Hunk is 2 months (from November)

 This sweet guy turned two months (pay no mind that it was a month ago now).

 This precious boy was stretching the entire time I was trying to capture his growth on his lion.
For his 2 month check up he weighed 11 pounds 4 ounces. That's up three pounds from birth!

 I just love this picture. He's looking up at his big sister with admiration.

And here are the official photos from our little photo shoot. 

 Yes, smiles were getting frequent at this point.

 At 2 months he loves interacting with others--espeically at diaper change time. It is seriously the cutest thing. He wears a size 2 diaper and still fits 0-3 clothes. And he's still nursing like a champ with a few formula bottles every once in a while.

 And yes, his big sisters are still in love and wanting to hold him all the time. They really do help out with talking and singing to him.

 And I'm totally a slacker at belly time, but here he is lifting up his head like a big  boy. His belly time is usually on my chest--while resting. Sometimes he'll lift his little head up and look around.

I love you little Hunk. Thank you for these last two months. You're a sweet boy who sleeps really well (like 8 hours on average). You are quite the charmer, and I completely adore you.

Halloween (better late than never)

Halloween was fun and busy! We had parties at school and we also did the trick or treating.

I'll pretty much let the pictures talk for themselves. But first, here is a recap of what each child was for Halloween.

Peach--Queen in a red dress
Brownie-- Queen in a purple dress
Bug--Cinderella
Boushka--Minnie Mouse
Scrunchie--Elmo (she's so into him right now)
Hunk--Lion

This is about all the fall decoration I was able to get up. Newborns (or just having lots of littles) doesn't leave me with much time for decorating.

Here are some party pics.

And of course we went around the neighborhood with our candy sacks. 

I love this picture. We took it before all the festivities began!

And this one too!

And these were too cute. We have a big tree in our front yard, and it provides a great picture place.

We came back at 7:30 and I told the girls they could eat all the candy they wanted for 30 minutes while we watched Hocus Pocus. That was our favorite part by far!

Take Two

Stationery card

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So this is actually his new announcement. Shutterfly has some great customer service. I had a problem with a few cards and a printing error. They are replacing my cards for free--even the shipping. Thanks, Shutterfly!

Birth Announcement

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Here is Hunk's birth announcement. Thanks to Shutterfly for offering cute designs.

GRRRR..... Alternatley titled "can somebody help?"

Blogger is not allowing me to upload anymore photos for my blog. I've had this blog for 5.5 years, and I was completely unaware that I would be capped off and whatever GB for photo storage. Is there some way around this, or do I have to start paying for my "free" blog?

Anyway, I had a Halloween post complete with pictures, but until I figure this out, I guess this shall wait. I may still go ahead and write in order to keep up with blogging, but I guess the posts will be without pictures until I figure this out.

So bummed :( Any tips are appreciated!

So Much Randomness

Here are some random pictures that haven't made it to the blog.

The two dancers in their dance dress. They are both in tap and ballet this year, and Brownie is also in jazz. This is her first year for jazz and she loves it!

Both girls are in the Nutcracker again this year. So for their dancer salute, I had them pose for a picture. This one won!

Here they are trying on costumes. Bug is going to be the Arabian Doll. And Brownie is going to be the Hungarian Doll. Though in this picture, she is dressed as the Italian Doll.They've been rehearsing about six or so weeks on the weekends. And starting this weekend, we'll be rehearsing for longer periods of times, twice a weekend. That must mean only one thing... it's getting closer! If you know me in real life, feel free to let me know if you'd like some tickets to see our tiny dancers.

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Our sweet Brownie girl has been going through some issues with her belly, and we are still trying to figure out how to best control them. She's been to the Childrens hospital that is nearby, and they've done a few procedures on her. She was actually put under a few weeks ago, and we were a little nervous. None of us have ever been completely under, so it was mostly the unknown--but you just never know how it'll go with anybody. And having such a tiny girl go under--our tiny girl--made for some crazy nerves.

However, as they started her procedure, Matt and I were ushered to the waiting room where we were told to expect 1-1.5 hours of a wait. The 30 minutes we waited, this little guy decides to start smiling. He was 5 weeks and 3 days old. I just can't believe how entertained he kept us with his sweet smiles. He kept us grounded as we waited for our sweet girl to get through her procedure. And after 30 minutes, we were told she was waking up and doing fine. What a relief. And thanks to this guy, it was a little easier to wait it out.

