Here is Lily, lounging around on the barstool.
Nathan and Lily love to make Kayla smile! They are so good at playing with her and keeping her happy, which is helpful for me.
Kayla is eating solid foods now! She loves the squash and pumpkin that I canned from our ward garden last summer! She is a huge eater. She's taking after her sister, Lily, eating lots of food and still so small. She's in the 15th percentile for both height and weight. She's about 11.5lbs at 5 1/2 months.
Lily loves to get all dressed up her her layers of clothes, as long as at least one of them is a dress or a skirt.
So, last summer, our big projects were a fence, a sprinkler system, and a landscaped front yard. That took the entire summer. Bryson worked so hard and did a great job on those. This summer, our priority project is getting grass in the back! I am looking forward to the day when I can send the kids out to run around on a nice green backyard!
Bryson rotatilled our backyard inbetween conference seesions on Saturday.
It's looking good! Next we have to rake and pick out the million rocks that are back there!
Nathan was a big help. He's raking the area where Bryson is going to build a sandbox.
So, there are some pictures, other big events that have happened lately, are:
- Nathan's eardrum ruptured: It was kind of crazy because we were at the doctor on a Tuesday for well checks and shots and everyone was healthy. Nathan had a fever all night and the next day from his shots. On Thursday, he was having trouble hearing. After everything I said, he said, "what?" or "huh?" That got annoying fast! So, I looked in his ear and all this yucky stuff was coming out. We went back to the doctor and he told us that his eardrum had ruptured and his other ear was beginning to get infected. Bummer. He was quite a trooper though, never in any pain and he loved taking his medicine and didn't mind the ear drops.
- Cookies for dinner? So, I have really gotten in to food storage stuff and trying to be more healthy in my cooking and baking. I had heard you can substitute white beans for butter, but had never tried it. So, I decided to do it. I used beans instead of butter, powdered eggs, half white half whole wheat flour, and quick oats. Of course we had to put lots of chocolate chips in them, but they were yummy! Nathan's reaction to them was, "Can we make these cookies everyday?" My little neighbor girls didn't believe me that there were really beans in them.
- Nathan started preschool: A friend and I started a group preschool for our kids and found lots of interest in the ward. I think we have 10 kids in it! She was very excited about it, so we decided to go ahead and start now and go for a couple months and then take a summer break and start again in the fall. Everyone is doing great and I really enjoy having some one on one time with Lily.
- Kayla is sleeping through the night! I think that's all I need to say about that. :) Well, actually, any of you who have babies, I highly recommend the Babywise book series. I have learned tons from it and it has totally made a difference in Kayla (even though she is still such a SWEET baby, I was having difficulty getting her on a good napping schedule). Anyway, it gave me some good tips that have worked great for her. I just got done reading the book by the same authors called Childwise for kids ages 3-7. I thought I could use a few tips for Nathan. I have really enjoyed that book and it has given me several good ideas.
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