They say the only thing that never changes in life is change. Or something like that anyway.
C is getting braces on Monday! Its only phase 1, on the front 4 teeth on the top of her mouth. but whoa. Big changes. she was having a big problem with teeth coming in behind other teeth and 2 different orthodontists said she needed to get into braces and get that fixed right away (cross bite). Then in a few years when she is older she will get braces on the rest. If you could see my kids teeth. When the adult teeth started coming in all I could see were dollar signs. Luckily A - who will most likely have the same problem - has been told that she needs a few more years before starting. Whew.
Baby E is growing and changing as well. his newest trick is that he growls. he loves to make the noise and loves the attention it gets him. If he gets a response, he will keep on growling. Or if you growl back he will keep on going. Until he gets tired.
He has a great sense of adventure. the other day I had been washing wool and was spreading it out on a sheet in the front yard (its the sunniest place and no neighbors to complain!) and he was with me. He started crawling away (first time he has crawled on grass really) and crawled clear over to the trees lining our private lane. Then he turned and crawled towards the side yard. And then started crawling towards the back yard. At this point I was calling to him trying to get him to come back. He wasn't responding and then I couldn't see him anymore because he was on the side of the house. What you don't realize is that our yard is huge and the kid had gone really really far. I wasn't comfy with it anyway. so I finished the bit of wool I was spreading and kept leaning over and yelling for him. He finally turned and then realized how far he was. At that point he started crawling back to me and cried the whole way. It was pretty funny. When he finally got back to me I gave him a hug and a few minutes later he was off again! He loves to explore.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Sunday, April 8, 2012
New happenings
So, lots happening over in our neck of the woods. Well, lots of little things anyway.
Baby E is now very good at recognizing the words "eat",and "go", and cries when we use the word "No" sternly. It gets quite a reaction. He is crawling everywhere and loves to put his hands on slidey stuff like DVD covers and packages of diapers and then slides them all over the house. Its pretty cute.
He bear crawls when the floor is to hard or cold for his knees. He hates hats. He loves food. But I guess that is apparent when one of his favorite words is eat. He is also starting to recognize "peaches". He has the whole ward wrapped around his finger. He is the smiliest little boy around. And very mellow. If he is cranky, you can almost bet that he is hungry. Feed him, and life is ok again.
A is doing well in school. She loves to read and check out books at the library like her older sister. She wants to ride a 2 wheeler, but for now has settled for training wheels until a parent has more time to work with her and encourage her. She loves to help me with the greenhouse and the baby chicks. Yes, we have baby chicks right now. She is becoming more responsible and is doing great with her piano lessons. she is excelling at them and one of the things she loves to hear is that she is playing a piece just like her older sister. Can you sense a trend?
C is also doing well. she recently learned how to ride a 2 wheeler without training wheels after lots of practice and determination. She is more timid than her sister when it comes to the animals, and the greenhouse doesn't interest her as much as her sister. But she loves to read. She is a great soccer player as well. At her game this past Saturday, she scored 5 goals. All of last season she only scored 2 goals, so this is a great improvement. A also had a red letter day at Soccer. she scored 2 goals as well. We were so impressed by their mad soccer skills we took them out to Red Robin to celebrate.
I'm doing great, Hubby is doing great. Nothing big to report at this time. the plants in the greenhouse are going nuts (except for tomatoes. Why are tomatoes always the issue?) the chickens are grown and giving us about a dozen eggs a day.
Oh, we do have 2 new steer in the pasture. An Angus and a Hereford. Both are beef cows and not milk cows. so we should get a decent amount of beef from them...Fall of 2013!! Yesssirree Bob, they take a good bit of time to grow. We considered not buying cows again due to the rising cost of cows, but the thought of trying to keep the pastures mowed and we realized it would just be easier to do cows. Besides I do enjoy getting outside during the winter to feed them. Except for that really really cold winter a few years ago...cross your fingers for me 'kay? that one was also a pain for the chickens. That year we got heated waterers due to them freezing all of the time. Really worth it!
I've been cleaning out the garden some. If you want any garlic starts come on over. Now. Before I tear them all out. I've got garlic growing in 3 different beds.
