Laugh of the Day

this evening the girls were playing whatever little girls play when suddenly liberty was crying and asking for help.  i turn around and liberty has her potty chair around her neck.  yes, she put her head through the potty hole!  and we couldn't get it off right away.  liberty was crying and crying, and i was laughing!  i couldn't help myself.  and i wasn't the only one...jonathan got a good laugh out of it, too!  she looked so funny with a potty around her head.  don't worry, we did get it off and she is just fine...but i doubt she'll be putting any potties around her head any time soon.

PICTURES!!!

i was finally able to download some pictures today...yea!!  be sure to check out my 10 smile blog (below this) for smiles to go with the pictures :)

this is libbs staring longingly at the other kids (who wouldn't play with her) that were at the park...this face breaks my heart!

leila at the park...she loves exploring everything!

leila was standing, but started going down mid-picture

precious little feet

smile w/out the squinty face :)

oreo girl

"let's go fishing!"

liberty's bear is about bigger than leila!

precious

10 Smile Tuesday

There won't be any pictures for my post today because every time i try to download the pics from my memory card my computer says windows has stopped working.  i'm not sure what's going on with that, but i can tell you it's very annoying! 

we're doing alright here.  it feels like the days are c-r-a-w-l-i-n-g by, but i know august 30 will come sooner rather than later.  here are some smiles from our week...

1.  getting more packing done.  at this point there isn't a lot of packing we can do since we still have a few more weeks here.  amazingly we have found more things to get rid of (we clean out our stuff every time we move...it's kind of nice to purge like that). 

2.  a trip to the park.  although one pic of liberty will show you why i am so sad when i take her.  she stares longingly at kids there and tries to play with them, but they run away from her.  but later on during this trip to the park some kids older than liberty came and they played with her...so that was really nice. :)

3.  leila is standing on her own every once in a while for around 10 seconds or so at a time.  so crazy!  she also climbed up on a box that was at the foot of our bed and then climbed up on the bed.  i can't believe how much she is growing!!

4.  precious little feet.  the other day the girls and i were sitting on the couch and liberty was rubbing her feet on leila's and giggling away.  leila was grinning from ear to ear.  so cute.  of course i took a picture...but not sure when i'll be able to post it.

5.  leila and an oreo.  liberty was eating an oreo cookie and she took it apart.  she laid one side on the coffee table and the next thing i know leila is eating it.  what a mess! 

6.  the game "let's go fishing."  jonathan bought this game a while back because it was a favorite of his as a boy and he thought it would be fun to play with our kids.  liberty loves to try playing this game with daddy and it's so cute.  although now jonathan wonders what he ever saw in the game! ;)

7.  a precious leila-daddy moment.  last night after he fed her she promptly fell asleep on his shoulder.  so cute.

8.  possibly getting a couple problems with our car fixed...for cheaper than we thought!

9.  making into the second trimester!  i'm so thankful for this precious life growing inside of me. :)

10.  my wonderful hubby.  i love him.  i'm so thankful for him.  i love how hard he works for our family.  i love how much he loves the girls and i.  i love that he's always willing to try.  i love that he doesn't give up...that he learns from his mistakes.  i love his honesty.  i love the way he thinks.  i love that during this pregnancy while i've been so tired and worn out, he works hard all day and comes home and helps me out with housework and the girls (and never complains if he comes home to a messy house!).  i just plain love my jonathan!!

10...er 12 Smile Tuesday

It's that time again.  How quickly the week flies by!  We have been busy collecting boxes and packing things we won't need for the next month.  It's been 100 degrees or more outside, so we haven't been doing much outdoors!

1.  sharing "ice cream."  liberty's toy castle has this little torch attached to one of the walls, and libbs thinks it looks like an ice cream cone (i can see that!)....so she likes to pretend to take it off the wall and share "ice cream" with all of us.  such an imagination!

2.  making progress in packing.  we've actually gotten quite a bit packed already and it feels really good.  by the time the girls and i fly out, there shouldn't be much left to pack up at all! 

3.  waking up saturday morning before the girls and laying in bed chatting with my hubby.  i love those times!

4.  the veggie tales theme song, which liberty loves to listen to over and over...the best part is that she sings along with it every time!

5.  these super cute hair bows i found online for the girls.  they are homemade and they don't fall out!  (although liberty keeps taking hers out, so i have to think of something there!).  i got them from Uniquely U Boutique.  they are very reasonably priced, too!

6.  leila's "dancing."  she gets on her hands and knees and rocks back and forth when music is playing.  so cute!!

7.  this passage from watchman nee's book "the normal christian life," which i think says a lot!  he said, "the normal christian life must begin with a very definite "knowing," which is not just knowing something about the truth, nor understanding some important doctrine.  it is not intellectual knowledge at all, but an opening of the eyes of the heart to see what we have in Christ."  i love that!  check out my hubby's blog for more great thoughts on this topic.

8.  homemade laundry soap.  it's easy to make and cleans great!  and it saves money!  if you want a nice scent to your clothes, be sure to use a fabric softener.  here's how to make the stuff i use (i'm sorry i can't remember what website i found this at!).  1 C super washing soda.  1/2 C borox.  1 bar plain ivory soap grated (i use a small cheese grater).  shake all ingredients together in an airtight container.  use 1-2 Tbsp per load.  enjoy!

9.  folding 4 loads of laundry just out of the dryer. 

