Doodlebops February 27, 2008

           

As I said in my last post, we went to see the Doodlebops a few weekends ago.  My Love had been gone for the week, and it was so fun to take off as a family and get away.  The kids did great in the car, which is a BIG deal in our family.  We don’t make the greatest travel babies!    Baby Doll decided that she could hold her bottle by herself, so that helped me tremendously.  (I confess…she falls asleep taking her bottle oh…95% of the time…please pray for me.  I don’t know if I’ll ever get her to give it up, but that’s another blog.)  Back on subject,  we had a great hotel, and the show was AWESOME!!!  Little Man’s favorite character is Bus Driver Bob.  He was the first one out, and we were sooooooo excited that he was in the show too.  Little Man danced and waved his Doodlebop flag.  It was so fun to see him see them in person.  He has now asked to see some other of his favorite characters in person!  We’ll see!

11 Months February 23, 2008

I know, I know, I haven’t been blogging much recently.  If you care to listen to my list of excuses: My Love was in the field for a week; we went out of town to watch the Doodlebops (LM’s birthday gift); my mom was here for a week; then we went to her house for a week; now I’ve been home for a week and just haven’t spent much time on the Internet.  So, even though Baby Doll is now closer to 12 months than 11 months here are her pictures and some comments about what she’s up to.

Baby Doll is absolutely the most precious baby girl in the world!!  She is still the joy of our home.  She smiles tons and loves to laugh when we are laughing.  My Love and I are having to adjust to having a climber though.  Yes, she climbs into chairs to reach things higher on shelves.  She wants to climb on everything, something Little Man was not really interested in doing.  Her favorite word is “da” which means “that”.  She points and wants you to take her to whatever she is pointing at or bring the item to her.  She pulls out toys all on her own to play with.  Her favorite toys are those that sing or play music, much like Little Man, and baby dolls…oh boy does she love to rock her babies!!!!  She has gotten interested in books (finally!!) and will crawl over and bring us one while grunting “mm, mm” as if to ask, “will you read this to me?”  She can say night-night and will lie her head down when you tell her to…during play time at least.   She loves playing with her brother.  He’s okay with it a lot of the time, but will sometimes say as she’s crawling over to him, “Don’t come play with me, Baby Doll.”  She wants to walk, but her confidence is not there yet.  She’ll let go and stand up some but not for very long.

Thank you for being interested in our family.  We love y’all!!!

Visit with PawPaw and Honey February 1, 2008

I’m a bit behind on my blogging…but I’m sure that many of you noticed! :) A couple of weekends ago, Honey and PawPaw came to visit.  We all had a great time.  Little Man, especially, was excited to see them.  I think that we all live for those visits from others! 

We had a fun time hanging out, but we also did some fun things together like going to Chuck E Cheese.  I’m not sure which male (PawPaw, Little Man, or My Love) had the most fun.  Honey was excited to go, because she loves their pizza!  It was quite good.  Baby Doll loves to watch everyone and wishes that she could do the dancing game.

Honey and PawPaw got Little Man LOTS of play dough toys.  PawPaw played with him, and they had a great time.

I always think that the visits are too short and too far between.  We sure miss all of you out there!  Thank you, PawPaw and Honey for coming to see us and for all the fun we had!  We love you!