Officially Announcing......

Baby Wags #4. We had our ultrasound on Friday. I'm at 19 weeks and baby is looking great (and pretty cute I might add). Due date: March 25th.

Happy Halloween!!

We have had a fun week getting ready for Halloween. Last week, we carved our pumpkins. It was fun with Caleb getting into the pumpkins and trying to eat the seeds!


Not so sure if he wants to reach in there yet!Digging out the guts!Fun with spoons!!Lilly wanted an "angry" pumpkin, Hayden a "scary" pumpkin and Caleb, a "Caleb" pumpkin!
View from the porchThis weekend we went down to Richland for our annual "craft weekend". Here are the kids helping Grandma Great blow out her birthday candles.Lilly had fun finding all the stuffed animals around the house and playing with them
Fun with cousins. Lilly and AshlynHere is how Hayden and Trevor spent a lot of their time....playing DS...Hayden was in heaven, even if he had to play on a pink one!!Family fall pictureLilly also enjoyed pretending she was a dog!Getting to decorate pumpkinsCaleb made friends with Reid and snuggled right into him! (UW shirt and all!!) ;)
Our cute puppy ready for HalloweenGetting some trick-or-treaters this after noon. Robin, the flamingo and Jake, the bulldozer!
Papa came over for dinner tonight before heading off to BSF. The kids were happy to have him trick-or-treat with them to at least one house, and to share our dinner with him (mummy dogs and stuffed "pumpkin" peppers)Ready for trick-or-treating!!

Hayden's Big Adventure

Hayden had quite the week last week! He caught a cold, which usually travels right to his chest, but this time, he couldn't get over his shortness of breath even with breathing treatments and his oxygen was running low. The doctor recommended that we go to the hospital and be checked overnight. Well, it ended up being 3 nights and and ADVENTURE!! Here he is in the ER, hooked up to oxygen and the oxygen meter. Not too bad as long as there is a movie to watch!!

IV in and gown on, ready for the chest x-ray...still doing well!
1st breakfast. He had any choice of food to order...so he picked rice crispies and applesauce!!

Lilly missed her big brother and was happy to come and visit

Keeping busy with coloring

We had lots of fun visitors who brought Hayden lots of fun things to keep him entertained!

Ready to put together his airplane lego from Robin and Jake

Finally on Friday, they gave us the ok to head home. Here is Hayden happy to be OUT OF BED and ready to be home!

Busy October!

I have been meaning to post my pictures from the past month, but haven't gotten around to it, so I'm just copying and posting what I have posted on the blog I have with my family to save time. A lot more pictures than I was planning, but a lot easier!!

Applesauce Weekend 2011

We had our annual applesauce making weekend with Mark's family at the beginning of October. It was a nice weekend, no rain, and happy to have Grandma Great this year too!

Getting ready to pick apples
Helping Grandpa Great pick.

Hayden was happy he found a peach tree too!

Family shot

The making of applesauce

Tinkerbell helping grandma great knit

1 year old fun with grandma!

Mini Camp Cousins - Day 5 & 6

Helping to make Halloween cupcakes by filling the muffin tins with cups


Getting to lick the beaters (getting the most out of it by using entire hands rather than just fingers!)
Even Caleb enjoyed helping

Trying out our cupcakes...Yum!

Papa joined us for dinner on Thursday night, so rather than making him squish at our round table, we had a "fancy" dinner out in the dining room

Last night of gifts...Ants in the Can!

Papa was the best at flipping the ant into the can! The kids were impressed!

On the last day, we headed to Jump and Bounce (thanks to Amy and Joel's treat). The kids ran around, jump, and went down slides for an entire hour!

It was a fun week! I'm glad we got to know Robin and Jake more. My kids were sad to have them go, but I think Robin and Jake were pretty happy to see their parents come home!!

Mini Camp Cousins - Day 3 & 4

Just another update from our house. We are STILL having fun together! On Tuesday, the older kids were in school, so it was just Jake and Caleb together in the morning. I think they had fun with just each other, can you tell?

Jake helped me make Halloween cookies.
Then, after picking up the kids from school, we headed to McDonalds for some Happy Meals and toy climbing!

Then, home to color our glow in the dark Halloween pictures

Here's one of the pictures....ooooohhhh, scary!

Mark handling all 5

Robin calls Hayden her "One True Love", so Jake started calling Lilly his "One True Love" this week. Here are the true loves!!

Getting ready to open up the present on Tuesday night. Breakfast waffles!

Next morning loving waffles!

While Robin was at preschool on Wednesday, Hayden and Lilly's school had a field trip to Greenbluff to learn about apples, pick an apple and pumpkin. It was a RAINY day (pouring the whole time), but it didn't slow the kids down!

Waiting on the tractor ride and listening to the teacher tell about apples and the animals that live in the orchard.

Enjoying the apples that they picked themselves

Mark came to help me handle the 4 kids. (this picture was taken by me, not one of the kids....am I really that short??)

Not one of the pumpkins we brought home, but the kids were happy to pose in front of it

Last night, another present! Excited about the Halloween cupcakes and frosting with sprinkles that we are going to make!

Another exciting day at the Wagenblast house!!