Not organized at all!

In a desperate attempt at playing catch up for some of you guys this post will be super jumbled as I just upload and post stuff that pops into my head!

Sooooooooo, right now the boy is a week shy of 9 months, he still only has the 2 bottom teeth, he is eating us out of house and home, and he is crawling "commando" style on his belly EVERYWHERE! I went into his room on Sunday morning and he was sitting up in the crib, and today I caught him pulling himself up on the toy box; he fell over immediately but he did pull himself up. Here are a few shots of him that I took over the last few days.

This is him one day into month 8:
This jumper thing was his FAVORITE activity before he learned the commando crawl, not he only tolerates it as something else to do, (probably only b/c his arms are tired!)




Here he is with the little girl that I watch, she is 3 months older than him. Outside the window is The Girl and the little boy that I watch who is 6 months younger than her. Evidently, I have GIANTS for children.



Checking out all the toys.






He's even cute with spit up on his face! :)






This one is from this morning, look at how proud he is standing there! :)




Ok, so maybe tomorrow or Friday I will be able to post an update on The Girl. I lose a lot of time going thru pictures b/c I get so caught up in all of them. :)

~Til next time!

I'll take what I can get.

Officially, C should be on a flight to NJ right now, but instead he is lying on the couch under a quilt suffering from a temp of 101 and feeling pretty miserable. He sent a text to his supervisor and told him the scoop he said for C to call the travel dept and ask them what to do but once he figured that out he needed to call back and tell him b/c the supervisor wasn't flying in this week either b/c his wife was sick. Becuz of the way the tickets are purchased they can't just reschedule to another day (like Monday or something), so they just cancel the trip all together, and we get to keep him here for another week! :) Once he is feeling better it will be nice, but right now he is pretty pathetic. On a side note, I made some super yummy chicken and dumplings today, but sadly, I burned my tongue b/c I couldn't wait for it to cool off before I dove into a big ole bowl of them. :( I did a major dusting in the family room and got my fall decor put out, even tho its in the mid 80's here. Totally doesn't feel like fall to me!
The Boy is rolling all over the place. He also stops on his belly and flails his arms and legs and totally looks like a seal. LOL He EATS and EATS and EATS!!! He's still a fab sleeper which is sooooooo good for me especially when I am a on my own here.
The Girl is pretty much the same, smart and sassy. I could handle a lot less sass though. I need to find some kind of program to enroll her in to give her something to do. I think she is going stir crazy here... at least I know I am!

Ok, so I skipped a month....

We've been busy.
My life is a whirlwind when C is out of town, I'm sooooo busy and tired from being busy that I just crash every moment that I can.
We went on vacation (which really isn't a vacation for me but I won't whine about that right now)in a small east TX town that had a resort that is affiliated with our timeshare place. We didn't go to our regular timeshare place b/c I didn't feel like swimming with oil or the toxin that they put in the water to clear up the oil and this was the only thing available within driving range. It was actually really nice. We didn't have cell service and you had to really go out of your way to get internet access, so we really got to cut ourselves off from the rest of the world and just be with 'us' for a week. You would think that maybe a (former) scrapbooker would have taken some pictures, and I did, about 5 of them as a matter of fact! :) They are boring though so I probably won't share them here. :)
We have made it to the part where C only goes out of town every other week, so YAY! on that. He's home this week. I'm cooking. A LOT. Which means the 8# I've lost in the weeks that he has not been home will find me again. :( But really, I've missed real food, it is so good. I'm tired of english muffins and/or chicken nuggets.
I had other things I was going to write about here but I've totally forgotten them. IF they come back to me, I'll try to either get them on the blog or at least on paper to add later.

~Til next time!

misc pix from the almost recent past

Introducing "KIKI", (I don't know where she got that name from, but to a few friends it actually means someone. ;) ) our build a bear birthday bear. I had a coupon and she got money from Aunt P for her birthday, she could have picked ANY animal in the joint... she picked the cheapest one they had! If only she would do that when I am really on a budget! lol



And now for a VERY RARE find... a photo of Me and C! This was from his (surprise) sunset birthday cruise that I set up with some friends. It was sooooooooooo super nice and relaxing. We totally need to do it again. :)




This is where C set The Boy down for his nap, over the weekend. I'm surprised Duke stuck around for as long as he did.



We thought about hitting Meremac Caverns on our way back from St Louis in July, but the tour was 90 minutes and they don't allow strollers; instead we killed some time in the gift shop.



Okie dokie, so I think that is all for now; we have a trip coming up so there might be more pix in the future! :)

~Til next time!

We had a party and she turned 3!!!!!

I really can't believe that The Girl is three years old now. It doesn't seem like that long ago that I found out I was pregnant and now I'm supposed to say that she is a preschooler! She's soooo big and yet still a little baby at the same time. We had a party at a gymnastics center, it was going to be something different, it would be inside (out of the triple digit heat) and they were offering 1/2 off for August bday party's so for me it seemed like a win-win scenario.
At first, she played shy, fingers in her mouth and everything, she eventually warmed up if Daddy was with her to do all the motions and then she was having a blast and didn't want to go home. So pretty much, she behaved just like a three year old! :)

Saturday morning she came downstairs to this:

"Her Princess doors" as they are now called,(and yes, it is still up. Daddy's not in town, so I'm not doing anything to upset her!)



Her smile couldn't be any more fake! Punk!



At her 1st bday party we discovered her sensitivity to food coloring, so we have a 'party cake' and a 'birthday girl cake'. (little note: we will do this FOREVER now for all bday parties... I LOVE that the birthday person only blows their germs on their own food! Everyone should take up this tradition! :) )

Party cake:



Birthday girl cake: (free from food coloring!)



Shy 3yr old with fingers in her mouth: (it could have been worse, she could have cried and not participated at all) I'm counting my blessings.



Feeling more ok now that Daddy is holding her hand:



She's doing it all by herself!!! :)




Totally having fun and enjoying herself! :) YAY!





They did a whole obstacle course thing too, but I didn't get pix b/c I was playing too. :) A friend did though, so if I ever get those I just might share them with you. :)

She hit the princess mother-lode in the gift department. Makes me want to have a birthday party for myself. :)

Then we did gifts at home, these are from Aunt V and mommy and daddy. :) We got a bike from Aunt D and Uncle R a few weeks ago, I need to get better pictures of that. We also went to build a bear with money from Aunt P, but pix of that are on another camera (if the kids stay asleep I'll get to post that too). Aunt Stacy and Uncle Bryan sent stuff too but we opened that early. LOL








and that reaction was to this:







Guess what we played with first???




and yes, we had to take a bath too!



and The Boy? how did he fare?.... well he got a princess wand (I did ROCK the party favors if I do say so myself!) and he LOVES it and C R I E S if you take it away, so don't do that ok????