Congratulations!

Corban Lawrence Reiswig

7lb. 3oz.

20 inches

10:03 pm

September 27th

Congratulations Marty and Jaclyn!

(Matt's brother and his wife)

Movin On Up

Well, tonight my last baby moved out of the crib and into a toddler bed.

As we were moving her crib out of her room she was crying at the top of the stairs. She didn't know where her bed was going. Maybe she thought we were going to make her sleep out in the garage? Once we brought her new bed into the house and got it all set up with sheets and blankets, her attitude changed. She was so excited. The older kids were just as excited as she was, I think. After snuggling for about thirty seconds she got up and immediately started jumping on it...lol!

As you can see from the picture she is already territorial of her new bed, and did not want to share it with anyone. "Mine!"

Oh, Little Mallory

Mallory is our hardest bedtime case. She likes to get up anywhere from two to ten times after being put to bed to "tell you something". We have discovered that giving her a few books to look at in bed with her little lamp on at bedtime helps her out. She reads the books and turns the light off and goes to bed. That is... until the past two nights. She has started back to her old ways. So tonight after the second time out of bed I told her she was going to get a spanking if she got out of bed again. I asked her if she understood what was going to happen if she got out of bed again. She told me, "Yes, I understand, but I can't promise that" Well at least she knows herself and is letting me know what to expect out of her?!?

Yesterday, we took a trip to the post office. Not my favorite place. It is pretty much a nightmare to go to the post office with the kids. They end up running around, climbing on things, and there is always a line! When I went yesterday I thought this should be easier because I only had two little sweet ones instead of three or five. Ha! Mallory was "watching" Rachel for me. They started by playing chase around the post office. Then they spotted some beanie baby bears that had stamps on them. Mallory got them down and started playing with them and gave Rachel two too. I saw this and told her to put them back. Next thing I saw when I looked up was Mallory putting the bears into the "out of town" slot. Before I could say "NO" she closed the door and the bears were mailed! I was half laughing and half upset (because she didn't obey me). She was in disbelief that the bears were gone. She got nervous and said "I didn't know they would get sucked up" So I made her tell the guy at the desk what she did and say she was sorry. Of course no harm done, but it was a good lesson about the post office, and a good laugh!

GOOOOALLLL Goala Goala Goala!

Today we had our first soccer games of the season. Jack, Dalton, Avery and Matt are all playing! I truly am a "soccer mom".

Avery had a game this morning and played awesome. Jack's game was this afternoon. I was lucky enough to catch one of his goals on video! My favorite part of the whole thing is his celebration into a knee slide which didn't turn out exactly how he planned. I turned off the camera right before he face planted into the ground! LOL!!!

Messy Art

Mallory started a class through Tulsa Parks called Messy Art. We went for the first time yesterday, and she had a blast! The picture displays one of her creations. She got to paint, glue, cut, color, and draw. She was in heaven. She also made a Dalmatian dog puppet out of a paper bag and some cut outs. Painted a wooden star. Lastly, we traced her whole body on a big sheet of paper and she colored it. When we got home she laid it out upstairs in the hallway and said it was our new rug. So we have a "chalk drawing" of a child's body laying on our floor...lol.

I know some of you may be thinking, Kristin can do arts and crafts with her at home. Why pay for a class. I gotta tell you it was wonderful for me too. She could get as messy as she wanted. She could mess up the tables, brushes, herself etc... as much as she wanted and I didn't have to worry about it. I had no preparation. I had no clean up. I had no worries. So, for the time being I'm going to be lazy and let someone else come up with the crafts and do the clean-up!