Pumpkin carving

Where's Caleb? Can you find him?
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Wednesday

So a few updates:

1. Madie is still potty training

2. Joshua is still a little stuffy (had a very rough night last night)

3. We are trying to figure out Christmas lists for the kids. (they need some new toys, things are getting old.)

4. Caleb is counting down the days till Halloween

5. David and I are counting down the days until our first date together since Joshua was born, Saturday Lunch! Noelle is watching the kiddos for us. Hooray!

6. Elizabeth is preparing for her fall guitar recital, November 11th.

7. I finally mopped the floors! They were disgusting!

8. I sent out birth announcements for Joshua, I feel so proud of myself!

9. I've become a blog junkie, there are so many cool ones to read. I think I'm following 10!

10. Best quote from Madie lately. Daddy: "Pee pee clock went off. Time to go pee pee" Madie: "Potty can wait, I'm coloring!"

Outlook for the week

So, Joshua has a stuffy nose. No fever, no cough, just a really bad stuffy nose. He's not sleeping either because he can't breathe laying down. The swing, the pouch or our arms are about the only places he will sleep. Please pray he gets over this quickly. Luckily so far he can still breathe well enough to nurse.

I started potty training Madie this week. She was trying to take off her diapers. So it is time. I'm armed with 10 pairs of panties, a candy dish full of M&Ms and the pee pee clock- every 15 minutes! Today she did well, only had a few accidents but man is she a pill to reason with. I have never had to argue and negotiate with any of my other kids like I am having to do with Madie. "3 candies?" "No, only 2" and her newest phrases are "I don't want to" and " ok enough mommy" wow, she's a pistol! I've put the living room rug up and she just runs around in a shirt and her panties and boy do we get excited when she actually pees in the potty! The whole family gets in on the praise, and Caleb tries to get a few candies out of the deal too!

We also picked up 3 pumpkins, we are set to carve those Friday. The kids are ninjas again this year and I think Madie will wear Caleb's old spider man suit. The kids want to cut out a red letter S and stick it on Joshua and put a bib on backwards and make him super baby! We'll see....

I'm just keeping myself busy with kids and housework since Refuge is off till January. Though 6 of us have a performance next weekend. I am thankful for a little time off from having to run rehearsals every Saturday and actual hang out at home instead. Already thinking about some home improvement projects we could tackle!!

Well, that's the outlook from the Gant household for now.
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Teddy bear Joshua

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Caleb Riding His Bike

Tummy Time

Who Does Joshua Look Like?

Elizabeth

Caleb

Madeleine


Who Does he look like? check out the pictures then place your answers below or on the poll!

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We have a floor!

So after way too many months, we can finally see our garage floor! It took David and me all day to organize this nightmare. But we did it. Now he is just painting our new entertainment center he and our friend Keith built. Now if I can just get my closet organized we will be in business.
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Sunday

Caleb and Joshua chilling in bed before church Sunday

I think they really love each other.....especially Caleb.


Hannah came to visit us this past weekend. She met Joshua and shopped at Ikea for stuff for her new house!

Her last little snuggle time at lunch before she had to leave to go back home to Memphis. We had a blast! I was sad to see her leave.

This is how we start the day

7am, breakfast then Curios George.
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A Family of 6

So this picture was quite an ordeal to take. We were at a wedding for one of our dancers so pretty much all of our company dancers were there. Which was a huge help because trying to keep up with 4 kids in a small historic house with a zillion other people around proved to be quite an undertaking. After 2 hours of doing this is was time to say goodbye but I had to snap a picture of our now family of 6. First though Eric, our friend, had to go retrieve Elizabeth from somewhere within the house while we tried to keep Madie from running into the street. Then I gave Jen the camera, Rebekah my purse, and Eric tried to get Madie to look at the Camera and smile. Oh yeah, What's that Rebekah? The burp rag over my shoulder? yeah, probably don't want that in the picture. everyone body say cheese.....no, look over here Madie, Caleb stand still....yeah we were a riot! But the result is worth it in my opinion and it sure does make me thankful for all my friends. Without them I'm sure we would have lost one of our kids that day!

Happy Fall

The leaves are changing colors here in Georgia and the kids are super excited it is fall. Not because it means Pumpkin pie, hayrides and apples. But because it means new winter clothes and hot chocolate. Last week they begged me to get their new winter clothes out and they have proceeded to wear long sleeves and long pants every day since, whether it is cold enough for it or not! And hot chocolate, they love having hot chocolate in the morning. I think they like to pretend it is a cup of coffee just like mommy and daddy's


Happy Fall Y'all!

My First bottle

So Last Friday I got my first bottle.

I drank it without fussing.

My mommy was even able to give me a bottle. I heard her say I was the best baby they have had yet! Score!

1 month today!

Hello everyone, I'm 1 month old today! Mommy let me have some tummy time and snapped some pictures of me holding my head up. It's a hard job but I'm getting better at it each day.

I also got weighed with mommy on our scale, she thinks I weigh at least 8 pounds, maybe even 9. I'm a great eater, I never miss a meal!

New sweet spot

So we've found a new favorite spot for Joshua, the chair that Vibrates! I finally put batteries in it and he loves it. Which is good because I needed to cook lunch and wearing him near a hot stove isn't advisable! I think we will use this chair later today when I leave to teach..
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