5 Reason

Just look at these five...

These are my five reasons why the blog has not been updated for the last month. If I do say so myself, they are five very good and very cute reasons for my lack of posting.

When Jett was born, life changed. The biggest and best change was (obviously) adding our 5th blessing, but it seems that almost immediately after Jett arrived my three oldest stopped napping at all, Titan needs a very little nap, we started school and sports and life got A LOT busier!

So that leaves Jett to take a long afternoon nap and means that for about 13 hours every day I have four little shadows. I feel like we have a good (but flexible) routine going. Between school, play dates, sports, different church activities, running errands, we love our days with nothing to do at home. I love the days when they are playing so sweet together and I don't have to interrupt them to go anywhere or do anything

On top of that, eight months ago a good friend and I started a work out class together early (and I mean really early) in the mornings. I had to figure out how to keep up with my kids and working out has been a great answer! So that means when my kids go to sleep I follow shortly after. We are definitely keeping busy here at the Rude house. 

Our friend Justin Meyer spontaneously took pictures of our kids for us the other day (and by the other day, I mean beginning of November). I love, love, love getting our pictures taken. There is just something beautiful about having them all together and capturing the moment. Dan was working on getting ready for his message so it was just a kids photo shoot. 

I have really enjoyed teaching Quinn at home. It has gone a lot smoother than I anticipated and I have enjoyed getting to see his progress and I am amazed as to how quickly he picks up on new concepts. He makes my job easy and such a joy. He continues to be such a great leader in our house!

Titan has taken on the roll of the instigator. He finds it quite funny (and it often times is) to stir up his siblings. We are constantly reminding him to quit picking on his older siblings and we are reminding them to gently ask him to stop. He just is our little goof with an absolutely sweet heart and knows how to get everyone in the room smiling.

Since I had only a two hour warning before pictures, everyone but Quinn is wearing something that someone else has worn in our family pictures in the past. Myla is wearing almost the exact same outfit as last year. Titan is wearing a shirt and jacketthat Quinn and Rex have worn in the past and Rex is wearing what Quinn wore last year.  I guess you could say that we just stick with what works!

Rex and I continue to enjoy our alone time together almost every morning. He is an early riser, I totally understand that and love that about him.

He has also become an INCREDIBLE artist. He could sit and color for hours every day. He loves markers, paints, crayons, oil pastels, anything he can gets his hands on. He is always the last one still working and I have a whole drawer filled with pictures that he has made! I just love watching him work. He's just amazing.

In the middle of his turn to take pictures he looked at me and said, "Mom, I don't know how to smile normal..." So this is what we got! And this is pretty much just Rexy, gotta love him.

Jett is a man on the move. He LOVES to crawl under tables and chairs and into small places. I don't exactly get it but we all find ourselves rescuing him many times throughout the day when he has crawled under something or into a small spot and can't get back out.

Jett totally prefers eating everything that we are eating. He knows there is something significantly better than baby food and insists on having it. He also knows that there are toys that are way more exciting that whatever toys I'm giving him and crawls over his siblings barricades to destroy whatever they are playing. We jokingly call him "monster baby" or "the destroyer" throughout the day. He is so fun and so tough

I could not have been given a better after dinner dance partner than little Miss Myla. She and I love to twist and twirl and slide around the kitchen after dinner. She especially loves, "girl songs," which usually means a song sung by a girl or something from Disney princesses on pandora. Myla and I are a team, the girls have got to stick together in this house!

Our family is not a serious one. There is a LOT of noise, a LOT of laughter and a whole LOT of crazy.

Just how we like it!

I managed to get in a quick picture.

Let me add one more thing, I started this post over a month ago and have sat down at least 10 times to try and finish it and every time I start to fall asleep. I'm truly thankful for the five amazing children and my wonderful husband that I get to spend my life loving and be totally exhausted for at the end of the day. I seriously cannot imagine doing anything else.