6 Month Letter

Dear Brynlee,

I know I say this every time but really how is it even possible Im writing your 6 month letter already?!?! A half of a year old!!! Man you are growing way too fast for my liking. This month you havent changed too much beside growing like a weed. You are now in 6-9 month clothes cause well you are still chunky. You love food. You watch people as they eat every bite hoping they will slip you some. You LOVE your baby food!! Well all but the meat dinners and not a huge fan of peas. Cant say I blame you. You still hate tummy time. Do great in the car now. LOVE your saucer and you think your hands are pretty amazing. You put everything that touches your hand straight in your mouth and girl you give the best kisses EVER! We are working on you sleeping in your bed. Luckily we broke you of sleeping in the swing a while ago. You have now outgrown that and many other things and are not in the toys stage. We took you to the doctor and you are now 17lbs 12 oz and 25 inches! Puts you in the 30% for height and 70% for weight. Brynlee I couldnt have picked a more perfect baby to complete our family! I love you SO much baby girl!!

Love, Mommy

Hammond Family Pictures 2012

The evening Landis was set apart we all met at the church early to take family pics. It has been a long time since we did family pics with all of us. We have done our ones at our reunions wearing our shirts but the last time we did "real" family pics was when Maddie was about 9 months old! Since then we have gained 1 spouse and 4 babies! It was quite an adventure getting all the kids to take these pictures and even some of the adults :-) The ones with that grandparents/grand babies are HILARIOUS! Enjoy our awesome chaos!

6th Anniversary

Our anniversary was pretty low key to start out with. I woke uo with a bad headache so I took some meds and Kamrin let me take a much needed long nap. I woke up headache free, That afternoon we had the Hammond (Kamrins dads family) Christmas party. We went out to Tooele for that for a spaghetti dinner and Santa came and gave the kids presents. Brynlee got a cute icecream toy, Kamdyn got a Cars car play set, Jaydan and Maddie got books of a collect we have that they call our special books. Jay got the Marvel superhero one and Maddie got Tinkerbell. After the party we dropped each kid off to a different place to spend the night. We then went to dinner at my favorite The Cheesecake Factory and we came home and watched tv in bed. It may sound lame to you but it was so relaxing and thats not something we get to do much together, We got to sleep in the next morning which was my favorite part!

 

So much has changed the last 6 years since our wedding!! Its crazy to look at where we are now compared to where we were then. I would have never imagined we would have 4 kids only 6 years later. I sure do love him!!!

Ward Christmas Party

Thursday Dec 6th was our ward Christmas party. A little before Thanksgiving a counselor in the bishopric asked Kamrin and I to be in charge of all the food besides the meat. They had amazing meat catered and we (Kamrin) got baked potatoes, salad, rolls and for dessert banana splits! Of course Santa made an appearance and they had a station for kids to decorate Christmas cookies. I thought for sure Kamdyn would be terrified and there was no way I would get him on Santas lap but he proved me wrong. He didnt know what to think at first but then went right up to him and even had a big smile!

Brynlees first time on Santa lap

Thanksgiving

I have no pictures from this Thanksgiving cause well it was a pretty crappy one!! Kamdyn had been running a low fever for a couple days and late the night before Thanksgiving I started to think it was something more then just his 2 year old molars coming in. That morning I called around to see if there was any doc offices open so I could get him seen cause he just kept getting worse :-( Finally found one that was open so I took him while Kamrin stayed home with the other 3. Once we got there I knew it was going to be a long wait. Sure enough a 2 hour wait was ahead of us. Just how I wanted to spend my Thanksgiving. Finally we saw the doc and he said Kamdyn had an ear infection and wrote him a prescription. Of course there was only 1 pharmacy open too so that was a long wait too. By the time we got home it was time to go to Kamrins families dinner. We decided Kamdyn should stay home and get some rest so Kamrin took Maddie and Jaydan there and I stayed home with Kamdyn and Brynlee to let them nap. I made the pies for my families dinner while they slept. When they got home my sister came and got the kids beside Kamdyn and went to my brothers. Kamrin, Kamdyn and I joined them for a while later on. To top it off my belly wasnt feeling so good all day. It was not a great day but luckily I still had so much to be thankful for!!!!!

HES BACK!!!!!!!

My kids have asked about him throughout the year and the day after Thanksgiving he FINALLY came home!! Thats right, Elfie is back!! The first night he waited at the top of the stairs for them and even made him a blanket and pillow out of toilet paper. He also wrote them a little note.

The second night he sat in Brynlees bumbo, put one of her bibs on and used one of her bottles to drink MY Mt Dew!! When the kids found him they told him that I was going to kick his butt for touching my Dew....Smart kids :-)

We have all been sick around here and Elfie must have caught it. Poor elf had a "sick" night.

Im so excited to see what else this crazy elf will do the rest of the season!!

5 Month Letter

Dear Brynlee,

The biggest event this month was you got your first tooth!!! None of your siblings got their first tooth til after they were 6 months so mommy was very shocked when yours popped through. You have many coming in on the top but no sign of any even close on the bottom. You had your first Halloween. You were a fairy and also a punk fairy. Mommy couldnt decide so you were 1 for parties and 1 for actual Halloween. You still hate tummy time. You eat solids so good. The only one we have found so far that you dont care for is peas. All the others you gobble right up. You are a CHUNK!! We went to the doc recently and you were almost 17 pounds!! You havent rolled over yet and I dont see it happening son cause well youre spoiled and rarely on the floor. You hate the floor so you just cry and mommy is a sucker and picks you up. Another no no mommy has to change really soon is where you sleep. Im ashamed to admit this but you STILL sleep in your swing. Thats where you sleep best and mommy is desperate for sleep to keep up with your brothers and sister. I really need to train you to sleep in your bed soon cause you are quickly out growing your swing.  You are doing pretty good in the car these days. You have found your voice and wow you are loud!! I love listening to you!! You have learned to use your hands and you love putting whatever you can grab straight into your mouth. You are getting so big!! I love you my chunky monkey!!

Love, Mommy

 

 

Your first rel injury thanks to Kamdyn