A little catch-up and Callie is 10 months!

Well, I've really enjoyed this blogging break. I don't anticipate blogging as often as I have in the past b/c naptime seems to be a thing of the past around here. Here's what we've been up to the last 10 days:

-Callie had her check-up/immunizations and weighs roughly 18 lbs. I can't remember how long she is, but she is percentile-wise tall and skinny, just as her brothers are. Everything looked fine.
-I got an X-ray done on my back that same day and found that I have spondylitis, and a few other problems with my back. This comes as no surprise to me, b/c I've been having terrible pain in my hips since having Callie. I'm not really sure the best route to getting to feel better, the chiropractor wants to do ultrasound, but it seems sort of temporary to me.
-I made the boys snow men for breakfast one day and they had fun eating them:
-Brent had some fun with his beard:(I did not care so much for this look)

-Callie came down with a fever on Thursday. She was very cuddly all day and slept a lot, and felt better Friday. I liked the cuddling.
-Hunter was suddenly hit with the fever/aches on Saturday and was miserable. He asked to go to bed and took a long nap. That was also the day of the Christmas parade/fireworks, and we weren't sure whether or not to go, b/c he'd been looking forward to it for so long. We decided to take him and I think he had fun.
The kids all liked the fireworks. We saw the parade from S&D's front porch and the fireworks from our van. Callie was mesmerized by them and kept saying, "Dat!" I think she was mimicking the boys saying, "Look at that!"
-We kept the kids home from church on Sunday so as to not expose anyone elses kids to the fever flu, so Brent went to church and I went to my Sunday school. I stopped by the store for a few things on my way home, and after I got home I couldn't warm up and...you guessed it...fever flu. I felt LIKE CRAP. Yikes, it was a miserable time, but Brent was awesome and took good care of me(and the kids...I'm lucky I got sick on a Sunday when he was home!) I felt better on Monday.
-I've used my crockpot every day this week. Here are a ">couple recipes I've used, and one I am making right now for the first time.
-Brent somehow managed to injure his knee, the same knee he blew out in high school playing football. He has bruises where his screws are, so we are heading to the hospital tomorrow morning for an MRI on it. Hopefully it is treatable and quickly recoverable.
-We've been getting a lot of sub zero temps and have a lot of snow on the ground. The boys liked playing outside last week:
-and we read a lot of books...



Callie is 10 months today!!! She has now reached the double digits of months. Here are some things about her at 10 months:


-we haven't seen any more teeth through yet, but she is working on a bottom one.
-she is getting more and more independent. She likes feeding herself more and more.
-she loves the sound of her voice. She screams and shouts all throughout the day. The boys will be singing or talking loudly and she comes over and joins in.
-she says, hi, Hunter, Tate(tate is more like Taa) dada. Notice she can say Hunter, but doesn't say mama.
-she likes playing peek-a-boo and So big!
-she's starting to wear 12 month clothes.
-really likes being near her big brothers. (They like being near her, too)

Here she is with her rabbit:

And I just love the way she smiles at me!