This Week in Photos

Baby kept on growing. This is what I like to call his "Old Man Sweater" look.


The boys read Stone Soup at school on Tuesday, and each child brought a vegetable from home to prepare and add to the classroom soup pot. Since the boys don't go to school on Wednesdays (when the soup was actually cooked and served), we decided to make our own Stone Soup at home. Sutton was truly this thrilled with the idea, and he happily cut up loads of carrots and potatoes with his veggie chopper (if you don't have something for your young kids to cut with, I highly recommend these!). After all that hard work we had come up with a really tasty chicken and vegetable soup.


Yum!


We have been baking bread several times a week thanks to the fast and easy techniques from Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day. I've had my eye on this book forever, and when it finally dropped to an all-time low price on Amazon last month I snatched it up. I make up a batch of the basic dough on Sunday evening, and then the boys and I can make up to three loaves of bread during the week from one single batch of dough. Best part...it's amazingly delicious!


A picnic outside on the patio is the perfect way to unwind after all that hard soup and bread prep work. They got these sherpa and suede boots from Grandma and Grandpa on Halloween, and I'm pretty sure they haven't taken them off since then. Even when it briefly jumped back into the mid 80's last week, Sutton was running around in shorts, shirtless, with the fuzzy boots on. Love it ♥

Sutton snuck downstairs this morning while I was still upstairs getting Simon dressed and fed, and I caught him lurking behind the dining room table with the entire Tupperware full of Goldfish crackers and a large pile on the floor in front of him. Instead of Sutton getting in trouble, Sawyer somehow managed to turn the whole situation into a photo op. "Hey Sutton, come here. Hey Mom, go get your camera...cause this is funny, right?"

{Make a Funny Face!} Stella came over today to play with Sawyer & Sutton. They both adore her so much, and she fits right in with them perfectly. She always makes me laugh with how girly and how rough-and-tumble she can be at the same time ♥

Mitch worked on getting Simon to give him one of those killer big smiles. He's been smiling more and more often, but he still refuses to perform on command (aka when the camera is ready!)! :)

The mandatory Sleeping-Baby-and-Sleeping-Daddy picture. Every baby needs to have a dozen or so of these photos taken. So sweet ♥

Simon got a new Exersaucer today, and he loves it! This is him loving it, I swear ;) He's still too tiny for it, so we rolled up blankets in the seat for better support and put another blanket under his feet so he can touch the ground solidly. We decided on getting him one without music and bells and whistles, and I'm so glad we made that choice. After watching the big boys rattle, shake and spin every toy that came with this version, I'm thrilled that there's not going to be any more noise added to our already booming house full of boys!