Last Hoo-rah before School starts

I just realized that I somehow deleted 3 or so pictures of our day at Bridal Veil Falls--too lazy to re-download-sorry.

Abby looks stylin' in Cam's pimp-daddy hat

Didn't get a ton of use out of her swimsuit, but she wore it well


The Friday before school started we met Kristi at
Bridal Veil Falls. The kids played, complained about how long they had to walk and threw rocks.

She has found her thumb---so darn cute.

Who dat?

She's ok

Chad was able to escape from work for an hour or so to join us.

Cam wanted me to take a picture of all the puke on Abby--this is even after wiping some away before Cam yelled that he was serious about wanting a picture taken.

90+ degrees and Spencer was in long sleeves and Cam was in sweats. NUTS!

Monica's Closet

To any of you fans of the TV show Friends--I'm sure you will remember the episode with Monica's closet. (loved that episode). I used to identify with Monica on many levels--motherhood has chilled me out a bit. Monica was a super-uptight-clean-freak, but she had a secret closet that was stuffed full of crap--oh the hilarity that ensued. Well, this is MY Monica closet. Kind of embarassed to be posting a picture of it, but I believe that to be emotionally healthy we have to laugh at ourselves. I am one healthy gal. Chad will be building shelves on the left and I will organize the heck out of this closet. I was counting on the nesting instinct and energy to tackle this project before Abby was born, but it never happened. Now that the little stink doesn't nap longer than 45 minutes during the day I will have to stay up late one night to fix it.

Abby-The beginning of the end

I just accidentally erased the picture below, and am not in the mood to put it back in the correct order--anyway,,,I was taking the 5 month doll picture and while I was getting the camera ready Abby grabs the doll, puts it's head in her mouth, pukes on it, then rolls over on it, all the while happily squealing. Man, even last months she just sat there for her doll picture.

The Kater-bug is 5 months old today. She did something this morning. AHH, She rolled from her back to front for the first time. I knew it was coming despite my best efforts to thwart her progress (nudging her with my foot to get her back to where she should be--quietly laying on her back). Just kidding--well mostly.

It really was cute, she grunted the entire time and was finally able to move her arm out from under her--then she looked around like, "what now" and cried. It's all downhill from here baby.

The last few weeks Abby has:

found her feet-she doesn't chew on them, but she pulls on them and plays with them

grabs anything and it goes immediately to her mouth--I know this is normal, but she is my first baby to do this

loves her winnie the pooh triangle teether

rolled back to front

doesn't get a bottle too often, but does a great job holding it when she does

still a crappy napper and is up much earlier in the morning but we will see how she does once school starts and we can get on a more consistant routine

loves to be outside

great in the car

not loving the binky as much lately

still pukey and drooley

loves to be in the bumbo--especially when mommy is cooking

Just had to throw in a couple of bath pictures---Chad must love taking bath-time pictures, because they are always showing up on the camera. He did the same with the boys,,,cracks me up.

More Laundry and No Feet!

It's not like I don't have enough laundry to do every day. Abby decided to add another load today, before 9:00 am. I had just bathed her and opened a drawer to pick out an outfit and she puked ALL over her clothes. The only thing I could say was, "nice shot little girl!" I found only one shirt that wasn't "soiled".

The other day I was telling mom that Abby was growing out of her jammies and she told me to just cut the feet out. Cam was obviously listening because a few minutes later he asked very concerned, "Mom are you really going to cut Abby's feet off?" AAhhh! Kids are precious. I was laughing too hard to play along---'cause that would have been fun to mess with Cam for a while.