Typical Sunday

Well .. today was another typical Sunday. It was nice, and relaxing. It was another beautiful cool day.

We got up this morning, got ready for church, went and picked up a friend and his kids and took them to church with us. After church, we had lunch at thier home. We had chili, which was VERY good!

They have a huge apple tree.. the apples were delicious. I was told to get as many as I like. Sooo....I got enough apples for 2 pies, came home, made them.. and YUMMY! They turned out GREAT!! Nothing like a good warm Apple Pie with Vanilla icecream! :)

Now... It is 11:19 and I am headed off to bed.. am very tired. Tomorrow is Monday.. wow.. how time flies...

Evening Drive

Well - here I am again. I haven't written in my blog for the last couple of days - not too much has been going on. Today, was another beautiful day! The kids were out most of the day. I also babysat as usual. While Emma and the girls were playing out in the backyard, Abbi and I made Pumkin Muffins, a recipe from my sister Doina and they turned out delicious! All the kids had them for snack, and we had more after supper for dessert! I can't wait to try them with wheat flour. I am out of wheat. I hope to make it to the Coutry Store this weekend to buy more.

After supper this evening Jonathan had a brilliant idea! We all jumped in the van, and went out to one of our reservoirs. The weather was absolutely gorgeous! We took a wonderful country drive -- the weather was so nice and cool, the sun was setting behind us and there were cornfeilds on either side of us....just lovely.

When we got to the reservoir we walked about half a mile. The kids walked most of the way, but then both needed a "piggy back ride" before it was done. They were getting tired. They enjoyed seeing the seagulls, and the 1 duck. Suprisingly there wasn't more. As the sun was setting, the purple martins started to come out. It was beautiful! We sat down on a big rock and watch the fish jump up.. and the sun set. It was a beautiful relaxing evening. We hope to do it again sometime real soon.

Blackberry Thief

Today, I was sitting at my computer, (laptop) at the kitchen table. The weather was nice so I had all my windows and doors open. My two little girls were playing (having a picnic) out the side door on the stair step. My next door neighbor comes over, stands in the door and calls my name. When I looked up, to my delight he was holding a bowl full of blackberries - and to my embarrassment, lil' Abigail was out there playing with no diaper on- no panties... no.. nothing. I was immediately embarrassed. So I walked over, graciously accepted the black berries and was sure to quickly explain why Abigail was naked. "I am in the process of potty training this one" I said. "Oh, Oh, - o.k." was all he could seem to say. I wonder... what kind of impression did that leave? Only time will tell - I guess I have to wait until next summer when blackberry season comes along.

I took the blackberries inside, quickly searched the internet for a blackberry recipe. With alittle bit of luck, I ran across a delicious recipe at: http://www.allrecipes.com . I measured out enough berries for the Blackberry Cobbler, washed them and set them aside. I turned around for no more than ONE minute, and low and behold.... this is who I found in the blackberries....



So, needless to say, I had to remeasure and wash.. ect. :) Even with all the obsticales, I managed to get it done. It was delicious! Jonathan gave it a 5 out of 5 rating. :) We had warm cobbler over vanilla icecream. YUMMY! You can get the recipe here. Just a note: I cut back 1/4 cup of the sugar, and it was perfect! Not too tart, and not too sweet. When all was said and done, this is what it looked like:

On a seperate note: Abbi is now on day 3 of her potty training. I think she is starting to get the hang of things. After many "accidents", this evening after wetting her panties, she immediately took them off and went and sat herself on the potty. :)So she is starting to realized what the potty is for. Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day.

Potty Training Abbi

Well, I did it. Today was day one of potty training Abbi. She was more than ready, always asking to go potty and even attemping to undress herself. She has been doing this for about 3 weeks now, so I decided it was finally time to start the potty training process. We will see how this goes. She will be 20 months old tomorrow! I set her on the potty several times today, and she went teetee once! Needless to say, I was much more excited than she was - but it was a rather good day. She sat on the potty with no problem. Hopefully tomorrow will go just as smooth.

One a seperate note, when my kids went down for a nap today, I was able to do some bird watching down by our creek. The weather was AWESOME and the birds were active. I seen several cedar waxwings down by the creek. I was excited to see them for today may be the last I see of them since they will be migrating soon.

Abigail's Report

Abbi is almost 20 months old - she is doing and saying so much these days! Where do I start? :) Today she learned that she can pedal this car and get from here to there. It has become her favorite new toy.

She has become quite the little parrot repeating almost everything you ask her too- and many words just on her own! Her favorite things to say is:

"I do it" (she wants to do EVERYTHING on her own)

"go away bug" (speaking to the flys that manage to come thru the door)

AND

"come on mommy" (if I ask her to go get something, she always asks me to come with her)

She says too many words to list. She knows the names of all 3 of the girls I babysit - including 2 of the neighbor kids that come over to play with Emma once in a while. Thier names are Alana and Douglas. Last week - we were in my bedroom - Abbi was sitting on my bed and I was next to the bed folding cloths. It was a nice cool days, our shades were up and the windows open. I am sitting there folding cloths and Abbi goes "mommy! lana - dougas", and I looked up and she was poting out the window. I looked over, and seen Alana and Douglas riding by on thier bikes. Up until then I had no clue she even knew who they were! Every day she is saying something new... she just amazes me.

Her favorite thing is to sit down and write. She will sit down and write for long periods at a time. She must also show me her picture every 5 seconds. :)

She asks me to go potty on a daily basis. I set her on the "big" potty, but she hasn't accomplished anything yet. One of these days I am going to get serious about it, and I think she will catch on in no time at all! Her favorite part about sitting on the potty now is getting wiped. (even though she doesn't do anything - she still wants me to wipe her) :)

Emma's Report

Emma - she is a sweetheart! She will do anything to please "mommy". She is always full of smiles, hugs and kisses! She is so good at playing with her sister. The picture above was taken this morning, as Emma was giving Abbi a ride on thier pedal car.

This past week while Lavinia and Michael was visiting, I realized that Emma LOVES babies! Having the little baby on her mind, this morning at the breakfast table we had an adorable conversation that went like this:

Mommy: I love my babies, Emma and Abbi! And oh yes - and I love my big baby, daddy too!

Emma: Nooo - my daddy!

Mommy: Ohh - ok.. so he is your daddy - not mine?

Emma: YES

Mommy: Yes - that's right. Do you rememeber pawpa and buna (grandma) from Uncle Sam's Wedding?

Emma: yes

Mommy: Pawpa is my daddy, and buna is my mommy

Emma: ooohhhhh

Mommy: and do you know Grandpa Ed?

Emma: yyyyyyesss

Mommy: that's daddies daddy

Emma: (thinking... thinking.. thinking) hmmm... daddy was a baby???

Mommy: yyess.. he sure was. Daddy was a small baby at one time

Emma: (eyes a glistening) Mommy! I held daddy?!?!?!

Mommy: haha .. no sweetheart, daddy was a baby loonnngg before you were born.

Emma: oooohhhhhhh

David Michael

Well.. my sister Lavinia, her husband Michael and thier new precious lilttle baby, David Michael came to see me and spent almost a week. Below you will see alot of pictures that were taken while they were here. Over the next few days I will try and add a few close up pictures.

I'm finally back!

It's been so long since I have last wrote in my "blog". My girls are growing up so fast, I have every intention of keeping it up as to what is going on in our neck of the woods. If I slack off any, be sure to contact me at: info@discountinvitationshop.com and YELL at me!