mom comes to visit

As soon as mom knew Michael would be gone so much for rotations she wanted to come help, which meant a lot to us. It was great having a built in babysitter and getting to leave the house for errands on a moment's notice and not worry about hauling 4 kids everywhere.  This was the first time she'd met Stahle and it was a treat watching the 2 of them interact. Stahle is a mommy's girl, but anyone who gives her baths in the sink every day is a friend of hers.  Mom says this is the way she bathed all her babies, she says it just makes sense to wash your dishes and the baby at the same time!  Multi-tasking!!  And its much better on your back.  Unfortunately, Stahle hasn't had a sink bath since she left. :(  While mom was here she did lots of cleaning for me, we went shopping and played with the kids.

On one of her last nights, we took the kids to the reef which is one of their favorite places to go.  It was fun to be able to go down the slides with Kandace since mom could watch the other 2.  Stetson was already in Lovell for the weekend.

visit to the farm

At the end of May we took a quick visit to the farm to work some cows. It was the weekend before Michael left for Libby I think.  It was nice to have Michael around for a little while before his next big departure. Stetson was so very proud of himself for carrying this baby lamb all the way from the corals back to the house to we could keep it warm.  Stetson has recently taken greater interest in farm activities which is exciting to us

Stahle almost 8 months

In just 4 days, this angel baby will be 8 months. I can't even begin to say how incredibly fast its gone by.  We are just nuts about this girl.  She eats all sorts of different baby foods and is hugely interested in what the rest of us are eating at every meal and I think she wishes she could get in on some of it.  Kandace still loves to carry her around and help keep her happy with toys or snacks.  Stahle gets lots of comments about her big blue eyes.  My 1st and 4th got the blue eye gene.  She is starting to get a little more nervous around strangers, so child watch is hard sometimes.  She sits up great but has no interest in forms of transportation, even rolling.  Maybe its good since it gives me some extra time to child proof.  She is super vocal and its my very favorite thing about this phase, is hearing her jabber and talk to us.  Stahle baby we love you to the moon!  :) XOXO