Cute pictures

Just a couple cute pictures of the kids. Hope you enjoy!

Josh loves to sit next to his sister and put his arm around her. I can't help taking pictures when he does.

Time for Cereal!

Now that Emily is 4 months, and starting to wake up more often at night, we decided it was time to get some more food in her belly. Here are some photos from the exciting first taste of "solid" food. Somehow, I think we were more excited that she was. Oh well.

Getting ready to eat!

"I'm not so sure about this mommy. Is this REALLY what you eat?"

"It's pretty good after all."

"I want to do it now!"

"Give me just a minute... I'm still working on the last bite."

The Hair

I mentioned in a post before how Emily's hair sticks straight up. However, it was not so easy to see in the photo I had picked. The other day, we decided we needed to get a good picture of it... so she'll know what I mean when I tell her that her hair stood straight up for a long time. And I know I'll miss it when it starts to lay down on its own.

The letter "A"

So, one of Josh's favorite letters is "A." He loves to say it, and he loves for Peter and I to write it. The other day, (May 22) he was in his bath, with his bath crayons. Peter had written the letters you see in green, and Josh started writing. (Peter was giving him the bath, so I wasn't paying a ton of attention.) Suddenly, he started saying "A! A!" and I looked at him and saw that he'd written a couple of A's all by himself! I know they're upside down, but I'm a mom, and he's just 2. So I was proud and wanted to show off. Take a look for yourself. The first two A's are nearly perfect... aside from the upside down thing. This just proves that I have a boy genius on my hands. :)

Funny Words

I've noticed that there are some words that we all take for granted, after we've learned them, that that's what they are and we don't realize what they may sound like to someone unfamiliar with such words. The other day, I was at play group at the church. It's just a bunch of us girls and our kids. So, a lot of the time, I'll take Josh to the men's room when he needs to go potty. Urinals are great fun for little boys and all. Anyhow, I asked Josh if he wanted to use the urinal and he nodded and said "inal." I didn't give a second thought because that's how he talks. Only parts of words come out at first when he's learning them. I'm sure it's the same with most kids. But after he was done, he pointed at the urinal and said "my inal." Who would have thought I was telling he had his own "inal" at the church to use. :) Kids are so much fun!

Elmo Kite

The other day at Wal-Mart... we JUST got a supercenter in town. It's so nice... Anyhow, I was at Wal-Mart, and I found some kites for $1. So, I got an Elmo one for Josh. EVERYTHING is Elmo (or Cars) for Josh. He was so excited to go fly it. Even though I'm sure he didn't know what was going to happen. So, Saturday evening, Daddy and Josh flew the kite. I think Josh liked it even more after that.

"How'd it get so high???? I'm sure I can still get it!"

Josh was a little confused about which strings to hold on to to make it fly...

Emily had fun watching... and eating her dress. Yummy!

Rolling Over

So, it has come to my attention that I have failed to include much about Emily! Wow! I am such a slacker mom. Oops! Well, Emily is almost 4 months old now. She is so happy and smiley. A few weeks ago, she started to get really upset on her back, and she'd arch her way around so she was looking all the way behind her. This still didn't satisfy her, so I helped her roll over a couple times. That's all she needed. Now I can't keep her on her back. I lay her down, and within a couple minutes, she's on her belly, ready to get going.

Here she is in her most favorite position... on her tummy. If you look really closely, you can see her little mohawk. Her hair stands up off her head all the time. Who knew that 3 inches of hair could hold itself up????

Exercising

Peter and I have started to try to work out a few times a week. Josh likes to do everything we do. So here are some pictures of him doing the first exercise with us. He has pretty good form, if I do say so myself.

"Whew! What a workout!"

Our Lizard Friend

Last night, we were headed out to water the plants when Josh stopped on the patio and started pointing and saying "li." I had no idea what he was saying until I saw this lizard sitting there. I don't know how he made it in. Nobody invited him in. So we shooed him out and went out to water the plants.

Then, as we were outside watering them, the lizard ran right back inside. Little did I know, he was just hiding UNDER the door. I noticed that our kitchen door was open, so I went back inside to close it, so the lizard wouldn't go in the house. As I stepped onto the porch, this lizard ran all the way back onto the porch... making his way across my foot. I didn't realize I could scream like that.

To get rid of the lizard, we used our car ramps to make sure he went in the right direction and swept him out with the broom. As jumpy as those things are, it sure sounds a lot easier than it was. But Josh thought it was the funniest thing in the world. I'm surprised he didn't drop to the floor, as hard as he was laughing.

Hair Cut

Josh HATES to have his hair cut, so we usually wait way to long between cuts. Last night, we finally got around to it. This time, it had been soooo long that he forgot that it isn't really that bad, and cried through the entire thing! Of course, it didn't help that the clippers pulled his hair right at the beginning either.

The "hairbrush" helped him calm down after the procedure was over.

Look at all the hair that came off. No, his back is not really just that hairy. :)

Trees....

So, we were planning on a nice, quiet, uneventful evening tonight. Just after I had gotten Josh to sleep, and before I managed to stand up and head to the front room, I heard a super duper loud bang that shook the walls and then a really loud crash of glass falling to the floor. I thought that someone had slammed the door upstairs really hard, and the sound was like a bunch of plates falling off a cabinet. Then it occurred to me that it wouldn't be possible for someone to slam the door that hard here. Plus, we don't have any cabinets of plates that could have fallen like that. Instead, here is what we found in the kitchen.

The kitchen window was in pieces all over the counter, in the sink, and on the floor. Our sink was full of dishes because we usually do them after the kids are down. Thank goodness Josh took forever to go to sleep tonight, or Peter or I, or both of us would have been at the sink when this happened. It's hard to see, but there are several large pieces of our window sitting in the sink with our dishes. Then we looked outside to see what had broken the window and this is what we found:

This tree used to be in the woods behind our apartment.

And it was attached to the ground via this stump. So much for our nice quiet evening!

My beautiful kids

I thought this would be a great way to start my blog. This picture is a little old... about a month and a half, but it is so cute! Josh absolutely adores his little sister. Mostly, he can't wait until she can actually DO something with him. We'll see how much he likes to REALLY share his toys in a few more months.

Well, here goes nothing!

Since EVERYONE I know is now blogging, I was starting to feel left out. I guess the only thing I can do about it is to start my own. We'll see how this goes.