A, B, C's!!

Riley is amazing, honestly simply amazing. All though I may have an extensive preschool teaching background and many supplies are with in arms reach I fail daily at engaging Riley in any preschool like activity. However today was not one of those days!! This morning we headed to Glory to pick up a few things ant Michael's that I had been putting off. Much to my surprise we found this amazing wooden alphabet puzzle! I know you must be thinking what is so great about this abc puzzle right, well lets just say that wooden puzzles are not cheap!! This puzzle though is probably the best find I have had in awhile! It cost me $1.00!!! The other great thing about this amazing puzzle is that we got to color it however we wanted too!! Of course Riley can not stay in the lines all to well so I helped out a bit:) Anyhow since buying this puzzle a few hours ago Riley has managed to recognize a few letters! A for Auntie Christie! D for Dad! G for Gi Gi's, grandma and grandpa! M for Myles and Mom! R for Riley! U for Uncle! and Z for Zoey! Okay well for never working with him before today which I still do not feel like I did I think he is pretty AMAZING!!

Here it is!


and yes as usual he is pantless!!

A whole new room!

Jeff left last Thursday to attend a youth conference in Ohio. While he was gone for four nights and basically five days I decided to change up our room. Since before Zoey was born our room was sorta the catch all. It consisted of our sleeping area, "office stuff", baby's bed and kids broken toys, toys on time out, art work, scrabooking stuff etc... Anyways I have been feeling overwhelmed by it for the longest time, in fact I dreaded going in there day after day as it just made me anxious knowing at some point I needed to deal with it. Most days you could not even see the floor, so not me, at least not before kids!! Anyhow I have no before pics as I would never want to relive what I lived with but here are a few after pics.
I bought a new dresser which we now share. Before I used the top of my laundry basket and suitcase while Jeff used his six drawer dresser all to himself!!
I also picked up two "bookshelves" although I am using them as bed side tables. I got some drawers to go in them as well and a few cute boxes to keep the clutter at a minimum. I have not hung any pictures yet because silly Jeff had both our hammers in his car which was parked over the hill.

Anyhow while he was gone this is what I did and yes all this stuff had to be put together, so not fun!! And yes the kids might have been a bit neglected :( but hey they got to pick out the welcome home flowers!! Jeff's reaction was the typical guy statement..."how much did it cost?" I think he is relieved though that he did not have to do any of the cleaning or building,lucky him!! Now if he can only remember where his laundry basket is :) oh and yes Zoey is still in our room.

Over it!

I guess she is done hearing herself say how much she loves me :(

First Word!!

Zoey Belle 7 months and all ready talking about how much she loves ME!!

Se7en Months!

Zoey Belle "flower"


Zoey is a very happy baby! She is the quietest one in our family by far, yet you can't help but notice her joyful spirit! She is such a delight!

Zoey is somewhere around 16 or 17 pounds and growing longer every day. She loves to hang out on the floor and watch everything and everyone around here. She is quite the observer. She does not give smiles away usually, in fact you have to earn it sometimes! Unless of course you are one of us :) She has become a little more clingy to mom but still a daddy's girl at heart. Her brothers just adore her. Zoey is trying to crawl more and more each day, she has been able to get up on all fours and rock a little bit. She pretty much just rolls or scoots to get places. I am sure it won't be long now. Teething on the other hand is taking a very long time, she still does not have any teeth to show off. Even so she loves to eat! This past week she started on baby yogurt, and blueberries. We are slacking in the veggie dept. We are working on helping her to sleep longer at night and in her own bed so please be praying for success for us :) It is very challenging at times, especially in our small apt with all the rooms so close together. Crying it out works really well and is easy with the first kid and maybe even the second but by the time the third one comes around you really want the other two to continue to sleep through the night and having a screaming baby in the middle of the night is just not so desirable.

Ha Ha Ha!

This is totally how I feel!

Happy Three Day!!

Happy Birthday Rooster Roo!
Dirt Cake!

Celebrating with friends :)