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July iphone photos and kids say


It’s August! Time to recap July with iPhone pictures and Kids Say, which has a lot more entries than last month.
kitchen helpers, watermelon eaters, and a matching family (half accident)
kids eating watermelon

 

1) those clasped hands, waiting patiently for her turn to pick a color. Adorable. 2) One afternoon we attempted going to Forest Park. It was super hot and miserable and basically a total failure…soooo….
3) and 4) We went to another park at sunset and it was pretty perfect (besides Evangeline falling in the pond haha)
popsicles and the park at sunset

 

top two pictures–Desmond’s birthday
bottom two pictures– a trip to get donuts when our electricity was out for 24 hours and all of our food went bad.
birthday boy desmond is one

 

after the donuts, we went to Suson Park to kill some time. But I wimped out quickly because of the heat (not before Kai got his picture with the pigs–which basically made him the happiest kid on earth.) He also requested a picture with Des because they matched.
matching kids

 

evangeline and desmond

 

a dream come true–a daughter that asks for me to take pictures of her in pretty dresses!
pretty dresses for little girls

 

1) Glucose test–yuck! I passed..but I did find out I’m anemic. I started taking liquid iron the other day. I will update soon with how much it has/hasn’t helped! 2) New dining room chairs! Only took me almost 9 years of marriage and one year of home ownership to pick them out haha 3) 29 weeks 4) “Mommy, when we go to the doctor, I’m going to put these bracelets on my baby sister.” We love these bracelets from June and Penny!
june and penny bracelets

 

large family of 7

 

We thoroughly celebrated National Ice Cream Day/Month. Don’t worry, we aren’t going to stop celebrating just because it’s August 😉
national ice cream month
This is the last bump shot that Maggi and I have together, from last week (40 weeks and 30 weeks.) Mabel Scout was born on July 30th. This sweet little baby girl was seemingly healthy for 20 minutes after birth until she went limp and started turning purple. Blood was found in her lung but the cause is a mystery to the doctors right now! She’s stable, and adorable, but she really needs our prayers–along with her mommy and daddy, who obviously want to snuggle this precious baby and get her home.
newborn baby girl

I’m kind of looking forward to starting to add some school into our days pretty soon. We need some structure!! But I also need energy. So we’ll see what happens. Happy August!!

Kids Say
I decided to go with a bold red lipstick for church. When Kingston saw me he said “Mommy, you look like the Joker!!” Nothing like starting off church feeling self conscious!

Me–“Do you guys want monkey bread for breakfast?”
Kingston–“I’ll try monkey bread. I don’t think it’s good for me but I’ll see if I like it.”

Liam–“Mommy, my stomach is hurting right here.”
Me–“Well, at least we know it’s not appendicitis since you don’t have an appendix.”
Liam–“Maybe part of my appendix ran away before the surgery and now it’s over here.”

Evangeline–“Mommy! Look at the clouds in the sky! They’re so….slobbery.”

Checking out at Aldi, the cashier noticed Kingston’s Beatles shirt..
Cashier–“I like your shirt! Are you even old enough to know who The Beatles are?”
Kingston–(pointing to George Harrison and John Lennon) “Them’s two are dead!”
Yes, thanks to his mom, he knows a bit about The Beatles.

Kingston messed up the “tent” that Liam and Evangeline had been playing in.
Evangeline–“Mommy, Kingston messed up our tent.”
Me–“Kingston, you need to tell them sorry.”
Kingston–“Sorry, Missy.”
Evangeline–“Don’t say sorry to me. Say sorry to Liam.”

As the kids were playing house..
Kingston–“I’ll be the boy Grandma.”
Me–“That would be the Grandpa.”
Kingston–“Oh.”

Kingston–“If the electricity goes out then UFOs can’t fly.”
Liam–“Yes they can! They use gas.”

As she was eating mini marshmallows…
Evangeline–“These are my medicine…because I’m a mommy.”

Me–“Does everyone need to take a bath today?”
Kai–“Yeah! But not with fish in the water!”
Me–“……fish?”
Kai–“Yeah, I don’t want them to eat the dead skin off of me.”

Kai and Evangeline were fighting over who got to put their hand on my belly to feel the baby move..
Me–“Guys, there’s enough room for two hands to be on my belly at the same time.”
Liam–“Yeah! Definitely! There’s tons and tons of room!”
Me–“Thanks, Liam.”
Liam–“….there’s tons and tons and TONS of room!”

Kingston–“Last night I died in my room when the bombs were booming.” (lightning and thunder)

Me–“Would you guys like it if Daddy and I went to the beach without you?”
Kingston–“No. If you did, I might pick my nose.”

