Projects and Fun

I thought I should share what we have been up to these past few weeks.

Um, I put in this pic just because my baby is so darn cute. She is a pretty patient Little Miss, even during her baths.

Here is BooBear with a sparkler at his Aunt Sue's house. This is the first year that he enjoyed fireworks. The last two years, I have had to keep him inside because he was so scared.

BooBear arranged the pieces of the Yahtzee game on his bed one day, Werty called it BooBear's first photo composition or something like that.

Here is the construction going on across the street. It starts every morning around 7am, even on Saturdays. It's very loud and dusty.

Werty's cousin and her kids were in town for our monthly FHE, and we had them over for a backyard BBQ. As you can see, we finished the sandbox. We got too much sand, so we have been giving some of it away to those we know who already have sandboxes and might need some "refill."

All of Werty's cousins' kids like babies, so they all wanted to hold Little Miss.

 Werty has been fixing up his motorcycle. He hasn't really ridden it in three years. Turns out, it has a leak in the gas tank. He is actually working on it right now. There is a complex process of prepping the gas tank for the apoxy sealant to work. One step involves putting screws inside the tank to scrape out the deposits. Then you take a magnet thing (shown here) to get all the screws out again. Here is the magnet picking up all the deposits. Werty took this pic because he thought it looked like his magnet wand had a mullet.

We had play group at our house again this week. This is what the sandbox looks like now that we have given away some of the sand. BooBear calls the group of cousins close to his own age his "real cousins" after the BBQ with his 2nd cousins. He wants us to know that when he says he wants to see his cousins, he means these guys, his "real cousins."

 

We have also been working on the unfinished wall in our basement. Werty took it apart (as seen above with BooBear trying to hammer nails into wood), put in 5 new outlets and the fiberoptic cable for our internet. We are currently in the middle of the mudding process. In the first pic, you can see that one of the outlets is high up. The plan is to mount a TV there eventually. So, yes, we have been working on a lot of projects these last few weeks.

Little Miss' Baby Blessing

Last week Little Miss had her 2 month check up. She weighed in at 10 lbs 12 oz which is 60th percentile, her height (I need to check the exact numbers when she isn't asleep in the same room as the paper) and head circumference were both 50th percentile. She seems to definitely be taking after me, with her average size, compared to her big brother who was always 90-100th percentile in head size like his daddy (or at least we assume since they didn't actually measure head size back then.)

We had a wonderful experience last week with around 50 people there to support our Little Miss at her baby blessing. We had Valinda and her crew for the whole weekend, which was tons of fun. Plus I got to meet her cute Jack-Jack, who is 5 weeks older than Little Miss. A big thank you to everyone who helped get the food laid out, especially Klari and Valinda who came home early from RS with me to help. Little Miss was happy to sleep most of the time and she was content to be held by everyone. She is definitely a cuddlebug.

I was smarter with this child, and I went in for her shots the day after her blessing instead of right before. I also fed her before everyone showed up, so that she was a happy baby, not a starving baby. There was one minor hiccup, Little Miss and I were the last to arrive. I think people forget we don't have a cell phone, so when they call our number, they don't realize that they are keeping me at home in order to take their calls to ask for directions 2 minutes before church starts. As I was rushing down the sidewalk (in heels) to get there, my ankle rolled slightly, and Little Miss and I went down. Thankfully, my leg, and not Little Miss, took the damage. Falling while holding my baby is one of those "nightmare situations" that I randomly worry about, so I was very grateful that 1) she wasn't hurt at all and 2) her beautiful dress wasn't ripped (the dress was made by Ddonn, the detail work and headband are original pieces from my wedding dress)

Here are some photos to enjoy from last weekend:

The two babies in their rock'n sleepers:

My namesake with Ddonn's namesake:

 Aunt S to the rescue, keeping the kiddos busy making paper hats while lunch is finished being laid out:

 Gram and Grandpa

Our new family of four:

Aunt M

Here is Grandma Betty with all three of her great-granddaughters: