Clay's 5th birthday pictures

Clay's 5th birthday pictures... we went to bounceland. Lots of fun!!!

Clay 5th Bday wish

Clay birthday is coming up, so what does he want?.... "a transforming super hero crashing cake", of course:) I guess now we just have to figure out where to get one!

Growing and Laughing

Here are some more pics and videos of our 3 growing boys. The baby is almost as big as the other two already!!

Videos

I am posting a couple videos here from around April 20th. Included are Mathias' first laugh, Clayton and Mathias conversation, and Jeriah feeding lucky duck. The one of Jeriah is hilarious and I don't know if I really should post it, but here it is. Enjoy,
Sarah

11 weeks and counting

Baby Mathias is already 11 weeks old, today--man how time flies!! He already has a tooth popping through so we had a lovely day of teething (I mean screaming) on Monday :(
On a happier note, Mathias also laughed for the first time a little over a week ago.
He slept through the night a few times a week or so ago but has definitely not made it a habit yet.
The boys love their baby brother, especially Clayton now. He says, "that is our baby." He is always in the baby's face talking to him and kissing him.
Today Eric asked Jeriah to go upstairs and find his phone. He came back down and Eric asked, "do you have my phone?" Jeriah said, "Yes." Eric said, "Show it to me" and Jeriah held out a toy car and said, "Your phone turned into a car." haha Then Eric asked Clayton to go up to get his phone and Clayton said, "No, I am too busy eating an apple." oh, the honesty of children :)

As for our moving plans, we have a place to rent in Houghton starting June 1st, but I dont know when we will actually get up there since clay has school until June 4 and then Eric has a trip to Las Vegas a couple weeks later.

Mathias is 7 weeks tomorrow. Hard to believe! Today he started to play with his toys and respond to the music and lights and talk while he was playing. Clayton has taken a real liking to "the baby" "Mafias" the last couple weeks. He is always kissing him and asking what the baby is doing...

We took our first long family road trip a week and a half ago. We drove up to Houghton to look for a place to rent. The boys traveled very well, but it was still exhausting. Four 6 1/2 hr trips in 4 days and a lot of driving around to look at houses took its toll. I was sick when we got back but antibiotics worked magically. We have a lease starting June 1st but we probably wont go up until closer to the middle of June.

Sarah

That's not nice!!

A conversation between Eric and Clayton (4 1/2 years old):

Me: "Please get off the couch"
Clay: "No. I don't want to."
Me: "I need you to get off"
Clay: "No"
Me: "1-2-3-4-5. Now get off the couch or time out"
Clay: (getting of the couch. crying) "I don't want you to talk like
that!! That is not nice!!"
Me: "come here"
Clay: (sitting on my lap)
Me: "Why do I have to talk like that?"
Clay: "It not nice! That why we get mad at you. Its not OK."
Me: "Well, there are reasons we ask you to do somthing you need to
listen. The baby is trying to sleep on the couch."
Clay: "The baby needs to wake up. You need to talk nicely."
Me: "I'm sorry. If you would listen I would not have to count. We
have to think about the baby, too. Can you play on the chair?"
Clay: "OK"

Jeriah's phrase for the day: "This is my pee pee sample.....this is my pee pee sample" as he ran around holding a cup to himself down there. At least he had clothes on :) He was with me at the OB for my last visit 2 1/2 weeks ago and for some reason thought about it today and that was the part he remembered.