Overworked October

So if September wasn't great, October was definitely not better. Man... having kids is hard. I feel like I went through a sort of "honeymoon" phase when Katelyn was first born. Everything seemed easier and I really felt like it was all under control. Guess I jinxed it because one day it all went to crap. So between sleepless nights, chores left undone and barely keeping it together, here is the month of October. It's all a jumble mess of pictures. 

I came out of the bathroom one morning to hear "Mom! I need help!" I have no idea how he had gotten in the swing but obviously could not get out (and it was a super quick trip to the bathroom as they have to be when you are a stay at home mom)
So nap time has become a terrible time... For everybody. The thing is that the Little Guy becomes a super unsafe monster when he doesn't take a nap. By "unsafe" I mean that he is literally not safe from himself. He gets super clumsy and just keeps getting hurt. Seriously ALL of his bruises come from no napping (and there are a LOT of bruises). So what are my options? Number one: Put him in his room for at least an hour (if not more) until he finally gives up and falls asleep. Most of the time he never falls asleep and I end up just letting him out of his room because I feel like I'm torturing him. Option two: forget about naps all together and put him to bed really early. Unfortunately option two means that I have to chain myself to a strict, really early bedtime. I really can't commit to that. Specially when Spencer is home and we get to go out as a family. The thought of having to be home every night at a certain time when my day is already so chaotic and I have no control of it literally makes me sick to my stomach. Don't get me wrong, the Little Guy does have a bedtime, it's 9, this about moving his bedtime up to 6:30-7.

Anyway... here are some "nap time" pictures from October
One really fun thing this month was I took the kids to a Spanish Fork High football game. It was really so much fun. I had been meaning to take the Little Guy to a game for a while because I thought that he might like it but things just kept coming up. 
We caught the last ten minutes of the game and the Little Guy LOVED it! He kept talking about things he had liked all the way home. "Mom... we saw the football" "Mom we saw the dancing girls" (cheerleaders) "Mom we saw the marching band" "Mom the marching band had drums, and flutes and xylophones and cymbals" "Mom the dancing girls were singing and then we clapped". It was really the cutest thing ever. Hopefully he will still like it next year and I'll take him again.

With the move we found the old XBox (as in not 360) and we've been playing our favorite game "Star Wars Battle Front II". It is really fun for Spencer and me to be able to play together. I have a hard time with a lot of XBox games because they make me super dizzy, but I can play this one for the most part as long as we take breaks or stop when I need to.

We certainly got a chuckle out of the old profiles that were saved. "Darth Nater" is just about the most ingenious name I have ever seen. We sure miss Tio Nate

The Little Guy got invited to his first "friend" birthday party for out friend Reagan. It was so cute! Funny enough Reagan and the Little Guy played together and ignored the other kids
BTW sorry about the caption is some of the pictures. I sometimes forget to save them before I add the caption on SnapChat and then I'm too lazy to erase it, save it and then have to retype it

Katelyn has finally reached her feet and now they are constantly in her mouth (like everything else)
Spencer had an idea for getting rid of all our sentimental stuff. We take pictures and then put them in a book along with the stories behind them. It's a great idea as we have never had storage space anywhere we have lived and we really have a lot of stuff. So we set up a mini studio at the Keele's and got to work.
I never thought it was going to be that hard! Getting rid of stuff sucks. We are not even close to being done yet which is a testament to how much stuff we have; but man, the actually during, was really hard. (BTW if you looked at the house of Keele Blog recently you might have seen the first round of pictures. We wanted to put them all online just in case something happened. These are all our memories after all)

This is Katelyn after her 4 month doctor's appointment. She looks really happy for someone who just had shots doesn't she?
Grandma Julie got out her Halloween books along with her decorations. The Little Guy was so exited to have a fresh set of book to read
So it's rare but sometimes my kids do sleep and when they do, they look so much like brother and sister that I just can't help but take pictures (yes these pics were taken within seconds of each other)
Of course most of the time there is no sleep. This is from one night in which Katelyn was so out of it and so tired the only thing I could think off to do was load her in the car and take her for a ride (which only worked because Spencer was home and could stay with the Little Guy)
Of course, this was her the following morning. She sleeps while I'm awake with the Little Guy... Classic
She sure is cute though
Even if she sometimes eats my leg
We got to Jaker's Pumpkin Patch in Springville and were NOT prepared for how cold it was that night. I didn't feel too bad because my mom had already taken the Little Guy a couple of weeks before so we did not stay very long. It was freezing
He liked showing me the animals in the petting zoo but he was most interested in the hay ride. He talked about it all the way there and didn't mind waiting in line because he was super scared to miss it
An another sleepless night picture. This one was taken at 4 AM and it is just about one of my favorite pictures ever (finding the good in the bad I guess)
and a random picture of the piles and piles of laundry that I have to do every couple of days
November is actually the start of the Holiday Season in my book (no I don't decorate for Christmas until after Thanksgiving). I can't wait for the Holidays this year. The Little Guy is at such a fun age to explore everything and even though I don't get much sleep, I'm not throwing up... so life is good 

PS I would just like to point out that with this post I am officially caught up. That's right

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