Adam's Genius!

Well, our little guy is getting better at walking every day! The other day he even climbed up on a kid sized chair in the classroom, and then stood up on it and was trying to climb onto the twin bed in there! Crazy little man! He sometimes "falls" forward and puts his hands down.. but he can get back up and keep right on going. He's doing so well with his new form of locomotion! He also carries things around with him while walking around the house too. Little things wouldn't be so surprising... but he's carried some pretty big and bulky things too! But getting to his genius.... tonight we were watching Zoboomafoo before putting the kids to bed. There were a bunch of pigs in animal juncton, and they had this whole long thing about them... actually they were wild boars... but close enough.. anyway.. so Adam goes over where he and Reagan had had out one of their farm puzsles. He pickes out the pig, and puts it up on the TV screen next to the pigs. Holy cow!!! You could say it was just coincedence.. which it might have been But he was SO proud! I'm willing to give him credit for that one. lol He also took a nap all on his own in his crib today. Doing the Frnakenstien walk around the house all day, must be tiring! Here's a picture I took of the little angel today.Reagan's taken to actually building things with her blocks! The first is "a beautiful castle."And this second one is an "L Shaped Sailboat."Yesterday we took a trip to the new Home Depot in our town. The kids LOVED riding in "Tony Stewart's car." While we were there we got a new thermostat for the house. :-)

Adam Walking

I don't have any good pictures of it yet, but Adam is walking!!!! He can walk for a good long time holding just one hand, and loves to do so at the store and such. At home he can walk half way across a room almost any time he wants too, and all the way across if he doesn't get too excited and knock himself over. lol And although he can do it on his own, he loves using things that help him go faster than his still wobbly little legs can carry him by themselves. So if you're over visiting and think you see a blur or color out of the corner of your eye, don't worry, it's just him tearing around the house pushing the Sesame Street walker/ride on. Oh, and when he isn't pushing it, you'll often find him crawling along chasing his sister riding it n laps around the kitchen island. Boy do those two have a good time together! It makes me so happy to see them playing, and having such a good time together.

Also Adam has started whistling recently. He seems to really enjoy it... and though who knows if he will remember how to do it later... it's a skill I didn't learn until 5th grade! Go baby go! OTher little notes... he loves playing in the play kitchen still.. his favorites are a blue and yellow play knife, and a frying pan. He carries them around with him constantly. Adam also like to collect treasures. He'll find and item and decide it's his treasure for the day and carries it around with him for the entire day. Sometimes it's something more normal like a toy, but others it's his sister's empty raisin box or some such item. It's very sweet, and you can tell that he really does treasure that item and enjoy exploring it throughout the day. His favorite song right now is the CanCan, and he will stop crying most any time if you start singing it to him. He even loves kicking to it! He's just so much fun. :-)

The Past Week

This past week was such a busy one for us!

We had moved Reagan's gymnastics day, and Wednesday, only to find that she's promoted to the next level, and we ended up having to change the day again to get her into a class at that level. We're so proud of her, and hope that being around some older kids will help her concentrate and follow along a little better now that mommy and daddy are supposed to participate less.

Rob was actually off Saturday and Sunday!
Saturday we went to the county fair and had a great time! First we took a tractor pulled hay ride to visit the farm animals.Reagan loved seeing all the animals and was especially excited that they had a petting zoo area where she got to intereact with lambs, baby goats, and a calf.After the petting zoo Reagan got to Be A Farmer For A Day. Going through a set up farm and harvesting different types of items; picking an apple form a tree, getting corn of the stalk, digging up a potato, pulling a carrot, and finding an egg. Once she had collected one of each she got a ribbon award. It took a little convincing to get her started, but she had such a good time doing it. She doesn't look very happy with her ribbon... but it's only because she was grumpy that we told her she couldn't do it again. lol
We then headed over to the indoor area where we looked at the kids craft entries. (Reagan is really excited to work on projects to enter next year.) And visited a whole bunch of vendor booths. Reagan's favorites were the Forest Service table where she got some very cool Smokey the Bear things, the gemological society table, where she got a pretty rock, "To put with my Opa rock," and the county sheriff's table where she got to pretend to be a deputy!Finally, we went to the midway and rode on some of the rides! Reagan was such a big girl and rode by herslef on a unch of rides for the first time. She was also tall enough to go on the Tilt-A-Whirl with daddy!! She thought that was "super duper!" Adam slept most of the time we were there, or just hung out very relaxed in the stroller, but he was getting into the rides too. :-PWe finished up the weekend with a nice visit from Grandma and Grandpa on Sunday. :-)

My Etsy Store

Just a quick update on my goings on.

In case I forgot to blog about it, I have an online store now; SMOX

I also have created a blog for my store that gives you a behind the scenes peek at what I'm working on. You can read about my crafting projects that I'm not selling, see new and coming soon items, and read features and product reviews of other Etsy stores. And of course there are LOTS of pictures. So check out the SMOX Workshop!

Reagan, Tumbler Extraordinaire

Today was Reagan's cartwheel-a-thon for gymnastics. They were cartwheeling, or in Reagan's case, forward rolling, to raise money to purchase some new mats for the program. Obviously mats are super important for gymnastics, so we were excited to participate. Reagan had a great time, and complete a whole 15 forward rolls in the 2 minutes she was given. She was a little disappointed that she didn't have more time to tumble, but thought it was so cool that she got a medal for participating. She was also pretty excited that they gave her popcorn, but didn't seem to notice the stuffed monkey. lol While we were in the car headed to the grocery store afterward she told me that she thought she should have a rack in her room to hand her medals up on. I think we might just have to do that for her. It was very sweet.

Adam's Busy Week

Adam has started doing some walking! He can walk 3 to 5 steps by himself now, and loves to stand on his own as well. One of his favorite things to do is dance! He loves to do it by himself, holding on, sitting.. anywhere! Before we know it he will be walking all over the place. He's also done some other great things in the past week, like waving byebye, clapping his hands, and saying cat and dog. I can't believe he's almost 10 months old. His birthday will be here before we know it!! I must admit that I have already started planning though. hehe