Fun Outside at Ami's

Some more fun pics from our weekend at Ami's. Ami took C and J on a wheel barrow ride up and down the drive way. Super Ami showing her skills again. Here's also a pic of all of us in Ami's yard enjoying her cool Mountain getaway. Thanks so much again to Ami for taking care of us and giving us such fun-filled love-filled memories.

Fat Cat aka Zeus

I hope the kids will have pets someday but right now as they're very young and our rental house doesn't allow them they must remain content to just visit their Grandmother's pets. Both grandmas have Balinese cats (long haired Siamese, a result of Siamese combined with Persian) who are sweet as can be and neither believe themselves to be cats. My mom's cat which used to be mine when I was still at home is Zeus. And Ibu (hubby's mom) has Oaf-e who also is referred to as Imp and Meow Mix and is actually Zeus' great niece.

This past weekend we got to visit not only Ami but Zeus too. And in his huge furball-ness and crazy personality as always he made sure to make an impression.

C and J loved petting him and even E went up to the glass door to try and say hello. I had some nice time playing with him and am still in shock that he's the same little kitten that used to climb in bed with me and drape himself across my forehead to sleep. Even hubby who is allergic was able to play with Zeus with the help of some awesome new allergy meds and some rope which Zeus didn't really chase but grabbed then would let himself be dragged on his back, belly waving around the deck. I wish I'd gotten a picture of that but alas. Here are some of the sweet memories of Zeus last weekend though. And Ami even held him up to wave his paw at us as we were driving away lol.

E and "Real food"

We officially started E on solids March 18th at 6 months and 3 days old. She has only had fresh food so far and I hope to experiment with making more of our own baby foods soon. We haven't done this that often since she had some left over congestion from the cold the kids got over 2 weeks ago so she's been nursing extra but I still don't feel there's any reason to rush the food introduction etc.

First food was sweet potatoes. She's also now had Banana, cantaloupe, and this weekend at Ami's she got some mashed apple which she enjoyed. E does well with the spoon and actually will grab the spoon and shovel bites in her own (occasionally getting them in actually) when she thinks I'm going too slow lol. I know we need to get more veggies in next but as I said this isn't a daily thing for us at all so slowly but surely.

Here's the first eating pics we got from Ami's house and the Apples.

Playing together

I love watching the kids play together. E's adventures in standing attempts have made this play recently even more fun. She can now can get up to standing at her play table (and wherever else) all by herself and we have entered the cruise mode lol. If she can climb it she will and if she can cruise it she will. We're still working on the standing independently and still at only a few seconds on that one but she gets more excited with every added second.

Here's some pics of C, J, and E at the play table (C and J were playing first but E was very apt to join in and got up beside them to join in the fun).

A computer/net free weekend

So I'm behind for sure now and I'll be playing a lot of blog catch up the next few days. Also I'll be uploading pics again soon hopefully when I find my camera cord which has disappeared temporarily.

Friday we started our real break with a weekend getaway (which unfortunately got a very late start but that's another story for another day) and I swore off the internet/computer for the weekend to give myself even more of a break. I'll admit I missed messaging some friends but overall it was a relief to just enjoy my surroundings without checking updates, updating what I was doing, or even uploading pics.

The down side of this is now Monday I had 3 pages of email to sort through, loads of pics to upload and lots to catch up blogging on lol.

We had a wonderful relaxing weekend in North Ga at my Mom's (Ami's) house. Hubby put up an owl house for her so hopefully she'll have a real owl there for our next visit. The kids had lots of fun running her ragged. At one point she even took them in a wagon up and down her driveway. We all needed the break and loved the trip.

Also this trip was the first time E had been to Ami's house and marked the first time my dad met E. I know crazy since she's 6 months old now but with his busy work schedule and us not being able to arrange time to travel up when he'd actually be home it'd taken this long. E was in her warm up mode and he was pretty exhausted from the long work week before but the kids still loved seeing their Grandpa and even opened some very late Christmas gifts lol.

I'll update more later and hopefully add pics. I need to run another load of homecoming laundry lol. I feel like even getting back to our normal routine though we have so much more energy thanks to the wonderful weekend. Now on to a great week to come :)

Sleepy girl

E was very tired and I was getting ready to put her PJs on for bed and this happened. I thought it was too sweet not to get a pic but couldn't move to get the camera. So this was taken with the comp. web cam. Still precious though :)

Big Boy Bike!

This was late evening so not the best light wise but J couldn't wait to try his new bike out :) He loves the cars theme as well which already matched the helmet he already had. You can see the little trike he used before in the background. This is definitely a big upgrade though C and J both want E to use the "little bike" now lol. Now to get C and J both off the training wheels comes next.