The Barton Family Blog

Grocery shopping... with 4 munchkins... always quite the chore... I'm sure we got a few odd looks when the girls sat down in the orange juice section and shouted "take our picture! take our picture!"  Clothes shopping... with 3 munchkins.... stopping by Santa's house to see if he was in town yet.... brrrr...! shopping at an outdoor mall can be chilly!  hangin with Papa... auditioning for a look-alike contest!  getting big.... 25 weeks getting bigger... 26 weeks FINALLY getting used to taking kids to school every day.... I'm going to be doing this for the next 18+ years... I guess I'd better get used to it! Watching my little ones play sweetly together... for approx. 1 second, granted... but hey... made for a cute picture!  Falling more and more in love with this little guy EVERY SINGLE DAY! Celebrating Thanksgiving with family... we are so grateful for so VERY much.  God is faithful.... And lastly, spending treas...

My posts have been few and far between this last month...  one of the blogging funks you get into from time to time.  I'm not taking pictures either  - at least on my camera... so that explains a big part of it (: But I made myself a promise that I would blog Brock at 16 months... so here goes! Right now, He: * Says a handful of words: Mama, Dada, Papa, nana (banana), hi, bye, me-a (me! with a hand raised), no, ball, ba-ba (sippy), ba-ba (binky), ba-ba (bottle), ba-ba (baby) (That's 4 distinct words!), all done (with the sign), more (with the sign), bath (with the sign, currently his favorite word), miii (milk, w/ the sign), diaper. * Signs (but doesn't verbalize) "shower" - thanks to Eugene Thompson teaching Koa and Brock this! (: *loves balls, cars that go on their own, "No David!" book, putting on hats (mostly the girls' easter hats), taking baths/showers *loves to eat: popcorn, fruit, jar food veggies, pizza,  FINALLY starte...

Such a fun, yet exhausting day!  We started bright and early Wednesday morning outfitting the 3 musketeers for their big day.  The tutu's you've seen before, on the fairies from last Halloween .  The new additions to the outfits were the corsetts (?), hats, feathers, swords and boots! *thank you Maga for making these outfits so dang cute!! We love you!! A little monkey had to join the photo shoot before we headed out for the day...  People confused the girls with pirates a few times throughout their day, but they were quick to set the record straight! (:      "All for one and one for  two   all!! " they'd shout!  Pictured above, the Kinder-girls participated in their very first, and only Kindergarten Halloween parade.  It's one of those moments that's not really all that special in itself, except that it's special to them, and that makes it o-so-important to attend!  They of course, were the abs...