Grateful

 Today I am grateful that I have not potty trained Anchor. He has had a yucky tummy all afternoon so that would have been a nightmare. 

I am NOT grateful that I got a little letter in the mail saying I was summoned for jury duty. this is the 3RD TIME!!! 3RD. I am praying that I am not selected on needed or whatever when I call tomorrow. I just have no idea how I would manage it #1 and #2 what kind of awesome mom sends a sick kid to daycare all day when he is totally unused to it? 

We had a relaxing weekend with not much going on so that was nice. William is looking forward to his first game on Thursday in Twin Falls. I got roped in to organizing sacks for the bus ride there. *Don't know how that happened and the timing couldn't have been worse. stupid summons*

We are working on some agility training. The dogs and kids LOVE it.

Ben built this darling desk out of the old piano wood. I LOVE it.

We also replaced the red dresser that had our tablets and stuff in it with this nice little bookcase that Ben and William put together in about an hour. It obviously needs to be painted but it fits so well right there and gives the room so much more space.

Foot rest. Boulder doesn't mind, he loves to be petted in any way, shape, or form.

I got to meet this sweet pea. 

I adore her.

Anchor took it upon himself to rearrange the living space.

Boulder jumped on the table while I had my back turned and ate the garlic butter that was supposed to be with dinner tonight so that was disappointing.

I am over this week. 

I just want to crawl into my bed and sleep. Forever.

But....

Anchor is not tired.

I NOT TIRED

 Ever.

According to Anchor himself.

I totally disagree because I am exhausted.

But,

Here is a picture log for the month.

Side note**William's football schedule seems to be very fluid so text me before you plan on a game just so I can make sure it is still accurate.

On to the pictures. 

We started flag football and cross country this week so we are now living in our car wishing it was already November.

Anchor got "poked by a mad bee" (red dot #4 finger) at Brevick's practice today then he fell off a bench, then Emmerlyn crunched her knee. We sat on the friendship bench for the last 20 minutes because we were too sore and afraid to move.

Lego love. I love the entertainment value, I am dying over the mess in this picture. And my feet hurt just looking at it. Anchor has been spending most of his free time down here playing though, he even plugged in and turned on that heater to maintain a standard of comfort.

Emmerlyn did some buddy reading. 

I made cookies for the first day of school. Always double the the batch Sallee says.

More legos

First day of School!! Freshman, and 7th

4th and 2nd

Post football practice dinner. And second dinner.

Anchor built a tissue house. 

The air is so dry that everyone keeps getting bloody noses. 

He used the last of the tissues.

TV buddies.

Emmerlyn sewed Pollee a sweater. 

UUUNNNFortunately, she forgot to make it open and close and felt is NOT stretchy. Pollee looks nice in her turtle neck. It now goes on dolls.

Just some lounging pillow puppies. I want to get rid of them. They are in a horrendous stage. Ben and the kids say no. 

If you look close you can see that he has a car tucked between his seatbelt and his belly. Just because if you get into an accident you don't want to be bored.

When we were in St. George we went to a fun Children's Museum. 

They liked the sub. They felt connected with it you know?

We made lots of snacks for the road. Anchor was all in and loved carrying his snack box around.

Montgomery hates his life when he comes here. OOORR he was SO tired he just couldn't make it up the stairs.

Charley did a sandwich challenge. 

Most of this ended up in the trash because it was full of hot sauce.

I think that's it for now. Anchor has totally lost his mind in his room. 

I'm going to have to go in there. 

William is living the harsh reality that high school honors classes come with lots of homework. 

Poor dude the second day of school is when it gets hard.

Anchor stats

 29 lbs =22%

37.5 in =54% (this is the first time he broke out of the 20s. He's getting so tall!!!)

BMI = 8 (Obviously this is not an accurate picture of his health but its funny)

I Be 4 My Birtday

 Yes, he has finally accepted that he is 3. 

That's pretty old.

After much denial and disruption when told that he isn't 2 anymore we had to start telling him that he was going to be 4 on his next birthday. That is when it sunk in for him so he is looking forward to that.

He is my favorite Anchor baby.

He is so quick witted and has no problem asking for what he wants.

He loves:

cereal

nutella

jam breads (no peanut butter but he likes peanut butter and will actually eat it if he doesn't see you put it on. )

his sandwiches cut into uncrustable shapes 

all kinds of cars especially remote control ones

bikes

diapers

never being tired

watching videos on Youtube while being rocked before going to sleep. 

Bumble nums, super trucks, team umizoomi, mickey mouse clubhouse, and recently introduced...cocomelon. (he has been pretty sick so I was pretty much desperately exhausted and trying to keep him settled and calm so he didn't cough up a lung or puke. cocomelon to the rescue but now that is "my fabrit show. Not yike dat nuder show-es" 

He loves painting and writing 

playing with the toys downstairs, especially when someone is down there with him. *we will be in a world of hurt when school starts and there are fewer people to go around.* 

Most of all he loves playing with his sandbox on the deck and taking all of my kitchen tools out there. I noticed that the potato masher has gone missing as of today.

I don't think we can ever get enough laughs and loves from him. I told him that we get to babysit tomorrow and he asked who so I was trying to get him to guess. He guessed Ben. So I was like yep go ahead. He then turned to Ben and said "shhhh, don't cry" in a really sweet voice.  *It's actually Montgomery. 

Now for the latest pictures of him.

He required/demanded a snowman cake (see pics above) and called me out when I pulled these cakes out. "dose not 'nowman cake"

I got it together and came through for him in the end. Not my most amazing work but it actually tasted good and he loved it.

he was sick for his birthday week and I snapped this sweet sleeping picture because this was the best one

He had a bunch of items in his boot purse. you know in case he needed them. 

Love you Anch the tank!

No promises but pictures