Pull ups

Blessing#29 pull ups

Today Bethany accomplished another milestone! of course I dd not catch it on my camera. but i have caught her working up to it.

January 17th

Feb. 6 (the silly drawer opened Foiling this attempt)

Feb. 7 she maneuvered over to the chair then pulled her self up to her knees.

At the Super Bowl party she pulled her self up on her Papa but I think being on a coushy couch helped.

then there was today.  I took her in to the bathroom to take a bath(which she LOVES) and she schooched over to the tub and pulled herself up to look in to the tub.  She stood for quite a while. then she fell over. I sat her back up and she did the same thing  again!

hopefully I will catch her standing soon. and when I do I will make sure to post it!

PS What do you think of the new look?  I am thinking I might change it again. Back to a new shoe picture with 4 shoes. What do you think?

We have movement!

This post is late in the making too.  Oh well, Bethany has been trying to become mobile. However it seems that she does not want to crawl.  She will push herself up into a crawling position but then she ends up scooting backwards. She usually ends up under the couch...

 

 And proud of it! (This was taken early January)

Although I think she is getting a little annoyed with it now.  Now she scoots away from everything (hence the scooting issues she was having in the last post).  She is now quite proficient of scooting around on her bottom.  It is pretty crazy to see her moving like that.

Blessing# 27 Creativity starts early.

Lookie!

Look at who is starting to pull herself up!

Blessing #22 An awesome team of friends who helped us move!
Blessing #23 Adam's dad and his wife watching the girls while we moved.
Blessing #24 Being in our new house!

Yes we moved again... I will have to go in to that more tomorrow.  God is so good!

Seeping

When it comes to seeping, sometimes I wish I could be a baby again. It seems as though they can sleep anywhere and in any position and have no consequences.  Our 3 year old woke up with her first crick in her neck  about a month a go.  with the way she sleeps I was curious to see how long it would take.  I remember when we moved her up to the big girl bed I was worried about her falling out.  she always slept with one appendage hanging out of the crib. 

Well it seems her sister may be the same way...

 

Lets get a diffrent angle....

We have found her like this twice now.  I am not sure how her feet are not asleep. (Yes we are horrible parents who leave stuffed animals in her bed. and in my defense she was swaddled in that blanket when I laid her down for nap.)

Blessing #20 While at AWANA last night. We had stump the pastor night when the children could ask pastors/pastors-in-training questions about the bible or God.  While answering a question the pastor was referencing a bible verse he asked her if she knew about the verse.  Her response..."not yet."  Not "no", but "not yet." This young girl knows that the importance of continuing to learn her bible and it sounded like she was interested in learning more.

Football

Both girls experienced a first a few weeks back.  They both went to their first football game.  It was chilly but not too cold. A perfect night for high school football. 

Bethany ended up being in the Moby.  She wanted to watch the people around us and the car seat just was not good for that.  I also thought that if she got warm and cozy enough she would fall asleep.  Well she did eventually, when there was about 2 minutes left in the game.  She was EXHAUSTED.  She slept through getting pulled out of the Moby, getting buckled in and almost getting but to bed.  It was amazing.  she is a pretty light sleeper when it comes to moving her around.

Naomi had a pretty good time even though she kept trying to beg popcorn off of people.  She also got to experience the "football minute."  She had been bugging some people near us so Adam made her sit by him for 2 football minutes.  This was not a time out or punishment but just trying to give the people a bit of a break from our "Chatty Cathy" daughter. He tried to play and talk with her but by the end of it she kept asking if the football minute was over.  It was rather funny.

And mommy got to have some practice taking non-flash pictures with my zoom lens.

 
We had a great time. sadly it looks like this may be the only game we get to go to this year.  Our high school team only had 3-4 home games this year. But next year we plan on making it to more. 

Baby waring baby

I am not huge on baby waring.  But I must say, it is convenient.  I got the Moby wrap a little late for it to be effective with Naomi.  Having all those layers as well  a little person who was 98.6 degrees in our barely air conditioned house in the middle of summer was not comfortable.  I did get it out for her once it cooled off but then I was a little intimadated by it. 

Well I knew with this baby that a wrap would be beneficial. Naomi is always on the go and so am I.  So while I am not always waring Bethany. It is not uncommon.  I also got a sling (for only the price of shipping!) because I thought that the heat might be an issue.

So, now, I must wearing Bethany enough that one day I found Naomi putting my sling on and putting her baby in it. So cute!   

 As a result I made Naomi her own sling for her baby.  It is not pictured here.  I need to get a picture of it.

Smiles!

I just love baby smiles! 

And my baby loves to smile!

So we make a pretty good set wouldn't you say?

Yep, I think so...

And last week we got her to laugh!