Noah Perry Congdon

 

(I will come back and fill in the story soon.  :)  Just pictures for now.)

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This is kind of a miscellaneous post, an attempt to catch up...

No Rhyme or reason for this picture, just thought she looked like a cute little baby seal or something and I had to put it up.  :)

Livie didn't like hers as much because she couldn't get her hands out.  Baylee rescued her though.

We are kind of going backwards because I wasn't paying attention to the picture order.  :/  Here are my big three right before the Christmas program at church.  You can expect a couple of cute videos of that to pop up soon.  :)

Tony and Aubrey on Thanksgiving playing some sort of video game at my parent's house.

Grandma and the girls.

Jaden demonstrating why we will never own one of these at our house.  Obsessed.

Baylee in her new "robe of many colors".

The boys, up to no good as usual.

A picture of a lunch scene at our house the week we kept the Karrer boys.  :)  It was a riot.  Please note the look on Baylee's face.  I think that old saying came true and her face is actually stuck that way, at least that is how it seems these days.   Ahh... the terrible 2s, 3s and 4s!  :)

Here she is in a much better mood... she loves her sisters, Aubrey is enjoying being the middle child for a little while longer.

This is an absolutely rare occurrence at our house... the kids all fell asleep on the couch at the same time.  I shouldn't even say rare, because I can assure you this has never happened before and will most likely never happen again unless there is a gas leak of some sort.  I actually had Tony check to make sure there wasn't a gas leak when I saw this... just completely random.

I just liked this one because Brenna is cracking me up.  She was so into the movie, it was really the first time she has seen a movie and paid attention to it.  The kids are VERY into Robin Hood right now, and she loved being right in there with the big siblings, at least for a few minutes.

That is about all I've got.  We have just been keeping busy doing life.  Tony has pneumonia which is a bummer, he has been quite under the weather lately but is doing much better the past few days.  That is about all of the excitement around here!

The Buddy Walk

Today, we walked in the Buddy Walk, a charity event to benefit children with Downs Syndrome.

When we got there, we were greeted with this stressful sight. Grandpa always makes things interesting. :) He looked at me like I was crazy when I told him the kids were not allowed to go up there.

Here are my little walkers. Excited about sporting their Buddy Walk shirts.

They have been talking non stop about it. They thought that it had something to do with Uncle Buddy (their nickname for Steven.) They were not sure what though, they also kept calling it the "Jay Walk". It was a good opportunity to start to introduce them to Downs Syndrome though, as they saw lots of kids with it there. They have never known anything about Chase having it, he is just baby Chase.

Aubrey insisted on walking along the curb, one of the reasons we were the last to finish the mile. :)

Some of our group walking ahead of us.

These two probably walked two miles, they ran ahead and ran back, ran ahead and ran back... oh to have that energy again!

Afterwards, conveniently situated by the exit, we met Bobo the clown. He made Jaden a sword and holder and helmet.

Baylee got a funny hat and pink poodle.

Our sweet (tired) man.

Of course, by the time Aubrey decided that Bobo wasn't that scary after all, a huge line had formed. He had to have a sword too though, so Grandma took one for the team and waited with him.

It was worth the wait though (and better than my plan of just popping Jaden's.)

Kid Quotes

I just told Aubrey to pick his pants up and put them on and he started to sing some song about, "pants on the ground, pants on the ground." I know this was coming from Grandpa, I vaguely remember some rap song my Dad liked (gasp!) that sounded like that. Come on Dad! If he sings it at the grocery store you are in so much trouble!

Kid Quotes

"Mommy, do you know what? Grandma and Grandpa are our grandmother and grandfather, and Nana and Granddad are our grander-mother and grander-father. They are so grand!" -Jaden

Misc Christmas...

Jaden with his "man in black sword".

Candace reading princess stories.

Chase was cracking us up with his funny new face.

Baylee and her cat.

Grandpa loves his girl.