Well October was fun. not too crazy. aunt carlee came to visit for a weekend. it was fun to have her and we had a blast hanging out, dancing, and doing some halloweeny things. then of course halloween at the end of the month was always fun. just like every year, we didnt get any trick or treaters. but i learned. this time i bought good chocolate candy (just in case) but now it wont sit around forever. in fact i am sure that its all gone now. we dont have a problem eating that.... oops.
Shortly after justins parents left we got the news that his grandpa on his mothers side passed away. not unexpected, but still sad. justin was asked to be a pallbearer, so he and ryker road tripped to canada for the weekend to go. they had a great trip and it was a mellow weekend for us at home as well.
Rex is doing great. once carlee left we switched him to go to bed about 7 like the other kids. but now i dint get to sleep till 4. he is still pretty irregular but mostly gets up between midnight at 2, and then again around 4 or 5. so not awful. but hes okay. this last week though i think he was hitting a growth spurt because for 2 days he wanted to eat every hour and a half and wouldnt sleep longer than 15 min unless i was holding him. then the 3rd day he at least went back to eating normally. my poor body and milk supply was all haywire. it was crazy. not to mention i had little sleep so i was extra cranky and had a very short fuse. sorry ryker and rylie.... one morning i sat in the rocking chair while rex screamed in my arms. rylie was up with me and i just cried. rylie looked at me with the biggest puppy dog eyes as if asking if i was okay. it was sweet. but definitely a rough day. most of the time i only cry to myself. haha. but even that is waning.
anyways, rex! he is growing so fast. he is so big. he has 4 rolls on each thigh and i feel like his skin cant stretch anymore to fit all the beautiful boy inside. but he is such a sweetie. i sure love his smiles and he giggles every once in a while. post nap right after he eats or first thing in the morning he is all smiles and i love those times of day. im pretty sure he is close to 16 lbs. we will find out again in Dec how big he is. but my unofficial scale says he is definitely growing!
Rylie is doing okay. she has had a cold the last 2 weeks. first with a bad cough and now just the runny nose. she has been a little moody and loves to cuddle. i try as much as i can, but sometimes i need to be feeding rex or making dinner. i hate when she cries. its just so sad. we are working on sharing. rylie has started to scream when someone (namely ryker) tries to take things from her. now i understand why my dad is so sensitive to it. that gets old real fast. and we are trying to teach her its not okay to throw things when we are upset. oh the boundary phase. welcome rylie. she is starting to push all our buttons to the very limit. but she will get through it. ryker is doing much better, though he still pushes many buttons too. sometimes when rylie is particularly clingy, i will have just finished feeding rex and she climbs on my lap and tries to pull up my shirt. sorry love. this is all for rex now. you had your turn. she loses interest pretty quickly.
ryker is doing awesome. he is getting so big. the other week we discovered that he is big enough to reach the water fountains at church. when did that happen? so crazy! i have started to do a joyschool with some ladies in my ward who have kids of similar ages. its super fun. its mostly fun with a little lesson on one of the letters of the alphabet, a small craft and a snack. its been super fun and im glad he is being exposed. we are learning a lot. he does okay sharing with other peoples toys. but when we had it at our house he was not as good at sharing his own toys. but we are working on it. and it takes some practice.
justin and i are doing well. i cant remember if i said before, but justin got a new calling to be the ward executive secretary. he is so ecstatic to be out of primary. i know they miss him because he was so consistent, but he had been in their a while. so that brings a few more meetings, and i get to get the kids ready and to church by myself. its not awful, but definitely a handful.
we decided we are buying a house! we went and saw some, found one we loved and put in an offer. after a little back and forth and little to no negotiating from the sellers end we settled and agreed! yahoo!!! now the only problem is there are some things we want to bring up after the inspection. so hopefully they are willing to work with us a little more and be more flexible on price once we get them that info... heres hoping! we want the house so bad. its so cute, in the ward, has all of our must haves, right behind a great school! we are hoping and praying that we can get it. we feel really good about it.
its confusing to feel like its what we are supposed to be doing/where we are supposed to be yet have the sellers fight us so hard on everything. we are trying to make it a good deal for them too, but they just dont want to help us at all! but we are trying to do as much as we can! if its not meant to be then okay. but that brings a whole mess of other feelings. we felt like we were supposed to find a new job, but we couldnt even get interviews anywhere. we felt like we are supposed to move on and get a house, but why would it not go through. i dont know what to do if that is the case... so for now i will just be hopeful that we can still get it! have faith right?
road tripping with dad!
cuddles with carlee
ya reading time!
cute little chubby boy!
kisses from big sis
i think i have this same pic of all my kids in this towel.
i think they were on their way home in this pic.
love that smile
ryker and rylie made cows for joy school
rylie loves visitors and loves to make new cuddle buddies
painting pumpkins!
all our pumpkins. they look awesome!
this is a great pic of the pirate ship
at a ward conference I was able to run into my cousin McKay on her mission! So great.
happy fall! we can finally wear this dress haha
we made spiders saying eeek! for the letter E and a few days before halloween. its super cute
looking smart
some pics from the graveside
happy halloween!
if you look closely you can see rylies hair sticking straight up because of all the balloons. so funny. also next door was the dancing room. i could hardly get her to leave. she loved it in there. spent the whole activity dancing.
justin went as clark kent and i went as lois lane. simple, but great. he is my superman! (cheesy but adorable. dont judge me)
sometimes they do cuddle together
happy baby during bath time
these kids love to play and splash too. gotta get a few good baby bum pics for the future.
its hard to see because i used too much powdered sugar, but i made a pumpkin roll with a spider web ont the back. it looked really cool! i ate all of that too.... with the candy. darn these holidays!
LOOK AT THIS CUTE FACE!!! im dying this is the cutest picture i have taken of him. i love it so much. its just perfect.
chillin on rykers lap while he plays a game. at least he didnt shove him off.
rylie likes to be under the play gym with him. they were laughing together for like 15 min.
more at the graveside. sorry ryker you look a little sleep deprived
pretty flowers from all the deitrick kids. justin was the only one able to go, but this was sent from everyone.
our fish for "F" day. the crafts really are super cute.
rylie practicing her abc's
dancing with aunt carlee
ryker was singing one night and i caught him on the monitor. should be sleeping, but funny
