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.