Ear holes

Avery is not a girly girl, and not really a fan of pain, so I was very surprised when she asked if she could get her ears pierced!
Back story: When I was a kid, I wanted to get my ears pierced so so bad! My dad had a very strict rule, we had to be 16 before we got our ears pierced. I remember when I was 12 all I wanted for Christmas was to just get my darn ears pierced! Well my punk older sister told me that she overheard our parents talking, and they agreed that I would get my ears pierced! I was so elated. Well come to find out, she thought it would be a funny joke, and she made all that up. He was sticking to his ridiculous rule of being 16. I was so mad! What a jerk (both him and my sister)! Anyways, when I turned 16, I didn't even care to get them pierced, so I didn't actually get them done till I had graduated high school!

Back to this story: Travis and I had never talked about how old our kids had to be to get their ears done. So we talked about it, and neither of us really cared. We knew Avery was super responsible, and deep down inside, I just wanted to rebel against my dad's ridiculous rule and show him that a nine year-old can actually handle holes in her ears! So she did it! She was nervous, but in the end, it didn't really hurt that bad, despite her annoying little sister consistently telling her that it was going to kill! I got a before picture, but forgot to get the after, whoops!

Hopefully this parenting decision won't lead to a life of piercings and tattoos! Maybe my dad was on to something with his rule? We shall see!

Leo 9 months

These monthly updates are coming too darn fast! I can actually see his babyhood coming to an end soon, its really sad for me!

His new thing is that he loves to swing outside!

He loves baths, whenever he hears the tub water running, he crawls into the bathroom and he tries to climb in the tub. We have to close the door when his sisters take a bath or he will find the tub every time!

He loves to shake his head from side to side, he thinks its the funniest thing in the world.

I know I say this every update, but he really is the happiest baby! He smiles all the time!

He now has 4 teeth. He thought that he would try to bite me while breastfeeding, I jumped so abruptly that it scared him. He started crying. He hasn't bitten since. Phew!

He gives everyone open mouthed kisses.

He can drink from a cup, but yet still struggles with drinking milk from a bottle.

He loves strawberries. He is starting to like real food, but you just don't know what to do with it. I will give it to you, and you will chew it up, but you don't really know how to swallow it, so you store it in your cheeks like a chipmunk!

You are always running away from Isla!

You still wake up at night! I think this is your downfall as a baby. Pretty much, in every other way, you are the ideal baby, but sleeping through the night is just not your thing!

We love our brown eyed baby!!!

Thanksgiving 2017

We love our peeps! We had a very nice Thanksgiving. About half of the food was homemade at the Jolley's house and the other half was homemade by someone at a restaurant... so we aren't Martha's! But we weren't fighting over the oven or stressed out that the turkey was undercooked or covered in flour and sweat all day, so we actually win! 

Also, this boy went poop while Travis was gone, the diapers were in his truck, so I rigged this little invention for 20 minutes till he came back. Sort of proud of my efficiency that day!

Also, I do have two older children, but they were too busy playing with their cousins to care to be in any pictures!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Quick Trip

Liam, our nephew, was getting baptized. We really wanted to go and support him, but couldn't justify taking the whole family, so we decided to just send Travis and one lucky kid. We decided that lucky kid would be Brooklyn this time. She is the next to get baptized and also she was due for some one-on-one attention from her busy Dada! We surprised Brooklyn when Travis got home from work. She was ecstatic! It was a quick long weekend and they had a great time with family!

 Me, well I survived here with the other crazy children!