First finger food

Those 2 teeth must have signaled to Miller that she's ready to experiment with finger foods, because for the first time, she didn't gag when I gave her a puff.

It takes a lot of work to get just one puff in your mouth...


It takes even more work to balance a puff on your finger.


Jackpot!


Despite the serious face, she thought they were delicious.


We went for round 2 later in the day, and Miller had a very attentive audience. Georgia may be lazy, but she's no fool.

Correction...

we have 2 teeth! We discovered the second one, also bottom front, yesterday.

Houston....

We have at tooth!

There's a little white ridge on Miller's bottom gum, which explains all the drooling and fussing that's been going on lately.

The really good news from our house is that the hitting/pinching/pushing phase seems to have come to and end (knock on wood). It lasted about a month, and we haven't had an indcident for a few weeks. I hope it was just a one time phase.

Miller's favorite thing to do right now is roll over and over, and she usually makes a giant circle around the perimeter of the room. She keeps rolling over the same direction, so we often have to jump out of the way, and remove small children, as she comes plowing through at a high speeds. She has started lifting her hips up, so pretty soon, she'll be on all fours.

Some random and cute things Colby is saying:

I want mama carry you. (gets you and me confused)

When he passes gas, he says "I wooty toot toot" (Don't ask where he learned this, but the good news is that most people can't understand what he's saying)

Excuses to get out of bed: My foot hurts, my leg hurts, I need a hug, I need turn my giggle (radio) on, I don't want to see shadow (of fan), I need nother book, I want dada fix that (if animals are out of place in his crib)

I wuv you mommy/dadda. We're friends. I wuv baby sissa.

Candy-candy (always says it twice)

I want suw-pwize (for being good)

Whenever he falls, even if no one is looking, he yells "I'm Ow-kay! I'm ow-kay!"

Cannot say "st" and replaces it with "d". This became interesting when we were building a snowman and we were looking for arms, and he was screaming in the yard "I GOT A BIG STICK!!!"

A little off topic....

BUT....

I need to write this down somewhere so that it isn't totally forgotten forever.

I'm in the encyclopedia. And the Hall of Fame. Well, not exactly me, but my cheering squad and old uniform. I spent many years doing competetive cheerleading (the stuff you see on ESPN) and I just found out some very cool information. Here's what I just discovered through a message on Facebook.

"Not sure if you guys know this or not.... however you all were part of something that has made history. We are even in the encyclopedia. Q-94 Rockers was the very first all-star team in the US and started the sport of all-star cheerleading. Even old pictures of you guys have been featured in American Cheerleader Magazine and your uniforms are in the Cheerleading Hall of Fame. Here is a link of what has been said about you guys from Wikipedia."

All-Star cheerleading
In the early 1980s, cheerleading squads not associated with a schools or sports leagues, whose main objective was competition, began to emerge. The first organization to call themselves all stars and go to competitions were the Q94 Rockers from Richmond, Virginia, founded in 1982 by Hilda McDaniel.[13] All-star teams competing prior to 1987 were place into the same divisions as teams that represented schools and sports leagues. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheerleading

Wait....what?? You didn't know there was a cheerleading hall of fame? Book your tickets now before it's too late!

Play Date

It all looks so innocent....Colby and Evie enjoying the swing and the warm weather.


Colby is talking, Evie is laughing...what could they be talking about?


Ooooooh. Colby is talking about poo-poo. And his butt. And making poop sounds. And sticking out his tongue.


Evie thinks he's hilarious. *sigh* Something tells me there are many more poop jokes in my future.

A milestone

Baby girl had her first ride on a swing today! Less than a week ago, we had 8 inches of snow, and today it was 70 degrees. We took a trip to the playground with both kids, and Miller finally got to try out a swing. She loved it! Unfortunately, I managed to take blurry pictures with my new camera, so this is the best I can do.



Maybe I'll figure out how to take good pictures before they go to college.

Today

I love my new camera! The pictures are so much better...and by better, I don't mean great, I just mean not blurry. (Please continue to keep your expectations low) Here are just a couple very typical snapshots from today.

Miller playing with her feet...


and Colby playing his guitar (with his new pick, which is actually a whistle) and singing.

We're still alive...

Just really busy.

We had another big snow that dumped about 9 inches on us. Thankfully, we survived a very long day yesterday trapped inside (but barely). Colby and I made another snowman mound, and I'll post some pictures when I get a chance. Unfortunately, they were all really blurry, which inspired me to take my new camera (which I've had for a month) out of the box. It looks promising...hopefully this will inspire me to take more pictures and update the blog more often.

Here is drooly girl in her pj's on her jumparoo...happy and smiling, despite the fact that just a few minutes before, she was swatted on the head.