Relaxin' and dancin'!

Just a lazy day at home.. doing a little housecleaning and playing with the chillins'.. It's freezing cold outside.. weather.com says it's 22 degrees but feels like 11. I'd say that's pretty accurate. So we have no place that we have to be... what a better way to spend the day than having a picnic inside, (which Evie set up), having a banana snack.. (which Evan LOVED), and dancing to a little Disco music!
Evie took her first shot at filming today and did a lovely job!



Stay Warm!!

Test video

Okay.. so I just got this cute little video recorder called a "Flip Video" from Pure Digital... pretty cheap.. but I just wanted something small that I could take short videos on the fly when I'm out with the kids and share them on my blogs or Myspace.
It takes up to 30 minutes of video at a time.. saves it to a memory card or internal hard drive and plugs in via USB to the computer and saves and publishes to Youtube immediatly. It's so easy to use.. I love it so far! Like I said.. it was cheap.. just $69.00 but it will do the trick for what I wanna use it for. a quick "point and shoot" video cam.
You can see the cam on http://www.theflip.com/

anyway.. I had a couple of minutes today before work and took the smallest clip of the kids on the floor.. so here's my test video:



I'm looking forward to taking many more videos and sharing with you all!

7 months.. side by side

Well, there's no doubt that they are brother and sister.. but for me, it's too easy to tell.. Evan has that dimple and the BIG eyes!

It's hard to believe that Evie was that small! She seems all grown up now!

Ouch! Is that a tooth?

Yep!
It is! It's all the way through the skin now.. noticed it yesterday coming through and today it is completly through.. it's like a sharp line on his gums.. here's a diagram of the tooth that's in..


It doesn't seem to bother him.. he's not cranky in the least or drooling or chewing any more than usual.


And while we are on the subject of teeth, Evelyn has her 6 year molars on the bottom coming in.. they have both broken through the skin as well.. and are BIG teeth! WOW! I had no idea that we were expecting those! She doesn't notice them as well.. and I'm suprised by the size of them!

So far teething is a breeze for both of my kids... I hope we continue on that path!! Too early to tell with Evan except for this instance!

I'll post more later if I can get pics of him with his mouth open.
Bye for now!
So it's official.. 1st tooth at 7 months! If I look back at Evie's pics, I think that's when hers came through..

Let's see if I can find a 7 month pic of her to post along side his...

The Seaweed is Always Greener.....

... in somebody else's lake...


So I re-designed Evie's room this week. She chose the theme... it's an "Under The Sea" bedroom.
First, you walk, (or swim), through the coral reef... (pink and purple beads in the doorway)


Then you see the seaweed and bubbles on the wall next to her mermaid vanity, with sparkly blue curtains that shimmer like bubbles when the light is on.


Above her bookshelf/dresser there's a fish poster and on the dresser, (with all of her junk) are two perfectly themed lights... one is a strobe dolphin light and the other is a saltwater fish aquarium light that spins around to make it look like the fish are swimming.


You swim over to the lagoon, (her bed), that's covered with a beautiful canopy that's lined with jewels. The bedding is Ariel, The Little Mermaid.. and there's Ariel's fishie friend, Flounder on the bed.


There's a pretty blue carpet that matches the curtains as well.. (it's the little pool in front of the lagoon). And the back wall is a view of undersea life including dolphins, exotic fish and coral reefs. What a difference the mural on that wall makes!




She still has one of her Disney Princess posters up over her bed.. it's kinda hard to part with that one.. and a " Barbie Mermaidia" poster of Nori and Elina on the other wall.. and that one kinda goes with the theme anyway.. I'm going to finish it all with some sponge painting of seashells and stuff on her dresser.. but that I'll do later.

Evie loves sleeping "Under The Sea" in her lagoon, and stays in there all night, even most of the morning playing before even coming out after waking.

"We got no troubles
Life is the bubbles
Under the sea"

More Snow

We got a couple of inches of snow yesterday and it was pretty packable today. Evie and I snuck outside today for about an hour while Evan was sleeping and made a snow-lady. We used celery for the nose and grapes for the eyes, mouth and polka dots on her skirt. Then we used a red ribbon tie and have her holding a rose. An Illini bucket hat tops her head and branches that Evie found in the yard for the arms.





Fun fun fun! We played on her swings for a little bit as well and then inside for a warm bath while Momma fed Evan.

I'm in the process of remodeling Evie's bedroom.. I have one BIG thing to do with it and it will be done.. then I'll get pictures and get it up here.. so that's what the rest of my afternoon looks like, I think! Evie is tired.. whiny... I think a nap is in order for her!

Stay warm all!

Got puffs?

So You all know that my Evan can drink his milk all by himself now... but did you know that he can eat by himself as well? Just tonight after his dinner of blueberry, pear and oats (as you can see all over his bib), I put some sweet potato puffs on his tray table to see what he would do.. first he just picked them up and they stuck to the palm of his hands...
look at them chubby little fingers :o)


so then I would put one into his mouth and he would smile and say "mmmm"...

the next thing I knew, he was carefully picking them up one at a time and putting them into his mouth!



"mmmmm" he says.... He's pretty proud as you can see!



He LOVES his puffs!