10.  the girls and the jumper.  both girls get lots of great playtime out of this.  liberty loves to swing leila in it....or bury her in blankets.  love the giggles that come as a result of playing with this toy!

11.  saturday night the girls went to bed great and jonathan and i decided to go to bed early, too....so we could have some extra reading time.  every night (or at least most nights), jonathan and i read to each other.  he picks a fiction book to read to me, and i pick one to read to him...then we take turns reading chapters to each other.  i really love this time...we've been doing it since we were dating (when we were dating we read to each to each other over the phone). 

12.  i have begun the potty training gig with liberty.  today is day two.  so far she hasn't actually gone in the potty, but she will sit on it every time i ask her to.  she just has to figure out what exactly she's supposed to be doing on the potty.  i'm just happy she's wanting to sit on the potty at this point!

and here are some extra pics just for fun!

12 weeks 3 days

liberty's work :)

more vacuum cleaner fun!

my girlies and i

doesn't daddy's shirt look great on her?!

right at this moment liberty is watching "pooh's heffalump movie," and she's telling each of the characters she sees on the screen "hi!"  oh how i love this girl...and my leila-bear, too!  and last but not least...check out this bloggy giveaway site for some fun giveaways this week!!! 

10 Smile Tuesday

1.  surprise flowers from my hubby this week.  even delivered to the door!  it was totally unexpected and much appreciated!

2.  libbs is sleeping better at night, napping most days, and going to bed better.  yea!!

3.  playing "castle" with my libbs.  we got this toy castle for liberty at a yard sale a while back and she loves it!  lately she has been asking me to play castle with her.  of course i oblige!  and she just  giggles and giggles.  love it!

4.  mcdonald's playplace.  what a lifesaver on these 100+ degree days! 

5.  getting a package from my gram in the mail.  in it was some cookbooks and homemade outfits for the girls.  oh so cute!

6.  liberty's newfound love for singing.  she loves to sing the bible songs we teach her, and the songs on all her favorite shows.  fun!

7.  liberty's new big girl bed.  enough said there!  i even made her a special little pillow to put on her bed...princess of course!

8.  Leila's first two teeth are finally through!  yea!!!  and of course they are cute as can be!

9.  libbs and the vacuum.  for some reason she loves to make her dolls play on the vacuum.  she'll giggle and make them climb and fall and sit and whatever else little dolls do.  she's got a great imagination!

10.  last, but certainly not least....we are moving again.  this may come as a surprise to you, but it's really in the best interest of our family.  we've been very unhappy here so we've made plans to move back to crescent city, ca (where jonathan is from and where most of his family is).  jonathan

is planning to get a job with the state, and while getting that process started he'll work a job or two to keep us going.  this is something we feel so great about...it's a stable, great paying job with benefits, vacation and retirement.  we cannot wait to live near some family again and to be more financially stable.  plus, it's one of the most beautiful areas of the country i've ever seen...can't wait to live there again!

Here are a few extra pictures:

Libbs wearing her doll's shoes

apple time!

 

after i trimmed her bangs

Ideas, please?

anyone have any ideas on how i can legitimately make some extra money from home??

10 Smile Tuesday

happy tuesday, everyone!  not much new going on with us.  we're going to try to get liberty's new bed tomorrow.  we'd go today, but jonathan has to work late and the store will be closed.  yesterday i lost leila's binky on the way to the park, so when we got home i put her down for a nap without it, and she only cried for a few minutes!  we decided not to buy a new binky...maybe taking it away earlier will work out better.  she went to bed just fine without it last night, too.  she's never been as into her binky as liberty was, so that's good.  i guess that's all...now onto the smiles from the week!

1.  lately when liberty points out something (like the fan, or a train), she'll tell herself, "you're right, so smart!"  i just thought that was cute :)

2.  leila's smile.  especially on some of those hard mama days...that smile just makes everything ok.

3.  liberty's sweetness whenever i cry (which i do a lot of when i'm pregnant!).  she'll come over to me and ask what's wrong and give me a kiss and tell me "you're ok."  then she'll say, "i be right back," and she'll come back with something to wipe my tears.  so so sweet.

4.  i love that liberty is always asking for leila to play toys with her.  super cute!  i love when they play together.

5.  talking with jonathan about the things we are learning before we go to sleep.  i treasure those talks...that time together.

6.  liberty's sunglasses.  the other i took liberty to the store with me and i put my sunglasses on before leaving the house.  she immediately ran to get hers and wore them all the way to the store and all throughout the shopping trip.  so cute that she wanted to be like mommy (although i didn't wear mine during the shopping trip!).

7.  sisters.  oh how i love watching my girls play together, love on each other, giggle together...i love that they have each other.

8.  liberty and daddy watching the train together.  i think the pictures say it all.

9.  a trip to the park. 

 

10.  knitting.  i finally broke out my knitting this week.  i haven't worked on any crafts since before we moved, and i was itching to do something.  part of the reason i hadn't been knitting on my current project was b/c it just wasn't looking right.  well, i finally figured out what i was doing wrong, took it out, and picked it back up.  everything is looking much better now!

11.  i just have to add one more smile here...and that is SLEEP!  i think we have finally figured out a system for sleep times with liberty.  it has worked for the past few days, so i'm quite hopeful it will continue to work.  so, she's been going to bed a at decent hour and sleeping through the night.  yea!!!!  check out this pic of libbs crashed on the floor...on one of those "not getting much sleep days."