Pics For Bahma, Nina, and Oma

Here are a bunch of pics of the kids taken over the last month or so. We went camping for two days a few weeks ago. It was so much fun. Ellie fell in love with smores and James fell into the fire pit (Ellie got the better end of this deal) Very providentially James only got a few minor burns, if you look on some of the pics with the gold fish you can see his hands bandaged up. We've been busy with all of you regular summer activities and loving it! Ellie's !st Birthday is next Tuesday. It doesn't seem that long. Grandma sent a surprise for James and Ellie. They were both very impressed!

Check out Ellie's festive new bow :)

We cleaned out the pond in our backyard and Ellie had to test the water. As it turns out she tests the water very similarly to the way I did when I was a child. She would have loved to be submerged if I had let her.

She can now point to her nose and mouth and says thank you.

Here she is so pleased with herself because she is learning how to get out old stains out of her new hand-me-downs.

Can't figure out why Daddy is eating her smore (look closer for her hitler smore stach)

Goldfish we bought from the marina as a distraction from his burns and to put into our pond. Apparently Nemo is in that bucket.

Ellie is a big fan of the Radio Flyer

Napping on our bed in the camper

Mo and Larry

Tim was teaching James how to kick the ball and he was loving it

Thumb+Hopper what more could Ellie want?

Bubbles, James and Ellie both love bubbles.Tim too for that matter. :)

She is such a sweet little girl. She's always happy, just so contented. Even though she's been teething a lot. She now has all but one of her 1yr. molars. A total of 11 teeth.

Riding the flying elaphants just before Bahma left for Florida.

I actually got him wrangled down for a pic with me. He is really developing a big imagination. I don't know why I am surprised. I apparently had a very large imagination when I was a child too. Still do I guess. Pretending is a big part of every day here.

Showing me his favorite of the planters that he helped me plant.

Tea Party etc.

We finally have a new camera, not a fancy shmancy one like we used to have but this will do just fine and it does have accidental insurance. This sounds like I didn't mean to purchase this insurance but I assure you I did. I've been so happy to have a camera again. I have been somewhat puzzled on how to download them but I'll do my best. Here is a smattering of what has taken place since we got the new camera.

James makes the best tea.

Ellie makes the best faces.And messes..Naps are fun..And Cute

James loved helping clean up after the ice storm

A bad pic of their room post visit to Ikea

James does this a lot and Ellie isn't always so sure about it.

Boy does this ever bring back some embarrassing memories. :)

Praise

Today Mom and I headed down to Little Rock for what looks like our last visit for Ellie's hip. She was born with a click in it and we've been following its progress at Children's. As of today they couldn't find anything on the films and pediatric orthopedic specialist couldn't find anything out of the ordinary. Praise God!

I have a lot of thoughts. Some of them I don't know what to do with.

And then there were none

(Not actual camera)

About a month ago I was uploading some pics to sell some stuff on e-bay and I knocked my camera off the desk. It wasn't a big deal till I tried to turn it on. No matter how I tried I couldn't convince the thing to turn on. So this is my excuse for lack of posting. I have nothing on which to blame the month of emptiness prior to that.

Being Helpful

Today we returned home from staying at Mom and Dad's for the Holidays. I was changing Ellie's diaper and James walked into the nursery and asked "Ellie shooie?" I said that she was and he replied with "James get spankin moon" as he tottered off into the other room to find his wooden aquaintence. Hmmm...

The TaBoots

James loves trains so this week I took him to visit a Caboose at one of the parks in town. He loved it even though I was a little freaked out by the obvious signs that people had been living in it.