Food!

I'm not sure what I do wrong, but none of my kids have liked baby food.  I remember feeling so excited when Elli turned 6 months old because I got to try out rice cereal.  Well, she never liked anything of pureed texture so we ended moving straight to the finger foods with her.  Brinlyn came along and the same thing happened.  Now, here we are with #3 and we are having the same problem.  So we have tried and tried baby food with Bennett and have had no success.  He is almost 8 months old and still hardly eats anything but milk.  Well, we are finding a little success with just laying the food out in small pieces on his tray and letting him go for it.  This strategy is lame for me because it pretty much means he needs a bath after every meal.  I'm happy he is eating but, wow, this is going to be an exhausting road. Wish me luck! 

Camping

 The "comfortable" sleeping conditions when you are camping.  Elli somehow ended up on the ground but managed to sleep anyway.  Bennett ended up in bed with us and it was horrible.  I think we got one hour of sleep.  Why would anyone camp with a baby?  The girls sure love camping so I guess that is why we do it.

 Elli has been way into boogie boarding.  It is hard to tell in this picture which one Elli is but she is the one closest in on the left.

 The mamas all lined up enjoying being lazy. :)

 Brinlyn is our beach girl.  She will go to the beach any day! 

 Brinlyn and Bennett are buddies.  Bennett thinks he is such a big boy.

The girls sure love their brother

Surgery Day

 Bennett helped me fill out the paperwork

 He ate the pen for a little bit

 Played with some toys to kill the time

Tah-dah-surgery is done and he is still slumbering

Septebmer 21 Bennett had a minor surgery.  He was a trooper before the surgery (not able to eat for several hours before).  He did great waking up from the anesthesia but about an hour later he was inconsolable.  I later found out it was because the anesthesiologist had not given him any pain meds.  LAME!  The poor guy was in pain until I figured it all out.  After we learned that he needed meds every four hours he did great.  Hopefully we don't have to do any surgeries for a bery long time!

What Tuna is made of...

I pulled out a can of tuna to make some sandwiches for Nate and I.  Elli was standing there with me and as she looked at the can she said, "Wow, I didn't know tuna was made out of mermaids".  I don't think a day goes by without something funny coming from Elli. We sure love that girl!