This week- Henry.

I don't think mama has posted this picture yet. She doesn't make many pies, so she was so pleased when she made this awesome apple pie. The best part was that she ended up flipping it over and there were pecans and caramel on the bottom of the pie! (Grandma Seibert, she tried to cut vents like wheat like you always do, but it didn't quite turn out.)

Last weekend, Gracie and Audrey (or Ondrey, as June calls her) came to visit. We hit up the fall festival in Pendleton and just had a good time in general.

Grace and I made necklaces and I was quite pleased with how my Clemson necklace turned out.

Of course, mama forgot to take any pictures. Luckily, Mister Andy took some with his phone and posted them to Facebook. Grace and I tested the weight limit of the Barbie jeep. We figured out that it can really only handle one 5-year-old at a time.

Here's the only picture of all the big kids. June and Ondry had a great time playing with their dolls while Grace and I set up the cardboard playhouse in the office and kept ourselves busy writing letters to the grown-ups and rigging up hanging flashlights in the house.

Mama stopped in at the Walgreens and picked up these little dolls on clearance for June. They're princesses and each comes apart into about 7 pieces. They're actually made out of pencil erasers, so a couple pieces have had to be glued back together. But even with that minor annoyance, they've kept June occupied for HOURS. She was the "monkey of the week" at school and had to take in pictures of herself and our family. And she got to pick out a toy to show the class. she very carefully packed her princesses in bubble wrap in a tupperware and made one thousand promises not to take the princesses apart at school.

On Thursday, June and her friend Piper visited the children's museum with their moms. They took care of puppies in the vet clinic.

Wow, this whole post seems to be about June. She was just so funny this week!

On Saturday morning, mama took a look at the weather (75/53) and announced that we were going camping. June ran upstairs and grabbed her sleeping bag and all of her toys. She was back downstairs and ready in 2 minutes.

Mama convinced her to get dressed. She added a stocking cap in case it got cold and then gave mama her fair share of attitude. Mama thought she looked a little like Elliot Smith...

Let's hope June's music career ends better than Elliot's.

Here's her first single. You may know that our newest niece, Cecelia Ann, arrived on September 27th. We're all dying to meet her and we've had to tide ourselves over by singing a song about another girl named Cecelia. June really took to it and asks mama to play it about 40 times a day. Get ready for some serious gravelly-voiced cute.

Gymnastics videos- Mama.

Henry's been begging to take gymnastics for about a year. John takes classes and so did a surprising number of his day school classmates. Last year, I wasn't ready to add any kind of commitment to our afternoon schedule (class was at 2:30!). But this year, class was at 4:30, and Brandon can take off work without upsetting his whole afternoon or we can carpool with John. Between Brandon and Juliet, they've got the boys covered, so I'd never been to a class before this week.

To be quite honest, I saw the guys warming up and thought, "I don't think these guys are going to make it to the competitive team."

But they were actually pretty good! John was so good, by the end of this rotation, he told the teacher not to help him. He flipped over all on his own!

Henry did some good flips too. He's a pretty fast runner, but have you ever noticed that his legs move for about a second before his body starts going? He's like a cartoon character.

Gymnastics- Henry.

I finally wore mama down and got her to sign me up for gymnastics with John. Here are a bunch of pictures of John and I in action.

Mama's dresses- June.

She did it to me, so it was only a matter of time before mama pulled out the dresses she wore when she was one.

So when Miss Kerri called us up for an impromptu picnic in the gardens, mama pulled out the dresses and grabbed her camera. Georgie was a pretty good sport about the outfit changes, but didn't take so much to posing, so mama just had to follow her around.

Mama has figured the one secret to Jo's happiness- a snack cup. Well mama didn't really figure it out. Georgie walked in the kitchen, opened the tupperware drawer, pulled out a snack cup and a lid and handed it to mama. It's funny how Henry and I still aren't allowed to have food anywhere outside of the kitchen, but Georgie gets to wander around the house with a snack cup, dropping Kix and cheerios everywhere to be stepped on.

Check out those skinny chicken legs, then scroll on down for a blast from the past.

No chicken legs here! And I had way more hair!

On to dress two. Slightly more dated, but still super cute.

This dress came all the way down to my knees when I was one. If you want to indulge yourself in a blast of baby Juner, check out the rest of my one-year photo shoot, with a guest appearance from a newly underpantsed 3-year-old Henry.

Don't be sad, Jo. A few people might stay here to look at more pictures of you.

When mama changed Georgie back into her street clothes, Miss Kerri noted that sometimes she's a bit surprised at the outfits we wear. Granted, a halter top for a baby is a bit much.

What really got Miss Kerri was the huge atrocity on my head.

Ack! It's getting closer.

Mama picked this up at a consignment sale as a joke for bald Jo, but I really took to it. And mama hates to admit that that ginormous flower does a good job of keeping hair out of my eyes.

We headed over to the duck pond to feed bread to the ducks and fish.

Meanwhile Georgie lagged behind and alternated looking introspective and running straight for the water.

I love hanging out with Andy when the big kids are in school. Finally I get to be included in something. And Andy and I really get along well.

We each take turns being in charge and taking orders. (Plus mama loves that Henry used to wear this shirt and that Andy screams "Miss Becky!" and runs in for a hug every time he sees her.)

Maybe it's because we had those one-year photos of me up, but don't I look so grown-up in this picture?

Vacation pictures- late edition- Georgiana.

Miss Holly sent us down a disc with her pictures from Topsail Island. Pretend it's still 90 degrees (that's actually not that hard for us) and enjoy the pictures.

This won the contest for "Most Ridiculous Bathing Suit."

Lucky for me, my prize was Olivia's old bathing suit that is ruffly, but not quite so embarrassing.

The real payoff of getting Miss Holly's pictures was this video. I loved the ocean and this is how I spent many hours crawling up and down the beach.

Mom and I could hardly stand the excitement of sitting inside an alligator's mouth.

Here's proof of the turtle nests that consumed our evenings.

Sitting out on a beach at dusk isn't a bad way to spend the the night.

On the last night, we got to see an old nest get cleaned out and saw a bunch of unhatched eggs and broken shells.

We're going back again next year, right?

Oh, deer- Mama.

We don't often get any critters in our backyard besides squirrels and a stray cat we've named Corey. Maybe it's because of the fenced in yards around us and our weird position on top of a hill.

So we were very surprised to look out our back window and see a family of deer.

The kids watched for a long time as they munched on our overgrown back yard.

Henry insisted I take a video. While the video is not very exciting, it's representative of a normal minute in our house. Someone get me some tylenol.