Living Life at 6 Months

Believe it or not my Sweet Baby Cakes is 6 months old! How can that be?She is  big, beautiful and happy and I just love her little toes! She has come into our lives and blessed us immensely. Thinking of the life a six month old I am going to share with you a day in the life of a six month old...AKA ways to stay  rolly polly for as long as possible.

At six month this 15 pound ball of joy we call Katherine has  got a great routine...sleep...eat...sleep...play...eat...sleep...eat...play...eat...sleep...eat...play...eat...play...sleep and then we start all over again. Oh the joy! Guess if we all lived like that we could sport thighs better than Little Katherine!

If Katherine wakes before 7 am she begins her day sleeping with me! She is always happy in the morning.

Morning is always a bit chaotic as we get the girls and Greg ready for school. Today Katherine helped Greg shave and then sat in her bath chair entertaining everyone while the girls got their hair done.

.As soon as everyone is off to school it is time for breakfast. Katherine loves breakfast especially when she gets a sippy cup!

I just love the hundreds of smiles Katherine gives us each day. So sweet! Dressing her is always a pleasure I get to see all the beautiful rolls!

Katherine loves to visit with me as she gets dressed. Today it was a bit of a sad tale thanks to brother pulling on her ears (as pictured above)

After we are fully dressed it is nap time. Wahoo. I love the morning nap. It is her longer nap and sometimes I actually get all the cleaning done...sometimes...

 This particular day Katherine had to be awakened early for her 6 month check and shots. She wasn't too excited. When I went to find her she was all wrapped up her her lovey.

Ready to go!

Katherine was less then thrilled with the shots and spent the rest of the morning/afternoon helping me pack up boxes (yes...less then 30 days until we close on the house!)

After her nap we went and picked the kids of up from school. That always brings a smile to her face!

 Then we packed some more...thankfully I had a good friend come and help some! Can you see the towers of clothes in the back? It was a bit overwhelming today!

 Katherine had a great remainder of the day! She soaked in the tub to ease the pain in her legs.

Threw a monster fit...

 and slipped off into a food coma.

 Ah! The hard life of a 6 month old...so if you want to stay fat, happy, and cute just follow Katherine's example. She lives a good life!

Just for kicks here are a few extra pictures of Katherine playing in the mirror with Daddy. So sweet.

Fishing with the Francoms

What would summer in South Dakota be without a few fishing trips? We went to Richmond lake, close to Aberdeen for this one. The weather was just perfect, clear and cool, a perfect evening. Everyone has their own pole, but Jake keeps a rubber fish on his line so that he never comes up empty (yet he probably scares all of our fish away by casting and reeling that rubber fish). Whenever one of us caught a fish (such as a bluegill), Jake would reel in his line with the rubber fish and declare that he caught the same type of fish ("I caught a bluegill too!"). 

In the end we probably caught about 20 fish. Sabrina could barely get her line out in the water before the next bite would come. After fishing for a while, the sun started setting over the lake so we took a break to go watch the sun set. Clara wanted to tell us a story so we let her but she got so animated about it that the story went on and on for what seemed like forever.





While fishing, I realized that I forgot to bring my fishing license so we were worried that a game warden might appear. As I was putting away the poles, a figure emerged from the dark shadows and informed us that he was a game warden checking if we took more than our limit and if we had our licenses. I was pretty worried at this point, but then I recognized his face in the darkness. He happened to be one of the guys that plays volleyball on my team Monday nights. So instead we talked about volleyball and he left without asking to see my license. Luck was on my side that night.

After fishing was over we had a fire with smores. Smores are so much better when you use fudge covered cookies instead of graham crackers and chocolate. The stars were out and filled the sky. It really was a great experience.

Flying to Utah

My Grandmother passed away. I'll miss Grandma Greenland very much. Grandpa passed away a few years ago and because of distance and money I wasn't able to attend his funeral. They both meant a lot to me as role models and teachers. I am so thankful that our family was able to be there in Utah if only for a short while for the funeral. I learned a lot about grandma at the funeral, she was a great woman. I didn't know that she was so musically inclined (singing and violin) and that earlier in life, she liked to have parties. We almost always watched sunday afternoon general conference at the Greenlands. One thing I remember about grandma is actually a kind of contradiction. She was often stern and serious but never lost her sense of humor. Even in some serious moments, she teased and got teased, and it was usually possible to make her smile. Grandma always seemed to keep the important aspects of the gospel of Jesus Christ close to her heart.  

Appropriately, after the funeral, we had a sending away party, with games (chair ball, volleyball and basketball) and banana pudding, which I was surprised to learn Grandma and Grandpa picked up in the southern states mission where they both served a mission and where they met. If you haven't had banana pudding you should try it!

Because of the funeral we got to take all of the kids on the airplane. The kids were so excited to board the plane! In Aberdeen the airport is only one terminal so you get to watch the plane land and see all the preparations for your flight at ground level. 

 Jacob was hilarious on the planes, especially when he got to sit by the window and see what was going on outside. A lady sat in front of us and laughed everytime he said something. He kept yelling out things like "This is awesome!""see, I told you guys this would be cool!""We're in the clouds now, soon we'll have to go down!" The pilot even let the kids into the cockpit to look around. 

-Greg

The Francom Grandparents Came Too!

We only got Grandpa & Grandma Francom here for a few days but it was a great few days.
We  introduced them to Story Book Land, had a few parties for Sabrina and enjoyed visiting at home.

Most of the pictures with them will be found on other posts because they were included in Sabrina's Special Days. We are grateful they were willing to travel such a long drive just to spend a few celebratory days with us. Thank you! 

The Hunnies Were Here!

We were blessed to have the Hunny Family join us for the week before the baptism. We had a blast visiting with them. Some highlights were

Dancing with Alec

The Dakota Prarie Muesum

and yes! Baby Kate was in there too!

We even saw a version of Vicki in plastic...

Max & Ermas

The Brown County Fair

I think we may have tired you out! But it was so much fun...especially because you decided to stay with us!