Long overdue

Since my last post we lost the Internet, so I'm WAY behind. Well, we had a sweet little baby boy named Josiah! He is 3 months old now. Enoch and Noah just adore him, and give him a little tooooo much love sometimes ;) He is SUCH a happy baby: giving us great big smiles when we enter the room, sticks his little hands in his mouth and ducks his head in a shy smirk, coo's at the boys, clings on to Enochs shirts and try's to gnaw on our fingers. Despite coming down with thrush, being on medication for a month, being constipated for 4 weeks because of that, being fed a bottle with Karo in it to help cure it, throwing him off of his nursing game, and gagging himself at night because of his snuffy nose, he has been so content!

Enoch has been working hard on our first go around at homeschooling! Its a little difficult finding time between a newborn, a mischievous 2 year old brother, and mommy cooking and cleaning. But we are working with him on his letters: sounds, writing them, and recognition. We only have Q and V to go! He's doing so well! We have to work a little extra on his speech too. He gets jabbering a little too fast and everything blends together. So we are in the process of slowing him down and working on each word.

Little Noah has surprised us with what he picks up listening to us teach Enoch. He'll point to our shirt and say "W mommy!" or in while reading a book "dats Y" Noah definitely makes us smile with his funny faces and remarks. Like when Enoch gets on to him for making a mess, Noah will scrunch his face and make his mean face and say "shhhh, baby siah sweeping" or "I'm toming!" when you call for him, or as he's laying next to Josiah with his leg wrapped around him he'll say "gotchuuu." He's very independent, wanting to do everything himself.

(Yes, the beard is gone now =)

Enoch has been pretending to be a new animal everyday. From a lion or tiger, kitten or dog to pretending to be baby Josiah. He does not break his character for anything. He even crawled like a gorilla on his fists into the doctor the other day. Answering the nurse with "WO WO" lol, it was too cute to interfere.

I have been kindly pushing the boys out the door to soak up any bity of outside time before the coldness comes blowing in and we are stuck to 3 months of running around the house. I love my two little independent boys. Its nice to have time to get things done without having to turn the TV on for them. Enoch is in love with his "Big boy bike" and is such a good brother by offering to push Noah around on it since his little legs still wont reach. Then Noah returns the favor (pictured) They are best of friends, from playing in the dirt together, doing chalk, racing cars, playing with their digger, or tackling the dogs. I'm so glad we had them so close.

We are awfully excited about our big trip to Oklahoma coming up here mid November. We have our official countdown and that is all Enoch talks about. "Mommy, I'm going to eat a banana when we get to Mimi's house" "Does Mama Luci have cows or sheep in their backyard?" "I want to show Papa that" or my favorite, we were working on our letters and going over the sounds. We got to letter D and Enoch says "D says DAH and is for papa DDDDDDD!!! And jumps at me and knocks me over as he yells D. He's a little excited.

We went to Sarah's house with three dressed up little boys for Halloween. The businesses around the square in town were giving out treats before it got dark, so we hit that up to make sure we got something in before the night time fussiness arrived. My little tigger (Jo) wanted to be held the whole time while my pumpkin walked and my giraffe held little snow whites hand (Addi) all this while pushing a double stroller with no kids in it haha. But they had so much fun, Sarah's husband was there to help guide the kids in and out of the stores. I went as a "sleepy mommy" in my pj's pants, robe and sleeping mask =) After the first stop, Noah sat in the stroller and wanted to eat his one bag of M&Ms, and did not care to get out to get more candy, he was content with that. Even though I made him (mommy wants candy too :) Caleb joined us later for some amazing chilli after hunting.