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June iphone photos and Kids Say


Happy July! July is always a good month to celebrate because it’s National Ice Cream Month–not that I don’t already celebrate almost every other day of the rest of the year 😉 Anyway, here is our June recap with iphone pictures..(not in chronological order–or really, not in any order at all!)
 
1) I bribed my kids with puppy chow to get them to cooperate for this picture. Based on the comments from my instagram, I’d say I’m not the only mom to bribe haha 2) I’ve always wanted a silhouette picture during my pregnancy but we’ve never had good windows for that until now!! 3) love my girly girl! 4) 26 weeks (taken yesterday!)
june iphone pictures
june iphone pictures 2

I’ve mentioned before that I use an app called A Color Story to edit my iphone pictures. I just wanted to show a before and after to demonstrate how I use it to brighten up a picture that probably would have just been left on my camera roll otherwise! The app is free, along with many features. But I did pay for the extras and so far I think it’s been worth it! (I’m not affiliated with them at all–I just love the app!)

a color story edit

 

I will always treasure all these pictures with the kids! The other pictures are from Father’s Day, celebrating the best daddy!!
june iphone pictures 3

 

Okay, I may be exhausted, but look how blessed we are!! That picture of the kids eating ice cream is one of my favorites!
june iphone pictures 4

 

1) Sharing her ice cream with her baby brother. 2) She had been playing house with her brothers and had stuffed a blanket in her swim suit. They came down the stairs, excitedly telling me the good news–she was having triplet girls! She wanted a picture in front of the door, “just like mommy!” 3) She got bangs!! It was definitely one of the best decisions I’ve made! No more snot and food getting stuck in her hair haha. 4) Dipped cone to celebrate the first day of summer!
june iphone pictures 5

 

1) and 2) we’ve been trying to get outside in the mornings before lunch to play and swim while Desmond is napping (and before it gets too hot!) 3) Twinning with Evangeline. She heard me mentioning I wanted a 25 week bump shot and she said “I have a baby in my belly, just like you! And I have a striped dress! Can I be in the picture?” How could I say no? 4) We loooove Tubby Todd! You may remember my (non sponsored) review of Tubby Todd that I did a while back. Now they have a MAMA line that I’m excited to try!
june iphone pictures 6

 

1) I’m enjoying this pregnancy and not wishing time away AT ALL! But there are so many cute things that I’ve found through Instagram for my baby girl and I’m so anxious to use it all! If you want sources for anything in the picture, let me know and I’ll link you to their shop! 2) and 3) If you think I take a lot of pictures of this girl, it’s because I spend so much time with her. The boys are usually off playing together and I get this little BFF. 4) One of my favorite pictures of Des! He fell asleep on me yesterday and I was able to pose him, just like when he was a newborn. I can’t believe he’ll be one in 11 days!!
june iphone pictures 7

 

National Donut Day was at the beginning of June. So of course we celebrated, homemade donut hat and all! And Evangeline’s room got the “sweetest” little feature wall!
june iphone pictures 8

 

1) After making fun of snapchat for years, I made an account to see what all the hype was about (mrsjessroberts) I like that I can take videos of the kids for Don to see later in the day (without having to fill up my phone’s storage) and the kids love the filters. But besides that, can’t say that I love it at this point! 2) Desmond and Kingston’s faces crack me up in this picture.
june iphone pictures 9

 

This month’s Kids Say post is a bit lame (maybe I was just too busy!) But the story at the bottom still has me laughing!
 
 
Kingston–“do you still need to put on makeup?”
Me–“no.” (I had already put some on that morning.)
Kingston–“so you’re just going to look like that?!”

Liam–“Wow mommy! Your tummy really does feel like a pillow!”

Kingston–(About the storm clouds) “I think the sun burnt those clouds.”

The 4 older kids had been playing dress-ups in the basement when Kingston came running upstairs to tell us “There’s water in the basement. It’s on the floor by that baby bed.”
It had been raining earlier in the day, so Don and I immediately thought we were going to be dealing with some water damage. He went to check and as he went downstairs, the kids were all pointing and saying “the water is over there!!”
As he went to inspect, he realized that Kingston had just been informing us that there were bottles of water…on the floor…in the basement. So “there’s water in the basement” had a much different meaning than what we originally thought. But we couldn’t stop laughing, thinking about the double meaning of that statement and the panic that followed.
 
P.S.—if you even reached the end!! I will be renaming my blog soon and doing a makeover of this space! We have a couple of blog names in mind, but I need help deciding! I will be conducting some kind of poll on here, facebook, instagram, or snapchat! So be on the lookout!! Or if you already have a suggestion, just write it in the comments!