The Baker Blog: When things get busy...

Evan decided to jump onto the computers at the library. He's using a mouse for the first time, which was interesting for him. He was writing his name and Alex's using the mouse in Paint.

Here he is just typing random letters. :)

We spent 3 hours a Brickworld in Novi. People from all over build things out of Legos and display them for people to see. It was pretty neat to see.

The had huge tables of green or red legos that you could just build what ever you wanted.

Eliza loves school. She can't wait to go every week.

All the kids are in swim classes now. Alex decided he missed swimming. So on Wed. mornings I take Eliza and then I take the boys in the evening. Everyone is doing well.

Evan was more scared than Eliza up on the ladder.

Mike and I were working on sorting legos one day and I was thinking "the kids are pretty quiet". So I peeked outside and saw two naked people swinging. Turns out Evan decided to pee into the woods which lead to him taking off his clothes, which in turn, made Eliza follow suit. They had some pretty cold skin when they came in to get dressed.

Eliza's hair is getting into her eyes so I've started giving her a sprout. She doesn't not like her picture being taken in the morning.

My messy faced girl

Bus stop photo bomb!

The last of the dandelions.

Evan had a cavity when he went to the dentist. So he had to get laughing gas, but he did great! Now we are being better about flossing.

We had a nice visit from the Wade family. Everyone is giving a goofy face in this picture.

Wade visits are always ended with some Mario Cart fun.

Eliza helping with laundry.

We went to a birthday party last month and the parting gifts were super hero costumes.

The kids looked so cute.

Amazon delivered a package to the center of our driveway last month. I'm glad I noticed they delivered it because Mike would have driven right over it parking his car in the garage.

This shirt is so appropriate for Evan

Kindle Time

Visiting the Wade house hold to celebrate Shawn and Dave's birthday's.

Alex wearing Aunt Shawn's cow pillow on his head.

Aunt Shawn playing "Don't wake the Daddy" with the kids.

Mike and I finally stain treated the play structure. It looks so much better!

We took our good friend Rasida out to dinner to celebrate her getting her Masters degree. We are so proud of all her hard work!

When I take Eliza's sprout out at swim class I love how her hair looks.

Eliza has been really enjoying swim class. She calls her swim instructor "her best friend".

Eliza working on her fine motor skills.

We've had a large rock pile behind the house for 3 years now, and it's started to kill the grass, so I had the kids help me pull it back out of the grass and shovel it...

.....to put it in my garden to keep the weeds down.

We had a great dinner with the VanZelfde family this month. It's always a pleasure to see all of them. We introduced them to a few new games, turns out Jan really enjoys games.

The kids had a great time with their kids as well.

Alex looking dapper for Sunday school.

Evan also pulling out a tie for church.

The kids were Mario, Luigi and Princess Peach for Halloween.

Eliza getting her "tickles". She gets everything out and ready for her treatment so she doesn't get bloody noses. She has to get nasal spray in each nostril and neosporine twice a day.

Everyone was cold and wanted cuddles at Red Robin one day.

Even I got cuddles.

Mike's been noticing his hangers going missing lately. Turns out Eliza and Evan have been stealing them for "wings".

Too cool for school

Love these kids

We visited my Grandma Ernst at her new home. She seems to have a very nice place there, and she seems happy.

After visiting Grandma Ernst we went over to Oma's house and ate lunch, met Oma's new dog Peaches...

and played some Uno.

What's fall without some fun in a leaf pile?!

I had a girls night out with my MOPS group and made a new painting.

They are getting so big, but not big enough to brush teeth without a stool.

Picking out pumpkins at out MOPS church.

Doing some Christmas shopping (Evan) and reading Narnia (Alex and Daddy) while I made dinner.

We went to Grandma Ernst's Trick or Treating time at her new place. James and Maggie decided to join in the fun.

Maggie got selected to do the "Eat the Donut on a string without using your hands". She did great!

After our trick or treating we went to eat dinner. I got some funny looks walking in with 5 kids, but mostly smiles.

James ordered a giant burger, and he did a great job at finishing it.

Silly Eliza

Pumpkins are carved after being designed by the kids. Evan wanted a girl pumpkin so I gave her long hair.

Halloween at preschool.

For Halloween the Wade family and my friend Sara's family joined us for pizza and trick or treating.

There was some craziness before trick or treating.

It was wet and windy, but we had a good time and got lots of candy.

Eliza loves all her jewels.

Trying on some of Aunt Shawn hand me down costumes.

Lots of kids in the mirror

We celebrated Davey's 14th birthday. Where does the time go?

We picked up this super cute kids table and chairs at our shopping trip at Menards earlier that day. They worked great for the kids!

Alex showing off his strength giving his siblings piggy back rides.

Walking to the bus stop

She won't be this small for long

We had a nice dinner with Dad and Jodi this month

The Wade family and Oma watched the kids so we could go out on our 8th Anniversary date. We went to a pottery shop in Plymouth and painted some pottery and then went to dinner.

I "painted" the bowl and Mike was making a garden gnome.

Mike was leaf blowing and the kids invited him into the garage to see a show. Turns out they were pretending to watch a show and Mike was in the back row.

I stole some hay from a neighbors trash thinking it was straw... has way too many hay seeds in it to be useful in my garden. But it makes for a cute picture.