Heidi.... 7 months!!!

Heidi has been busy lately. Busy growing. Busy learning. She is an early achiever in my family. None of my other kids could do half of what she can do by this age. The one I want to stay a baby is determined to grow up faster than all the rest. I will say it is so fun to watch her figure things out and try new things. She is my heart. Here are some of her very recent achievements...

SITTING!!! (she can sit herself up even!)


CRAWLING!!!


ATTACKING BIG BROTHER!!!


PULLING UP!!!


PULLING UP IN BED!!! (a whole new bedtime problem)


And here she is eating cheesecake at The Cheesecake Factory.


THE HAPPIEST BABY!!!

Still no teeth! Or HAIR!!! LOL

I love this little girl so much. There is no greater joy than children, unless my papa is right about grand and great-grandchildren...

Another Milestone

I was sitting on the couch crocheting, what else do I ever do, and Heidi crawled over to me. Yes, crawled. She isn't quite a pro yet, she looks a little drunk when she is crawling. She even does an occasional nose-dive into the carpet, you know the kind where your feet fly up in the air and almost hit you in the back of the head. But she can do it. I felt her hands grabbing at my legs. She wanted in my lap. Then I looked down over my cute flower I was working on, and she is standing up!!! She totally pulled up! I couldn't believe it. Jennifer witnessed it, too. I was so excited for her and I cheered and clapped for her and gave her the biggest hug. Then I thought, dang! I need a picture of that for my blog! Babies don't usually pull up on demand, so I posed her up on the couch for this picture. To be honest, she fell over the first time I stood her up there. But she held on long enough for me to snap this picture the second time. So it is a fake picture, but she really did pull up on her own.

I am so excited for all the new things she does, but a little sad, too. Every new thing she does marks her growth towards toddlerhood. I want her to stay my baby forever. She will always be my baby. I hope she doesn't hate me for it. :)

O Canada!

Jared just got back from a 3 week long class in Canada and he had a nice visit. He got to go to the West Edmonton Mall, where he found the Dollarama. He spent a whole seven dollars and got souveniers for everyone but ME. My family looks good in Canadian red, eh?

He didn't bring home any Canadian Bacon.

Little Peeker

This is what I get to see each morning when I go get Heidi out of bed...



I love her peeking over the edge of the bumper! She is SOOOO cute!

Teacher Gifts

I am really excited about my teacher gifts this year. Karalee showed these to me and we made them together. It was SO fun. I am definitely hooked, I want to make millions of them :D

SCRABBLE TILE PENDANTS!

Isn't it adorable?

The group of them.







And just so there is no confusion because of my "store-bought" looking packaging, this will be on the back of all of them ;)


Click on any image to enlarge if you want to see it up close :D

Moron? I think not.

What do your kids do when they are home sick from school? Megan perfects her skills at taking the Moron Test. It is the number one app on iphones. It is a pretty cool test that basically tests your ability to read and react. If you have an iphone or and ipod touch, I recommend it. (Thanks to Laura for telling me about it :) Here is Megan and her mad moron skills...



She has done it even faster since this video. I think 80.9 seconds. She did it at 90 seconds and I told her I could do it at 85, just guessing that I had to be better at it than her. She did it again and got to 84.5 secs. I tried to do it fast and I was half way through it and already her time was long gone and then I failed. So she is probably at least twice as fast as me! Get the app, it is fun to play and funner to watch your friends play it after you already know all the tricks.

Things that make you go hmmmm...

Today my house was shown to a couple. I was down the block and I saw them arrive and enter my house. I circled the block waiting for them to leave because I hadn't showered yet so I really couldn't go anywhere. People usually aren't there more than 15 minutes. Well, 30 minutes later they leave and I go in my house. I sat in my recliner and my foot touches a wet spot on my carpet. ??? I touch the carpet with my hand and do the dreaded sniff test. Great. It smells like PEE! What the heck! Heidi wears a diaper. Christian is in a pull up. How did that happen? Weird. I never saw an animal go in or any kids. Plus, there were drag marks in the carpet, too. Wider than a vacuum, like maybe a wheelchair. But there definitely was no one in a wheelchair in my house. Kinda wish I could have had a video recorder going on while there were here. Hmmmmm....