Cutie pie Blaise showing his frustration. Good thing I got it on video because he only did it for a few days and has now stopped.

Just some new pictures

Mother's Day
(I like the face Blaise is making)

Rae was so excited about this sucker-
it took her about 15 minutes to finish but she was very diligent


Does it get any cuter than this??


Yes, it does!

We went to "Fairytale Town" today with a friend.
They had a lot of fun....

....But Blaise did not.

Sick around here....

We actually missed church today - all four of us! Rae started with a bit of a cold on Friday and Blaise had it by Saturday morning. So neither one of them slept very well Friday night. Rae is much better now, but Blaise is really suffering, and now Roy and I have it too! We don't usually spread sicknesses around that much but I guess we managed to this time. Blaise is definitely suffering the most since he drinks all of his food and can't breathe out of his nose! I'm constantly sucking his nose clear but by the time he's ready to nurse and sleep he's all stuffed up again. He is finally getting some rest right now - he's been asleep for about 2 hours (I actually just went in and checked on him since I couldn't hear him wheezing!). Hopefully he'll be able to sleep better tonight, because we are all exhausted. Rae is bored out of her mind since she didn't get to play and see friends at church today. Roy has her outside right now and I took her out earlier, but neither one of us have much energy or patience. I sure am glad we don't get sick very often!

Aww man - sheesh. Rae and Roy just came in and Rae pooped in her underwear! She's been doing well with the potty training as long as we stay pretty close to home. Sigh. Better go clean it up.

Long time no post...

Things have been pretty good around here - I just haven't gotten around to posting lately. Rae is getting back to potty-training and is doing pretty well. She's learning so much and always coming up with new stuff to say and do. She has started making up songs of her own and she loves to sing to Blaise. We are enjoying the nice weather and trying to play outside as much as we can until it gets too hot!



This is Rae on the way to a water fountain that we drive by at least 3 times a week. When they first built it (not that long ago) Rae would constantly ask if we could stop and see it. Then they were doing some other work to it and we never got around to it. So the other day it was a little rainy and Rae needed to get outside so Roy took her over there. But Rae was freezing cold and also said the fountain was too loud. Now everytime we drive by she doesn't ask to go see it, she just says "we went there the other day - I was cold and the fountain was loud".




Blaise is growing up too fast. He rolls both ways and scoots all over the place. He is trying so hard to crawl and he does a really good job of getting his knees up under him. He chews on everything in sight but no teeth yet. His new obsession is water - from our cup, our water bottles, his sippy cup - he wants it. Also, if you are holding him and trying to eat something he will grab it! Today he was facing forward in the baby bjorn and tried to get my chicken sample at Sam's Club! I actually had to give it to Roy because Blaise wouldn't stop grabbing it. I'm trying to wait till he's 6 months old to start him on solids, but we might do it a bit sooner than that if he continues to show so much enthusiasm.



I've got a couple of pics and videos on the camera that are super cute and I'll post them when we get around to transferring them to the computer. Oh yeah, we've been busy selling our little car...finally got a buyer! Nice to have that done and have some extra cash! Oh, and we also got a cell phone! We probably could have gone a lot longer without one but we have found ourselves more and more often wishing we had one. So we got a Tracfone with "prepaid" minutes. So no one is actually going to get our phone number - just the babysitters if we ever go out. It's more for me to call Roy to tell him to come get kids and groceries out of the car and for Roy to call me at Walmart and remind me we need eggs. :) But yeah, we have officially entered the annoying cell phone world.

Anyway, I'll try to be more regular with my postings and especially try to get some videos of the kiddos on here.