Oh Yes They Did

I just went upstairs to grab some fresh clothing for the kids and what a mess they made. A brand new box of Honey Nut Chex. Just yummy enough for a 2 year old to love and just sweet enough to leave a sticky spot on the carpet. This was 99% of Owen's doing, Charly just joined in for the food and fun.

No remorse what so ever.

You may be wondering what I did about this mess.
Well I had Owen pick up all that he could and put it back in the box.
This will be his personal box of cereal until it's all gone.
I'm not wasting just over three dollars worth of cereal,
and I'm not eatting it either, that would be gross. :)

For the Grandma's

Just wanted to post a "Charly" post for the grandma's that she belongs to. Charly is doing so well. She is doing a really cute but fast floppy crawl, she basically gets on all fours and throws herself forward. Not so efficient, but it works. She keeps making a "Ma" sound, it probably has nothing to do with "Mama", but I still like to think it does. She is so totally in love with her Daddy and completly idolises Owen. She is easy in that she is not attached to anything except to those she loves, so there is nothing to keep track of. :) She is easy breesy and starting to take long naps. :) We miss all of our families since you all far from us now.
We hope you can hug her soon.

My cuti-patootie

Call it what you want, I call it funny. Charly grabbed hold of her bow and pulled it most of the way out of her hair. She spent the next 10 minutes batting at it like a little kitten. I did finally take it out. I just wanted to give her the opportunity to handle it on her own.

The Unlucky Fly....

Silly as it may seem, I was totally amazed at this poor fly's death. Owen was "keen'n up" and tossed a ball to the toy bin and squash! Totally hit this fly buzzing through the air and... well you see. What a cool shot Owen! (what are the odds?)

Getting out of a rut

I've been feeling like life has been boring, it's only been a few days, but it feels like forever. Yesterday was better, we played a lot and had a good Family Night. It was just as quick and noisy as all the rest, but there seemed to be some sort of understanding amongst all the running and noise. One can only hope.

For some reason Owen refused to wear clothing most of the day. One less thing to wash, right? This is Owen's Snowman, his is very proud of how it turned out.

This is when I decided it was time to put up the clay.

Even Charly had a great time looking out the window at the birds, watching Owen and playing in the exersauser(sp?). She is so easy to please.

We started Family Night (FN) with singing and a prayer as usual. The lesson was on learning. We talked about reading books and asking for help to learn new things, and we read a story. Honestly the lesson didn't get much further than that, but hey, it works for the attention spans of kids 2 and under. We ended with another prayer and lots of songs. Wheels on the bus is very popular in our house.

We played Hungry Hippo's for our activity.

Then the cranky's came right on time for bed time.

TAGGED, BUT DIFFERENT

TAGGED, BUT DIFFERENT

Thanks for the Tag Jennifer. :)

1. I love to read other people's tags, it is such a fun way to get the answers to Twenty Questions without being in their face asking endless questions.

2. If I was a collect-y type of person I would collect kaleidoscopes. They are number one on my doo-dad list of really cool things I can enjoy for hours.

3. I enjoy reading but seldom find time to do it. Same with quilting.

4. I love (I know it's gross) to pick at other peoples ears. You want someone to clean your ears, hand me the q-tip. I think it's gross too, but I'm weirdly interested.

5. I would love to be am amazing dancer and piano player and singer, but I'm not willing to put in the time or effort. Sad, but true.

6. I like the smell of carbon paper.

7. I make awesome cookies. And I never share the recipe, even if you think you got it from me, I always leave out a secret or two. :) It's not even written down anywhere, just in my brain. Mu Ha Ha Ha!

I Tag Rhonda, Heidi, Christi, Wendi, Erica, Gina, and Mom - Just cut and copy into your own blog and change the answers.

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.