Weekend O' Fun

Stella and I took our first big road trip this weekend.

We went to Wichita for the March of Dimes Walk.

We were so excited to see everyone.

And Stella was especially excited to get re-acquainted with her cousins

Calyn & Kyley.

Stella thought Calyn was hilarious!

She laughed and giggled at just about everything that Calyn did.

Here are all 3 girls playing together.

We decided that we needed to try to get another picture of the 3 girls laying on the floor.

Here is the picture that we took about 5 1/2 months ago.

And this is the best we could do now.

We had a little trouble getting them to be still.

3 busy girls don't want to hold still for Mommies who want photos.

Yeah, this is pretty much what most of the pitures looked like.

As you can see, Calyn wanted no part of it,

Kyley wanted to play with her feet

And Stella just wanted to lay on her side and chew on her hands.

We finally gave up...

We had to bundle up in the morning for the walk.

It was a bit chilly to start off with.

The girls weren't too happy about being awake and out for a morning walk.

But once we got going they were happier.

Calyn finally woke up and showed off her cool new walking skills.

Afterward we went out for lunch.

Stella and Calyn were pretty interested in getting ahold of one another.

And then Calyn munched on Stella's arm  :)

It's Track Time

Saturday was Cole's first track meet of the season.

There he is in the middle- #20.

Lining up to cheer on the other runners.

Ok, it's race time.

Cole ran the mile and the 800 (half-mile).

And he's off.

I like the action shots.

Looks like he's hanging in there.

Keep on running!

Looking good!

And the finish- he finished the mile with a 6:30 time!

A personal best, and about 20 seconds faster than last year!

It was Stella's first track meet.

She had fun watching all of the kids!

And she got to spend the morning outside.

Marching for Dimes

The March of Dimes Walk is this weekend.

I'm really looking forward to it

for a few different reasons.

First of all, I get to see my family and my beautiful nieces.

The little girls haven't all been together since Stella was 6 weeks old.

She'll be 7 months old on Saturday.

That's too long!

Second, I think March of Dimes is a great cause

and I'm so glad that my sister formed a team.

March of Dimes works to prevent pre-term delivery

and birth defects.

In our family, we know a thing or two about pre-term delivery.

We know we are incredibly blessed to have had a healthy baby girl,

thanks to our wonderful doctors and nurses who took amazing care of both of us.

In 7 short months,

we have gone from this....

to this happy amazing and healthy girl!

I know we're blessed.

We feel it every day!

If you want to donate, please click the

March of Dimes logo on the right hand side of the blog.

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It will take you to my March of Dimes page

and you can donate there.

Thanks!!!!

Brace Face!

Cole better get used to that

because that's what I'm going to call him from now on.

Not really, and I don't think it's much of an insult, but I think it's funny.

 

Here is the last picture of Cole sans braces for quite some time.

His orthodontist office is cool.

They have a Hollywood theme.

And they make the kids feel special when they are having something major done.

How are you feeling Cole?

Thumbs Up!
Ready for Action

And then...

this was what I got to see for the next hour or so.

Just his feet

Until...

Ta-Daaa!

The finished product.

Let's have a look.

He got blue & yellow bands to represent his school colors.

We had to go out to eat to celebrate, and try out the new hardware.

It was also around this time that Cole started

to get annoyed with the picture taking.

It went something like this:

"Mom, are you seriously going to keep taking pictures of my teeth?

I can't keep smiling like this.

Oh, Mom, please don't take pictures of me in Chipotle!"

Me: "Ok, I'll stop"

Well, just one more

to document the fact that you can still eat.

Yep- they still work.

Embrace The Camera

I don't very often make it into the pictures in our household.

I am the picture taker.

Not the picture subject.

So I'm taking the "Embrace The Camera" challenge.

Stella wears her helmet 23 hours a day now.

One of the drawbacks of the helmet is that I miss snuggling up to that furry soft head.

Snuggling up to the hard plastic just isn't the same.

Here we are snuggling during our one free hour.

I love that furry head.



Phone Photo Dump

I've been neglecting the blog.

I realize it, and I feel bad about it.

But we've been busy.

With moving and such.

We closed on our new house yesterday.

And we're partially moved in.

We can't find anything, but we slept there last night.

That's a start.

So I'm feeling badly about neglecting the blog.

But I don't have anything prepared to blog about

So I'm dumping photos from my phone today.

Enjoy!

The cutest pirate ever!

Aaaahhh, Look at that smile.

This is actually the pink & white fuzzy stocking hat that the baby girls

in my family have so adorably sported all winter.

Here it looks like on of those furry Russian hats.

I tried to google furry Russian hat to see if I could find the proper name for them,

but all I came up with was a bunch of sites selling Furry Russian Hats.

So, I guess that's what they're called.

Stella likes to touch faces now.

If you get close to her she loves to reach out and touch, or grab.

She likes to touch her Daddy's beard.

And Cole lets her grab his lips and nose and cheeks.

We managed to take advantage of the few nice days that we've had so far.

The swings are a hit.

I dunno,

some menacing looking clouds that I felt were photo worthy.

Awww, this was on the day we were moving out of our house.

This is in Cole's room, which was the only room that was cleared out when Stella needed a nap.

It seemed appropriate to put her right in the center of the room.

Her first (of many I'm assuming) shoulder ride from Dad.

I'm not sure who enjoyed it more.

Cole In The Newspaper!!!!

Cole made the newspaper today!

His middle school was participating in a Civil War event

and his character was John Wilkes Booth.

We called him J-Dub :)

He was excited last night because a reporter asked his name

so he was sure he would make the paper.

Then he was disappointed when he didn't make the print edition this morning.

Turns out his pic just made the online version

but they did use his name, so that's fun.

Here's the LINK to the story.

Turns out he also made his school's website.
Here is the photo of Cole (JWB), Abe (as himself), Megan (Mary Surratt) & Cassidy (Mary Todd Lincoln).