So for Annie's and Park's birthdays we got them a combined gift of the entire set of "Harry Potter" movies on blueray. We watched them all together. (Am I crazy for letting my 7 and 5-year-old watch all of them? No nightmares...yet.) Now all they can do is run around with anything that might resemble a wand and say things like "Turn on-ify!" or "jump up-icus!" And so I respond with things like "Eat your dinner-ify!" or "brush your teeth-icus!"

Happy Birthday, Park!

 Park has officially turned 5! Happy Birthday to my sweet Park! You bring so much light into our home. You are a good helper and love to laugh. You are cautious at first but once comfortable you can be as crazy as Indie. We sure love you!

 Park got a Pegasus Beyblade for his birthday, he was pretty happy with it!

 And of course I have to put in a few pictures of Milo. He is now 4 weeks old and is starting to smile.

Happy Birthday Annicka! & Milo's 2 week!

Happy Birthday to Annicka! Since her birthday fell on a Sunday this year we had some of our celebration on Saturday by going to Jumpin' Jacks (this seems to have become a tradition).

On Sunday after church we had cake and ice cream (just us...I don't feel much up to entertaining yet.) and opened Annie's present!

 Annicka, we are so grateful to have you in our family! You are the best oldest sister we could have asked for! You are so patient with your little brothers. You are growing into a beautiful young woman...next year you will be baptized! We can hardly believe that you are almost old enough for that! WE LOVE YOU!

 We've realized that Milo's birthday is exactly two weeks before Annicka's and Park's is exactly two weeks after! Craziness! So Milo was two weeks old on Sunday and today we had his well child check up. He is now 9 lbs 1 oz and has grown nearly two inches! He is definitely getting bigger! His jaundice is getting much better, he only ended up on the billi lights for about 24 hours (thank heavens!) and although his eyes are still a little yellow, he is looking much more normal. What a handsome little guy!

Happy Halloween!

Well, it's over, but the kids made a HAUL with the candy. The problem is that I'll probably eat most of it! Oh well! I'm nursing, right? Here are the kids just before they left to go trick-or-treating. Annicka was an African princess, Park a pirate and Indie, Superman!

 Enjoying some candy!

 And just a couple of cute pics of the older ones holding Milo.