Our Turkey Craft!

Brandon won the "carebear" award

Brandon handed me a bear and said it was a gift from a girl who was on his rotation with him.
I asked if it was a gag gift? Why else would he get a toy?
I guess his Preceptor was talking to another student about Brandon. The Preceptor said that earlier this year he had a student who was really nice like Brandon. The Preceptor was just grateful that Brandon and the girl weren't together on the same rotation "because it would be like having two care bears"... and I guess that would be a bad thing :)

I had to laugh when Brandon told me this. It's true. Brandon is a nice guy!

This Sing a ma Jig is the weirdest, but it will make you laugh!

Halloween

Um...not sure what Brandon was thinking but we were all laughin!

Caramel Apples. Okay, we decided that we would try the whole caramel apple thing. Hated it! the caramel stuck to you teeth and not to the apple-not fun! But doesn't Meili look all cute in her curls??

Whenever Noah has something with frosting on it he'll usually just eat the frosting off. It really doesn't surprise me that he didn't want to decorate cookies and that he just wanted to eat the frosting.

loving the cookie decorating!!!

Toys from Grandma Taylor-They loved it all! Thanks Grandma!

Noah dressed up as Flash (off of Justice League). Totally loved this costume!

Meili attempting a smile. For some reason when we ask her to smile for the camera she clenches her teeth and does this weird look in the picture below-oh well!

We found this costume at a 2nd hand Halloween costume store in the mall. Meili was so excited to be a mermaid.

Oh!!! what a cute clown!

This is a picture of Brandon trying to convince himself to eat chili. We have some friends that made Pumpkin Chili without bean! it was fantastic too-even Brandon loved it. It was just hard for Brandon to take that first bite because of the fact that it's chili.

The deal was-if they hurried and took a bath then they could devour their candy while they finished the night watching a Scooby Doo movie! This picture is them with there bowl of sugar-ready to devour!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NOAH!

I think Noah was really excited that I came to his class. When I walked in he's voice went all high pitched "that's my Mommy!" It was fun to see him so happy, and listen to him tell me all the names of his classmates.

On Saturday we celebrated Noah's 4th birthday! We went to the CoCo Key water resort here in Omaha. We earned 2 free kid day passes (from the library's Summer reading program), and then Brandon and I were able to find a website that discounted the day passes to half off. We thought this would be really fun, and it was, for all of us...except for Noah. Yep, we got there and went to get into the water and he started screaming and freaking out! I had no clue how scared he is of the water. Somehow we will have to ease him into enjoying it more-any suggestions?
Anyhow, we took him out to Burger King and then to the Zoo. We let him decide which exhibits to visit (ofcourse, they were the insects and aquarium). We left the Zoo after eating an ice cream cone that made us extra-extra cold, since it was already a chilly day to begin with.
Then we headed home.

These are pictures of him opening presents and having cake!

More insects

Gifts from Meili. She gathered up lots of things around the house and enjoyed wrapping them up.

tracks for his cars

a cool shirt that we hurried and made for Noah

I am really enjoying my faux moby wrap. I was considering buying the original Moby Wrap, but after doing some research I realized that it's nothing more than a long piece of material.
I went to Hancock Fabrics and bought 4 yards of interlock cotton fabric. If you are interested in making your own and are bigger than me (chest, hips) I would suggest 5 yards because I pretty much use up every inch.
Then all you do is measure 3o inches for the width, and cut straight down to the bottom, and voila you have the moby wrap.
What is neat about it is, there is no sewing involved. However, you can sew a button or some cute thing on the middle to help mark center so you don't have to fold it in half each time you put it on. This type of material rolls up along the edges and doesn't fray (this is also how you know you got the right material).
Then you go on youtube or moby wrap website and it gives easy to follow instruction on how to wear the wrap.
http://www.mobywrap.com/

I have spent a lot of money on different baby carriers/wrap/slings and I have always had trouble with back problems or the straps digging into my shoulders. However, this wrap is pain free and the weight is distributed equally all over. when I wear it it kindof makes me feel pregnant again (the good parts) Ian is held really close to my body, he doesn't flop all over when I move around, and He loves it as much as I do-which is fantastic!

Here are some pictures of Ian in the wrap (we just got home from walking Noah to school).

CARROTS, HAIRCUT, AND HANDSOME

YES, THEY'RE CARROTS...BARELY! BUT STILL CARROTS!

HAIRCUT- YES, I CUT MEILI'S HAIR AGAIN-IT WAS ALWAYS MESSY AND HARD TO MANAGE. HER NATURAL CURL MAKES IT LOOK REALLY CUTE!

HANDSOME: NOW ISN'T HE THE DEFINITION OF HANDSOME?

HE IS OUR FATTEST BABY YET! HE WEIGHS 13 LBS (69%TILE). WITH THE OTHER KIDS THEY WERE THIS WEIGHT WHEN THEY WERE LIKE 9 MONTHS OLD, HE'S ONLY 2 MONTHS OLD. HE IS 23 INCHES LONG!

FAMILY OF FIVE

Ian dressed for his blessing

MEILI

NOAH

FAMILY

Kitchen Table

We bought a kitchen table from friends of ours who recently moved. After a lot of sandpaper, wood stain and varnish, this is what we have now.

Now, all we need are some decent kitchen chairs.

Ian Nathaniel Snedeger

Disclaimer: Our new camera is cool. It has a date/time imprint feature. As you view our photos, please disregard the date in the lower corners. In our excitement to welcome Ian into the world, we forgot to set the date in our camera to the correct date. Enjoy the photos.

Paperwork...

Contraction...

Epidural...

Baby!!!

He did not like being poked and prodded (who does?)

Ian is our biggest baby yet.

Meili and Noah with mom and Ian
There's no place like home. Teri made a speedy recovery and since everything seemed fine with Ian, they were able to come home today.

Daddy's turn to hold baby Ian.