Isaac's Ideas: How to exit out of your dreams

We were talking about nightmares and Isaac decided to share some tips with us.

It's #4's turn!

Well, as fate would have it, we found ourselves at the Instacare once again on Saturday. This time I left Nate with the kids while I took Eli in. He had a fever of 100.8 and was fussing while pulling at his left ear. The Dr. confirmed my fear that he had an ear infection and gave us a prescription for it. He is doing so much better today and is finally acting like himself again. The only problem is he hates the taste of the medicine! Sorry kid!

Crawling, Coloring, Swimming, Wii games, and Everything else!

Eli is crawling! He began about 2 weeks ago and is doing really well. Now he is pulling himself up to a stand! I would like him to crawl for at least 4 months, but he just doesn't seem to want to wait that long! We have noticed that he doesn't like riding in the car anymore. We think it might be because he knows he can get around now and hates being strapped in, unable to move as he pleases.
Kate is healing up from her stitches and hopefully won't end up with an awful scar. Kate has developed a love of coloring, where she will sit or stand for quite sometime while she colors in her coloring books. Her coloring is usually all in one color, but it is done very neatly and carefully.
Joseph and Isaac are off track from school, so I put all three kids in swimming lessons to give them something to do during the day. I am also trying to get them to work on projects for the Reflections contest. They can enter as many categories as they want, so we are going to try to do a bunch of things.
Nate is having fun playing MarioKart on the Wii and the kids enjoy watching him play it.
I am trying to keep up on the housework, following my crawler around and planning Young Women in Excellence among everything else!
So, how are you doing? :)

Donut Falls!

We went with the Bentley's on a hike up to Donut Falls over Labor Day weekend.
We had a good time.

Here is Eli ready for his hike with Daddy.


Kate with Trevor Higginson, one of her cousins and friends.


Mom with Joseph and Isaac. I dressed them in orange so I wouldn't lose them.


6 of the Bentley siblings standing at the family tree.
Jane, Rob, Julia, Ruth, Tom and Rebecca.
(some of us are pointing to our names)


A shot of the donut.


An upside down tree!


Nate with my three boys and family members climbing up towards the donut.


All tired out from hiking.

Stitches

For the third time in less than a month, I found myself back at the InstaCare. After Isaac's bruised elbow and Joseph's constipation that we thought might be appendicitis, it was Kate's turn this time. She ran into the corner of a table and got a gash that is between 1/4" to 1/2" long, just below her nose. She had to get four stitches that will hopefully prevent the scarring from being too bad. The doctor and nurse kept commenting on how calm she was and she held perfectly still during the procedure. The only time she really twitched was when the thread tickled her nose!

Kate got a sucker and a Thomas sticker for her troubles. Poor kid...

Eli's New Tricks

Eli has learned some new tricks.

If you look closely you can see him flipping the ties on my shoe.


He says "Hi" and waves!

6 months old

We got these pictures taken of Eli when he was 6 months old. He is 7 months old now, but I still had to share them.

He is such a happy baby!


This is a very typical expression for our precious boy!


Aren't babies just the best things!