I'm moving some strawberries around and also putting in 2 new blueberry bushes in my neverending quest to grow them. yes, we plant them and kill them. we did have one take off really well last year, but it didn't ever have any berries. I'm hoping that was just because it was new. If it doesn't have any berries this year, it may get the cut. Of course, I may not get around to it for a few years :) .
anyway, I've got to go and check on the chicks. I put them in a new coop today and in the past I've had problems with them trying to sleep outside in the cold. Chickens are stupid. What can I say? Except that Turkeys are positively DUMB.
Baby E is now very good at recognizing the words "eat",and "go", and cries when we use the word "No" sternly. It gets quite a reaction. He is crawling everywhere and loves to put his hands on slidey stuff like DVD covers and packages of diapers and then slides them all over the house. Its pretty cute.
He bear crawls when the floor is to hard or cold for his knees. He hates hats. He loves food. But I guess that is apparent when one of his favorite words is eat. He is also starting to recognize "peaches". He has the whole ward wrapped around his finger. He is the smiliest little boy around. And very mellow. If he is cranky, you can almost bet that he is hungry. Feed him, and life is ok again.
A is doing well in school. She loves to read and check out books at the library like her older sister. She wants to ride a 2 wheeler, but for now has settled for training wheels until a parent has more time to work with her and encourage her. She loves to help me with the greenhouse and the baby chicks. Yes, we have baby chicks right now. She is becoming more responsible and is doing great with her piano lessons. she is excelling at them and one of the things she loves to hear is that she is playing a piece just like her older sister. Can you sense a trend?
C is also doing well. she recently learned how to ride a 2 wheeler without training wheels after lots of practice and determination. She is more timid than her sister when it comes to the animals, and the greenhouse doesn't interest her as much as her sister. But she loves to read. She is a great soccer player as well. At her game this past Saturday, she scored 5 goals. All of last season she only scored 2 goals, so this is a great improvement. A also had a red letter day at Soccer. she scored 2 goals as well. We were so impressed by their mad soccer skills we took them out to Red Robin to celebrate.
I'm doing great, Hubby is doing great. Nothing big to report at this time. the plants in the greenhouse are going nuts (except for tomatoes. Why are tomatoes always the issue?) the chickens are grown and giving us about a dozen eggs a day.
Oh, we do have 2 new steer in the pasture. An Angus and a Hereford. Both are beef cows and not milk cows. so we should get a decent amount of beef from them...Fall of 2013!! Yesssirree Bob, they take a good bit of time to grow. We considered not buying cows again due to the rising cost of cows, but the thought of trying to keep the pastures mowed and we realized it would just be easier to do cows. Besides I do enjoy getting outside during the winter to feed them. Except for that really really cold winter a few years ago...cross your fingers for me 'kay? that one was also a pain for the chickens. That year we got heated waterers due to them freezing all of the time. Really worth it!
I've been cleaning out the garden some. If you want any garlic starts come on over. Now. Before I tear them all out. I've got garlic growing in 3 different beds.
I'm moving some strawberries around and also putting in 2 new blueberry bushes in my neverending quest to grow them. yes, we plant them and kill them. we did have one take off really well last year, but it didn't ever have any berries. I'm hoping that was just because it was new. If it doesn't have any berries this year, it may get the cut. Of course, I may not get around to it for a few years :) .
anyway, I've got to go and check on the chicks. I put them in a new coop today and in the past I've had problems with them trying to sleep outside in the cold. Chickens are stupid. What can I say? Except that Turkeys are positively DUMB.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Another day another dollar
Baby E is now pulling himself up on things.
He is up to eating 3 ice cubes at a time. An Ice cube is basically purreed peaches or apricots or pears etc that I froze in an ice cube tray and then put into a freezer bag.
He is such a cute little stinker who will be 1 soon!
I've been really impressed with A these days. She is much more willing to do her chores these days and loves opportunities to earn $ and treats. We have various jobs around the house that they can choose to earn treats or $$ for depending on what I have in the house. For instance, yesterday the girls helped me in the kitchen. A did such a good job clearing off the cupboards, throwing away garbage, and wiping down everything including the stove! that she earned 4 small halloween sized boxes of Nerds. It seems like a bit much now, but it helped me out so much and that was how much I felt like it helped me out. C swept the floor and did a good job also for 2 boxes of Nerds. Our kitchen floor is big, and has lots of nooks and crannies as well as under the table. Anyway, I guess you could say it was double treat day yesterday.
the girls have been such a help with Baby E. If I need a break after school they will take him into their bedroom while they play and clean. they have been finishing their chores and advancing in piano. All in all its been nice lately.
