A Lot of . . .

You know when you have so much stuff you need to post about that you don't post at all, because you don't know where to start. Well, that's me for the past 3 weeks. Here are a few glimpses:

On September 5th and 8th Brett and I turned 27! Yea, woa. More canning. Last week it was 138 jars of pears! I am so grateful to my neighbor who invited me to join her. It's nice to let the kids play together and be productive. There's a family in our ward that is kind of our twin family. They have two girls almost the exact same age as our boys! We thought we'd invite them over for dinner and family night to get to know them better. It was really fun watching the kids interact. The babies tended to gravitate toward each other, but they wouldn't face each other, it was so funny. Hyrum: He is the sweetest boy in the world. I love him to bits. He's my super helper around the house with sweeping, wiping down 'messes', cleaning windows, and vacuuming. Hyrum loves giving hugs, butterfly and eskimo kisses, and tickling. Lately he loves picking up Noah (which is really scary, but sweet too). I'm saying all of these things, because this is what I see everyday. Sadly, he has a hard time with big groups and socializing with other kids. Part of the problem is his size. He struggles in nursery because he can knock kids over easily. They divided the nursery into junior and senior groups and he's taller than most of the senior kids, but he's one of the younger ones in junior. I think his aggresion is because he isn't able to communicate what he wants sometimes. He had chronic ear infections his first year of life and it may be effecting his speech now. He is always progressing, and says the cutest things, but it's a slow process. I just wish everyone else could see how sweet he is and that he's not a maniac.

Noah: Speaking of sweet. Noah is one adorable little man! He's getting so grown up. He's now 7 months old; crawling everywhere, pulling himself up on everything, and eating anything he can find. He is just getting over another ear infection, and this one left him with a horrible diaper rash from the drugs. We saw an ENT today and scheduled a surgery next week to put in tubes. I only wish that we did this with Hyrum. I'm really nervouse about the whole thing, but I know it's the best thing for him.