She's On The Move

Charly is making progress with her traditional style crawling. It's a fun milestone to watch. I'm sure in a short while I will be wishing for a baby that wasn't into everything. The toothbrush in the video is currently her favorite toy. That should make Aunt Kiki happy.

An Exhausting Day of Fun

Today we ventured down town to the GPB tv station. They were having a "Healthy Happy Kids" event. It was very crowded but we were there to meet one of Owen's tv heros - Super Why. There were so many things to participate in, like coloring, making crowns, and animal petting zoo. We were able to arrive early along with a few hundred other people, even so, we still got to do a lot of fun things. We even bumped in to a family we know form church. Their daughter and Owen are in nursery together.

Owen checking out the baby turtles. The egg there is an egg waiting to be hatched. That would be the egg Owen picked up! The lady supervising the turtles gently, kindly and quickly got it from him. :) oops :)

This would have been a fun craft for home (undistracted), it was
glueing painted wood triangles to paper to make a flower or whatever
you wanted. Owen usually starts to help then I end up finishing.

Look it's Word Girl!!!!

Princess Presto

Face Painting

Cool, a Super Why Mask. He kept telling everyone about his "glasses".

He doesn't know who Smokey The Bear is but he
was happy to see him and to give him a hug.

The TV room

All the kids were interested in seeing themselves with all the characters on the
TV, but not sure why they could not see them when they looked around.

Lunch Break for Charly, thanks Dad.

Owen's Clifford paper puppet.

Moonsand box, I think he would have stayed there for
the rest of the afternoon if we weren't so ready to leave.

One more smile before we go. Charly is "sweeping"

Afterwards we went to lunch with the Bird family at Ikea.
I love to look around the show room.
Here's Owen perfected his flying leap.

Charly managed to catch some Z's on the ride home so she was wide awake while the rest of us relaxed. Sorry Charly, but today you were along just for the ride.

My First Zap

I love to document all the "Firsts" of my kids. Maybe I should skip this one but, what the heck. Owen has received his first zap! I delayed one day too many putting the covers back on the outlets and switches after painting, curious Owen poked the area where the wire is attached and zap! I heard a pop and then saw Owen pull is hand back, and then the saddest face in the world. He got lots of hugs and kisses and helped put the covers back on. Poor guy and it's all my fault. I know, what a bad mom.

6 Months Today

Charly is half way to her first birthday! She is a sweet baby and we are so happy to have her in our family. Most recently she is starting to crawl, her attempts are so cute. She loves all of Owen's toys, Owen as her entertainer and Owen as her way of getting nearly everything she shouldn't have. This week alone I have confiscated a marsh mellow, a mini nilla wafer, a grape, a tick tac and three pennies. She's lucky to be alive.

As of today she does not care for any stuffed animal, blanket or paci. I'm surprised by this since Owen was deeply attached to them all. Maybe it is her laid back nature that keeps her from wanting them. She like most little girls is totally in love with her Daddy. And she has him wrapped around her pinky, I need to be taking advice from her on how to accomplish that.

All in all life with Charly is a delight!

Up on all 4, she rocks and then pulls both leggs under
then leaps forward. She will have it down in no time.

Today at the MD she weighed in at 18 pounds (95th%), same as last time at 5 months. She is 29 inches long (97th%), so long! And her head I forgot but it is somewhere around 50th%. It's still flat in the back but it is rounding out.

Normal Everyday Stuff

The past few days have been filled with painting projects, cleaning, coughing, stuffy noses and bug bites. So really nothing out of the typical day. Everyone in the house except me seems to have a cold or allergies. I'm not sure which, I only know that I have to wipe 2 of the 3 affected noses. Garett and Owen are on the up swing of it but Charly is still Miss Stuffy.
I've nearly finished painting the hall, just a little more... And I'm trying to be crafty/artsy and make some decorations for the kids room. It's a learning process. I got the idea off Martha Stewart, if you want to try go to Anna Maria Horner's website, she is the genius behind the project.

