Nathanial's New Song

So tonight Nathanial asked me "Daddy who is the oldest, oldest in our house?" The answer of course was "I am." So then Nathanial made up this song to the tune of "Once there was a Snowman": "Once there was an old man, old man, old man. Daddy is an old man, old man, old man, big and fat." I just had to laugh.

Emily is 6 Months!

On November 6th our baby girl turned 6 months.  The time has just flown by.  She is our petite little girl. Here are her 6-month stats:

Height: 24 1/2 inches (10th percentile)

Weight: 11 lbs. 6 oz. (1/2 inch below the charts)

Head circumference: 41 cm (15th percentile)

Also at her appointment the doctor told me that I need to take her in for an ultrasound of her hip due to "popping".  I took her in and everything came back normal.

Mily with her sippy, she is growing up too fast!

Here are Emily Lynn's 6 month pictures...(taken November 6th)

Halloween

This year the kids had 5 days of various Halloween parties/events that they dressed up for.

Nathanial wanted to be Harry Potter this year and for a while so did Christopher.  About a week or two before Halloween and about the same time I started to make Nathanial's costume, Christopher decided that he was going to be a transformer.  I was fine with that because we already had the costume so I didn't have to do anything.  The day before our ward trunk-or-treat Christopher decided that he wanted to be Harry Potter too.  So that night I ended up making his costume.  

October 21, 2011: Friday night the costumes came together in time for the trunk-or-treat.  It was really cold and this is the only picture I have from the event.  We invited our friends the Brannan's to come with us.  Emily was a lady bug.

October 22, 2011: Saturday was the CADA annual Halloween Carnival at the Case Farm.  It was a lot smaller this year.  There was a corn hole competition this year too.  Thanks to Jenny for taking these pictures!

Christopher

Christopher on his broom

Nathanial on his broom, it was a Firebolt

Nathanial as Harry Potter

Our little lady bug (too bad you can't see her tutu)

October 24, 2011: On Monday for FHE we decided to carve our pumpkins only this year I found these "potato head" type faces.  The boys loved to make the faces!

Nathanial and his pumpkin

Christopher and his pumpkin (this day he decided to be a transformer)

October 27, 2011: On Thursday, we had our annual preschool Halloween party.  The kids were so excited to come to preschool in their costumes and play games.

We had a pirate, Harry Potter, a kitty, another Harry Potter, a mermaid, a ghost, and I was the tooth fairy.

Playing musical "shares"

Everyone sharing the last chair

Pin the face on the ghost

He was happy once his face was put together :)

October 29, 2011: On Saturday we headed over to our friends, the Madsen's, for their annual Halloween party.  We had a lot of fun playing Just Dance. For more fun check out the Madsen's Blog HERE

I was the tooth fairy, Ryan was my secretary, Christopher was a transformer, Nathanial was Harry Potter, and Emily was a lady bug.

Yummy!

A green coffin

October 31, 2011: On Monday, for Halloween I made "mummies and blood" for dinner.

After dinner Ryan took the boys and headed around the block for Trick-or-Treating.  I stayed at home with Emily (who went to bed) to pass out candy.  This year I am the president of CADA.  It is a group for the spouses of dental students.  Part of being the president is that you have to store all the "stuff" at your house.  I went through everything that CADA has and found about 300 random toothbrushes that were given to us that have been handed from president to president for who knows how long. so I decided to divide them up between a couple of CADA members and hand them out along with our candy on Halloween.  They were a BIG hit!

 

For trick-or-treating Christopher went as Spiderman and Nathanial was Harry Potter

As many of you know I try to make my kids' Halloween costumes every year and I like to try and make a "theme" out of it.  This year one night for FHE we sat down and decided as a family what we were going to be.  We decided to do a "bug" theme.  Ryan was going to be a stick bug, I was going to be a butterfly, Nathanial was going to be a fire fly (complete with a light), Christopher was going to be a caterpillar, and Emily was going to be a lady bug.  I went to the fabric store and bought all the fabric that I needed to make the costumes and the next day Nathanial and Christopher decided that they want to be Harry Potter instead.  I sighed and grumbled to myself and then went to work thinking how I was going to make Harry Potter costumes so here is what I did: I made very simple black robes, laminated a printout of the Grifindor symbol, I bought a pair of metal frame glasses at the dollar store, popped out the lenses and re-shaped them.  For the brooms I bought a toilet plunger from the dollar store and replaced the plunger end with sticks that I found in the back yard and wrapped them with brown yarn. a simple eye-liner lightning bolt did the trick for the scar.  As far as Emily's costumes goes I bought a little jammy set that had the polka-dots on it and just made a little black and red tu-tu to go with it along with the black headband and red antenna out of a pipe cleaner (thanks Deana-bug for the pipe cleaner)!

