I don’t want to forget what they say & do

That we called Ian the “Turkey Chief” when he was 6 months old and it stuck!  Long story short, J called him “chief” one day and Ian thought that was the funniest thing ever.  So we started calling Ian “chief”.  On Thanksgiving we called him “Turkey Chief” which he also thought was hilarious and he’s been the “Turkey Chief” ever since.

Ian’s called Jacob Dean (yes we use both his first and middle name…always have for some reason) “Ab Dean” since he was born and so now everyone calls him “Ab Dean”.  That’s his name.

Elijah was never really Elijah or Eli he’s been “Lijah” since his first days of life.

That “Ab Dean” does this little kick move that looks like he’s walking really fast puffing out his chest and giggling.  We call it the “Ab Dean shuffle”.  You ask him to do it and he proudly obliges.

That we pronounce Julia’s name more like “JulYA”.  Ian’s pronunciation stuck once again.

She’s the little lady.

Ian pointing to my husbands bare chest and saying “Hairy, why no hair up there?”  pointing to his head.

That Elijah is so flexible he kicked himself in the forehead and left a red mark!

Lijah’s favorite thing to do is color.  He wants to color as soon as he wakes up most days.

Ian LOVES baseball.


Ian is the ULTIMATE protector of his brothers and sister.  He has been since the moment they were born!

Ab Dean LOVES books and still tends to want to eat more crayons than use them to color.

The first time Julia rolled over we missed it.  One minute she was on her back.  The next she was on her tummy.  Yep...she’s our 4^th child.

This post was originally going to be a Quinoa recipe.  I’ll share that soon.

Today it was more important to record my memories.