This Little Art Project

Halie and I like to do some sort of craft everyday. It's usually coloring a picture or drawing something. Today I went online and found some Nursery Rhyme coloring sheets and printed them off. We colored two of three of the This Little Piggy coloring sheets. I can't say Halie was trying to stay inside the lines...but she had fun nonetheless. Coloring is one thing that actually keeps my little energizer bunny's attention span going for more than 10 minutes. It's nice that she is learning to enjoy art. She already loves music and dancing! More on that another time.

Cinnamon Rolls!

Patty cake, patty cake...ok so I didn't bake a cake as fast as I could, but I got a jolt of motivation and made some homemade bread and cinnamon rolls. Baking isn't something I stride myself in, but it's fun sometimes! (As long as the mess in contained in my kitchenaid)

Making bread is really easy actually. I could probably recite the ingredients by heart...and it turned out soft and yummy too! I made hubby's sandwich with it this morning and sent him with on the go breakfast of cinnamon rolls. He's not too big on sweets but will eat anything I pack him luckily...and is always grateful.

Hot Mama...literally

My pregnancy so far has been pretty easy to handle. A little fatigue, LOTS of morning sickness...even now at 18 weeks! And some growing pains. Not so bad though. This heat though, is making me one hot potato! I started waitressing at the steakhouse in Harlo last night and was finding that my legs were bothering me quite a bit. My belly is turning into a watermelon and my legs can't seem to support them. They can, it's just all that pressure on my lower extremities is hard to deal with. I now know what it's like to be pregnant in the summertime! I just feel bad for women like my sister in law who were full term during the summer months! I'm not even five months! Whew! The things us ladies have to deal with! :)

How a see bye bye?

Baby jarble. My world revolves around that little language my two year old so frequently uses. Sometimes it's cute, sometimes it's annoying...but it's still baby jarble. "What doing?" she says as I type this. How does anything she says make sense? It doesn't always but it's starting to. I remember when Halie was first born. Oh how I feared her growing up too fast. I actually feared it. I sat there rocking my newborn baby practically in tears thinking about my cuddly newborn wrapped in pink growing into one of those terrible two year olds you read about in parenting magazines. Here we are! Two years later and you know what? I love her more every day and more than when she was a newbie. She never fails to make me smile unless of course her demons come out...and that happens at different times and intensities during the day, but I just deal with it and hope it isn't always this way. "Goo Moyning!" in the mornings is where it all begins. I go out and start making Daddy's lunch and Halie sits in her crib patiently waiting for Mommy to come get her up. We have our little conversation as I spread mayonnaise onto the bread and pack cookies and carrot sticks into little baggies for Daddy to take to work with him. "Eat pease?" We're working very hard to get her to start using good manners and asking for things with a please and always saying thank you when she recieves. It's working although not all the time. Breakfast comes and goes, I do my dishes and Halie usually is sitting on the couch reading her bunny book saying "Oh a bunny! Whats dat? Asa bunny?" She's quite the reader...and not a silent one either! The day passes quickly as we do dishes two more times, watch a bit of Veggie Tales and do our daily chores, take our naps and BOOM! It's time to fix dinner, take baths, read some more and go off to nighty night land. Thats when I get my break. Thats when silence sets in and I can really get my barrings back. 8 hours rest followed by another day in the life of Jibber Jabber central. Oh the life!

Summertime

Summer here in Montana is great! Well....when you have air conditioning and a pool! I don't know, but I must be a difficult person to please because I curse the summer and I curse the winter! For different reasons of course but it's all one in the same. W-E-A-T-H-E-R. That sums it up. I hate hot and dry, sweat and not feeling clean after taking my daily shower. Oh but I am blessed! I have to say I don't know a lot of people my age who have what I have. 20 acres and a house with views that are incredible...especially at sunset. A beautiful two year old daughter who isn't the easiest person to raise in the world, but she keeps me on my toes. I have a wonderful husband who is my polar opposite but maybe thats why we love eachother so much. Well, back to summer. My house sits right on top of a hill where the sun gets pleasure in beating on the metal roof we have and heating up my house like a waffle machine. I swear I was dying last night! At around eleven o'clock last night, I awoke feeling like I was suffocating. It was dreadfully hot in my bedroom but Ryan didn't seem to notice as he was sleeping away while I ran around the house like a chicken with my head cut off, trying to find the stupid fan. Now, we have a fan on the ceiling but it just wasn't good enough last night. I've never been so over heated in my life and it kind of made me wonder if I was having a reaction to the tetanus shot I had the other day. One more thing to worry myself over! I guess the moral of the story is...I'm stuck with summer unless I crawl into a hole for three months out of the year for the rest of my life. That wouldn't make any sense though because honestly, summertime is one of the best seasons of the year. Fishing (watching my husband fish I mean), camping (while watching my husband chop fire wood ha ha) listening to the thunder roll in the evenings and watching the sky light up with lightning in the mountains and stepping on as many stupid grasshoppers as possible! :)