Lots of pictures

I am just going to write about these pictures as they posted, since I'm too lazy to organize them differently. Sorry! I do have many things to write about, like birthdays, but this will have to do for now.

This was taken after they moved Levi's crib in our old house - can you tell what it is? He must have had dirty feet....but I had to take a picture before I cleaned the wall.

This is a view from my living room window. It's much better in person, every time I come around the corner into the room I see this and am amazed at how pretty it is. You'll just have to come see in person, I guess! The morning after we got here we watched the tractor cut the hay (or whatever it is). That was pretty fun.

This is one mural on Ian's walls, there's a whale and many fish.

We found a place maybe 10-15 minutes away to hike. And, by the way, the little boys love their family reunion tie-die shirts!

On the way to where we hiked.

This pheasant is almost always in our yard, or seen with another pheasant walking the neighborhood.

Levi blowing his horn, and then in the chair driving. He and Caleb are always driving something - a firetruck, garbage truck, recycle truck, whatever.

Notice what's in Levi's hand, half eaten? A peanut butter sandwich - that's right, his first meal that I didn't make him any special food! He's getting there, for sure. Still he can't (or won't) eat a lot of things, but he's getting better!

Caleb has turned into Linus, he carries his blanket everywhere and wants to be "all snuggled up."

Eating a pudding popcicle.





Caleb and Levi have found some nice times to play together, amongst the pushing and fighting.....

Ian at his new school's playground, which is only 2 houses away!

For some reason Ian wants to go down the stairs this way.....








Ian has renewed his love for Legos, and plays for hours during Caleb and Levi's naptime.

Just because it's cute :) We made a box into a restaurant.

I need to take more pictures of the house, but it's really a mess right now. We still have a lot to unpack and figure out where it goes, and then maybe I'll do a photo tour. But here is my new long term food storage room - under the stairs! It wraps around all the way under the other set of stairs, too. I can get a lot of buckets in there!

It is different living here, in a smaller town, but nice so far. It cools down at night by 8pm, so we can open the windows and turn on fans to cool it off (no AC). That's great until a skunk comes around...... We got a new phone book and there are 23 towns listed in the book - and with both white and yellow pages it's less than an inch thick! I could actually fit it in a phone book drawer, if only I had one! We've found lots of parks and met some friends there already, Ian is excited about school starting and mostly about the ice dispenser on the front of the fridge that came with the house :) Levi likes his purple room, Caleb wants to go back to "my other house that doesn't have any stairs." I'm glad they are good at walking up and down stairs, since this is a split level house, but Caleb doesn't really like them. All in all, it's nice to be here. John is still learning his job, the boys and I have explored a few of the places around here, and today a friend took me to buy fruit and corn to can/freeze!