Eating Bananas

This girl wants nothing to do with baby food! She just gags and pukes when I give her anything pureed. She's too much like her father..."give me the real stuff." She has done really well. A couple of her favorites: tomatoes, bananas, peaches and cucumbers. She had chicken and noodles today and seemed to really like it.

Lovin' her bath time

I have decided that another way to keep the baby occupied if I need to get something done (in the bathroom i.e. waxing, cleaning, hanging laundry in the closet) I can just put her in the tub. She loves it! She plays until I have to pull her out simply because the water has turned cold! The toys that she is playing with were purchased at Gordmans. I got a really good deal on them and realized why when I finally opened them up. Some of the numbers a labeled incorrectly! ha!

Pictures from the last couple of days

She's pulling herself up to standing on the side of her crib now.

A good view of those teeth! Look like chicklets!

She's on the move! Today I was talking to S. on the phone and all she did was scream because I wouldn't let her come into the kitchen. She wasn't happy, but she's resting peacfully in her bed for the night now. She just needed more sleep today, I guess. Now it's time for me to get something done. Where do I start?

A Friday Night

Now, if you would have asked me 5 years ago what I would be doing tonight....I never would have said spraying wasp nests and pulling weeds on a Friday night! I love it, though. I feel like such a nerd, but I love going out after I put the baby to bed and pulling weeds and dead heads in my flower beds. I am a little nervous that one of these times I'm going to reach in for a dead head and grab a spider or cricket! My how the times have changed.

Seeing double

I was trying to find something more to occupy the time of my little girl. She just wasn't feelin' the pots and wooden spoon...both of my sisters had mentioned a mirror. I just turned my full length mirror on its side and set her in front of it with her toys and I was able to blow my hair dry right behind her. We both enjoyed those few moments! :)

Pinching pennies!

I'm trying to cut corners and save where I can. I thought this was a fun place to start! So very easy....I made baby food. Boil, puree, scoop! And it's super healthy for my gorgeous little girl; all natural, no salt, and a little fiber/omega-6&3 boost with some flax! She only had a couple of bites before her nap, but she seems to like it.

She looks just like daddy!

I put A. in her high chair for the first time the other day and I thought I would snap a picture or two. I could not believe how much she looked like her daddy in the pictures. I don't see it so much when I'm around her all day, just when I saw it in these pictures.

And what it looks like now!

Most everything in here I planted as bulbs with the exception of the nine foot tall canna lilies! There were a few of those that just started out as roots. This bed should have quite a bit of growth next year...gladiolus around the back corners and the caladiums tucked into them and those lilies are going around that left corner along that side of the house. My plan was not to plant a privacy bush!

This is not really how I would have chosen to plant these flowers, however I took too long in deciding where to put them, so my husband took it upon himself to plant them while I was gone. I'm not bitter.

These red plants do really well at night. They get too much sun during the day, I thought this would be the least sunny spot in the yard, still too much for these though.

This still isn't where I would like it to be; I haven't gotten a chance to put weed/grass killer in the part to the left of the walk way. There's not really anything but that sunflower and a few caladiums up by the stairs that should be in there. This is probably as good as it gets for right now. My flowers are doing pretty well, though. I have a friend that is moving soon and renting out her house and figures that bushes are easier for renters to tend to, so I'm going over to take some of her flowers when she gets the bushes planted. I'm pretty excited. Not a whole lot, just some asiatic lilies and some purple thingys (I couldn't keep you thinking that I totally know what I'm doing out there!).

Welcome to the jungle!!

This is what my house looked like after 4 weeks of weed growth in my flower beds. The weeds to the left of the door were taller than me! There was some kind of ivy (that I didn't plant) coming up onto the porch. There were also weeds coming up through the stairs. Crazy! A wonderful man from our church, Derrick, came with his daughter, Marie, to mow and weed eat while I was gone, but they couldn't get in the back yard to cut that heap of a mess; I ended up paying someone to come over and tackle that! Thank you thank you to Derrick and Marie even though you broke one of my horribly expensive solar lights, Marie!!! HA! (They came in a pkg of 6 for $20 or something silly like that.) No, I really do appreciate what both of you did, thank you! And thanks to Kim, Derrick's wife, for taking care of our pitiful dogs for a whole month. I really appreciate it. I will be posting "after" pictures tomorrow, so S. doesn't think that I haven't done anything with this mess. By the way...we are up for neighbor of the year. We are in the top 5 for barking dogs in the middle of the night and the highest growth in the yard!

A couple of the canna lilies pictured above were only roots when I planted them...and none were taller than 12" before I left! When I saw them in the dark, I thought they were trees! They are going on the side of the house this fall. I didn't know they got that tall. Ms. Kathy, the garden stone you gave us is in the middle of all of them! Kinda pointless right now!

This picture doesn't look too horrible if you don't know how my flower bed started out.

This sunflower was only about two inches tall before I left and didn't have a bloom, so there is beauty in all of this! :)

This is the back yard about half complete. They went at it with TWO riding mowers at once! Mrs. Virginia ran over the monster metal tie down that we have for the dogs and Mr. Carl ran over a dog rope. My dad said that I was supposed to pick all of that up before they started....they are lucky I found the dogs to bring them in!!

This one one of the areas that was a little shorter than the rest! There were times when I couldn't see the front of the mower!

Hangin' out in Mimi's kitchen

Mom had a couple of things to do and thought it would be convenient to put A. in a box of clothes. She loved it...why spend money on toys?!

Mom...it's too small!

I found an outfit of mine in mom and dad's garage. Mom said that I could take it and A.could wear it.....I don't know if she'll let me put her in it again! She's a little too tall for it; my sister had to kinda shake her down into it.

"You can't be serious. You really are going to take my picture in this?"

Might as well show a little love to the camera!

Church in the Park

We went to the Sweet Pea Festival in Bozeman this year. Every Sunday of the Festival they have church in the park. This is A. listening to the band do a sound check.

Yum! Rice cereal....maybe not.

I was hoping that S. would be able to feed A. her first bowl of rice cereal. We didn't get around to feeding her before we both left. Mom and I thought we would try to give her some the other day. With S.'s hypochondria, I'm thinking it's a good idea that he not give it to her. I'm sure he would think just like I did: something is not right! I guess it takes babies a little while to get used to the texture of something other than milk. She gagged quite a bit and even threw up a little. icky!

Alright!

Mimi, what on Earth is this?

Umm...no, thanks.

Sorry, maybe you didn't hear me...I said, "no, thank you."

Really, stop!