School days

We survived the first full week of school!  Woot woot!  So Emmy chose Chik-fil-a to celebrate.  :)  

Emmy: Mom! Look! That lady behind you is nursing!  Me: Good for her, but it's not polite to stare.  Cadence: (Ornery grin) I just stared.   

 Bob and I and Miriel got to go to potluck that evening.  It feels like it's been forever since we've been to potluck.  Miriel was pretty good although I did leave when she started to get fussy.  She still likes to nurse all evening.
I needed to vacuum out the van, they needed to dust it.  Whatever, it kept them busy I guess. 

Most mornings Cadence sleeps through the older two getting up and off to school.  The mornings that she wakes up with them, this happens... then she's grouchy.  

 I couldn't resist.  Just the essential books for the girls... haha. 

This is 'Baby Land'  I can leave my baby here if I need to get something done and Emmy and Cadence will watch her for me.  :D  

 Ooh, and I got myself a new project, since I don't have enough hobbies already.

 Big sister let her have the swing for a few minutes.  She mostly liked it. :)

 This was another "Mom I want to cook these!!" day.  I had never made cream puffs before, and they were a little disappointed that they didn't get to stir them on the stove (When do you let kids use the stove? It makes me nervous!); but they turned out pretty good. 

 Miriel had her 4 month check up and she's growing.  Logan has passed her up, but she's valiantly trying to catch him. 
Cecily got to go to Lynelle's birthday party on Saturday.  Emmy was sad she didn't get to go, so we went shopping instead.   We picked out a new toilet handle because the handle on our oldest toilet was unscrewing itself- and the girls didn't know how to fix it so it would run until I heard it.  Bob got it back together tightly, buuuuttt.... it was ugly. And annoying.  And it's a super simple, inexpensive switch.  And I don't have to live with ugly and annoying if I don't want too.  Haha.  Plus, I've found that mentally when things are not going my way or are stressful or uncontrollable, it helps if I can clean something.  Or fix something.  So I did. #stubbornwysswomen Emmy was my eager helper. 

 Are you tired of seeing pictures of my toilets yet?  At least is has a pretty new handle!?  Ha. 

 We went to visit Grandpa Beutel after church on Sunday.  He had not met Miriel yet... to our shame. 

 I've been bitten by the miniatures bug... I'm hoping this project will turn out as well as I'm imagining it in my head.  It may take awhile since I only have small chunks of time in the evenings... 

 On Labor Day we took the girls down to Kickapoo Creek to explore.  The girls and I had been here to take pictures almost two years ago with my friend Bethany.  I wanted to come back and check it out when it wasn't freezing cold.  :) 

 We picnicked and then took a short hike walk to the creek. 

 Someone was grouchy and wouldn't play because she had to go to the bathroom but wouldn't say anything.... *sigh* 

She did eventually cheer up. They found a geode, threw lots of rocks in the water, launched a stick raft...

 And then we saw a snake swimming in the water.  And a second one.  I don't like snakes.  Good times. 
 All ready for school- Cecily loves it, Emmy mostly loves it.  She's gotten used to 'talking to the flag' (for awhile there I thought we might be raising a Mennonite), loves music class, and she takes everything the PE teacher says very seriously.  :)

 They wanted to do some activity and I said no because I had things I needed to get done first- so they got out the bowls and started snipping beans for me.  If only they were this good all the time.  :)

 Littlest squish! She's suddenly looking bigger... 

Blessings.