John turns 1 month old

Yes John, you are now one...one month old that is.

Our little Johnny turned one month old last week.  Here he is looking surprised (one of his favorite looks).  He's a sweet little guy.  He sleeps well, is sort of a fussy eater, he likes to be burped and has a pretty quiet cry, as far as newborn cries go.  He's growing bigger each day and smiles at us now, from time to time.  All the kids love him.  Even Grant, who seemed a little jealous at first, now looks out for John like a good big brother.  He brings blankets to him and tries to get us to burp John when he's fussing (mostly by gestures and jabbering but we get the message).  If John is crying in his seat he'll try to get us to pick him up sooner.  He likes to pat John gently on the head (ok, so he also tried to poke him in the eye, but still) and wipe his face if he spits up.  And he can now say "Johnny" or something that sort of sounds like it.  Grant even says "baby" in his sleep.  He's taking to his big brother responsibilities very well.  That Grant...he's a good kid.

 

More of surprised John

 His thinking face

John is also losing his brown hair...he has a bit of a receding hairline right now.  Hmmm

Anna gives John a sort of snuggle.  Like Grant, Anna is also taking her big sibling responsibilities very seriously.  She sings to John and reads him stories.  She tells me when she thinks John needs to be fed.  She's very helpful and John seems to really like her.  He usually calms down when she sings to him and he smiles at her.

 This is John's disgusted face

And here are some pictures of the rest of our crew...

Matthew's first soccer game.  He's having a lot of fun playing soccer so far.  His team is called the "Tiger Legos."  The kids on the team came up with that name themselves...surprise, surprise.  Matthew is in this picture but all you can see is the top of his hair.  My camera promptly died after I took this one picture so this is all I got.  :(  Camera troubles!!  Our microwave also died this week.  Fun times.  RIP microwave and camera.

Here is my mom helping the kids make volcanoes.  Matthew likes checking out non-fiction books and some of his favorite topics lately are earthquakes and volcanoes.  My mom was nice enough to help them make volcanoes of their own.  Even Grant got a volcano.  :)

This is our prolific young plum tree.  We have a plum and apple tree that didn't bear any fruit last year but made up for it this year.  Anna must eat four or five plums a day and still there are so many left.  How?  I don't know, but the plums are pretty good.  Yes, this plum tree is part of our "crew" these days.

Mr. Grant is growing up.   He is saying more and more words each day, starting to play pretend more, eating more, enjoying story time more and sleeping a lot more at night.  Hooray.  He is our sweet and happy little guy and such a great big brother too!  Also he gets to start going to the church nursery in just a few more weeks.  :)  I think he will like that.  I think we will ALL like that.

 

And speaking of church, here are the two "big kids" all dressed for church.  These two both seemed to have a growth spurt this summer and none of their clothes fit anymore...they are all too short and/or tight.  Anna wore the same size clothes for a loooong time, so I'm glad she's growing.  Sadly they both have the long and skinny problem.  When the pants fit around the waist they are too short in the legs.  You can see Matthew's pants are a little short here.  Get used to it kids.  You may have that problem for life.  You can thank your father.  ;)