A has even earned her AR reading plaque. Basically when they read books they can take a test on it and its worth a certain amount of points. The test has 5 (or 10 or more for harder books) questions and they have to get a certain # right to get the points. The books she is reading right now are worth .5 points. She had to earn 15 points to earn a plaque. So 30 books. It is so fun to see her reading and loving it. She is doing so well.
As for me, I'm doing pretty well. Baby E off and on has a "only mommy will do" attitude that drives me bonkers. Yesterday it was bad, today not so bad at all. It goes in spurts.
I've got some eggs in the incubator that should hatch next weekend. We've got plants up in the greenhouse. I've got lots and lots of flowers planted. I'm hoping to have lots and lots of Zinnia's around the trees in the lane. I also have dahlias and painted daisy's started. I'm excited for all of the beautiful flowers to start growing. Love 'em! Now if only I can remember to water them!
He is up to eating 3 ice cubes at a time. An Ice cube is basically purreed peaches or apricots or pears etc that I froze in an ice cube tray and then put into a freezer bag.
He is such a cute little stinker who will be 1 soon!
I've been really impressed with A these days. She is much more willing to do her chores these days and loves opportunities to earn $ and treats. We have various jobs around the house that they can choose to earn treats or $$ for depending on what I have in the house. For instance, yesterday the girls helped me in the kitchen. A did such a good job clearing off the cupboards, throwing away garbage, and wiping down everything including the stove! that she earned 4 small halloween sized boxes of Nerds. It seems like a bit much now, but it helped me out so much and that was how much I felt like it helped me out. C swept the floor and did a good job also for 2 boxes of Nerds. Our kitchen floor is big, and has lots of nooks and crannies as well as under the table. Anyway, I guess you could say it was double treat day yesterday.
the girls have been such a help with Baby E. If I need a break after school they will take him into their bedroom while they play and clean. they have been finishing their chores and advancing in piano. All in all its been nice lately.
A has even earned her AR reading plaque. Basically when they read books they can take a test on it and its worth a certain amount of points. The test has 5 (or 10 or more for harder books) questions and they have to get a certain # right to get the points. The books she is reading right now are worth .5 points. She had to earn 15 points to earn a plaque. So 30 books. It is so fun to see her reading and loving it. She is doing so well.
As for me, I'm doing pretty well. Baby E off and on has a "only mommy will do" attitude that drives me bonkers. Yesterday it was bad, today not so bad at all. It goes in spurts.
I've got some eggs in the incubator that should hatch next weekend. We've got plants up in the greenhouse. I've got lots and lots of flowers planted. I'm hoping to have lots and lots of Zinnia's around the trees in the lane. I also have dahlias and painted daisy's started. I'm excited for all of the beautiful flowers to start growing. Love 'em! Now if only I can remember to water them!
Saturday, February 18, 2012
He has teeth!
so we have been having all sorts of fun and exciting things happening in our house lately. And some not so great things.
The cold I mentioned last time was quickly followed (not even a day break) by a worse cold. This one was awful because you could hear a crackling in his lungs as he breathed. And he would cough. In our faces. You can't always avoid that. So he finished with the cold about a week ago. The rest of us who caught it from him are still hacking our way through it. It was a really long cold also.
Anyway, his exciting news is that yesterday, after a little while of unusual fussiness, we found that he is growing at least one tooth! Or teefers as we call them around here. I think I can feel a second one coming next to the first, but I don't like to stick my germy fingers in his mouth to often and he won't let me see it all that well. He's to busy feeling them himself with his tongue.
Another fun and exciting thing at our house is that A is reading! She was still just memorizing sight words until just after Christmas. And everything changed. Words were easier for her to sound out. She is reading short books well. And she loves it.
Also, A has been advancing slowly but surely in piano. This week she has been assigned a song that really sounds like a song. Its called square dance or something like that. you can tell she is really excited about playing it and she remembers when C was playing it.
We have also just scheduled a vacation for this summer. Hubby suggested the beach (I guess he and the girls decided), so we found the right beach and then found a great house and we are really excited to be going to Tierra Del Mar in July for a week.
