a gentle reminder...

do not underestimate the will power of a four month old girl.

Molly turned four months old last Saturday and naturally she's been busy showing off how fancy she can be. In the last month she's perfected flipping from tummy to back and back to tummy, and I'm pretty sure she's figured out that she can relocate herself with the rolling. She's really trying to sit up...any time she is in a reclining position she'll raise her head and shoulders up struggling to sit vertically. She is extremely interested in what we drink and eat too. Last weekend we started her on rice cereal and it is safe to say she is not a fan. We're mixing a teaspoon of cereal up for her twice a day. Some days she does really well getting it to go in the right direction and other days she pretty much wears her meal instead. She is loving her Wee Gallery animal cards. When I need to put her in her crib for containment purposes I line her crib with the cards and she'll prop herself up on her elbows to look at all the images. She talks to them and squeals at them and most of the time manages to scoot up to them and knock them out of the crib. I think my ploy to occupy her while putting up laundry, showering or any other task requiring my full attention has backfired on me though.



At 8:45 this morning I put Molly on the quilt for some floor time like I do every morning. As usual, I proceeded to check my email. At 8:50 I realized her baby yammering was emanating from a completely different location than it normally does. Off to investigate...



Low and behold, in five minutes this child managed to scoot herself six and a half paces* from where she began.

* one of my (normal gate) paces is roughly 24 inches. That's 13 feet!

We have been discussing getting new stair gates put back up in recent weeks and I bet you can guess what I'll be doing after we run our errands today. Never a dull moment at our place!

Oh, before I forget, I whipped up some more baby goodness last night too. It's for a friend's baby, but Molly is modeling for me:



I need to get a card made and get these out in today's mail! I'm such a procrastinator...sigh.

tiny little teeth...

are dropping out of Logan's head like nobody's business!



Okay, dropping might be a bit of an exaggeration. It's more like tiny little teeth are hanging on for as long as they can before they drop out of his head...but at least they're coming out on their own eventually. So far he's had two permanent teeth rupture behind the corresponding primary teeth before said primary teeth had evacuated the premises.

Both boys saw the dentist for the first time on Wednesday. Both did wonderfully! They are both cavity free! So far my clean teeth crusade is paying off!

I got to see both sets of their x-rays and I think we should start saving for braces and wisdom teeth extractions now because while it seems Logan will have smallish teeth like his dad if he develops any wisdom teeth at all they will make a mess of his teeth and Caleb? Well, it's pretty much a given he'll have braces because it seems he'll have biggish teeth and smallish jaw bone area in which to hold those teeth...just like his mom. However, if he's lucky his braces will be on and off really quickly...just like his mom.

In other tiny little teeth news: Molly's tiny little teeth are being extremely troublesome the last couple of weeks. I can see the little white halos of the culprits too...just under the gums and no matter how much I rub her little gums those freaking teeth will not budge! Instead, we continue to sop up drool by the gallon, to dose the baby with teething tablets and tylenol, and to PRAY for those nasty little problem causers to just break through already! Sigh...fing teeth, man.

eeets gooood...

the new crack...

Prepare to puzzle: click here.

do you like to...

name things? I love to name things. Babies, dolls, jewelry designs, pretty much anything that having a cool name will make more interesting, I like to research and think up names for these things. If you like to name things too, go visit Moki over at The Good Neighbor. She and her hubs are looking to the blogging community for some help in naming their fourth child. Plus, if they pick your suggestion you'll get a prize!

um, it's august already...

Gasp, cough, sputter. How is it August already? It is amazing how most days this summer have flashed by in a blink...don't get me wrong - we've had our fair share of days that just seemed to stand still too; but, for the most part the summer has flown by. Wow! I suspect August is going to fly by as well. On the ninth I have to register Logan for school. On the tenth Molly and I are flying to Houston for the weekend to do wedding stuff with Aunt Katie (Lynn, Logan and Caleb will be doing "man" stuff [and according to Logan, bear hunting too]). On the 24th Molly and I are going to New Braunfels for the weekend for Aunt Katie's bachelorette party (Lynn, Logan and Caleb will be doing more "man" stuff). On the 27th we will meet Logan's first grade teacher and then he starts back to school on the 28th! I'm tired just thinking about it...

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As you may or may not remember, Logan's birthday was back in June and he received lots of lovely gifts for his birthday. Well, last week we finally sat down to work on his thank you notes.



A while back I bought some really neat holographic sticker paper at Joanne's for Logan's thank you notes. What exactly we would do with it I didn't know, but it seemed like cool stuff to use for cards anyway. Once we got down to business I asked him to 1.) draw a self portrait and 2.) write out "Logan says thank you!" and the fill-in-the-blank thank you note body. As he was working on his part I was still trying to decide how to use the holographic paper...should I sacrifice a sheet to see if I can print on it? As I waffled over that question it struck me: print the image on transparencies...DUH. Once Logan had completed his tasks I scanned in the pages and began the design layout for the cards. I printed up a dummy for him to approve and everything was great except that he didn't have a logo on the back of his cards like all my cards have. Simple enough to fix: I just shrunk down his self-portrait to itty bitty and added (what I deem to be) pertinent information and viola! A pretty neat logo if I do say so myself.



I think we've started a good thing here. Caleb is already chomping at the bit to make his birthday thank you notes too. We'll just change the logo info every year along with the self portrait. Should be a really neat progression over the years.

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I finished another outfit for the baby too. I am really smit with these little cropped pants. There's a whole mountain of fabric in my stash waiting to be turned into little cropped pants. I'd forgotten what fun it is to sew wearables!



I've been using up fabric that I've had for YEARS and don't have much yardage of with these first few outfits. Eventually (once school starts) I'll start using some of my stash that has more yardage. Until then I think there will only be one offs.