My snugglebug

Many of you have yet to see my sweet new little guy- either because you live so far away, or because we've been hermits since he was born a month premature and I really don't want him to get sick. Here are a few pictures of the handsome devil for you to enjoy.

His mullet :)

Livvy loves his bear hat :)

I don't have many pictures with his eyes open because I just want to play with him when he actually does open his eyes. This one is a few days old and he already doesn't really look like that anymore.

His big sister holds him repeatedly all day long. She just can't get enough of him.

Want One?

I'm getting my list together to send out our annual Christmas cards and Ike's Baby Announcement. Do you want one? If you do- please email me your address to weaz_23@yahoo.com or leave me a comment. I do have many of your addresses, but lots of you have moved! So- give me your address and I'll Hook You Up! :)

Loaded Questions

Since we brought little Ike home from the hospital, we've had to answer lots of questions and heard so many funny thoughts. Here a few:

After being home from the hospital for 10 minutes:
Livvy: Mommy- when are you going to have another baby in your tummy? This time a girl.

Ike was fussing as I got the kids on the bus this morning:
Wyatt (authoritatively): Mom- he better not be hungry when I get home!

Wyatt: How does that milk get in your boobies?
Livvy: Do you have to drink it from a glass first and then the baby drinks it?

Wyatt: When will he get bigger? I want to build a snow fort with him today.

Lots and lots of smiles and laughs at this house.

Ike Turner Scoffield

Ike Turner Scoffield joined our family on November 21st at 12:10 am. He weighed 7 lbs. 2 oz. and is 18 inches long. Since he was a month early, we were very concerned about him, but he arrived perfect with chubby cheeks even! His brother and sister are thrilled that he's here and we are loving every minute with our bundle of joy. I realized after posting these pictures that I really don't have any that show his face really well, so we'll have to play photographer sometime over this holiday week. Thanks to everyone for their well wishes and help with the older two monkeys.
With Uncle Shane

With Grandma Wendy and Grandpa Jon
Since the delivery was a month early, I was totally unprepared to go to the hospital when my water broke. I was having serious anxiety and couldn't think straight, so had absolutely nothing I needed. Shelby had to run to Walmart just to get me a comb and toothbrush :). So please pretend I'm beautiful.
Grandma and Grandpa Turner
All dressed up and ready to come home!
His favorite person is Daddy. They've already spent lots of time watching hunting shows together.
Being Thanksgiving Week, I feel so overly blessed for my sweet family. I have a sweet new little guy, two other adorable kids, and the most loving supportive husband that I could ever ask for. I've never loved him more than watching him with sweet little Ike and Wyatt and Livvy. He's the best daddy and I am so incredibly lucky to have him. This Thanksgiving we have oodles to be grateful for.

Organization Week 6 Done

So this is my last post on the organizational series that I started. It worked great to keep me motivated and have some accountability. I didn't accomplish everything on my list yet- actually most of it is what is left on Shelby's list :), but I'm happy with the overall results.

• Cars vacuumed and scrubbed.
• Car seats washed and scrubbed and re-assembled.
• Baby's clothes washed
• Swing, bouncy seat, car seat, etc. washed and disinfected.
• Coupon binder bought, put together, and filled.
• RS binder organized
• Livvy's bow drawer cleaned out. It was driving me bonkers.

I decided with regards to planning that I was actually quite happy with the way that I plan when it comes to menus (I plan for every two weeks) and cleaning. I could probably schedule in more deep cleaning time, but let's be honest- don't we all feel like we clean enough? Yuck. I did find a few great resources to help me in planning activities for the afternoon for the kiddos. Here's one of my favorites: fun.familyeducation.com. I'm going to strive to do one activity a day after naps with Wyatt and Livvy on Mon-Wed, which are school days. Then on Thurs. and Fri., we are going to do one in the morning and one in the afternoon. Sometimes these activities may be replaced by just story times, but I'm going to try and get daily story time in addition to the activities. I'm not aiming for perfection- just improvement :) Of course, life always gets in the way- so I'm planning on being flexible with myself and the schedule. And now- a sigh of exhaustion.

Organization Week 5 or something...

I think it's Week 5- maybe I skipped a week and bled over into Week 6? I don't care as long as all of the tasks get done! We have been able to accomplish quite a bit from the last few lists, and still have a few things to finish up on each one as well.

• Puppy kennel built.
• Flowerbeds cleaned out.
• Oil changed in both vehicles.
• Shelves built and baskets bought for laundry system! The baskets are lime green- while it adds color to the room, they're not exactly what I wanted- but I couldn't find anything else! Plus they were $2 each at Target. So they'll do for now and I'll keep looking.....
  
• New curtains made for dining room.
• Decorations hung that I've been begging for just about forever!
• Supplies purchased to install our new wood burning stove.
• Sold the old pellet stove.
  

Still need to do:

• Vacuum out cars well.
• Refill the anti-ice windshield wiper stuff :)
• Paint the shelves- later.
• Have Shelby build a boot rack for the mud room to organize all of his boots.
• Install the wood stove and tile surround.
• Caulk the windows and install better sealings around the doors.
• All that planning I talked about :)
  

But here are a few pictures of the results from this week:

Happy Halloween!

Wyatt was a pirate for Halloween and Livvy was a ballerina. We had plenty of costume malfunctions to start off our night. Wyatt would not leave his pirate patch over his eye- so it stayed put in the middle of his forehead and he broke his gold earring before we were even out the door. On the plus side- everyone loved his chest hair :). Livvy was supposed to wear another ballerina costume, but that morning when I went to get them all laid out and ironed, I found chocolate milk stained all over the front. Argh! So thank goodness for the dress-up box!

This is all of the grandkids on the Turner side of the family- including Baby Charly- the newest addition. Aunt Hailey and Laramie even dressed up.



Wyatt got captured by a spider at the Trunk or Treat. He didn't mind at all being put in the spider's web :)
He kept trying to pick up candy with his hook. What a goof! Finally he just decided to carry his pumpkin by hanging it on his hook instead.
Here's the look of our caravan traveling around Amber's neighborhood Trick or Treating. Wyatt and I were leading the pack because he was the 'pro'. All in all- a very fun Halloween!

Pre- Halloween Fun

We did lots of painting pumpkins and other Halloween crafts this year. It seemed like every day after their naps the kids were begging to do another one. Luckily we had lots of little pumpkin gourd things from our garden, so they painted and painted away! Also (not pictured) they painted larger pumpkins with chalkboard paint and then colored on them with chalk- Thank you Aunt Hailey!