Coleman's 6th Birthday

Coleman has never really had a birthday party with friends, since he just hasn't cared about things like that, or couldn't really communicate it to us. So this year was a lot of fun since he wanted to go to the jumping place. It was a place that he and his friends could just run around and play and it's a place where Coleman seems able to be a little more social since he is doing something he really likes to do. The most popular part of it was the Boxing arena! The boys just stood in line waiting their turn to duke it out. There were some real knock downs and little nervous moments where you were sure some kid was going to end up crying, but they did really good. They all had a lot of fun and even the gluten free/dairy free cupcakes went over well.

Mckennas Play

I haven't posted much at all since Christmas, so this is my catch up of radom stuff that has happened.

Mckenna tried out for this little community play that they do a couple times a year. It was a spoof on Sleeping Beauty. They try out on a monday, find out who makes it that night- practice every day after school tues-fri. then put on two shows on saturday. Mckenna was at least hoping to be in some chorus or group thing, but she got the part of Sleeping Beautys dog. Believe it or not, it was a coveted part. She had some speaking parts, and of course she had to stay in character and bark a lot, but the fun part was that she was in almost the whole play since she was with Sleeping Beauty. I was surprised at how good the play was for these kids to put it on in a couple of days. Of course the big main part was played by one of the directors and they all did such a good job. She had so much fun, she has been begging me to get her in some other kind of plays. Next time she says she would like to be a person and have more speaking parts and soon some solo singing parts. She has come a long way since her preschool perfomances when she would see me and run down to me crying and hiding her face.

SNOW

In some ways it's sad to say that we have had very little snow this year. I don't miss driving in it, or bundling the kids up multiple times to go out, just to have them come in 10 mins later covered in snow. But it's a little weird now that it's April and I think it has maybe really snowed 4 or 5 times. Oh well, I'm still ready for spring and summer now!

Christmas Eve and Christmas Morning

We are always a little behind the times with any electronics- so this year we finally decided to get them a Wii. They have had a lot of fun today with it. Mckenna and I have done the Just Dance II game and I've realized how much dance talent I've lost. The boys love Mario Bros, and I'm pretty sure Chad beat everyone in boxing.

Mckenna finally has her own dock to put in her room for her ipod.

I don't know of anyone that has worse morning bed hair than Miley. It actually looked worse right when she got out of bed. Some days she will hardley let me comb it, so I try to make her wear a hat.

The boys have been talking about Harry Potter legos for months now, so good thing Santa brought them.

Everyone looks like a deer in headlights, but they loved their gifts from Santa!

The boys getting ready to play the Wii.

Saige of course woke up a little later than everyone else- so she got some things for her crib and carseat. Funny how we had these exact same toys with Miley then got rid of them thinking that we wouldn't need them.

This was after the kids put on a little Nativity performance for us. It was a little rough, but if we try it again next year, we won't have a real baby to play Baby Jesus. Miley was Mary who rode in on the donkey which was played by Chad. Caden was Joseph and held Miley's hand. Coleman was a wise man who brought a gift and Mckenna was the Angel (wearing Mileys fairy wings.)

Miley turns 3 and other stuff

Miley is now 3! She is full of spunk and is a little bit of an emotional rollar coaster which scares me a little for years to come. But we wouldn't have her any other way- she makes us laugh all the time and can be the sweetest thing ever. She loves and adores her baby sister Saige. She has never once acted jelous or like she doesn't want her around. She loves to wrestle and chase her brothers. She likes Mckenna to do her hair and paint her nails. She likes anything that has to do with Princess', barbie, or if it's pink.

We had gluten-free/ dairy free pizza and cupcakes. Even Grandma and Grandpa Schmidt said the cupcakes were delicious. I think the pizza is pretty good, but for the others who can have gluten and dairy, they ordered Papa Johns.

It looks like she has a third eye in the middle since I dropped part of the humidifier out of the closet and she happened to be standing under me. The sharp corner went right between her eyes. Chad took her to the instacare and they glued it shut. The glue looked purple after, so she liked that.

SANTA

This was the first year that all the kids have sat on Santas lap! There has always been someone too scared to do it. Coleman was very excited and couldn't stop talking. And Coleman asked for Legos, "Big Ones". Miley brought him a picture she drew and asked for Shoes (what else). Caden was hesitant and embarrassed and asked for an Ipod nano (which was not on his Christmas list). Mckenna felt a little too old to be doing this, but was a good sport for the other kids. Mckenna wants money so she can go shopping herself, and her own Ipod dock for her room. I can't believe Christmas is a week away!

Life Since #5

These didn't turn out too good, but at least I have something of her in her dress that she wore for about 30 minutes.

Our sweet friend Dacy from Virginia made some vinyl lettering for the girls rooms. They really liked it! Thanks Dace!

Halloween at the church party.

This is Miley inbetween not needing a nap every day. A lot of days end up with her asleep anywhere around 3:30 or 4.

Grandma and Grandpa Kraudy came to see the new baby, and I'm sure they didn't mind seeing the rest of us too.

I thought I would add to the blog since it's now been 2 months since Saige was born. I guess not a whole lot has changed, and sad to say I have hardly taken any pictures of Saige. We didn't even take her blessing pictures on the day of her blessing since I had to be to church early. Chad got everyone ready and there. Everyone asks me how it is now having 5, and I tell them it's not too bad since Mckenna is a huge help, and Chad doesn't really travel now, so having him home in the evening is a life-saver. I probably give in more to things, like letting Caden play his DS for longer than he should, Mckenna watching too many "Good luck Charlie" shows, and even right now the kids are watching ELF a week before Thanksgiving since Miley has been asking forever to watch it and I got tired of saying no. I guess you could say we are ready for the Holidays.