It's not exactly how I wanted it, but I think for a first attempt, it's fine.

How loved are you?

Are you loved as much as I am? I know many mothers who are. My kids love me so much that they decided to wake up tag team style at 4 and 4:30am to let me know the extent of their love. One wanted to cuddle, eat and enjoy a belly rub (her not me), the next was for entertainment. We got to blow bubbles, play catch me if you can, run our hands through cold water and race up the stairs. Followed by a delicious chocolate-y drink. Now we are blogging together. I sure hope he gets as tired as I am and then I will get to nap too. Being loved is a wo42nderful3
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Midnight Sun

So I finally caved in and went to Stephanie Meyer's website and read Midnight Sun. I thought I would wait for her to finish it, but since there is no guarantee that she will, I indulged and read on. Her books are so good that I would and have choose them over sleep, a clean home and, yes I will admit it, a shower. I just cannot put her books down. And hurray for my entertainment, Midnight Sun was no let down. I can only hope that she finishes and creates more.

"Pop-N- It"

One of the things I love about two year old's is that they can have fun anywhere. This week I accomplished a list of To-Do's that were long over due. One was cleaning the garage. I wasn't a chore a all, just finding the time. Then I had the added plus of of entertainment while I worked.

What child doesn't love bubble wrap!

I didn't get any pictures of it, but he got his tri-cycle
and kept running over it and laughing so hard, it was a good day.

Which Disney Princess Are You?

This was a fun little quiz I got off Heidi's blog. Take the quiz, lets see which Disney princess you are.


You Are Cinderella!

Dignified and hard working. With a gentle and soft-spoken manner you have something many people don't. Patience. Even through the moments of heartbreak you're still able to hold onto all of your hopes and dreams. Bide your time; your dream will come true.

Which Disney Princess Are You?

For Christian....

One of the first few times I met Christian (Heidi's hubby) he told a hilarious Chuck Norris joke that was so funny I think I cried. I found this on another blog and thought of you Christian....

-There is no "CTRL" button on Chuck Norris' computer because Chuck Norris is always in control.

-Chuck Norris destroyed the periodic table because he only recognizes the element of surprise.

-When Chuck Norris falls in water, Chuck Norris doesn't get wet. Water gets Chuck Norris.

-Chuck Norris can divide by zero.

-Chuck Norris always knows the EXACT location of Carmen San Diego.

-It only takes Chuck Norris 20 minutes to watch 60 minutes.

-When Chuck Norris does a pushup, he isn't lifting himself up, he's pushing the Earth down.

-Chuck Norris is so fast, he can run around the world and punch himself in the back of the head.

-Chuck Norris can slam a revolving door.

-Chuck Norris counted to infinity - twice.

My Day

I stayed so busy today. There was the usual caring for the children and then the amazing feat of painting the hall way. It needs a second coat and we need need to get the part at the second floor ceiling. We don't have a latter tall enough to reach. I'd rather hire someone, but it is so little work I don't want to pay hundreds of dollars to have it done.

Owen decided that he would paint the walls to, except
he used his water colors thank goodness.

This evening when Garett got home we went out to Chick-fil-a for dinner and for their play ground. At the restaurant the few times he went down the slide he decided to go face first, smearing his face on the slide, his face must be so gross. I wish I had my camera. Owen decided he wasn't all that interested in playing so we went to Walmart for some groceries. Once we got there the sugar from the Sprite kicked in and Owen was in high gear running ever where. I didn't mind too much since I knew he needed the exercise. On the way home Owen kept asking me for my soda, so I was drinking it down so he wouldn't have much to drink, while I was doing this Garett was trying to distract him from asking me for the drink. Garett was very persistent but Owen got fed up and irritatedly said "I'm talking to mom." When we got home he said "I wanna go to bed" so it all ended well and my kid is talking more, so hurray for us.

