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Although the pediatrician had told me to start G4 on cereal I wasn't so sure I wanted to just yet. She still seems to young to start solid foods. So I hadn't done it yet. Well, the last couple days she has really been eying our food. Today she kept trying to grab whatever I was eating and put it in her mouth. This evening I decided to give it a shot. So I pumped some milk and mixed it with the cereal.

Here she is while I was getting the cereal ready.

Doesn't she look so grown-up in this picture?

The first bite:




None of the 3 older Gs liked the cereal at all when they were itty bitty and since I didn't want to waste any cereal or milk I only did a little bit. G4 however absolutely LOVED it. She screamed when we ran out. So, I had to pump some more milk and mix some more up. I gave her the spoon while I pumped. She thought that was great fun.

The older 3 Gs were so engrossed in what was happening. They all thought G4 eating "real food" was the coolest thing. G1 kept giggling about it.

Blowing raspberries

Finally satisfied

G2--the older 3 Gs helped me make pizza for dinner as you can see all over her face

G3 is the "naked" one. She was dancing around the table.

Making silly faces like Mommy does all the time.

After dinner we played for a bit. G1 kept putting his stocking cap on G4. All 4 Gs thought that was hilarious. I wish I would have gotten a video of the laughter. Ah well, maybe next time.



Earlier today G1 put on a pair of G2 or G3's pants and a pair of Daddy's work socks. Isn't he a dork? lol


We went to Iowa earlier this week and visited Rick, Ginny, and Matt's parents and brothers.
While at Rick's G1 (not photographed), G2 and Daddy (not pictured) all got "hog tied" with a jump rope. The 3 older Gs got tossed around a bit.
G1 was "mad" (pretty sure he meant sad) that he didn't get to see Skyler. Hopefully next time.
G2 is in the white shirt and G3 is in the blue.









While at Matt's parents' house I looked over at the desk and saw this picture. It is of John when he was a boy. It is incredible how much it looks like G1. The ears are almost a perfect match (but you can't tell in G1's picture just below). The teeth are so so similar. If G1's hair was a bit longer it would look just alike. There are other similarities too. I just thought it was so cool.



G3 and G2 sat on top of G4. G3 sat on G4's butt so it didn't really bother her. But G2 sat on her back and that was more of an annoyance, so I didn't post a picture of that.

Here are a couple pictures Matt took while we were driving home. This is where he works. There's the pit, the ready side, and the tower (don't ask me what's what). He works in these 3 different places at different times. I know when he works in the tower he is acting as supervisor. When he is working the pit he pretty much is doing janitorial type stuff. The ready side is something else but I would never be able to explain it. It's neat to see. Sorry I can't explain it better.

G4 looking out the window.

I have started working on preschool stuff with G1. Here is a picture of him working on tracing the dotted lines to help him learn how to write. He makes the funniest noise while he is writing. I wish I could have gotten the video to load. It's like a swoosh sound.

The other day as Matt was getting ready to leave for work G1 walks up to me and said "Get it out of my nose." I said "Get what out of your nose." "Get it out of my nose." I had him lean his head back so I could try to look. I told him "I don't see anything." "I stuck it up there." I could feel myself start to panic. I called for Matt to come help out. Matt grabbed the flash light and saw something up there. He got the tweezers and pulled it out. It was a balled up piece of tape. No idea where he got it from and no idea why he stuck it up his nose. But man was it gross.
It wasn't that long ago that I was thinking about how glad I was that we had never had to deal with things being stuck up the nose; man was I wrong. Hopefully this was the one and only time. But with 3 more children I'm sure it won't be.