Free sitting

My daughter started sitting without support of her hands on Friday. Monday night we noticed she had also started crawling up on her hands and knees, instead of army style. (Although she hasn't completely given it up.) Milestones hit at 6 months of age.

This picture is so not posed by me. My son came up and held her hand and said take a picture of us. They are the best of friends these days. My son keeps her happy in the morning, until I wake up to squeals of happiness, very much preferable to squeals of hunger. He use to tell me he not hear her cry when she woke up from a nap, hoping I wouldn't get her out of her crib. Now he says, I hear babyface can I go see her? I'm pretty sure she prefers him going in first, and playing until I get there.

Lagoon

The rides

The baby boats, the whole reason my son remembered Lagoon from last year.

How N babe enjoys the fair.

I love this picture.

Fireworks

I will admit, these looks a tad bit dangerous. I assure you the photos are worse that real life. They are just sparklers.

Like this one, I assure half of his body was not on fire, in fact none of his body was.

Busy Days and Long Nights

We had a busy holiday weekend. My husband had friday off, so we went to Stake Lagoon Day. Which meant we got in free, got four free rides, and had to pay after that. We walked around a lot, so we only paid for one ride for J, and did our free rides. He enjoyed himself. We also got ice cream half off. Nan surprisingly enjoyed Lagoon too, riding around in the stroller watching all the people.
Then we sold our couches, I found it sort of sad, but life goes on.
Then we went to my brother's going away party for Honduras. It was fun, and the kids had fun playing with other kids, and playing with the dog. In true form to ourselves, we were the last to leave. It has been fun seeing my brother and his family this summer. The last time I saw my brother for more than a few days was when he was in college and I was in high school, the last time I saw him for more than a week was when he was in high school. So its been a good summer. Luckily my boy gets another month of playing with his boy.
Saturday we went to the church pancake breakfast, and once again were some of the last to leave. My boy loved playing with one of his nursery friends, for the few hours we were there. Then we came home and our kids napped forever, after a long day at lagoon, and staying up until 11 pm. Once they woke up, we walked to the park, and enjoyed the fourth of july festivities. We brought sack dinners and enjoyed the park. Luckily Brent's sister and family called and wanted to join us for fireworks. It was nice to have someone to walk home with. Both of my kids enjoyed the fireworks. I was suprised my daughter watched them. Sure she doesn't have an attention span so she often got sidetracked but everytime she saw them she would turn around and watch them again. Even though it was late when we got home I figured might as well let my boy do some sparklers. So my kids didn't get to bed until after 11:30, 9 o'clock church came very early for everyone. My daughter let us know she did not enjoy staying up until 11 two nights in a row, especially when she likes to go to bed at 7. Oh well life goes on. We did some more sparklers sunday night after the babe went to bed. Hopefully tonight, we do FHE where we explain a little bit of the history of the fourth of July to my son. As it is, he hasn't stopped talking about fireworks.

Happy Fourth of July!

"Freedom"

Zen Realization

Two nights ago, I was switching the laundry and had a joy moment. Most of the time I despise my mundane tasks, so its important to have joy moments. Partly the moment came from having a washer and dryer in my residence. Then I thought about how in a month from now I'll being using my own washer and dryer instead of the stupid ones that came in this house. Which made me realize the things I like most in life are my husband, my son and my daughter. The things that drive me crazy are almost all in relation to the current house I live in. Why am I caring that I have downsize? Lets just say I'm glad I rented a house that was almost a 100 years old, that way I know I never want to buy one.
Not to mention I don't think I can really complain that my husband wants graduate with a Masters in Business Administration debt free. That is the plan with downsizing, to save $600 a month on living expenses. Not to mention when we don't have space to put things we don't buy as much. I'm looking forward to being organized. In my last apartment I was incredibly organize, I had to be, or it would have been walking on stuff. Here there is space and more space, I can never remember where anything is, downstairs, upstairs, that closet, this closet. That won't be my problem in a month from now.

Happy Un-Birthday

I asked my son whether his party was a half birthday or un birthday. He said "un" I started singing the song from Disney's Alice in Wonderland. He said stop.

I made thes wonderful creations for the party. Yes, my decorating leaves something to be desired. All three of us sang Happy Birthday. I ended it with Happy birthday to no one, because its no ones birthday. David laughed.

I was informed fire is hot and it will hurt us. Yes, very true, I stink at lighters and burned my finger. They didn't know it was tricky I was holding the baby too.

I think they had a great un birthday party.

I would have gotten some more great pictures except my camera died.