Christopher's Tumbling Class

I signed Christopher up for a 6 week tumbling class.  He missed 2 of the weeks while we were in Idaho but he enjoyed it.  The parents were able to watch the last day.

stretching

Stretching

froggy jumps

crab walk

log rolls

Videos From Tumbling

Visit From Grandma and Grandpa Jensen

October 4, 2011: We arrived in Cleveland about an hour after Clay and Karen.  We rode the shuttle over to the rental car place where we rode back to our house together.  Ryan was there when we got home and it was nice to see him.  That was the longest we have been apart the entire time that we have been married. We sat and relaxed at the house for a few minutes until we headed to Olive Garden for dinner. After dinner we went home and went to bed.  We were all very tired.

October 5, 2011: The next day we headed downtown to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.  I didn't realize that it was on the coast of Lake Erie.  We decided that during Ryan's spring break we will have to take a tour of the ships. 

There were several floors in the museum and all sorts of odd things hanging from the ceiling.

Like this hotdog car...

Janis Joplin's Porsche

They didn't allow photography in the various exhibits.  I have to say that music sure has changed over the years.  I think that I prefer the "oldies" versus new rock and roll.

The boys by the HUGE guitars

Micheal Jackson Guitar

The kitty guitar

The boys were done by the time we hit the 3rd-4th floor (there were 6) so I took them outside to play.

The famous Rock and Roll pyramid

After we finished at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame we headed over to The Hard Rock Cafe.  I have never been there and was excited to go.  They had a Smashing Pumpkins Drum set hanging on the wall.  The food didn't disappoint.

After we finished eating we headed over to Clay and Karen's hotel to play in the pool...

Can she get any cuter?

Hanging out in the hotel room.

There was a couple that came in to swim while we were there but they didn't get into the hot tub until we left.  Later as we were leaving Ryan was coming out of the elevator and heard them say in the adjacent elevator that they should have called child protective services because we had 3 kids in the hot tub.  We just laughed. 

October 6, 2011: On Thursday, we headed to Patterson's Fruit Farm.  We came here our first year and the boys had a blast.

Our Pumpkin Farm

The boys were in heaven with all the tractors.  I think they could have stayed and played all day on the tractors...

There were several things for the boys to do. A large slide, pedal tractors, walking on logs, stilts, sandbox, teepee, and a ton of other stuff.

pedal tractors

Ryan on the stilts

Walking on the log with Grandpa

Daddy's little girl!

Christopher and Grandma

Nathanial riding the tractor

A "tractor" shaped big toy

My driver

Christopher was taking me to Idaho

The BIG Tractor

Corn Maze

My city boys and girl

Grandma and Mily

Nathanial driving the big tractor

Even Clay took a turn...

Playing in the canoe filled with sand

Our family of five

After we finished playing at Patterson's we headed to Red Lobster for Nathanial. He REALLY wanted to go.  I think that we started our kids out on sea food too early.  They both really like lobster, crab, and shrimp.

After we ate we headed over to the hotel for another night of swimming.

October 7, 2011: Friday Ryan and the boys left with Clay and Karen to drive to Scott and Denisse's in Virginia.  I drove down later with Emily.  Scott and Denisse were blessing their baby girl, Brooke on Sunday.  The great thing about cousins is it doesn't matter how long you are apart when you see each other again you are best friends. 

Braden and Nathanial fishing

Christopher playing with Ironman

Playing trains

October 8, 2011: While waiting for Clay and Karen to come over the kids and Scott built a fort.

This boy is the cutest little imp!

There were three baby girls born in the Jensen family.  Emily and Ari were born in May and Brooke was born in August. 

Emily is such a petite little girl and Brooke is a chunk!

I LOVE these BIG blue eyes!

Later Saturday we headed over to a park in Virginia.  The kids had a ton of fun running around playing...

Before we left the park we took a ride on the carousel...

Christopher, Grandpa, and Nathanial

Sunday we headed to Church where Scott blessed Brooke Kate Jensen.  If you want to see other pictures of our trip to Virginia click on Denisse's Blog HERE.
On the drive home we passed this exit and had to take a picture...

 

It was a great trip to Idaho; it was great to have Clay and Karen come and visit; it was great to go to Virginia; but it was great to be back home.