15 months

Cam had his 15 month checkup today. He weighs just under 25 lbs (50-55%), he's 33 inches long (95%), and 19 inch head circ. (75%). So I have a long skinny boy with a fairly large head. Sounds about right. I wish they had some tangible way to measure the daredevil factor. Every time I look in the playroom he's standing on top of something. We took out 2 of the chairs. I left a kid rocker in there but I'm not sure if that's wise.

This is Abbie's last week of school. Yeah! I'm looking forward to the Summer. Let's see what I say 2 weeks from now when the arguing and whining has already put me over the edge. We do have quite a bit planned so hopefully it will go smoothly. We joined our neighborhood pool so we hope to be up there at least twice a week. We're heading to Philly to see family. Tim will be out of town for a week in July. Abbie has a couple of day camps planned, one is the Young Naturalists camp at Reynolda Gardens and then Mad Science camp in August. I'm thinking about looking into piano lessons. One of my neighbors teaches it out of her home.

I need to find something for Cooper to start doing. He's ready for some kind of organized activity. He started kicking a ball around with his buddy last Sat. at Abbie's t-ball game. Maybe we'll try soccer for him soon. We wasted a lot of $ on activities for Abbie before she was really ready so Cooper is benefitting from wisdom I've gained after the first kid, ha-ha. It's a good thing Abbie's tough; I don't feel as bad about making all my mistakes on her.

Conversation with Cooper

We had spaghetti and garlic bread for dinner tonight. It's safe to say that my kids will never attempt the Atkins diet at any point in their lives. They could make a meal on bread alone. Tonight Cooper was upset that I let Abbie have another piece of bread after she finished her dinner...

me: "You need to eat some more spaghetti first, then maybe you can have some more bread."

Coop: "But my belly's all full."

me: "Well let's take your bath and then maybe later you can have a little something for dessert."

Coop: "Ooookaaay"

me: "Do you know what you want for dessert?"

Coop: "Bread!"

Memorial Day Fun

We went to my aunt's house over the weekend. We saw my cousins that I hadn't seen in probably 10 years. We had a nice family gathering and also celebrated aunt Cathy's birthday. The kids brought their suits so we fired up the sprinkler and they had so much fun. I just love the look of B&W photos, so right now I'm addicted to shooting this way.

My silly boy loved the sprinkler. He stood right next to it the whole time and let it squirt him right in the face. He was also trying to drink it some too. He is such a funny boy!

Cookout at the Herman's

And people have the nerve to tell me that my kids look like me! Puh-Leez!

Weslyn, me and Terri. Best of friends since high school. Who would've thought that 17 years later these 3 girls would pop out...

these 9 kids!!! I can't believe we have 9 kids between us. No wonder we have to wait until it's nice outside before we start doing things together. Who wants 9 kids destroying their house? Although at my house you probably wouldn't be able to tell the difference.

The End!

Mother's Day

Tim got me a great new camera for Mother's Day. It's a Canon EOS Rebel XTi. It's very intimidating but I'm getting used to it. I really like it so far but I think I'm going to have to take a class to learn how to use it to its full potential. But I've been having fun playing with it...

I can get great close-up shots, when the kids will cooperate of course, then I like to play with the effects in Picasa.

Daddy's turn to play with the camera. Hey, was this a present for me or for himself??

My baby girl is growing up toooooo fast!!

Race for the Cure

Last Friday Abbie's Brownie troop helped set up Susan's Garden. I wanted to go but it was a cool drizzly day and Cooper and Cameron were both sick so Abbie rode with Savannah. Savannah's mom sent me some cute pictures.

Life in the fast lane...

I just now finished a post I started 10 days ago. I thought being mom to 3 kids was hectic but I am starting to see a whole new kind of crazy.

Our plan for having Tim join his step-mom in her Accounting/Tax Prep business has gone into warp speed. Back on 4/14 she had a health scare, thought it was a heart attack. Thankfully just an easily treatable lung infection. But now we have already signed a lease on an office space and we're beiginning to place orders for cubicles and signs and computers and phones and furniture and, and, and! I have been spending much of the last several days on the web and phone getting quotes. The scariest quote of them all is for health insurance coverage, whoa! Nearly $1000 a month for medical and dental. At least I had an idea of what to expect. We have friends who own a dry cleaners and they've always had private health insurance. We hope to have the new location open for clients by June 4. It's going to take a lot of prayers!