cj sits....

well, sort of. :) but he sure is trying!! won't be too long until he's independent and scootin' around... i can see it coming. he's enjoying his first week of food - bananas. he also likes baby einstein and gets very excited when it's on the tube... usually kaetlyn shows are on when the tv is on and these are a little over his head at this point. baby einstein - baby beethoven to be more specific - is some exciting stuff.

just a pic of the two muchkins... my blessings... my joys... my love.

halloween and more

so we had a really fun weekend. we arrived to houston right around lunchtime on saturday and spent the afternoon with the perkins family. theresa and i both brought halloween food activities for the toddler children. they created spiders out of oreos and decorated pumpkin cookies... when this was done, the daddies helped them carve pumpkins. this link will take you right to all the pics:

http://picasaweb.google.com/perkins.rc/2009_10_31#

the halloween evening was a blast - always entertaining when 3 and the perkins are involved. :) kaetlyn was very brave - i daresay even braver than the boys at scary houses... but her unicorn did get very tired and needed to go home and rest. cj just trooped along in the frontpack. i do think he enjoyed all the sites because once in a while he would shake his arms around.

last night kaetlyn put a relatively difficult puzzle together all by herself! craig and i have both assisted her with this puzzle previously, but she never completed it by herself... i'm really proud of her! she loves puzzles... reminds me of her mommy.

cj started eating babyfood this weekend as well. he likes bananas, so we'll see how it goes. he will officially be eating breakfast and dinner from this point forward!! BIG BOY! 5 months old. :) he just found his tongue and was making funny faces all weekend.

finally a pic of me and craig... just for the fun of it. check out the rest in the album though... there are lots of good ones!!

august galveston trip

every august we go to galveston with the mendelson's around dad's birthday. it's so much fun to play on the beach and relax by the water. kaetlyn enjoys her mendelson cousins tremendously... its unfortunate that they do not see each other as often as we'd like. we stayed at a different condo this year because our usual spot is still in recovery from previous year's hurricane. it was a nice condo, although i think we all like the other one better. i wasn't so great with the camera this trip, but geez... ya gotta cut me some slack! managing a new born and 2 year old at the beach is effort enough. nevertheless, here are a few pics of the children at the conclusion of the weekend... don't forget the newest addition to the perkins family - Sue - the hermit crab.

i think that robbie took additional pictures this weekend... i'll have to track them down and add to the album.

Galveston Weekend

also, today is dyllan's 8th birthday!!!! happy birthday to dyllan. where oh where does the time go? sunday is megan's 21st as well!!

tomorrow is halloween and we are driving to houston for a birthday celebration for randy and trick-or-treating with the cousins. should be a great time.... will make sure to keep my camera handy and post a lot of pics after the weekend. :)

milk machine

cj will be 5 months old tomorrow and i am getting excited at the prospect of beginning him on baby foods, but for some reason also a little hesitant... he is my last baby after all! he's been eating rice cereal at dinner time for almost 2 weeks and seems to really enjoy it. the same spoonful equals to around 4 bites as he spits so much back out, but i can tell he's happy about this new addition to his diet. i'm thinking next week i'll bring some cereal to school and he can have that for breakfast and add some fruit or veggie at dinner time to ease him into the process.... exciting stuff!

rachel's wedding

in july, rachel and scott were wed. cj was 5 weeks old. kaetlyn was the flower girl and aidan was her escort.... they were so very cute. this is a link to the web album containing some of the pics:

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yesterday i flew to denver and back in 1 day. craig manned the troops and did a fine job. i think he even enjoyed some bonding time with his boy.... this is the pic he emailed me from his phone when i was boarding the plane to come home last night.... fast asleep on daddy's chest. :)

From Drop Box

i'm SO tired.

only our child

so, i skipped a day. never to fear though, got some good stuff for today. we had a really fun weekend camping & riding. got some really cute pics of the kiddos and our 4 wheelin' pals. you can't tell so much from the photos, but i really was there. ;)



on a different note, upon our return from our trip, we took craig to the dr. for bad stomach pains. when this 2.5 hour adventure (with both kids) was complete, i went to fill craig's perscriptions and picked up at $3 bag of bugs from the halloween isle. kaetlyn has been into this type of thing and she carries them around in a little pink purse. so i brough them home and gave this bag of ants, spiders, flies, etc. to my darling daughter. she smiled really big and says, 'oh! thanks so much for these bugs mom, they are wonderful!! look at these ants... they are so cute.' funny funny stuff. craig's ok, he just needs to eat healthy for a bit to get his GI tract back on track.

wild imaginations

kaetlyn's age is so much fun. it is very entertaining to listen to her playing... creating scenarios with her cars, dinosaurs, or lizards. mommies and daddies, and timeout sessions for items that are not behaving. :)

last night though it took 1.5 hours to get her to bed. craig and i alternated shifts with attempts and after much fuss i finally got her to cave. she was talking about her 'daughter named uncle.' he was her daddy too. she said she missed him so much. i brought her all her dolls - you know, her daughters - but these were not what she was looking for... she told me she missed him so much because he was at his house, but he lived with her too... in her jewelry box.... oh yeah, and he talks... what an amazing daughter uncle is!

i'm very much paraphrasing this very weird conversation. i finally got to the point where i just started to agree with her and deduced that she was referring to some sort of imaginary friend.... but after the event was over and i layed down next to craig, i couldn't help but ask him, "think uncle is her imaginary friend, or is she possessed?"

feet

around 4 -4.5 months, my babies just LOVE their feet. top picture is kaeltyn in january 07 and bottom picture is cj today. couple more pics from last night and this morning when we were getting ready to go. :)

accomplishment

every morning, i feel like i've accomplished a full day's work by the time i get to work! craig leaves so early, we're all still asleep, so i have LOTS to do to get myself and the two kiddos out the house. i am very grateful that my job is not the kind that micromanages and watches the clock cuz i'd have been fired a long time ago... was actually terminated from my first job for this very reason, but that's a different story. :)

here are some pics from kaetlyn & craig's birthday parties this year. fun times!!

busy busy!

so i didn't make it to work until almost 9:30 this morning!! typical monday i guess... so much to do. i have high aspirations that one day i will get it together, but it's not feeling likely... oh well! the weekend was a blast! weather was perfect for camping and riding. camping is lots of work, but totally worth it.

at bedtime saturday night, kaetlyn asked me to cut her feet off with scissors because hers were broken and she needed new ones... pretty funny. this morning when i put her in her carseat she said, 'take a break, dude.'

cj barely slept on saturday, and even went for a little ride with me and barbara. we thought it would put him to sleep, but instead he just rode along and looked around. on sunday evening, he ate rice cereal for the first time. he liked it as you can see in the pic below.

busy week this week and off to gordon, tx for races on friday afternoon! we're really excited. will be good times all around. :)