Sears Pictures

I just wanted to let you know that I took the kids to get some professional pictures taken at Sears. I didn't want to post all the pictures on here, its just too time consuming. Check out the link on the right to my web album. There you can see those pictuers plus others. Here just a sampling of a few of the pictures.

Haviland Lake

On Friday we went up to Haviland Lake, north of Durango, to go camping for the evening. Our good friends, Mark and Maria invited us to come and stay in their camper with them. I was very grateful they had a camper, because I am a big wimp and really didn't want to camp in a tent with Lillie. We had lots of fun! Joey was so excited to be able to go. He loves Mark and Maria and, loves camping. He is spoiled also the camping he knows is camping in a camper since my parents have had a camper his whole life.

We had dinner by the fire and roasted marshmallows. Rich and Joey went and played near the lake. We stayed nice and cozy in the camper that evening. Maria made us breakfast burritos the next morning.

Unfortunatly, the trip was over almost as soon as it started. Mark and Maria had to get back into town fairly early on Saturday so they could pick up their dog at the kennel.

All in all it was a great trip, short and sweet, but to be honest just the right length for me and Lillie.

Heres some pictures of us while we were there!

Lillie's first camping trip!

Eating dinner. I loved this shot of him in his hat.

He was so excited to build a fire

Joey and Mark

Lillie and Mark

"Finally, they let me roast marshmallows!

We told him he could load the marshmallows himself and he thought it would be a good idea to put on on each end, silly boy!

The fire was never big enough, he always wanted to "help" and add more

Me and my boy

All of us

I swear he was happy, he just has an ability to look grumpy in pictures, too funny!

Joey, helping again. He wanted to help use tools so bad, finally mark let him help take town the camper.

"Baby Food Is Gross!"

I have not been able to get Lillie to eat much of anything lately. I tried religiously to get her to eat her 3 meals a day of baby food like to doctor told us to do at her 6 month check-up. She would take like 3 bites and then she'd be done. I was getting so frustrated because I want her to eat solids, she is so much happier when she has a full belly and solids just stick around a lot longer than milk. Plus she is old enough that she doesn't need to be attached to a bottle all the time. She loves the little puff snacks and she is really interested in what we are eating. I tried one night to let her snitch some rice and little things she could handle off of our plate and sure enough she ate like a pig. Light bulb moment, She doesn't like baby food!! This is hard for me because I was so by the book with Joey. I followed every recommendation there was to follow. With her, I'm just happy to get her to eat. Of course, I'm not giving her anything she can't handle or anything she shouldn't be having yet so we are ok but who says she has toeat baby food. A long time ago there wasn't even store bought baby food and parents did what I'm doing now. The other aspect of this is that she want to be in control, she like to feed herself. Here are some shots of her doing just that.

"This is so much better than baby food!"

Who's In Charge

Lillie, Lillie, Lillie, what am I going to do with you? Where should I start, that girl keeps me on my toes!

First of all, her new method of transportation is rolling. She hasn't quite learned to crawl yet so if she wants to go somewhere she justs rolls there. The other day we put her on a blanked to play on and I went into the kitchen to work on dinner. I heard her grunting which usually means she up against the couch and can't go any further. I went in there to help her out and found her wrapped up in the blanket. She did it all herself it was so funny. She just gave me this look as if to say, "Really mom, help me out and stop laughing at me." She wasn't mad just a little irritated.

Next on the Lillie is crazy list is why this post is called "Who's In Charge." She really likes her pacifier. We call them dummys since that is what they are called in England where Rich served his mission. At night I she sucks on one and I put like 4 more in her crib with her so that when she wakes up at night she can find one on her own without freaking out and making me get up to find one for her. She is one smart little girl. Last night she woke up and threw all of her dummies out of her crib and started fussing. I went in, pulled the crib back from the wall and then gave her one and put the rest around her so she could have more for later. I went back to bed and went to sleep. Again, she woke up. I went in to her and again, the dummies were on the floor and behind the bed. I retrieved them again and then went back to bed. I went to sleep, again. She woke up, again. I went in there and I realized, "She is throwing these things down to get me in her room!" Finally after about an hour I got her back to sleep. Needless to say I am a little tires today.

Although she is high maitenance she is still my little sweetie and as cute as can be. I love her so much. She is not even 8 months old and she is already weighing 18 lbs. I swear her and Joey are opposites in so many ways. She has 8 lbs to go and then she will catch up to him. She loves playing on the floor with her toys and entertaining us and playing with her bubba.