Welcome To My Life

Can you believe it?  My baby, 6 months old.  She's halfway to her first birthday! Noooooooooo!

She such a blast at this age, but the thought of her walking just around the corner (and trust me, she will) and turning one is a little more than I'd like to take right now.   Since she's likely my last baby, I'd kinda like her to slow down a bit, but I guess life doesn't do that huh?

So, a 6 month report....she's a fast crawler now!  Loves to try to find paper and eat it.  Fascinated with the cats.  And very tolerant of her older (rougher) brother.  When she stands, she balances very well for her age, hanging on with one hand like a pro.  She turns and looks around while doing this, and it looks like she's going to just walk away. She's eating mroe foods now, loving her fruit and sweet potatoes.  She's a hungry girl these days, but I guess that comes with her activity level.  Her 6 month check up is on Tuesday, so more on her stats then!

On Sunday the kids had a bit of fun.  Emmy started out by having a little fun with Claire.  Pictures of their little gathering can be seen in the featured gallery for today.  Then we took the kids to see Grandma and Grandpa.

Marcus's excitement started out with the frog.  We found a small frog hopping around by Marcus's little pool and he thought it was the neatest thing.  He kept trying to dump water from his pool onto it, and was delighted to hold it briefly. 

We then turned our attention to the peas.  It was pea shelling day and Marcus was a very big helper!  He's so good at shelling peas, and each time he opens one up and finds peas he goes "Yeeessss!" 

Yesterday Marcus graduated from his toddler gym.  He has had so much fun scooting around with other boys and girls his age that we will have to sign him up for more in the fall.  He has a fascination with doing the balance beam with the hula hoop around him (???) and loves crawling through the tunnel and going down the slide the best.  At the end of each gym session we play with the parachute and Marcus goes bananas for that thing! 

Well, is was an exciting day around here!  First off, Byron got baptized.  It was a very nice service, and all went smoothly.  We then had a gathering at our house with approx 20+ people for lunch and cake.  It was HOT HOT HOT! 

Some highlights from the day....

Marcus was playing in his pool in the backyard in front of everyone, pulled down his swim trunks, went over to the lawn, and promptly peed. Well, he didn't pee his pants did he?  He later was yelling Help Help Mum!  I looked at him and he had pulled "himself" out of his swim pants and was standing by a bush trying to take a pee!  Where has he been learning all this?  It wasn't me!!!!

We set up a massive slip n slide on the front lawn for all the kids to enjoy.  There are lots of great shots in the album.   We put soap on the thing and the kids FLEW!  Nevermind the kids, I FLEW when I did 3 quick runs with Marcus.  What a blast! 

Claire (Emmaline's B-Day buddy) and Emmy were chillin outside having a great time together.  Loads of pictures of them thanks to Michelle, Claire's mommy.  Claire even brought a Bumbo seat for Emmy to try.  What a nifty little thing!

Marcus didn't nap all day, and with running up and down the hill on the front yard he was wiped right out.  Emmy didn't sleep a whole lot either, and both kids were HOT!  After everything (OK, most everything) was cleaned up and the plants were watered (thanks to Marcus for the help! lol) I took the kids into the tub...all 3 of us!  Yes, I was hot too....sorry no pictures of this! LOL The cool water felt sooo good.  Marcus and Emmy were clearly overtired and sat and stared at each other taking turns cracking up!!!  Marcus would laugh at Emmy, then she'd belt out this HUGE belly laugh (music to my ears).  Then Marcus would giggle, and Emmy would giggle.  Take that and repeat for a good 5 minutes straight, and I was laughing the entire time with them! What a nice end to a nice day, and it's even better now that they are both FAST ASLEEP!

Last night we had a neighbourhood BBQ and the kids had so much fun!  Marcus was cruising around until 10pm and wouldn't admit to being tired!  He did a great job at keeping up with the rest of them.  A good time was had by all, and despite the rain in the forecast for the entire day, we never got a drop.

Emmy got a bit overstimulated and needed some extra time in her sling, so I ended up wearing her quite a bit of the evening.  My back ended up acually going out a bit, but seems to be OK today.

Today we celebrated Claire's baptism.  At the lunch after Claire, Rio and Emmaline all got together and had some fun!  OK, the camera happy parents/other relatives had some fun!  Seems we could not get all three babies happy at once, so we had to settle for what we could get when the 3 babes were all awake at the same time, which took some doing.

Marcus had a blast playing with Kris, and riding his tricycle.  He didn't even want to come inside when the thunder and lightning warned us of the storm rolling in. 

Here's a picture of the babies together, for more pictures from this day, see the albums!