Visit from family

My sister Katie and the boys flew out here from Virginia, and then my parents drove out here from Colorado. We had fun celebrating an early Thanksgiving and Sophie's birthday.

Elsie, Micah and Sophie

Sophie and Micah have so much fun together!!


Katie got to meet her new little nephew.



Talk about multi-tasking! Mike has this fathering thing down!

Micah refuses to take naps but gets exhausted by the evening. He actually fell asleep at the dinner table!

Elsie and Grandpa yelling, "cheese!"

Sophie and her new doll house

Caleb and Elsie watching cartoons and sharing "loop loops." (that's what Elsie calls Fruit Loops)

Don't worry...I was all ready to catch Gage if needed!

Our cute little family!

A popular sleeping position

Gage's first bottle. He hadn't gained enough weight at his 2 week appt so we switched to formula soon after. He transitioned pretty easily and quickly put on some pounds! These first pictures are from awhile ago, so he looks skinnier than he is now.

What a good big sister! Sophie is reading her Bible to Gage.

Sophie got to wear her jammies to school one day last month...she loved it!

We were excited when Gage's umbilical cord fell off so we could start doing tubbies!

Gage's baby dedication at church

This was during a reception after church for those of us who had babies dedicated. Elsie wasn't feeling too great, as you can tell by the scowl on her face!

On Sophie's birthday. Mike decorated her room and chair with streamers before she woke up. She didn't care too much for the streamers in her room (I think they might have scared her when she woke up!) but she loved the streamers on her chair!

I have no idea what Elsie was doing here. She's such a goof-ball!

Gage likes to sleep with one or both of his arms up by his head...pretty cute! You can see how much fatter his face is now than in the previous pictures! He still seems pretty little, though!

Sophie's birthday

Sophie and her friend Hannah have birthday's that are 5 days apart, so we did a joined 4th birthday party for both girls. We had the Tumblebus come visit our house, so this school bus parked outside the house and it had a bunch of gymnastics stuff inside that the kids could play on. They all loved it!

Inside the Tumblebus

Sophie doing the zipline

She was doing these handlebars all by herself! Maybe we have a little gymnast in the family!

Sophie and Hannah both got a big ribbon and a shirt for being the birthday girls!