Please stay asleep little Molly...Mommy is so tired

Molly used to sleep through the night, then we moved to Oregon. I think she wakes up about a bajillion times every single night. Sometimes she is hungry and sometimes she just wants a snuggle. How could I deny her a snuggle if she wants one? So we snuggle and I ponder when the day will come that she will enjoy her bed.  I decided to try feeding her rice cereal and see if she would stay asleep longer. Here is the result of that feeding:

Isn't this the happiest face you have ever seen? Poor Molly. I guess she wasn't interested yet. Oh well...she will sleep through the night eventually, right?

For all you weirdos that love seeing a baby cry here is a video that Kailah took:

Happiness in a box

I have been feeling kind of down in the dumps lately. I don't know if it is the weather or just all the changes in our lives but I have felt kind of bleh. The other day we went to get the mail and to our surprise our box was CRAMMED full of amazing surprises. It is incredible how fast you stop feeling bleh when you get packages in the mail! One HUGE box came for the girls from their Grandma Ruiz. It came with a cute note that said what item was assigned to each girl. It was super fun to read things like "a pink cat shirt for Melanie" and watch the girls frantically dig in the box until they found each item, it was like a treasure hunt! They loved all their new treasures. Kailah loved her beautiful new dress and Melanie can't stop talking about her new Twinkle Toe shoes. And I can't wait to show off Molly's new Halloween outfit! All the other babies are going to be so jealous of how awesome it is! (Thanks Aunt Julia and Grandma Ruiz) I will take a picture of her in it and post it!

The second box came from the #2 Bradshaws. It was The Cousin Box (a super clever idea, very impressive Jen!). Inside the cousin box were 2 awesome pictures from Seth and Eldon, a rattle for Molly that is her new favorite toy, tattoos, lip gloss and best of all some snap bracelets. People are always asking if we plan on trying for a boy someday, I don't know why we need to, everything my girls get their hands on turn into weapons. I loved watching them in their fancy new clothes from their grandma, putting lip gloss on and sword fighting with snap bracelets. Here is how snap bracelet sword fighting works: you sit in a circle with the whole family with your bracelet straight and on the count of three you frantically hit each others bracelets until it curls up, the last one standing with a straight bracelet wins. I'm not gonna lie, it is a dangerous and frightening game but we were laughing so hard. We can't wait to pass The Cousin Box to the next house full of cousins! I think I just needed some surprises in the mail and a good sword fight with my kids because I feel rejuvenated. We have a pretty amazing family in California that makes us all feel pretty special and loved. Thank you so much! :)

I tried to take a picture of all the loot, it came out really really bad but I couldn't get them to sit still because they wanted to play with everything. So here is the best I could do:

Clover Ridge's Habitat Clean Up Day

Melanie's school has this super awesome area where the kids can go learn about plants, animals and more! It needed lots of love and her teacher asked families to come help clean it up. Somehow the rain stayed away long enough for us to scrub down yucky tables, trim brush and widen the pathway. This is what it looked like when we were done.

Behind all these trees is a little shaded area with more tables for the classes to work at. The path winds all around and has bricks with the names of all the plants, flowers and trees. It is a really neat area. It still needs more work but we had lots of fun and hope to go again. Kailah absolutely loves this kind of thing. She was pushing wheelbarrows, weeding, scrubbing tables and widening the trails with all the grown men. A man told me that Kailah worked harder than anyone else today. She is such a good girl. She has learned so much about Oregon and tells us all kinds of geography facts and has lots of plans for things we should see while we live here...especially the volcanoes!

Scrub a dub dub

Kailah showing all the men how to widen the trail :)

The teachers made us hotdogs for lunch and then we checked out the playground.

Melanie showing off her "spider bars" skills

Kailah and Larry during their tether ball tournament