"Beach, AHHHHHH Booom!"

So, often Autumn will look at me with a BIG face and say "Beach... AAAAHHHHH, BOOM!" with a big grin.......she's referring to the moment on this video. :) It's been like 3 weeks, and she still remembers it!

Swimming Lessons

Every Tuesday and Thurs I take Noah to his 1/2 hour swimming lesson. He's just starting to learn how swim quite properly. He'll jump off, swim for a little, then the teacher will bring him up for a breath, and he'll swim to the other edge of the pool.

Jumping off all by himself

Diving for toys under the water

Practicing "paddle paddle, kick kick!"

My little fish. Could they make swimming gear any MORE unattractive?

While Noah swims it's my "special" alone time with Autumn. I don't get this, well, ever, so its quite special for me. We'll go around looking at all the "purple's" together (that's what she calls flowers that are purple). And she'll pick flowers for me.

She'll give her baby LOTS of loves, and try and get the baby to hold the "purple's fowers" (purple flowers)

She's my super silly girl!

Let's Go Fly a Kite

Over the past few weeks its been 2 days of rain, followed by 4 days of hot sun, so we've been to the beach a few times. Autumn and Noah LOVE running up and down trying not to get their feet wet from the waves....

They both run up and down screaming with delight

The next few times we went, there were these nasty bluebottle jellyfish on the sand. The first time we didn't notice them right away and we were SO thankful that Noah obeyed when Clint said "STOP!" because he would have stepped RIGHT on them, and they are quite nasty

Autumn would run and then "fall" into the sand

She'd run away from us with glee, we chased her all around the beach playing "I'm gonna get ya!"

And Noah was SO excited to fly his new kite that his Uncle Donovan got for him. He did a pretty good job all by himself

The next time we went there were bluebottles again, and Noah had MASTERED the art of flying his kite "All by myself"

Glasses, part 2

So my hubby liked Noah's glasses SO much, that he decided that after 6 years he should "upgrade" his.....so, like father, like son. Noah is VERY proud that his daddy has glasses "just like mine"

And I like my hubby's new look :)

I look just like Buddy Holly

So Noah has had a lazy eye for the past year or so. He'll look at you and one eye is IN while the other one is looking at you. So I took him to the optometrist, who said his vision is fine, but to take him to ophthalmologist just to be sure. The optha. put crazy drops in his eyes that made his muscles relax, and he's 2.25 farsighted. So yay for no surgery! But farsightedness means...glasses.

The Doc said the best place to get kiddies glasses was an hour away, but they had only THREE pairs to pick from (huh?) of plastic ones (apparently the metal ones aren't as comfy for this age).

So we went to our local glasses shop and they had like 20 to pick from.

We went with the Emergent Buddy Holly look....... :)

Here he is trying them on at the shop.

He excitedly waited "2 sleeps" to bring them home....and got them today!
I have to say he just LOVES them (I really mean it) and takes good care of them. Its amazing how the Lord prepared him because he wears his sunglasses ALL THE TIME, he'd wear them indoors if I let him, and now he's got his own special ones. God is good. He really loves them and is confident in them which I'm so grateful for, and I think he looks cute in them :)

Autumn 18 Month Photo Shoot :)

I LOVE 18 month photo shoots because whenever I see pictures of adults at 18 months, you can totally see it's THEM and they still look like a "baby." So with both of my kiddos I do a big 18 month photo shoot. This one, it was hard to get smiles, but some turned out cute. Here ya go!

At 18 months Autumn is VERY adventurous. She has a great sense of humor, and makes animal sounds whenever she sees ANYTHING in the shop that has that animal. Her favorite are horses, lions, birds and fish. She can say lots and lots of words (for the grandparents...."apple, orange, sit, bath, eye, ear, nose, foot, bible, book, dog, cat, horse, fish, bee, down, up, jump, more, juice, eat, no, yes, help, brake, fix, please, shtee (yes, shtee) :) shirt, sore, ball, cracker, bicky (cookie), milk, bottle, cup, baby, blankie, shoe, bear, Nuck (for Noah), O's (for cheerio's) cheese, what's this?, what's that?, call daddy" And there's lots more that I can't think of for now. She's combining lots of words too which is fun.

She LOVES her babies and will spend the whole day taking blankets and putting them down in their bed, and she'll "shush" them to sleep. If I'm folding laundry she'll find anything pink and cover her baby with it. One day it was my pink underwear (which I later found on her baby arranged just so). She'll feed them food and bottles, and rock them in her pram (stroller). She loves playing with Spurgeon and will "jump" on him and laugh. She's my adventurous one and will climb anything and isn't scared, where Noah is more cautious about life. She likes to play soccer and when she gets it in the goal she'll say "GOAL!" (its very cute). She loves swings and she'll say "sing, sing" and I'll say "do you want to swing?" she'll say 'yeah, sing!" She's quite obedient naturally (which is great) except when you call her to come she thinks its VERY funny to run the other way (which we are teaching her isn't so funny, but her giggle gets me laughing every time). Her favorite food is corn & bananas. She loves watching birds and will say "ah, bird!" whenever she sees one. She likes to sing songs with hand motions and she'll follow the motions while smiling. She loves reading her "bible" but will just point out all the animals and "talk" about them to me. She shakes if she wants anything really bad (her whole body, its very cute). We call her hair "party hair" cause it ALWAYS throws a party. I had a tough time calming it down for the shoot :)

We love our little girl who is no longer a baby!

Dinner time

For some reason at our house dinner time becomes VERY silly toward the end, and every night the kids are in hysterics. I think it has to do with the fact that its very close to bedtime, but I LOVE that my kids crack each other up. It usually involves silly noises and clapping hands and who knows what :)

Etsy designs (last time I promise)

So here are a few more of my designs, this is the last time I'll be showing them here (cause I don't want to defer from our regularly scheduled programming so I've started a new "Etsy blog" where I'll display my new stuff at www.littlebirdieprints.blogspot.com

So last few designs for now :)