Pictures for Minnesota

Penelope on the beach at Lake Superior

Lake Superior

Mommy and Judah

Poppy, Mommy, Judah in G-ma Rainys tree

Penelope playing in the back yard in her boots

Penelope and Mocha on the dock. View from the house

Minnesoooooota

We just got home from a fun filled week long trip to Minnesota. We flew in Friday morning and spent the day in Blackduck (near Bemidji) then left Sunday morning and drove to Deluth. We spent the night in Deluth at a hotel over looking Lake Superior.

Monday morning we went to a couple stores enjoyed the city and then went to the Lake Superior Zoo. Lucky for us our Brevard Zoo pass got us in free! The weather could not have been more beautiful to walk around the zoo.

Penelope and Judah had a great time playing outside and spending time with G-ma Rainy, aunt Amelia and Uncle Justin.

Poppy hugging Judah in front of G-ma Rainys roses

Penelope being silly in her awesome vest!

Judah eating grass

Poppy helping Daddy mow

Judah says "hey, whats up"

Big sister and little brother in Pjs

Poppy and Judah- growing so fast

Well time is flying by. I can not believe Judah is almost 6 months old. He is a great baby, seriously great. He is so mellow, and he loves his sister. He is starting to attempt crawling, meaning he is trying to get on his hand and knees and has been successful a couple times. The fake cough has started and really just makes me laugh. Judah officially has cut 1 tooth, but has 7 more coming in, his gums are swollen but he is a trooper. I enjoy learning more about this little man and his personality every day.

Penelope is a little person now, there is no denying it. She can say anything she wants and can do a lot of big girl things, such as: take her clothes on and off, "help" mommy cut coupons with her own scissors. She can put a movie in to watch and start it all by herself, and get food out of the cabinets. She runs like Pheobe from friends, her legs just flail about all willy nilly, she looks like she could fall at any second I love it!

here are some recent pictures of the kiddos!

judah after bath time in his dino towel I made

Poppy holding Judah before church

the kids hanging out together on the couch

Poppy is in her favorite pjs

(favorite is also her word of choice right now,

everything is her faaaavorrite)

G-ma and the kid for the last space shuttle launch

we had a great view from the condo

Growing up so fast

Penelope is getting so old it is crazy. I can't believe she is 27 months old and kind of potty trained. She talks so much it is crazy. She has started calling mommy seed and Dane daddy seed, because we call her poppy seed. It is super cute.

Here she is trying to get her Hello Kitty bubble maker to work

Judah is getting so big. He is already growing out of all his 3m size clothes, he has't even had a chance to wear all of them. I really need to go through the closet and take out things that don't fit and get all the bigger sizes out. He is so social! he just smile and smile and talks to everyone. He is not a cryer, only when we are in the car or if he is really tired. He is a great sleeper. He has been sleeping 7pm-7am with a feeding at 10pm for 3 straight weeks now it is awesome. I tried to get a picture of a big smile but as soon as I take the camera out his face goes blank.cute smile

tummy time with cloth diaper butt

On a side note, I love my diapers. I am so glad that my sister Veronica did all that research and convinced us to use them. They work so much better than disposable diapers and they they are cute. Even if the were as expensive as disposable I would still use them, I really love them that much

5.5 Months

Penelope is officially 5.5 months old! wow, time is flying by. She is seriously the happiest thing ever, unless we are near a stranger who insists on talking to her in the high pitched baby voice, then she bursts into tears.

Latest milestones include: sitting up, some how moving across the room the second I turn my back, Getting up on all 4's and thrusting forward, she can lift her hands now too while on all 4's, Poppy has 4 teeth with the middle top ones very close, and she has started to snuggle. It is wonderful, sometimes I just want to hold her all day.

That's all for now. I have more pictures but they are on the other computer, I will post htem soon.

4.5 month Update

love this outfit! it is so cute on her

Daddy and Penelope

I know it has only been 2 weeks since my last update but Penelope has start so many new things I just have to write them down before I forget.

1. Rolling where ever she wants, can't leave her on the floor anymore- she needs to be contained.

2. bottom right tooth is through the gums. It is a cute little snaggle tooth- really sharp.

3. finally learned that if she will just stay laying on her stomach napping is easier. Instead of practicing her new skills and rolling around the crib.

4. She has started pulling her knees under her and then pushing to scooch forward. But she has to put her head down so she pretty much scooches on her face.

5. she loves cooper, it is official. Last night I was asking her "who's that? Is that Cooper?" and she would crack up. She trys to grab him when they have blanket time together too.

6. she is rolling on the changing table which we have quickly put and end to. (well sort of) she is learning that she isn't allowed to roll while mommy s changing her diaper

7. Penelope wants to sit up so bad. she is getting better. I sit her up on my lap and she will sit for a while until she sees something she wants and dives for it.

8. Poppy's hair is getting really long. if i don't sweep it to one side it hangs in her eyes. It has also started this crazy curl/fly away thing in the back. I have no control over it anymore, it has a mind of its own.