Getting ready for Thanksgiving...

Brining the turkey - the girls remembered doing this last year, but
Daniel was quite intrigued. :) 

Daniel and Sarah helping to scoop the seeds out
of squash. 

Hannah making cranberry sauce

Looking ahead to advent...

I finally decided to start on a project that I've been wanting to do for the past several years. Each year for our family devotions during the month of December, we do a devotional that has an ornament to go along with each day. Up until now, we've just used paper ornaments that I made quickly, and aren't so nice anymore. I've been wanting to make nicer ornaments that we can keep from year to year. So we finally started on it!

The little ones each made their own star ornaments too. 

Music

The earth

Joshua

We call Joshua our "little baby burrito" when he's all wrapped
like this. :) He really likes to be swaddled. Any time he is having
trouble falling asleep, or just seems restless, wrapping him up all
cozy and snug usually calms him right down. :)  

Daniel: "Mommy, I share my lambie and blankie with him."
You know Daniel really loves his little brother if he shares his two most treasured
possessions with him. :)

sweet

Joshua loves to stare up at Daddy when he's holding him. 

A sweet sleepy baby.

Look how nice and chubby he's getting - over 12 lbs. already! 

Moon Cookies

Hannah has been learning about the moon lately, so this week we decorated cookies to look like the different phases of the moon.  Sarah and Daniel had fun decorating cookies too! 

Little Joshua

All nice and clean! 

There's a little smile!

Having Fun!

On this picture, Hannah, Sarah, and Daniel were playing that bears
were trying to get them, and they were climbing trees to get away. :)

Sarah: "Look Mommy, Daniel is PopPop, and I'm MomMom, and we're
driving our tractor!
Then Daniel and Sarah went on to play for quite awhile - Daniel called
Sarah "MomMom",  and she called him "PopPop"! 

Just some pictures....

Hannah really enjoys her baby brother..... 

And Daniel loves him too. :)

Daniel's having fun wearing one of the girls' dress up dresses.
I think he looks like one of the "spirits" from "A Christmas Carol" !

Sarah's having fun! 

And there's our little Joshua!

This was so funny - Hannah and Sarah were wearing their fancy dress-up dresses,
winter hats, one mitten each, scarves, and boots - and Hannah was helping Sarah
read short words from a chart!  I'm not sure exactly what they were playing, but
it was really cute!

One month old

I can't believe our little Joshua is one month old already! He is growing fast and getting nice and chubby! He weighs over 10 lbs. already! He has started smiling at us just a little! It is so sweet to see. :) Tonight Dan was holding him and Joshua was just looking at his Daddy so intently, and then he gave him a nice big smile! Daniel finally called him "Baby Jo-shu-a" today, instead of just "baby".  Hannah and Sarah like to try to entertain him with little toys. He seems to enjoy the noise they make! 

Our Sweet Baby