Our little explorer continues to amaze me. The other day I snuck off to the bathroom and after about 20 seconds I heard "Ama!" from the other room. I said "here I am!" and anyway after he got closer and closer and then found me. It was a fun game and amazed me. He's been a little baby for so long and its amazing to me how much learning to crawl has matured him.
The cold I mentioned last time was quickly followed (not even a day break) by a worse cold. This one was awful because you could hear a crackling in his lungs as he breathed. And he would cough. In our faces. You can't always avoid that. So he finished with the cold about a week ago. The rest of us who caught it from him are still hacking our way through it. It was a really long cold also.
Anyway, his exciting news is that yesterday, after a little while of unusual fussiness, we found that he is growing at least one tooth! Or teefers as we call them around here. I think I can feel a second one coming next to the first, but I don't like to stick my germy fingers in his mouth to often and he won't let me see it all that well. He's to busy feeling them himself with his tongue.
Another fun and exciting thing at our house is that A is reading! She was still just memorizing sight words until just after Christmas. And everything changed. Words were easier for her to sound out. She is reading short books well. And she loves it.
Also, A has been advancing slowly but surely in piano. This week she has been assigned a song that really sounds like a song. Its called square dance or something like that. you can tell she is really excited about playing it and she remembers when C was playing it.
We have also just scheduled a vacation for this summer. Hubby suggested the beach (I guess he and the girls decided), so we found the right beach and then found a great house and we are really excited to be going to Tierra Del Mar in July for a week.
Our little explorer continues to amaze me. The other day I snuck off to the bathroom and after about 20 seconds I heard "Ama!" from the other room. I said "here I am!" and anyway after he got closer and closer and then found me. It was a fun game and amazed me. He's been a little baby for so long and its amazing to me how much learning to crawl has matured him.
Sunday, January 22, 2012
He's Crawling!
Baby E is crawling! It started with him going from a 'crawling position' that we would torture him with to a sitting position. Then came the day he figured out how to get from a sitting position to a crawling position. Then I could sit him on the floor and he would move a little, but stayed about 2 feet from where I put him. He accomplished this with his clever sitting,crawling stance maneuver. Then. THEN. yesterday. He figured it out. Granted, he won't do long distances, and if you try and get him to come to you, he won't. But its so cute. He does the one knee one foot crawl. I'm so excited for him!
Yeah, but ask me in a month when I'm having to hide things and shut doors and pull him out from underneath the chairs in front of us at church how I feel.
But for now, I'm excited!!! I even took a video of it!
On the down side, this morning he woke up with a fever. Poor kid. The second one ever that I can remember. He has a cold. One of those snotty, sneezy ones. You look at his eyes and you can just see he doesn't feel well.
Yeah, but ask me in a month when I'm having to hide things and shut doors and pull him out from underneath the chairs in front of us at church how I feel.
But for now, I'm excited!!! I even took a video of it!
On the down side, this morning he woke up with a fever. Poor kid. The second one ever that I can remember. He has a cold. One of those snotty, sneezy ones. You look at his eyes and you can just see he doesn't feel well.
Monday, January 16, 2012
Another day
So, this was a crazy day. Baby E decided that night was day last night and was up for a while around 3-ish. so today we are both cranky.
Top that off with the kids being home from school and Albertsons Doublers and you have a potential recipe for disaster.
But we all made it through. The girls were great. They did their chores with very little protest, played with Edison, and were just generally helpful. They were a little crazy at the grocery store due to smuggling in money I had told them not to bring, and a little noisy during E's naptime. But I was grateful for their help today.
My challenge this year is to be more organized. I'm going to try by doing things such as planning menus (I'm not good at doing this all the time). Its more like every few months I think I need one. I know we eat better when I do. More healthily.
anyway, that is all that is coming to mind at this moment. I'll write more later when I have something more interesting to say :)
Top that off with the kids being home from school and Albertsons Doublers and you have a potential recipe for disaster.
But we all made it through. The girls were great. They did their chores with very little protest, played with Edison, and were just generally helpful. They were a little crazy at the grocery store due to smuggling in money I had told them not to bring, and a little noisy during E's naptime. But I was grateful for their help today.
My challenge this year is to be more organized. I'm going to try by doing things such as planning menus (I'm not good at doing this all the time). Its more like every few months I think I need one. I know we eat better when I do. More healthily.
anyway, that is all that is coming to mind at this moment. I'll write more later when I have something more interesting to say :)
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