The rest of September, featuring mostly Jack

Seeing as how Jack is still a bit young for organized sports and athletic endeavors, there was a serious lack of his cute face in the last post. This final recap of September should rectify that by detailing his life throughout the month, with a few mentions of the rest of us.

Jack has proven to be a [mostly] perfect little bystander; this picture is from one of Clyde's soccer practices.

Being darling at Chuck's softball game.

Of course, watching everyone else be so active works up an appetite, so Jack has become quite the opportunist when he spies the fridge open.

 

 After I took that picture, I remembered a similar shot of Will at this age and then scrolled back to early 2007 and found one of Clyde too. Quick observations: you can tell that Clyde was the first baby by the way we were clearly scared to cut his scraggly hair and also by the fact that he's completely dressed, whereas the next two boys are just rockin' onesies.

Jack LOVES attention, but also gets embarrassed pretty easily and turns his head to the side when someone smiles at him... which sometimes means he topples over, haha :).

Will and Jack get lots of bonding time together every day while Clyde is at school; it mostly consists of Jack stealing whatever Will is playing with and Will admonishing him with "No, no, Jack. No, no."

Not surprisingly, Jack particularly loves the XBOX and its controllers.

Quinn and Eden and Isaac came to Idaho in mid-September for a wedding and we were excited to host them one night (mostly thanks to the allure of our DVR and the BYU-Uof U game, which Quinn and I ended up watching at like 1am which made the ending that much more ridiculous and entertaining). Isaac fit in well with the relaxed dressed code we embrace around here.

Jack pretty much just roams the house as he pleases (a question posed probably too often is "Does anyone know where the baby is??"), and I love seeing his little face light up when we cross paths :).

We're trying to teach Jack not to head butt or bite people. . . neither of which is going super well. He may or may not have friends in the future.

I had a super fun girls' night at the beginning of the month with Kara and Paulina... and now that it's October, it must be time for another one!

Will's happy place - inside the tent, with the iPad, pillow, and Rex flashlight.

Soccer fans, as photographed by Clyde.

We had parent-teacher conferences for both boys in September! These pictures are from Will's, where we learned that he is absolutely delightful at preschool and so smart and and all that good stuff. He's been REALLY struggling at home (pray for us all), so we were relieved to hear that he's fine at school. I got to go to Clyde's conference by myself and it was excellent to hear from his teachers about how well he's doing, particularly in math and reading - although we did discuss strategies to help him focus and complete his desk work in a more timely fashion. The poor kid is so constantly pondering Star Wars and Avengers storylines in his head that school work apparently finds it hard to compete...

Oh, here's a tip - when your baby is in the kitchen all alone and you can hear delighted squealing, don't assume that he's just harmlessly playing with the tupperware or cookie cutters again. He might have found a blue dum-dum and be going to town.

Finally, I got to end the month with another girls' night - this time it was the General Relief Society broadcast (which was, of course, amazing). Our stake had an awesome dinner beforehand, and a few of us carpooled/met up there to enjoy the evening. 

Funny story: the stake presidency and high council members sweetly served us dinner, and Brother Swenson stopped by our table at one point to see if we wanted more of anything. A couple gals mentioned wanted some more fruit, so Dan comes back with FOUR FULL PLATES OF CANTALOUPE. Are you kidding me? We all took some, passed one full plate onto another table, and still had tons left over! So then Kristen takes our empty water pitcher to get a refill and is intercepted by a high council member who assures her that he can get it and asks which table he should return the water to. She gestures towards us and he says, "OH, yeah, the fruit table!" Aaaand then we all died laughing :).