Veteran's Day

We went on a walk today to collect leaves for an art project and I thought this was an appropriate picture to post today.

Busy bees

I know they aren't bees but you know what I mean, this was on our house, I've only seen dead abandoned ones

Sydney Rides

Sydney has been busy learning to ride a two-wheeler

Gretchen - 6 months old

I haven't been much in the mood to blog lately, I think the past year is catching up with me.

Last summer we started remodeling our house and it was so busy, not to mention I was pregnant with my 4th baby, we had weeks without our bathroom and months without our kitchen.

I started home schooling a kindergartner and 2nd grader in September, while taking care of a 2 year old and Gretchen was born in November.

Travis switched hours in February or March, so that he works at 3 or 4 am, this has been nice in some ways but it kind of makes it more difficult too, mostly just the change shakes things up a bit.

Now the school year is almost over and I have been trying to do a good job and also have fun with the kids, but my house is getting smaller by the minute and we have another busy summer of finishing remodeling (hopefully finishing).

I need a vacation!

But I told Travis ,not camping, and I have a 6 month old so how much of a vacation can I really have! (Don't worry , I'll be fine, just venting, I feel better already)

Which brings me to my point

Gretchen is 6 months old!

She is around 19lb (big girl)

She will be sitting up soon

She has eaten rice and oatmeal cereals, bananas, applesauce and peas

She really likes her mom and IF she is in the right mood she will let other people hold her too

She does pretty well in the nursery at church , in fact she has fallen asleep a few times

She likes chewing on her toes

She "sings" when she is tired

She still gets up once or twice at night

She smiles a lot