Brie 7 months

Godmother Leigh Ann was in town so we added her for our 7 month post. We are up to 19# 4oz, and generally a very happy baby. Brie has become an expert at raspberries, favorite saying is "dadadada" at a high pitch happy voice. Mommy is still her favorite! She is getting better at eating the solids, would much prefer table food. She gets formula while at daycare at 10 and 4, otherwise it is momma's milk. She is almost sitting, not crawling but can get where she wants to go with alittle effort. Overall is fairly shy and cries easily with those that she does not see regularly (except kids, they get a smile no matter what)

cousins

A visit from the Portland cousins made for a great time! Our visit was short but we packed lots of talking, catching up and wrestling with kids in. As you can tell by the background in this photo they had lots of fun playing. How fun to have cousins so close in age.

So the overprotective mommy in me utilized Uncle Dave's special skills and had him print each of the kiddos for out lock box. Now that it is done we will never have to use them!!! Thanks Dave!

Poor Mags

So the little three have been fighting a small virus since Thursday, temps of 100-101 range, no big deal. Still in pretty good moods, played okay so I did not think much of it. Decided I better listen to my poor second child, yep wheezing, started the nebs. She did good then last night I could not get her to clear so we did a second one, a bit better so off to bed. Spoke with this fantastic pediatrician I know and he says oh, should probably see her sometime. Spoke with the wonderful hubby and he says hey it is a good time, I will go get all the kids and come see you. Fantastic put my mommy worries to rest. Well a long listen by the great physician I know and he says Congrats she has pneumonia! what she is not that sick, "well you can call it bronchitis, if it makes you feel better!" So yes my poor Maggie gets the sympathy vote tonight! Do not be fooled she really is doing ok, we just will not ask her to run any races this week.

So Pete cut up oranges for supper tonight. Maggie asks : "May I have another orange please?" Pete: Why did you not finish that one(meaning the one near her plate)? she replied "well that one is little tough and hard to chew" As evidenced by the photo the poor thing took a large bit of the peel and all! Apparently we have too much going on at the dinner table that we cannot watch all of the kiddos, we definately got a good chuckle and of course we helped and watched Maggie with the rest of her oranges. Maybe this pneumonia is affecting her more than we thought?

Warm days......

I am tired of our WARM summer days, come on fall! Do not get me wrong I am NOT ready for old man winter by any means but.... I am really tired of 90 plus degree days. At any rate we enjoyed the heat with some sprinkler fun for hopefully one of the last times!! I could not catch PJ in the sprinkler but he liked the water as well.

First Game

First game was Saturday and it was a lot of fun, I am shocked at how into the game I got. These are first graders. The other team had a bit more experience than our girls, however we put up a good fight. There is no score keeping in this age group but Kayla did score a goal for us, definately put a feather in her hat. The above photo Kayla has her hand raised and the below one she is toward the front of the pack.

Soccer

My eldest has started soccer today. She just had practice tonight and first game on Saturday. Lucky girl has her daddy as her coach because no one else was stepping up to the job. (like he needs one more thing on his plate right now, but it is good for him) Things went well tonight and it was fun to socialize a bit with the other parents. We have a team of 7 girls and 5 play at a time so it should work out well. I was very impressed with the coach and the little girls, half of whom had never played before. They really looked like they were getting it. Kayla says "soccer is great except I did not like the exercise part" We all laughed and said at least you like soccer. First game Saturday, wish us luck!

Brie's eating

So Brie is far from prim and proper as she has taken to eating her toes while enjoying her solids. Obviously she is a messy eater because any photos on the blog of her eating show her without clothing! It really is just easier, feed her and then off for a bath. Her toes used to just be dessert but now she enjoys them throughout her whole meal. I love the gummy smile she offers part way through the video. She really is a bright spot in our family's days.