February 16, 2014

Bethany Dorothy Freeman is 9 months old!

Height: under 25%

Weight: 35%

Head:85%

Nicknames- Bethy, Dot, Turtle, Sweetheart,  Little Fox, Darling, Beth-a-roo

Words- "mama" "dada" and a "babababhow" sing song when you ask her what does the fox say like the youtube video. waves, claps and bobs her head up and down nodding like.

crawls, walks with furniture, and eats everything and anything.

does not sleep through the night- not even close.

does take at least one if not two sweet naps cuddling with her blankie

likes to follow the kids around, all kinds of toys, being tickled, taking baths- but didn't use to

does not like sitting in her car seat or sadly falling down the stairs- which has happened twice :(

she has record long eyelashes, her stork bites are slowly fading, two little teeth poking up from the bottom of her mouth which is the soonest any of our kids have sported teeth, and a little eczema under her nose that refuses to go away.

Bethany has been such a wonderful addition to our crew.  Her temperament is so perfect.  She is not only happy but seems to like to be silly and laugh and giggle and smile.  She is not so cuddly, but that is okay because she pays for it in the smiles and sweetness she gives.  It is clear she loves all of us.  And all of us love her so dearly.  She does nap, and I often find myself missing her before he nap is even over.  I wish I could spend all day clapping and tickling and making her giggle.  Which is pretty easy to do.  She will bust up laughing if you make a silly face, play peek a boo, or basically do anything!

Although she weighs in kind of small- it is clear that she has some rolls and we love her little chubbiness.

I catch myself constantly thinking she is baby Sam, or maybe Kate.

I am so in love with out little fox.

Happy nine months Beth-a-roo

Feb iphone pictures

1,2.  Bethy in her swim suit.  Nothing beats chubby baby rolls that don't fit in in a swim suit anymore!  We took the entire family for the first time to Kamas pool since Bethany was born.  And nobody drowned- so it was a total success!
3.  Chubby Grinning Bethy
4.  Marianne took this photo of me at the ophthalmologists office where we were investigating what the optometrist was just sure was a lazy eye in Marianne-  thankfully it was not.  I like this picture and seeing myself through my kids eyes.
5,6,7.  I got to go with Kate to Mom's and muffins at her school.  A before school morning where kids show their mom's their class, their work, read them a book and enjoy breakfast together.  I wrote before about how she remembered my muffin preference and shared with me some of the pictures she had been drawing in her journal that were treasures.
8.  When Dad is camping with the scouts- I let Bethy sleep in bed with me and enjoy these last weeks of cuddling all night together before she actually will sleep through the night.
9.  My happy Bethy. She is really always grinning and giggling.
10. Kate dresses up for "no clowin around" day at school
11. The kids are playing outside in February- almost daily because the weather is so fair and we have no snow!
12. Bethy eats an entire carton of blue berries in one sitting.
13.  Sam gets to bring cupcakes to his class for his birthday.  He is so excited about it.  I tear up when his teacher says "Sam is almost 5" to the class.  He picked donuts and chocolate milk to bring for everyone.  Marianne and Bethany got to come with me to make the delivery and he was proud to show them off too.
14.  We have a new mirror in the hallway.  I like it because I always see myself carrying Bethy from her bed down the hall to the living room when she wakes.  And she waves and grins and smiles at us as we get close to the mirror
15. Crazy Hair day for Kate at school

Jan 2014

We went to the ice castles in Midway, UT in January.
They were amazing.  Not to mention that often outings are a lot of work, and complaining kids.  Not this afternoon.  Everyone was happy and pleasant and enjoying the trip.  I was sad I didn't bring my real camera to take pictures because I think that these ice castles were beautiful and one of a kind.  The kids pretended that they were the castles from Frozen, and Marianne sang "do you want to build a nowman"  the whole time. I hope they build these every year because it made for a memorable and fun family outing.

Jan i-phone photos

1-2.  Kate and Marianne helpers in the kitchen.
3.  Dressing up and being silly-  all our girls seem to have gotten the silly gene- Marianne
4.  Smiling and getting Chubby Bethany.
5.  Samuel lines up entire work crew of tractors and truck daily in the living room for some kind of mission.
6.  Selfie of Beth and I.
7. Marianne can draw accurate and adorabley detailed pictures!
8-9.  Marianne is obsessed with brushing her own hair.  She will brush it non-stop, all day if we let her. I am afraid it is going to fall out.  Sometimes Kate and Mari play beauty salon.  I had a thing of brushes in our storage, and gave them to the girls who are in heaven about them.  I think Marianne may love getting her hair brushed because in the last few months of me giving more attention to Bethany than her as Bethy is the newborn, I still give Marianne one on one attention when she gets out of the bath and I brush her hair and blow dry it for her sometimes.  I think it has made her love her hair.
10.  Mari and I play Minnie Mouse matching one day.
11-12  By back seat buddy.  She is pretty pleased with herself as I had to go get Sam at school and didn't have her car seat in the car, so she got to sit in the normal seat, and also I got her a happy meal- lucky day.
13.  Bethy by the fire getting warm
14.  Bethy in the cape ready to go out in winter.

Dec 2014- Catch Up iphone

My computer is fixed!

And I am trying to recapture some of the memories from the past few weeks and months that I have missed.

Here are some missed iphone photos from back in Dec.

1.  Polar Bear Bethy.   It as record low temps here for part of December.  Something crazy like -17 when Kate went to the bu in the morning.... we are being rewarded for it now with a 60 degree February??

2. Bethy likes bottles now, and sure has beautiful eyes.

3.  Marianne and I decided to remake the chalkboard in the mud room one day.  She kept saying she was drawing with "chocolate"  sounds like chalk anyway.  I love the few minutes the two of us have together while Sam is at preschool, Kate is at school and Bethy naps.

4-6.  Bethy loves sweat shirt strings, she is constantly chewing on mine.  Most of all I like how red her hair looks this evening.

7.  Jake reads bedtime stories to the children.  Like a good dad.  He certainly has more patience and energy with them when bedtime story time comes around than I do.

8.  Bethy in my bed.  We hang out there a lot together.  Cuddled up and nursing.  I wish she wouldn't roll and try to get away from me off the bed.  It was a piece of heaven for a while.

9. Driving to Park City.  We live in a beautiful place.  Cold.  Beautiful.

10-11.  Bethy and I wait in the car while Jake takes the kids inside the store to spend some of their Christmas money they got.  

12.  Another Bethy in my bed.  See.  Told ya.  Today she has some of her cuddly babies.