David and Mandye's Family Blog

The much awaited arrival of baby Milah has come and gone...and since I am behind on EVERYTHING it should come as no surprise that I am more than a month late on this as well...what do you expect? :)
She was born on Thanksgiving, and was around 8 lbs (I can't remember all the stats!). There were some complications with the birth but my sister, Sara, was able to deliver her on her own. Yay! She's amazing, seriously.
We came home from Utah the day after she was born so the kids were able to meet her right away. They loved her! Both of them were able hold her and they were so sweet and gentle. It was so amazing to watch my little "babies" with an actual baby. It really put into perspective for me that they aren't all that babyish anymore...sigh.

Since Milah has been around we spend a lot of our time playing baby. We dress them and feed them and swaddle them and change their diapers...etc. One day Storey was getting frustrated that he couldn't hold his baby and play with his toys, the solution? I put the sling on him. He loved it! He had worn it before just before Clover was born because we were trying to get him used to the idea of a new baby and to the fact that mommy would be wearing the sling a lot, but that was a LONG time ago :), for a person his age anyway.

Milah is an angel baby. She sleeps most of the time, rarely cries and has just started to smile. We are so happy to have her with us and can't wait for our other two babies, Ruby and unnamed child (Courtney!!) to come into the world!

Here's Clover looking super cute (as usual) and David and I looking lovey (someone must have been waiting for that moment :)

The cousins, from left to right: Celab,Kelcey, Stephanie and Storey.

Storey and David.

David and me.

On Thanksgiving early :) in the morning we went out into the freezing cold and took pictures. The kids had a hard time, but in the end we really got some amazing pictures out of it.

Here's some more Halloween fun! Clover loved the wigs, she is really into all the girlie stuff. It's pretty cute :) Also, how cute would she be with 2 feet of platinum blond hair?!?!

The kids had a pretty good Halloween. Clover was a penguin (recycled from Storey) and Storey was a giraffe (a different one from last year :)) They walked around the block trick or treating and then came home and passed out candy to the neighbors.

Can't wait for next year when the kids can REALLY trick or treat!

Now that Clover is walking and has pretty good control over her limbs, we've been having her clear her plate after meals. She gets the choice to either put her food in the composter or she can give it Sage. She always chooses Sage (of course!).
She brings her plate to the laundry room, places it on the floor and then we call Sage. The funny part though is that she gets pretty mad as soon as Sage starts to eat the food. She then takes back the plate and runs the other way with it.
I guess it's all part of the learning process!

Last week we took the kids to the Roloff farms (Big People Little World) to pick out their pumpkins. We had a good time. Storey especially liked the baby lion that they had there. They were able to pet the goats and cows.

Afterward we went to my brothers house for a pumpkin carving party. Storey had a really fun time helping David carve the pumpkins, and Clover enjoyed watching and occasionally eating pieces of pumpkin.

Storey's been pretty sick for the last few weeks, it's been one thing after another. He started feeling better today, can you tell?

David was cooking him a before bed snack and he had him sitting on the counter. Storey had gotten into the flour while up there and I put some in a bowl for him so that he could play with it. I turned around and when I looked back he had his face in the bowl and was blowing. When he looked up I couldn't help but laugh! Then he started to laugh, and I went for the camera.
Good times.

It turns out that I'm not the best blogger! Sorry :)
Here's the skinny on our life at the moment:
Storey is doing great! He's potty trained now, for the most part, and he's been doing really well that. He loves his baby sister...so much. He's a really good older brother, it's pretty cute. A few of us moms from our neighborhood have started a kid swap, each one of us has the kids (3 two year olds) one day a week for 3 hours. That leaves each one us with one day on and two days off. It's nice when it's your day off :) That's what the picture of the 3 kids is of, Lael, Cora and Storey.
Clover is now 8 months old. She took her first step the other day (yikes!!!) and is really just cruising along. Clover just has the best sense of humor. Everything is hilarious to her, it's fun to be around. She also puts up really well with her older brothers rough housing. So much so she's learned to fight back at an early age...:)

This was Storey's 3rd Easter and Clover's 1st. However this was the first Easter where Storey was old enough to have an egg hunt and enjoy candy :) We had a good time. Clover's favorite part seemed to be the grass.
The day before was Storey's birthday ao we decided to have cake on Easter when the whole family was going to be there. We had a cake and presets, of course!

David finally talked me into it...buzzing all of Storey's hair off. I cried, probably more than necessary :)
He went from looking like a little angel to trouble on two legs. It might be my imagination, but his attitude might have changed a bit with the lose of hair...or maybe it's because he's almost two. Who could say?

Clover started eating solids a month ago (??). The top two pictures are of her fist few times and the bottom of just a few minutes ago...it's CRAZY how fast they progress :) She took to a sippy cup right away and it only took her a few minutes to learn the straw one, and she loves it. The girl just can't seem to get enough water.

WOW! Time really does fly when your having fun :)
Let's see, Clover is almost 5 months old now. She's a joy to be around, when she's not sleeping she's smiling. She also just started to sit, it's pretty cute.
Storey is also a joy! He's stringing words together now, and singing parts of the Alphabet. You hear "A, B, C, P, T, U..." it's such a beautiful sound!