The past two months!

Here we are...posting after another long absence! Well the last two months have not exactly been lazy days! We were all sick for about three weeks...then came the catching up on house work etc. Then Papa Bear and Grandma Bear came for a week! It was so much fun to have them with us for that long! And our Little Britches has grown a lot. He is now walking, not all the time, but he can travel around the house fairly well. He has also started saying a few words. Momma is his most common one along with Boo and ruff ruff when we ask him what our puppy dog says. He is a jolly little fellow and laughs easily! Still does not sleep through the night all the time but we are working on that. Last night was the first full night sleep in several weeks...morning just came to early! :)
Did I mention he is quite the climber? I have found him on top of many things recently, And he can make it all the way up the stairs at Grandma L's house all by himself! Here he is snuggling with Papa Bear! (the name...Papa Bear...where did it come from? Well little lady gets Grandpa and Grandma mixed up all the time. Usually she ends up calling anyone with the name grandpa, grandma so when my folks were here this last time she started calling Grandpa, Papa Bear!)
All ready for meeting!

Just a few days ago Big Guy had his 4th birthday! Cannot believe it!!!!! We shared a party with Cousin Cowgirl and they had fun playing, eating cake and talking to G'ma L on skype because she was sick and could not come :(Here they are blowing out the candles! Love the look on the young Cowgirls face!

8 Months

Little Britches is 8 Months! It is so hard to believe and yet he is not just older by 'days' but is acting and looking more like a toddler every day. He learns or discovers something new daily. He has been crawling since 6 months and standing up next to things for a month now. Britches gets Braver every day...yesterday we were moving some furniture around and we had the sections of the couch a foot apart and he almost took a step away from the one to the other! He has stood up in the middle of the floor and is able to stand without holding on to anything for several seconds. So, yes, our second little boy is growing up...soon to be like our first little boy who is more of a little person today than he was a couple years ago.

Little Britches loves...toilet paper, all food, his big brother, being outside, snuggles, big sister, suckers (of the candy sort) and discovering new things. He has quite the sense of humor already! Big Brother can always make him laugh, sister gets a little overbearing and usually always steels his sucker (pacifier).

Little Britches is 22.5 lbs now.

Brother snuggles in the morning.

Sunset on the Frontier

Between 7 and 8

Catching up on the Frontier...the things that went on between month 7 and 8 of Little Britches.
We had a rather chilly night a while back and this is where our guineas decided to roost for the night!

Sharing a muffin and a stool.

Oops Britches got the muffin and he sure enjoyed it!

This is what Big Guy calls his 'sprayer tent' how it got that name we don't know but they sure enjoyed playing in it and even took one nap and spent one night in it!

Little Britches likes the toilet roll and the kleenex box!

Playing in the sink...actually helping mommy do dishes...if you don't believe me just look...you don't see any dirty ones do you? :)

Now that the dishes are done lets rinse out the sink...and figure out how this thing works!

This is the greatest entertainment in the house! Watching the wash machine go around and around and around and around......

Brother snuggles are the best!

This was the most exciting night in the last month! Yes he is inside the toilet! Well...just the lid. We had to get a new toilet seat and he was checking it out BEFORE we put it on the toilet. This was so exciting to the kiddos that we had to call Grandma and tell her! Is our house boring or what!!?!!

7 Months

Now that Little Britches is 8 months let me get our readers a 7 month update! It is awful how behind Mommy gets around here sometimes! But when you have three little ones it is very seldom they all sleep at the same time! Right now the house is quiet so am taking advantage of that time to give you this update!
I just love how these pictures turned out. They are not perfect nor are they professional but they sure do capture his expression and some of his personality too!

Little Britches was making...or rather...trying to make a tractor sound like Daddy.

Look What I Have!

This is a very common expression! Can you see the mischief in his eyes?! This was right before he made a grab for the camera. :)

And a portrait of all three. :) Just kidding this is the fellow who came to visit the other day. Just before we got a couple days of wind and warmer weather. That is when he decided to go further north...or rather got blown eastward! He was a funny fellow...LOVED standing on his head! That is all we could get him to do for this picture. Little Britches was sleeping for once and missed out on this lovely visitor.

Thanksgiving

Here are some pictures from Thanksgiving. I know we are late getting them up but this has been a month full of sick kids and at our house that means they are very needy kids! Plus two kids getting teeth at the same time is no walk in the park either! But three teeth and all well later I am finally getting some things done that have been neglected!

Thanksgiving was a time with family both His and some of Hers too! :) Our Big Guy sure enjoys watching Cousin play games on his computer but the big day finally got the best of him!

Li'l Britches enjoying some Auntie time.

Sadly enought this is the only picture we got of the table! This was after supper even. :(

Somtime around Thanksgiving day we had this delicious pizza. It is ham and asparagus alfredo pizza. Yum!

Stay tuned for Li'l Britches 7 Month update.

A Gift for Grandparents!

We made a bean bag toss out of this gift box. Little Britches had fun playing with it too.

We have a video of the older kids throwing their bean bags but I have not had much luck in posting videos on the blog. If anyone has some advice on the matter it would be greatly appreciated!

kitchen 'makeover'

We 'put in' new counter tops a couple weeks ago to give our kitchen a face lift!

What these counter tops actually are is paint! Now if we were in a house of our own we would put in real counter tops but since this is a temporarily permanent house it has been fun to play around with different colors and themes throughout the house. So far I really like my black counter tops. And our new stove is black also! Would have liked stainless but will keep that for another day another house. I have been toying with the idea of what to do with the back splash on these counters. Should they be black also? Or would you go for another color altogether? The walls in these pictures are kind of washed out. In real life they are a bit darker and more of a tan color. The sunflowers on the cupboards have a dark green in them but have wondered if that would be to dark to go behind a black counter. There is not much for light in the kitchen. Would love to know what our readers think!