already????

Yesterday Nalu was 4 weeks old, and tomorrow

will be officially 1 month since he was

born. How can it be, that he is already that old??

At the same time, he feels so apart of the family,

that I can hardly remember what it was like

when he was not here.

He is such a GOOD baby and

we all love him soo much!!!

PS. I don't understand how a baby this

little can have so much poop! HE has only

has a few explosions and this

morning was one of them. It seems to

happen when he sitting on my lap

burping and his poop just shoots up his back.

It was one of those...I don't even know what to do

or how to start to clean in up. His onsie had

no hopes of getting clean, so that went straight

to the garbage and into the bath Nalu went.

Now he is my sweet smelling, clean boy again :)

compare & guess

My friend, Katie, did this with her boys,

so I am borrowing the idea. (thx Katie)

I didn't have this outfit with Kaipo, so I am

only comparing Nalu and Ash. Plus Kaipo,

believe it or not, was a MUCH chubbier baby.

So tell me who you think is #1 and who is #2.

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#1

#2

Thanksgiving Recap

It has taken me a few days to get caught up after taking out first official outing, with 4 kids. First we went up to Logan on Wednesday evening to celebrate our cousin/nephew Jake's Bday. My sis, Karli and her family joined us too. It is always fun for us all to get to spend time with Jason, LeAnne and their family. They are such great hosts! The kids have a blast and us adults enjoy our time to just talk and hang out.

Then Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, we made our way to Utah county. First, to have dinner with Quinn's mom. Of couse she cooked up a grand, delicious meal. We enjoyed time just talking and relaxing, and she is always good about having us share OUR FEELINGS (as much as all the siblings hate it). We each got to express what we are grateful for-Mine was that I have a wonderful husband that ALWAYS provides for our family! Then we spent time with QUinn's Dad, some of Quinn's cousins and most of the siblings. Once again another feast to enjoy. SO yes, we got to have 2 dinners and get royaly stuffed!! What great memories and fun times we were able to have with those we love. (we just missed gma and gpa Asplund-but not long until we get to spend much awaited time with them :) Here's the kids in their homemade headdresses-Ame had to make sure the others knew SHE was the chief because SHE had the most feathers! And Ash felt left out that Ame and Kaipo had a hat and he didn't, we took Ame's turkey and made it into a hat for him :)

I unfortunately didn't take any pictures, except for these ones of Nalu, with his cousin Amaya. She was just born on the 20th. I wanted to get a few shots of these two together, and didn't think they would struggle as much as they did. It was quite funny. They are already irritated with each other, and pushing each other around, at such a young age...hahaha

Grandma Asplund asked for us not to

let Nalu get any bigger, not that we can

control that (other than not feed him).

Sorry Grandma, he IS getting bigger

too fast. Already growing out of his

NEWBORN clothes :(

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Despite a lack of pictures from our festivites,

we did have a nice, relaxing thanksgiving.

And I feel full of gratitude and am excited

to enjoy the continued Holiday Season-with

SOO much to enjoy and look forward to!!