pumpkin patchin' number 4

i watched the sigl girls for an afternoon and in a shocking turn of events... decided to take them to a pumpkin patch! duh. it's always fun to practice life with four kids. i think i pretty much have it down. pretty much. 

dr. maze's farm

woodland park zoo

i had the sigl ladies for a few days and they were desperate to go to the zoo. i was nervous to do a four on one seattle excursion, but gosh darn it if i'm not a people pleaser... even when it comes to children! so we went, and it was pretty much fine. jane likes to imitate all things involving heath, so she had to bring a baby and a car seat (for safety...duh), and a stroller, and a diaper bag packed with all the same things as my diaper bag. it's a good thing the whole idea of it is precious... or i might have freaked out the 5th time that baby came bouncing out of it's car seat that was shadily jammed into the stroller and jane had a panic attack over the welfare of her child. oh man. i love my little mini me. AND he will never ever remember or realize this, but it was heath's first trip to the zoo! oh baby boy... you are growing up quick. 

hello new faces!

some visitors who came to meet brand spankin' new heath. the pictures are not great because we were using whitney's camera and we are terrible with it, as it turns out. 

whitney!

our baby photographer! thank you thank you thank you for coming in the earliest morning hours and hanging out and being there for ALL of it! heath just really likes you... you can totally tell.

auntie saige!

i was so happy to have saige in the room this time (they wouldn't let anybody in with beckett!) and for her to get to meet heath the moment he was born! i hope she thought it was cool and not traumatizing. i think she was fine about it. and she videoed! yeah! heath of course loves his auntie so much.

yiayia!

yiayia was boarding an airplane to seattle as heath was being born... since he decided to come a little early. this made her go a tiny bit insane, but she got here just a few hours after he was born! heath found time with yiayia very relaxing right from the beginning.

natasha!

natasha spent the morning with a confused and dramatic beckett, while heath was being born. thank you natasha for hanging out and being so sweet with our boys.

lonnie!

heath is so appreciative that lonnie took a picture with him! lonnie got our meal deliveries organized so we wouldn't have to cook when we got home. we just have a lot of really great friends. we are thankful!

jennifer, grace, and jane!

i think jane maybe thought about kidnapping heath. she just loves babies so dang much. it really is pretty much the cutest. mike (jennifer's hubby and the girls' dad shares a birthday with heath!)

i look like a slug in this picture, but i'm over it.

thanks for coming to meet heath on his first day of life!

snowflake lane

we met the pierces for a christmas dinner at pf changs (pf changs fried rice makes my pregnant belly the most happy) and to go to snowflake lane. snowflake lane is so fun, but so crowded. it makes me stressed. luckily, penelope and beckett mostly only cared about the lollipops and not about being able to see anything... so that's good. also, the sigl family was at pf changs and snowflake lane too! we went to snowflake lane with them last year, so it was a crazy coincidence to run into them. we were meant to be there together. sadly, i did not get any pictures of beckett giving high fives to the polar bears and reindeers, but you can trust me, it happened. 

happy halloween!

hope you had a fun halloween... all these hogwarts students did! beckett went to school, downtown kirkland trick or treating, trick or treating at matt's office, and out to the neighborhood for the evening. phew. that's a lot of candy. beckett was very good about asking, "what is safe for me?" which means, what is peanut free? poor, poor beckett... no peanut butter mnm's, butterfingers, or reeses peanut butter cups for him. somehow he still managed to enjoy the holiday. having 1,000 lollipops helps.