All about the move...

I found this little princess doll at "other mother's" for just a couple dollars and I sewed a bunch of beads on it to make is snazzy. Lily unwrapped her special gift a few days before we moved. I thought it might help her to get something special when her little world was turning upside down and getting rather confusing. They even match! She carried the new doll everywhere. She really like it!
Last look at my poor little garden... (and I picked a few of the orange tomatoes to ripen at the new place)
And now we are in the work zone! My Dad was finishing something on the floors.. the baseboards or something and it was really loud so Lily and Jonathan wore these. The gate that slowed her down enough for me to get this picture is where our door will be at some point.
Lily has a bunk-bed now! She likes to go up there sometimes and read or watch a movie on her little dvd player. Renna is on Youssef's lap, but the book is in the way so you can't see her.

This is our bathroom sink/bathtub/kitchen sink/dishing area/litterbox cover/uttility sink area.
Lily liked playing in the bubbles. Renna actually got to take a bath in there first, but the batteries on my camera were dead and so I didn't get a picture.

I need to buy new batteries so that I can actually get a few more pictures. And I need to take some so that I can put them up on here to show off the new digs. The main room is really wonderfully huge. I'm going to scrapbook today and it will be so nice to be able to leave out the table with my stuff on it! I need to do some sort of crock pot meal today... or chilli so that I don't have to worry about dinner. ... must start a fire inthe fire-place... put the dishes away... and water plants. I was really sick and it's nice to have a somewhat "normal" day so that I can do some easy things like this and also be productive too! Tomorrow is going to be way too busy.

Candy Land!

Lily's new favorite thing is playing candy land! She's pretty good at it too as long as I keep her attention and act really excited about everything. It's fun though and really good for her right now to learn colors and matching. It's also really fun hearing her talk and get excited about "Kreen Kwrusteen" I think Queen Frostine IS her favorite and no wonder since she IS the best one to get after all!
Lily has only won a few times -- even though she cheats (unintentionally) -- but I think her main goal in the game is to get all the character cards. She loves those ones! :)

Baby-sitting

For the five minutes or so that I was in the back room getting dressed and Youssef was getting into the shower Lily decided to "help" by baby-sitting Renna. Quite ingenious really to dump out all the "puffs" for her to eat. When I came into the living room Renna was shoveling the treats into her mouth with both hands and I was trying to explain to Lily that she'd given Renna too much. Lily looked guilty and kept repeating "Too much. Too much." over and over and I couldn't help but get a picture of the happy baby feast before picking up most of the puffs and putting them back in the container. Fortunately I'd just vacuumed so the puffs could be saved without much worry. Renna wasn't too thrilled that I took most of her feast away. I think she liked her big sister's technique of babysitting.


It's so hard sometimes not to laugh when I'm trying to explain something to my child.

Renna's crawling! (Sort of) ;)

Renna has been rolling over for a several months now and she's just starting to go forward more. You can't quite see in the video, but she does this little inch-worm thing by laying on her tummy then getting up on her knees and pushes with her toes and then lays back down on her tummy to reach out to things. It's pretty cute. :) In this video she kept loosing interest in the toy I was trying to get her to crawl to (she was pretty tired from our busy morning), but there is some definite forward motion now!

Playing with Friends!

The Tucker kids came over last Saturday (so that Rebekah could go out with just Forrest for her birthday.. a day early) and we walked to the park! We also found out what those hangy things were actually for that are attached to the double stroller... they are hand holds! So handy too.

Lily and Noelle got to visit while we walked. (On the way back the boys took turns in there too since everyone was so worn out.)

And here's the new park that we found!

Unfortunately, the bathrooms were already closed for the year so that got a little tricky, but Youssef was with me so one of us could stay with the kids while the other took a kid to a bush or across the street to a store. It worked out all right and we didn't have an accident.

The kids had fun doing a "train" on the slide. They did it several times with each kid in the front.Timothy being spider-man.

David looking a bit tired at this point...

Everyone was SO hot on the way back that they all wanted to play in the pool when we got back.
Well, the kids didn't have suits with them, but there was this yard sale on the way home. They had kid clothes for 25 cents each and I found a swimsuit for Noelle and two pairs of nice shorts for the boys! I got a couple other things too.

As you can tell from the cheesy grins, the kids loved the pool! Lily was all done when Youssef dumped water over her head though. She said she was cold and then got out for her towel. I don't think the kids were quite ready to go home, but we all went to the Tuckers house and had dinner and then we put the super tired kids to sleep and played games. It was really fun, but of course we stayed up way too late again!