Look Who's Sitting!!!

Miss Ava turned 7 months yesterday.

She is now a bionafied sitter.

She doesn't love it. She would rather be on all fours rocking back and forth.

It won't be long before she is cruising the halls.

She had an eventful 6th month.

She had a short stint at the hospital ER for a small case of pneumonia.

She spent long hours in the pool and chewing on everything in sight.

She is as snugly as ever and is starting to prefer her momma (I don't mind!).

Chloe and Beckham are her biggest fans and can make her laugh like no one else can.

They are starting to think that she is actually really fun to play with.

Yay for her. Yay for them. But seriously...Yay for me!!!

Preschool Babies

Chloe and Beckham would probably freak out if they knew that I was calling them babies, BUT...they are my babies.

Chloe and Beck went to their preschool open house last week to check out the school and the new kids. It is the same preschool that Chloe went to last year and I am happy to say (for Beckham's sake!), that Beckham is finally old enough to go this year!

They are going to be in different classes, but now when I drop Chloe off to school, I can happily tell him that he gets to go too!

Preschool makes me happy. The thought of kindergarten for Chloe next year does not.

SOOOO...

I will just enjoy the fun year they are going to have together.

Experiencing the same things but experiencing those things differently.

At the end of their scavenger hunt, they made school buses out of twinkies and lifesavers.

Needless to say, neither of them were anxious to leave

Is She The Cutest Baby Girl???

I will give you a clue:

Yes.

Rainy Days and Sundays...

...never get them down.

1/2 Year Birthday

Miss Ava is 6 months old today.

She's a roller and has no interest in sitting up.

The Bumbo works just fine for her.

No teeth.

Her gums get all the work done just fine.

She is happy and healthy and we are in love.

Words To Live By

At the bottom of my computer screen is an open text document. I like to always keep it open and whenever I am on the computer and come across quotes, I copy them onto the open document. I was just reading over all of the quotes this morning and wanted to post them here so that I would always have them.

I am not great with words and so I love when I find words that others have said that either inspire me or cause me to think. I hope to live by all of these...

“Love yourself, accept yourself,

forgive yourself, and be good to yourself,

because without you the rest of us are without

a source of many wonderful things.” -Leo F. Buscaglia

“The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life”

Einstein

"Gratitude is a mark of a noble soul and a refined character. We like to be around those who are grateful. They tend to brighten all around them. They make others feel better about themselves. They tend to be more humble, more joyful, more likable." -Joseph B. Wirthlin

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain"

"Sin... brings sameness; it shrinks us to addictive appetites and insubordinate impulses. For a brief surging, selfish moment, sin may create the illusion of individuality, but only as in the grunting, galloping Gadarene swine!" (See Matt. 8:28–32.)

Neil A. Maxwell

"Be a woman of Christ. Cherish your esteemed place in the sight of God. He needs you. A woman's abiding trust in God and unfailing devotion to things of the Spirit have always been an anchor when the wind and the waves of life were fiercest" - Jeffrey R. Holland; Ensign Nov. 2005

"Home is the definition of God; a place of infinite power"

Emily Dickinson

"In 3 words I can sum up everything I've learned in life--it goes on." -Robert Frost

"Opportunities are never lost; Someone will take the ones you miss."

"Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not that one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk- and to act" - Andre Malraux

Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.

- Ben Harper

Women of God can never be like women of the world. The world has enough women who are tough; we need women who are tender. There are enough women who are coarse; we need women who are kind. There are enough women who are rude; we need women who are refined. We have enough women of fame and fortune; we need more women of faith. We have enough greed; we need more goodness. We have enough vanity; we need more virtue. We have enough popularity; we need more purity." -Margaret D. Nadauld

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid!" - Robert Browning

‎"The years teach us much the days never knew." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

"to do a common thing, in an uncommon way, brings success." henry heinz

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power,and magic in it." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

‎"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt." William Shakespeare

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

C. S. Lewis

Curly Sue

This is a little piece of the damage

I thought we were past this stage. Chloe is 4 and has NEVER cut her own hair...until last week. She dressed up as a gymnast and asked me to put her hair in a bun. After a few somersaults, she walked in to my bathroom. I was feeding Ava. Beckham emerged from the bathroom saying that Chloe was using my scissors. I assumed it was for paper. I yelled to her to put them away and didn't think more of it. It wasn't until later that day that I found a pile of curls. I asked her where she cut her hair and she pointed. She said that the curls kept coming out of the pony and getting into her eyes, ruining her performance, so she cut them off.

Gotta do what you gotta do, I guess.

I didn't yell. Maybe it's because with all of the curls, I honestly didn't notice where the clump came from. It is still hard to tell.

I love curly hair.