Charly in her usual happy mood.

Blue yogurt for breakfast. What would make someone sell blue
yogurt? Or a better question, why did I buy blue yogurt?

Owen and Charly in their secret hideout. They are so content in there with a blanket over the top and some toys. I like this picture because as I was taking it Owen had pretended to put both Charly and Bear nite-nite. He is watching Bear sleep.

After I'm done with all my updating I'm going to read some of Midnight Sun on Stephanie Meyer.com :) :)

Forgiveness

I was reading my friend Bryn's email and she was talking about this quote that I just loved so I thought I would share.

C.S. Lewis, "Pride gets no pleasure of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man."

Bryn "I really like that quote, from Mere Christianity. The whole section on pride is just fabulous. He also talked about how when you are prideful, you withhold forgiveness for justification and keeping others in debt."

We all know people who just can't seem to let go of conflict, but I never had thought of it as withholding forgiveness for justification and keeping (or in order to keep) others in debt, giving them some type of power over another. It's a sad thing since the person withholding true forgiveness is hurting themselves by stopping their own growth and progression, and trying to force the same on another. Of course the person who is doing this, I would like to think, is not going about it with this purpose. But I think if we all were to examine our own behaviors we might be surprised that we have done this or maybe this is something we do and need to change about ourselves.

Thanks for the thought Bryn.

The Little Things of Life

Sorry to have confused anyone, I started this post last night, got frustrated and quit. So here I am again. Today was a good day. My house was clean for about an hour, I think that's a new record. I realized that I really need to get on with teaching Owen to pick up his own toys or I'll be doing it myself for many years to come. I also went to Enrichment and learned how to make soap. It is surprisingly a dangerous mix but the end results are wonderful. I took home a bar of goats milk soap to try. I don't know that I will ever be into soap making, but it's good to know how. Most days continue to be uneventful for the most part, just enjoying the little things, and the little ones of course, in our lives.

Oh, by the way, Owen would now like to be called Calliou instead of Owen.
He reminds me about twice a day. :)

My recent blueberry coffee cake try. It was good but not awesome.

Daddy and Owen giving raspberries to Charly.
Despite the bored look on her face, she really did laugh.

Owen took this picture of the moon. If you look hard enough you might actually see it. While most of his pictures are still of the floor, walls and ceiling... I'm happy that he is actually getting his target in the picture.

Daddy's new helicoptor, or as Owen calls it, the cracker.
We have a lot of fun flying it in the back yard.

We went to our playgroup at Swift Cantrell park.
We made boo boo kits, we all shared bandaids and let the
kids decorate the boxes. That was the idea of the project anyway.

This picture shows Owen working on the box, but it's deceptive because really he played on the playground nearly the entire time. So I decorated the box trying to make it look like something Owen would do. I know I failed because all of the stickers are going the right way and none of them are all piled up in one spot. :)

The finished product.

We have used it twice already.

And just for fun, this is Owen about to take a flying leap off the couch while yelling "To Infinity and Beyond". It's a lot of fun to watch but I'm pretty sure I should be discouraging this behavior, I should, but probably won't.

So Big!

Charly is growing so fast. Today was her last time wearing her plaid outfit. And she is doing a great job at sitting up so I decided to take some pictures. It seems like such a simple task, but between the drool, Owen trying to steal out attention and the camera working in slow motion, it became a bit of a production. In the end I just hoped I took at least one decent shot.

Sitting up is her new favorite way to be.
I help her up and she can balance pretty well.
She still over corrects, which scares me since
I don't know how hard she will bonk her head if I don't catch her.

This one is a favorite of mine because this is the
look she has on her face every time she looks at her Daddy.

More drool and Owen is being so sweet just for a minute anyway.

Then bam! A knee to the pigtail. We did stop him, baby girl
remained unharmed during this photo shoot. Note... More drool.