 Just the week before the procedure, we had our initial appointment at the hospital. They drew labs and took some x-rays, and then we went to eat and visited a couple shops at the adjoining mall. I was glad to be able to make Brownie's day just a little bit better with a special treat.

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And here's one from waaaay back in September--September 19 to be exact. Peach (and the rest of the gang) came to the hospital to visit her new brother, went down to the cafeteria for lunch and bit into a fry, and came back with a loose tooth. We were all excited for her--this girl had just turned 7 and felt like the only one who wasn't loosing teeth on a semi-regular basis. Well, I got a call the next day saying somebody had lost that tooth. I was sad that I couldn't be there to hug her and congratulate her, but I did it from my hospital bed. And sure enough, despite the fact that her father and I were away, the tooth fairy came!

I made this cute little tie onzie when I was 30 some odd weeks pregnant. I couldn't wait to pose my little guy with a pumpkin in this get-up, but real life interfered with my plans and this is the only shot I got of my guy in his orange tie! 

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This girl is always into mischief, and one of her favorite things to get into is the piano (or as Boushka calls it "pinano"). She reaches up to the keys and hit the notes. She'll even get herself onto the bench and play a song.

I caught her in the act the other day, and so she decided to put on a little show for me.

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The older two girls were treated to a manicure. For their birthday, they were given gift cards for this service.

I am pretty sure they enjoyed it quite a bit!

 We took them to Outback where they got mac and cheese. And then we finished up at Target where they got to spend their gift cards for shopping.

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This was around the same time Bug celebrated her birthday. I was able to come to her little celebration at school and snap a picture. She took lemonade Popsicles for snack.

 That day we also went to Brownie's soccer party at a pizza joint. The girls had a great time getting together for the end of the season.

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I know this sounds weird, or maybe even horrible, but with each baby I like to capture them crying. You know that newborn cry that all babies have, I never want to forget it, but I do. So I've captured my baby boy--crying his eyes out. I snapped two pictures and recorded a few seconds worth of video.  And then I promised I scooped him up and loved on him a whole bunch. But that was a small price to pay so I can have his little cry on video forever.

That's all the randomness I have for October. November will be coming soon.

Pumpkin Patch 2012

We had a fun-filled fall weekend! It was going to be really cold here on the Saturday before Halloween--the one day this month we actually had time to go to the pumpkin patch. I refuse to miss out on the annual pumpkin patch visit, but I was seriously contemplating skipping it all together. But the weather finally cooperated.

We had a great time.

We always like to see how big the girls have gotten. They just grow so fast!

Last year, this little girl couldn't even stand on her own. A year later she's walking, talking, and carrying on like a little toddler.

Bug standing in the witches mouth.

This place has all sorts of fun things for the kids to do.

And the haystacks were quite plentiful.

They made perfect spots for being silly.

Even Brownie thought so.

And this silly little Boushka.

Always a headband on this sweet girl's head.

All of the Copeland daughters posing with their silly face.

And the one Copeland son posing with his sleepy face.

The train ride is always the favorite.

They enjoy it every year.

My mom bought the girls one little gummy thing of candy--this one chose the worm.

We also went through a corn maze. I made the ones who were in front of me pose for a picture.

And finally the others caught up!

We finished up the corn maze and came home.

Peach was very into getting the seeds and gunk out of the pumpkin. She did a great job.

And while all the festivities were going on, I made this pumpkin dump cake. Since I was asked, here is the recipe for this delicious dish.

Pumpkin Pie Crunch (I got this from my friend, Winter)

1 pkg Yellow Cake Mix

1 (16 oz.) can solid pack pumpkin

1 (12 oz) can evaporated milk

1 tsp. pumpkin pie spice

1 cup chopped pecans

3 eggs, 1/2 tsp salt

1 1/2 cup sugar

1 cup melted butter

Grease 13x9 pan, combine pumpkin, milk, eggs, sugar, spice and salt in a large bowl. Pour into prepared pan. Sprinkle the dry cake mix evenly over the pumpkin mixture. Top with pecans. Drizzle with the melted butter. Bake at 350 degrees for 50-55 min. or until golden brown. Cool slightly and serve. Refrigerate leftovers (if there are any!)