The Besmer Family

Saturday, November 8, 2014

Tim and Eliza Baptized

We finally got Tim and Eliza baptized. We are all for the two-for-one specials! It feels good to have the First Sacrament completed with all of our children. Now Ashton is starting his classes to work towards First Communion!

GQ-Tim! Although everyone thought he looked like a Kung-Fu fighter

Violet needs her own picture

Nina Lucy with her two goddaughters

Happy Eliza

Eliza gets baptized

Tim's turn

Our family picture

All the godparents

Great Grandma Perta with Eliza

Eliza is now 7 months! She is such a fun, little girl. She loves to laugh and watch her big brothers and sister play and run circles around her. Tim can easily get her to laugh. She is working on crawling and can almost do it! She can do a couple crawling steps and then resorts back to her scooting. At her 6 1/2 month appointment, she was 15 pounds, 3.5 ounces and 25 3/4 inches. She was around the 20-30th%ile for both length and weight. She loves to eat baby foods and is progressing onto baby puffs and Ritz crackers. She is, oh so close! to sleeping through the night. She slept from 7:00pm to 5:15am last night! I can't wait to watch as she grows!

Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Just Another Wednesday

Someone is a happy baby

Sister Love

Good Big Sister

A very near future crawler

So I have gone back to work part-time, 20 hours a week! It really helps with my sanity and my ability to be a more patient Mom! So, I'm a SAHM on Wednesdays. Violet goes to school and I get to spend time with the little kids. Speaking of Violet, I had our first parent-teacher conference. She's doing well and can identify a few letters and numbers, can write the letters of her name (albeit out of sequence), can count to 19, and can identify some shapes. So, she's doing well and is "on track" with the rest of her class per the teacher. After she got home, we had some fun time before naps. I was able to shoot Eliza's 6 month Pooh pictures, get some cute ones with the girls, and Violet read a book before it was time for lunch and naps! Tim and Eliza napped while I rested (before cleaning up) and Violet does activities which usually include coloring, writing, drawing, and cutting paper!

Watch Eliza Grow - 6 months!

From Eliza Watch Me Grow

Wow! Has 6 months, a half of a year, already gone by with a blink of an eye?! Eliza turned 6 months old today! She is doing well. She has been at daycare for 2 months now, has caught two colds, and one ear infection warranting her first round of antibiotics! We are still in the midst of that! She is a very happy baby, until she's not! She loves being around her brothers and sister and they can easily make her laugh. She gets around quite a bit these days pushing her toes along and is even getting onto her hands and knees trying to rock herself back and forth. She is eating all sorts of baby foods. She doesn't quite like bananas, but likes almost everything else. She still has yet to sleep through the night consistently for me, but will go about 8 hours straight and then is up every 3-4 hours which means I am up at least twice a night. She still loves to smile and laugh, with a little squeal. She loves to snuggle with her Daddy and loves to laugh at her brothers!

Saturday, October 4, 2014

Just for Fun

I can't believe it's October! It's supposed to be fall around here, but as we go into the afternoon day of Fresno it's approaching the 90s! But we can hope for fall! We've put out our Halloween and Fall decorations and soon the weather will cool off!

But I did get some super cute pictures of Tim and Eliza. I was attempting to get some new ones of Eliza. She grew right before my eyes and Tim was being super sweet! I hope they continue to have a sweet bond.

Can this get any sweeter?

To my surprise, I put her in a seated position and she stayed!!

Tim sure does love his little sister. He was a little helper here.

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Strawberry Music Festival

It has been a Besmer family tradition for the inlaws to attend the SB Music Festival twice a year. It's a big music fest with overnight camping, arts and crafts activities for the kids, and good cooking. This year I was coerced into going, kicking and screaming (only a little). I'm not much for camping but did enjoy myself once I was there. The best part being NO cooking and good music! It was hot as can be which was no pleasant but made for decent nights. The kids had a blast running around with lots of freedom and of course, lots of fun with their cousins.