Sherman Family Dinner

Uncle Dave has been in town for a few days and we've had fun hanging out with him. Yesterday, we all got together for lunch after church. The boys played downstairs for hours and had so much fun in the bounce house and watching a movie. Heidi and Kate took naps, but when they woke up, it was so cute to see all three girls together. We couldn't believe that only a few years ago it was the three boys like that, and now they're getting so big! We are very blessed to have great family and cousins close in age.

Kate and Stella- They're almost the same size! Aren't they cute?!

Heidi didn't really want to participate in the pictures

Aunt Donna & Heidi

Enzo, Ben and Lucca- Even though it's 60 degrees downstairs, they get hot playing and like to run around in their undies!

Heidi's picks out her own clothes

The other day, Heidi wanted to pick out her own clothes while Ben was at school. This is her masterpiece. I especially like that she picked Ben's crocs to wear.


A few hours later, this was her clothing choice.

Kate is 9 months old!

Kate turned 9 months old on Saturday. She is growing so much and is very happy. She has her two bottom teeth, and we are waiting for her top two to pop through any day. Even though she is teething, she's still pretty content. Things Kate loves these days: watching Ben and Heidi, eating (she even eats vegetable baby food with enthusiasm), playing in her exersaucer, watching Praise Baby and Baby Einstein, playing with a tub of toys on the floor, Cheerios and Puffs, giving hugs, taking baths and going for walks outside. She says, "Da, da" and makes "n" and "b" sounds. We're working on "Ma, ma" but she really likes to say "Da, da, da". She is just starting to crawl by scooting herself across the floor on her tummy. She is a very sweet baby girl! We love her so much!

Mega Block fun :)

Ben and Heidi love to build with Mega Blocks and the other night Ben wanted to take pictures of all the buildings we built. I am not going to post the 15 pictures he took of the buildings, except for this one that I took of him with the building he made for Enzo's birthday. He wanted to send it to him, but we just took a picture instead. He's such a cute kid!

Ben and his cheesy smile

Mom and Heidi

Our JCPenny Pictures

Last Saturday we took the kids to Penny's to get their pictures taken. Kate and Ben were very cooperative, and Heidi was a little bit more difficult. She did not want to wear her clothes because Kate was in her diaper so she thought she should be too, she wanted to have the stuffed Elmo doll in the pictures, and she was very stingy with her smiles. Oh, our Heidi is definitely her own person, but we love her!!! We did get a few decent pictures of all three kids though and lots of cute ones of little Kate.

Heidi's Current Phase.....wearing Ben's clothes!

This week Heidi likes to wear Ben's clothes, from head to toe. The past two days, she has had a full meltdown when I wouldn't let her leave the house in Ben's shorts and T-shirt. It is pretty funny because she goes into Ben's room fully clothed in her cute outfit and comes out fully clothed as a boy, including Ben's undies. Then she tells me, "I boy like Benny." It's amazing because she can get all her clothes off and new clothes on all by herself. Today I had to take a picture of her- I was cracking up because she had his shoes on the wrong feet and the shorts totally crooked. The worst part is that I have lots of extra laundry- she is so well trained to put her clothes in the hamper, and she does every time she changes!



Here's Heidi looking more feminine with a cute new haircut from TT.

My interesting conversation with Ben

Ben never ceases to surprise me with the things he says. Today he got up during his "nap" and had to use the potty. He was using the bathroom off the kitchen and I was making a cake in the kitchen when he says,

"Mom, did you know that I can hear Jesus talking to me all the time?"
"Really Ben, what does he say to you?"
"Oh, he says all kinds of things."
"How do you know it's Jesus? What does his voice sound like?"
"I know it's him because I hear him talk to me in my head."
"So what's something he's talked to you about?"
"Well, today, he told me not to eat fruit snacks anymore because they make my tummy hurt."

He went on to talk about something else and mid-sentence he stops and says, "Wait, Jesus is telling me something right now."
"What's he saying?"
"Oh, he's just talking about those fruit snacks again."

That kid makes me laugh!