Farris family blog: October 2016

Painting with daddy

So serious

Rylie girl

He loves to play golf with daddy

foose ball time

Father/son weekend at camp

play time

HOT MESS

Look Daddy I can swing with my eyes closed!

Here we are 2 months after I posted my last post. One kid more. Life a little busier. Life a little more fun and crazy, and life more full than we have ever had it. 2 and a half weeks ago, Carlos joined our family. It has been such an up and down journey so far. He is such a sweet kid. A big kiddos. He turned three in July and is SO tall! We have watched him talk more and more in the few weeks we have had him. My favorite part so far has been watching Bret and our kids with him. Bret is the best dad there is out there and it is so cool to watch how he patiently loves him so well and plays with him. I have seen our own kids gifts come out over these past few weeks, how Tuck will patiently teach him something or help him. How Rylie will mother him and how Carter will make him feel included like the big brother he is. It has made me so proud of our own kids and how well they have loved him. We are a little more tired at the end of the days, but we are so glad he is safe and loved in our home. He even got to come to Houston with us last weekend For Titus's birthday and that was so fun getting to see all my family get to meet him and love on her. We had such a fun weekend getting to stay at Amy's and get to see everyone at the birthday party. They jumped on the trampoline, bounced in the bounce house, ate pizza and cake, and went nonstop all weekend.

Tuck started pre school in September and is doing great in school again. He is loving that is writing his name like a champ this year. It is fun to see him grow so much these past few months already. The boys did a 6 week gymnastic class and really enjoyed getting to do that and it was a fun activity for them on Thursday afternoons. Rylie got her first haircut and looks adorable and was so excited and loved every minute of getting a haircut. One of my best friends, Amelia, got baptized and that was the best getting to watch her do that. We took the kiddos back to Barton hill farms a few weeks ago and they had a blast on everything there. We ran out of time at the end because they were still having so much fun. Our friend Nat came home from Uganda and we got to welcome her home from the airport. That was such a fun night with her. Today we got all the boys haircuts after church and went into Austin, and yesterday we spent a whole day at camp at TBarM 35th reunion. What a cool day for our kids and getting to see so many amazing friends and people.

Rylie says really cute phrases right now like "last morning' and the ranger "doesn't have any chargery" or "down the stairs or up the stairs" instead downstairs and upstairs. She will also tell he boys that is inappropriate, even when she will say that minutes earlier. She also calls nachos "machos". We got a foose ball table a few months ago and Tuck will be playing and instead of saying stop it daddy, he will say "stop it babe" and last week when Carter and Tuck were helping Bret pick up Carter said "daddy is working us like soldiers" LOL. These kiddos. They are so funny and so sweet and keep us on our toes every.single.day.

Before we got Carlos, Carter came home from school with a project about family. Every single picture of our family had six kids. He said "I wanted to show the new kid that he was apart of our family and I want him to be happy. Gosh I sure do that love kid. He also last week got another knight award this year for Respect. He blows us away.