Getting Nothing Accomplished

I attempted to rake the yard yesterday. As I raked the bazillions of leaves into a neat and tidy pile Gavin would run through them, jump in them, throw them into the air, and carry them over to Adalay so she could also enjoy them. Because we only had pine needles in Conroe and because this is his first experience with fall leaves. I decided to continue raking with the mindset that I would never accomplish anything. Well, I did not finish the yard but hardly care. We had a ton of fun romping about and playing (and taking a ton of pictures)!


This next image is a metaphor for our times. It shows a lone, vibrant, figure and it's futile resistancein conforming to the masses.
Kidding, it's just a picture of a leaf.


I know I have said this before but I really don't care for posing my kids pictures (although I am guilty of doing it sometimes), however this was not posed. I guess he just wanted an extreme close-up...


Another leaf that deserved it's own picture...

Painting

G loves to paint, draw, and color. But mostly to paint. I love it when he paints on paper and not the floor, walls, library books, or table.






He prefers to paint with others and he especially enjoys giving the directions to what the others should be painting.

"Paint a elephant"

"Paint a dinosaur"

"Paint a snake"

I love the fact that he recognizes and can name so many colors and animals: Giant squids? Too easy. Walking Sticks? No problem! Kinkajous, certainly you can do better than that!  

Ask him to paint each of those and they all look suspiciously similar...

I am sure at some point I will be able to tell the difference between his animals but for now I am loving what he does.

A Huge Thanks...

When Adalay was several weeks old my sister-in-law, Heather, sent us a gigantic tub of clothes for her.  However as much as I thought about sending a thank you note. I never did. I was lying awake last night thinking about how ANOTHER day had went by that I had not let Heather know how much I appreciated that super kind act of generosity. I decided today was the day I was going to at least get up a blog post to thank her.

So Heather, thanks for the washing, sorting, labeling, and packing that went into this!  

Thanks for each piece of clothing!  And especially for the little zebra print shoes...

And the cute hats...

And the super sweet yellow and white dress...
And all the t-shirts...
And most of all thank you for the well dressed baby!
As much as I love these, we can't wait for an excuse to send them back to you for your next baby!  

She's getting so Big

Adalay had her 4 month well baby visit. She is growing like a champ and weighs in at 14pds 9oz she is tall at 25.5 inches but has a tiny little head that is in the 14% of children her age. Just the opposite of her 90th% head brother. She is 100% cute.

So with major thanks to Sarah (my BFF from 2nd grade) and this post (which I have read, and re-read at least a dozen times), I have finally made the jump to cloth diapers. I have wanted to do this since before I had Gavin but it was so much easier just to buy a box of diapers each month instead of paying for what seemed to be the gigantic start up cost of cloth diapering. Well, after months of buying one diaper at  time I finally have enough to get Adalay through 2-3 days before having to wash. 

Cloth diapers are irresistibly cute, I bought this diaper cover from from ReThink Crafts  at Etsy and I am very impressed with it so far (no leaks)! 

Adalay has decided the photo shot is officially over.

I am going to be making changes to this blog pretty soon. I am in the process of getting another one up and running. Once it is up I will provide a link so you can enjoy more Addy and G goodness.
Speaking of G...

I am all about letting kids being kids while I take their pictures and I can't stand cliche or cheesy, super posed shots. I swear this wasn't one!



Comments more than welcome!! Until next time...

Losing my thoughts?

Over the past couple days I have had all these (in my mind) great ideas of things to blog about. Now I can't remember even a smidgen of one of them. Oh well, here are pics of the kids instead... 

It may come as a surprise to you that Adalay is made up of more than just an incredibly cute head. It is hard to break out of the head shot habit...

She has now found her thumb. Gavin was never interested in his, so will see how this goes...

Have I mentioned how sexy my husband is. He is. Totally.
Gavin bored out of his mind because the food took no less than 30 minutes to arrive. I guess they were very special burgers.
What "mad" looks like for Gavin...
What "cute" looks like for Adalay...

Camping at the Lake

Every year, in July, we look forward to joining our good friends at the lake in West Texas.  This year was especially fun since last year's trip was cancelled.

Gavin loved being on the boat...

After a day of boating, tubing, fishing, and swimming Gavin looked a little overloaded...

So off for a nap he would go...