Daniel is crawling!

Michael set up the tent in the living room and was playing with Amelia and Daniel inside. The tent floor gave Daniel some added traction, and he started crawling! It is fun to watch each milestone. :)

Daniel videos

Here are a few videos of Daniel. He loves music and to bounce to it.


This is a video of Daniel's new accomplishment :)



The post below is also new, with the pictures from this last month.

What a month!

This month has been full of illnesses, from Pink Eye, for everyone in the family, to a nasty cold that last two weeks for everyone in the family, and Roseola for Amelia. She is still feeling sick, but the rest of us are almost back to normal. I hope no one gets what we had! It is not fun.

Here are some pictures from this last month:


I love how the cat just sat down to watch Amelia play.

Michael was playing with Amelia one morning and made her a birds nest and a bird beak
This is a face I just love. Daniel's squint, he does it frequently.

I think Amelia looks like a little princess in this pic. We were pretending to blow bubbles... it was probably raining outside... can't wait for spring!! :)


This cat! I tell ya. It has more personality then I can handle sometimes :) This plant sits at the top of a large book case. So when the cat curls up in the pot there is only an inch or so between her and the ceiling. I don't know why it is so appealing to sit in it. But it sure makes a mess when she gets out. Also the plant is suffering a little under the weight of her body.
So today I left the room Daniel was in with all his toys and this basket to go do something with Amelia. I came back a few minutes later to find him laying on top of the basket!!! As I went to go get the camera he helped himself to his feet, and he looked so proud of himself! I can't believe how fast he is changing. He can now go from a crawl position back to sitting, and can sort of crawl/scoot backwards, but not forwards... yet :)



We love you Daniel!

This week

This last few weeks have been interesting. A week ago Daniel woke up in the morning with pink eye, the bacterial kind, and a bad case of it. He was doing well other wise, ears and all, so he got eye drops and I thought we would be done with it. Monday afternoon I came down with a cold, in the middle of the first day of potty training Amelia. Daniel then got a cold, and a bad cough Tuesday night. Wednesday morning Amelia woke up with pink eye. ( I thought I had done so good not letting it spread, but alas it did after 4 days) So I took them both to the doctor. Turns out they both had "silent" ear infection that come with pink eye. Thursday morning Michael woke up with my same cold, sore throat, head ache, tired, you know the stuff. Now it is Friday night in addition to my cold I ... have pink eye.

On a brighter note, Amelia is still using the potty! She is doing so good, yea! She is still learning but not sure I am the best teacher of this... I take my hat off to all the mom's who trained their kids, it is gross, and take a lot of time, attention and positive attitude :)

I hope everyone stays healthy and has a great weekend!! Can't wait for spring!!!

Our House... is rarely clean...

Our house is rarely clean and often times it only looks nice just before bedtime, or just before guest arrive. Those of you who know me well will laugh to hear me say that I feel so much better, when our house is clean and in order, and that I keep trying to get it to and keep it at that point. When I was younger my room was A MESS!! an BIG Mess. My mom would try to help me clean it, but I refused her help and told her "I couldn't find anything when it was clean." When I moved out, lets just say the carpet looked brand new.

I just read this blog post by a mom and it put things into perspective about having children and what we expect out house to look like. I really enjoyed it and wanted to share it.

http://1ldsfamily.blogspot.com/2011/01/its-only-box-and-gift-wrapnothing-more.html

More pics

I love it when Amelia dresses up, especially when she wears my shoes :)She also loves to put on Daniel's clothes, and tries to make them fit :)
It has snowed twice in the lats few weeks, each morning that it does Amelia wants to go out in her PJs

iphone videos :)

These videos are from Michael's iphone, see the post below for the pics from his phone if you want. The first Video is of when Amelia saw snow for the first time this year. One is of Colin first learning to walk, and another is of Amelia and Colin's sister Cora trying to get the attention back on them :) And the last is of Daniel making the cutest faces while eating prunes.

More catching up

These pictures are from Michael's phone. I always forget the camera, so he gets a lot of good pics on his phone for us!

This is how Amelia has been putting on her coat for the last few months. It is so cute. She puts her arms in and then flips it over her head so it ends up upside down, but she does not seem to think there is anything wrong with it :)
Michael's BBQ in the snow
Car trip to Bend to see my Dad. Amelia is most likely watching Curious George in this picture.
Michael's most recent shelf project
Sweet!
Donuts made from biscuits!

Keeping busy

Here are a few cute pictures of our recent days.


Amelia's Aunt Nichole gave her this Dora doll and accessories, and Amelia has hardly had a moment when she has been apart from Dora ever since! Notice the cute matching outfit Amelia is sporting :)



Michael did some BBQ, and so we had wonderful roasted marshmallows after wards.

Amelia loves to help her dad whenever she can. They are making a cat scratching post. I love her tool belt, it is kind of hard to see in the pic.


So I wonder.... how does your child do art? This is how Amelia does it. She likes to really get into it and feel her art work.

Happy weekend!

Just thought I would post this because it is cute. Happy weekend!

catching up

I'll start with Christmas... We saw lots of family... but I forgot to bring my camera to my Dad's house in Bend, OR. We had a great time with all the family we saw, and a wonderful Christmas!






As my sister said - "Another generation loving the monkeys" These monkeys were one of my sisters and my favorite toys when we would go to see our Grandparents.

Daniel loves to grab his toes, and put them in his mouth. This is something that Amelia never did.
Dinner has always been hard for me, and I tried a lot of crock pot recipes out one week, and I loved it. I have time when I get kids down for nap to prepare dinner, and then it is ready when we want to eat! If you have any favorite recipes I would love to hear them. I have looked all of mine up on allrecipes.com

Michael has been revamping our house with shelves! This was the first. It holds 100 cans! Michael designed it and built it all! I am proud and happy to have the storage. Also he added metal shelving into two closets in our computer room. It has been so good I got the two closet's worth of stuff into one closet. :)
Also I have been into looking up some easy "Preschool" like activities for Amelia to do at home. I have found a lot of stuff on this site, and through links on this site, http://lapbooksbycarisa.homestead.com/index.html I just want to keep her excited about stuff and to help her not get bored during these rainy/cold days that we stay home. If anyone has sites they like to use I would love to hear about it!

In the picture below she has pompoms of different shapes and sizes and muffin tins and tongs. She really enjoyed moving the pompoms around and sorting them.

The new Moose in the house

I just thought these pics were too cute. :)

Cute pic of Daniel and Colin

This picture was taken today of Daniel and his cousin Colin. So it is a current one :) I think they are so cute!