Yep...

I let another month go by without blogging. Can you believe I'm busy with two kids? Teehee. Natalie is almost eight months old now and is working so hard on crawling. She goes from sitting to the crawling position, but only goes backwards. As I type this I am watching her on the floor try so hard to go from sitting to the crawling position but getting stuck on her leg. She's wanting to reach a book...McDuff, one of Timmy's favorite books. The McDuff series is by the same author that created Max and Ruby, one of Tim's favored shows. I just wish that out of the two choices, McDuff would have been put into a TV series. I mean, come on, Max and Ruby don't even have parents!

Our bathroom is in the process of being remodeled and it feels like it's taking forever. Right now the hold up is us - we're supposed to paint. I don't think we took into consideration just how tough it would be to find the time to actually paint with these kiddos around. I think we need to find an all day sitter sometime this week so we can get this bathroom painted, then it will just come down to the finishing touches. I am so excited!

Timmy turned two last month. He had a great joint birthday party with his cousin, Karson, who turned six. I felt bad because I couldn't deliver the great birthday presents that most people give to their kids. I got most of his birthday presents from Once Upon a Child, Ebay, and Etsy. He doesn't care that they're used and honestly, I don't either - but I feel like people think I'm just plain white trash and poor if I just give my kids used stuff. I know this isn't the case, but when there are people I know that are able to provide for their children an extravagent party with all the fixings including swingsets and professional photographers, I tend to feel like less of a parent.

Silly, aren't I? =]

Natalie made it onto her tummy and now she's mad that she's on her tummy and not going anywhere. She's as silly as her mommy.

I'm participating in a Care Dare on JM. I realize that I have two kids, but Timmy is the one who seems to be most in need of one-on-one care. Today's challenge was to read twenty minutes with him. By 9:30 I think we had thirty minutes already pounded out. This boy loves to read! I just wish he could sometimes just look at a book on his own, yet I love that he wants to read with us - his parents - because I know that he isn't going to always want to be with us.

Tomorrow's challenge is to do something artsy with our children. Tim really isn't an artsy kid. He doesn't really enjoy coloring or anything like that, but maybe I'll pull out the finger paints and let him go to town outside if the weather is nice. Last time he just ate the finger paints. He's as silly as his sister and his mommy.