Silly Girl

I go in to check on the babes every night before I go to bed, and I have laughed many times over the funny positions I find them in and have posted before on a way I found Annalee sleeping, well the other night I was doing my regular routine and went in to check on Annalee and this is how I found her...







Seriously...she is sound asleep here. I mean how does that happen?? It was dark in the room and took me about 4 tries to get her whole body n the frame, and amazingly the flash didn't even make her flinch....

I thought it was hilarious, and this hand-me-down gown is her absolute favorite...she wore it last night, and then insisted she put it back on again today for nap time...She's a silly girl...

Learning New Tricks

So the other night Jay was out watering our new trees, and of course Annalee is folowing along behind him, and I don't really know why, but he decided to teach Annalee one of the most fun things about being a kid...drinking from the water hose...

Here he is demonstrating...




And Annalee giving it a try...




She loved it, and ended up completely soaked...




And of course playing in it too...




She had a blast! To be drinking water not only not out of a sippy cup, but straight out of a hose outside!!!

Update on our newest Little Bean...

The Little Bean is why this blog has been so slow lately...I had been feeling really terrible most of the time and it was truly all I could do to just take care of Annalee and Jude and survive the day...

BUT! It seems the terrible cloud of morning sickness has lifted, and even though I still get tired very easily, I am feeling human again! Praise the Lord! I felt like it was never going to end and was scared to death that this would be the pregnancy that I would have morning sickness until the day I delivered!

Anyway...the baby is doing great and we got another peek at him or her about a week ago...



Isn't he or she precious?? Yeah ok, I know he or she looks like an alien right now, but he or she is my alien and I love him or her...(I'm crazy I can't call my baby an "it")

He's a little Bugger!

Seriously Jude is an unbelievably sweet baby..but he definitely has a mischievous side! And he knows when he's not supposed to be doing something and he just grins and laughs about it...

This is what I found him doing the other day...


Caught in the act...





Uh Oh...




I'm to cute to be in trouble right??

We have a Backyard!

Whoo Hoo! Since having a fence put up it feels like we actually have a backyard! I can actually let Annalee play back there without having my eyes zoned in on her the entire time. It's awesome! Plus we (Jay) had to do a lot of clearing just to make room for the fence so it's a lot nicer back there too. Although there is still a lot of work to be done, it already feels like a real backyard that our family will be enjoying for years to come.

I snapped a couple of pics of Annalee playing in the Fig tree and the Crepe Myrtles, I thought they turned out pretty good...thankfully, because I paid quite a high price for them...I didn't realize that I was standing right in the middle of a huge Fire Ant mound until it was to late...way to late...

Here she is in the fig tree...it grows very low to the ground due to much bigger heavier trees that used to smoother it...






And then in the one of the Crepe Myrtles...she loved that she could "get in" the tree...





And this one is our little bamboo grove...Jay left it so the kids would be able to play "jungle" one day with some realism...





And then a few of our very beautiful and very safe fence...

Playin' Mama...

Annalee loves to play like she's the mama. It really started when Jude was born, you can see in this post where it seems to have started. She loves her baby dolls and pretending to feed them or change them, and she certainly loves trying to take care of Jude. Yesterday morning he was in his crib crying while I was making a bottle and Annalee found a paci and headed back there saying "Jude cry, I give paci"...she really is beginning to actually be helpful with him...except for when she decides there is something in his room she needs and just barges in regardless of the fact that he is sound asleep...or at least WAS...

Anyway...I digress...2 of her favorite things are of course Yah Yah...and her baby doll stroller. And her most favorite thing to do right now is to push Yah Yah around in the stroller and pretend like it's her baby. Almost every morning we get up to Annalee coming out of her room first thing like this....




She has gotten out of bed and immediately put her baby in it's stroller and they are ready to start their day!






She will push it allllll over the house with serious determination like they have very important business to attend to.


And sometimes she'sll stop and take her baby out and hold it for a minute...but before she can do that she has push the hood of the stroller back...She does this absolutely every single time before she takes Yah Yah out....






And then she'll put her back in and push the hood back into place...




It's so funny, and something I wouldn't even have expected her to pick up on, but she did and it's like she thinks you can't take her in or out without moving that hood, she never ever forgets to do it...


I don't know why, but I really get a kick out of this...sorry, just had to share, now you can go back to your regularly scheduled programming...