November

November has been another busy month! 

The first weekend in November we had fun celebrating one of Lily's friends birthday. Her family had a great idea to rent a campsite for the day and have a campfire roast. It was an amazingly warm and sunny November day. 

Lily and her buddies:

Josie exploring the campsite:

Roasting hot dogs

The campsite was on a small lake so the boys spent most of the time fishing. They had one of their luckiest day's, catching close to 20 fish!

Right after the party, I had scheduled the kids for a photo session. It was a crazy time trying to clean them up from spending a day at the campsite and into their picture clothes. And they were all so exhausted from playing/fishing that I was worried none of the pictures would turn out. When we met up with the photographer the kids were running wild and only wanted to throw leaves around. I snapped a few pictures on my phone and hoped that we could get at least one good shot of the three kids together: 

The second weekend in November was memorable for Jack. One of his best buddies came to stay with us for the whole weekend! In preparation for this event, I stocked up on some cheap fun things to keep all the kids entertained, including these puzzles: 

And these coloring sheets:

On that first night I knew the boys would be super hyper and excited, so I took them to the trampoline park to get their energy out.

I guess it didn't exhaust them enough because they were still awake and talking at 10:30pm (1.5 hours after they got in bed).


The next day I took them to a brand new park and we spent several hours there





The late night finally caught up with Jack and he fell asleep on this swing. He was out for at least 30 minutes and random people would come by and push him on the swing when he was sleeping.


Lily brought her nail painting set to the park and made a little work station for herself under the play equipment.


That night we invited some more friends over to play card games and we let all the kids play wii together.



Sunday I took the kids to the science museum and they had a blast

Lily in the wind tunnel

The boys in the wind tunnel

Then we came back to our house and they played outside for a while. It was a great weekend, and a good introduction to life with four kids...not that I am going there....

Here are some other random photos from the month. This one is Josie after her bath. She is such a snuggle bug and loves to snuggle up in a warm towel after her baths. It is the sweetest thing:

Josie also loves to color just like her sister! She will sit with crayon and paper and scribble all sorts of things:

The three munchkins. Finally have a picture of the sisters in matching outfits

We had to add another little chair to the reading nook so Josie could join in:

Jack and Lily have started swim lessons at the gym I go to. The swim lessons are much better than the city lessons and both kids are excelling. Lily is the smallest one in her class, yet she does just as good as the big kids: