Isaac got himself dressed the other day and we were very proud of him! Notice his shoes... I think it's safe to say that he's definitely male. :) I was feeding Cosette and had to leave the room for a moment so Debbie and Isaac stepped in and helped out. Debbie did a really good job and I was content to let her feed Cosette...
But when Cosette got it all over her face Debbie decided to let mom do it.
I was impressed that Cosette was eating her peas without gagging, she's the first of our kids to do that.
We got these baby bottles recently and I walked into the bedroom and found all three of them feeding their babies...

Cosette is cruising furniture now and is getting better at holding her balance, I still think it will be a couple months until she walks, but who knows. She's still going to be the quickest developementally of our kids. I love to watch her because you can see in her eyes that she's thinking and the wheels are turning, it almost feels like you can watch her make sense of her world and make decisions accordingly. And you can tell when she sees something she wants because she gets a determined look in her eyes and then just goes for it. We just love her!

Another Debbie story... Tonight at dinner the kids were eating chicken fingers and Debbie dipped hers in some honey-mustard. After making a sour face she sat with this sad look on her face and then said (in a sad voice), "I don't like the yellow one because it makes me wiggle." I love the way kids describe things!

Sunday Nap

This afternoon I was really looking forward to my sunday afternoon nap. When I finally got the 'go-ahead' from Chad (Don't be thinking that Chad's domineering or anything... You can bet I require him to get a go-ahead from me whenever he takes a break. Being a parent is a job and breaks are timed and you are only allotted a few a day and when you do take those breaks, you have to get the okay from the 'boss.' That's just the way it is...at least in our house.), I climbed into bed and in comes Debbie. "I want to take a nap with you mommy." Okay fine. But I know there's not going to be any sleeping because she can't keep her mouth shut if her life depends on it (and let's be honest, I often feel like her life does depend on it. She is always talking!). So I let her climb in bed with me but I was kindof grumpy because I really wanted that nap. As expected she starts chatting right away, but as I listened I realized that she was giving me a real treat. She started telling me all about nursery. First she said, "When I was in nursery sucking me thumb, the nursery boy [that would be the leader] said to me, 'stop sucking your thumb.' five times!" I know this is a completely random thought, but it showed me that she wanted to share her day with me and that meant a lot to me. Then she said, "The nursery boy and the nursery girl [leaders again] brought presents and then they opened the presents and it was scriptures inside. Scriptures are a present from God." It's wonderful to me that she's learning these things from nursery! I am so glad that I took the time (however reluctantly) and gave her my attention and the opportunity to just chat with me. What a blessing that she wants to tell me about her day! I get so impatient with her sometimes and because she talks so much, it's easy for me to just continually blow her off because it's too exhausting to try to listen to everything she has to say. I'm grateful that I had this opportunity to realize that she's growing up and I need to take the time to hear what she has to say.

We decided to just let the kids have their buckets and eat as much as they could and then we'd be done with it. Apparently we don't give Isaac candy enough because it was too much for him to handle... Here he is eating four suckers at once and what you don't see is that shortly after this picture was taken he threw them all away so he could eat more candy. He was so anxious to eat his candy that he didn't even eat it! He'd shove the candy in his mouth as fast as he could and then spit it out in the garbage so he could get more.
He loves his superman cape and shirt.

Our princess and her superhero...

Halloween

Debbie was just one of many little princesses in our group on halloween. We had fun trick-or-treating at the freshmen dorms.