of us. He was doing it every now and then so I didn't take him out. But I did turn him from the family that was causing it (Not on purpose. He was just getting excited). The Cheerios helped quiet him a little.

Anyway, more tomorrow.(or next week. Who knows? :)