Crawling, Pulling Up, Oh My

WHOA!
This standing business is FUN!

Tyler's KISS impression

I love you, man

Please excuse Tyler's filthy clothes, he just had pears for breakfast

This is his sitting scooting crawl....

It looks like I run a daycare in the background, jeeze.

Can you see the excitement on his face? :)

Sis, is she coming???

DANG, she caught me!

Wow, Tyler had a HUGE developmental growth spurt today! We just got back from Austin last night, spent the weekend shopping for Madison school clothes and spending time with Papa John, Grandma Carol and Uncle Jacob. He has been scooting for a few weeks but not fully crawling. Last night he pulled up to a standing position for the first time and has been doing it all day today, he won't stop. And today he started crawling in a funny way, while sitting up kinda of still, half sitting, scooting,crawling lol. And just a few minutes ago I think he finally figured out there was a much easier way to crawl. But all day he was getting to wherever he wanted to go doing his weird crawl. He finally discovered the entertainment center and all the buttons- it was bound to happen but I was not ready for it lol. I am in a rush to child proof now. So with all his new exploring today he has had many boo-boos. We have hard floors so he has had many backward falls and bumped his head good. He is so proud of himself when he stands up, it's so cute. Madison gets so excited every single time he does it. She likes to get him to follow her, it's adorable. It's like in one day he went from just a wiggle worm to fully mobile. I also have had to start saying the word "No" and I feel stupid saying it, he just ignores me or laughs at me lol. He seems to young to say no too. His favorite toy today is the spinning top we got at the cracker barrell yesterday- thanks Papa John.

John had to leave today for Houston and is going back to Korea in a few days. He was gone 2 months and then home for 3 weeks. But it shouldn't be 2 months this time he says. I hope not, that seemed like way too long.

Right now I am telling Tyler NO NO NO to touching the buttons at the tv stand and he is giggling his butt off.

We have gotten all moved in and unpacked, it only took a month! But we are really enjoying the new house. It's a little bigger and nicer and the backyard is fabulous. I can do shoots back there, no more parks, it's GREAT! But I don't have a studio anymore, I decided not to use the shop like I had originally planned to do. I gave it to John. It is unfinished and it would take too much money to make it nice enough, and I don't want to spend that on a rental. Tyler is attacking me, gotta go for now.

We've Moved!

Finally, I am getting this updated, sorry for all the posts in one day. I have been terrible about updating things the last month. It's been a little crazy. Here are some pics of the house and Madison's new room, which she loves.

I got these chalk dots at Target, are they not the coolest?!

Just tidbits...

John trying to teach Madison how to skate...didn't go much better than this the whole time lol...
Tyler's First Solid Food at 6 months and one week old, Daddy feeding him oatmeal




He is sitting up so good now
When we were still unpacking...obviously lol. I caught them sitting like this and thought it was so cute, I had to go grab my camera and hoped they were still like this when I got back.
Starting to crawl a few weeks ago

Swimming at Gina's house

Splish Splash

Tyler's First Pool

Tyler's first time swimming

He loved it!

Madison's Shoot

A friend of mine, Brandy Walker, makes wonderful hair bows for little girls- some of the best bows I have come across. We did a product service trade - her bows for free pics for her site, which I built and you can check out, HERE Support a Stay-at-home mom and go buy a few for the little princesses in your life. :)

So here are a few of Madison that I took for fun while getting the bow shots. There were a ton more but these are my favs.

gDiapering

Oh, how they grow...


GUESS WHO IS SITTING UP??? Well, starting to anyway, it lasts a few seconds. Today he is doing much better at trying to support himself.

No more regular disposables for us! I had thought about cloth diapering before Tyler was born, but it was so expensive to start out so I didn't. For those who don't know though, cloth diapering is not what it used to be. There are really cool "all in one" cloth diapers you just take out the insert and throw them in the washer. One brand is called bum genius, seen here. I am going to use those for backups in case I run out of gdiaper refills before I make it to the store or my automatic online shipment arrives. Anyway, I found gdiapers and they do not require a huge initial investment and they are really cute. I can't wait to get more colors.

Here is some info about gdiapers from the site...

The best of cloth diapers and disposable in one eco-friendly diaper.

gDiapers, which stands for green diapers, consist of a washable, cotton outer little gPant and a plastic-free biodegradable diaper gRefill. They are made of breathable material just like sports clothing. So, babies stay dry and happy and are far less likely to get diaper rash.

Flush, compost or toss.

Can't flush? It's ok to toss our flushable diaper refills because they're plastic-free. Or garden compost the wet ones. They'll break down in 50-150 days. (regular diapers take 500 years!!)

Look how cute they are!

So I wasn't sure about the whole touching the refill and flushing it idea, but I love them! It was SO nice to not have a poopy diaper in the house, and the refill is large enough, I could hold two corners of it and not touch the poop and flush it. I like that it doesn't fill up the trash can with 12 diapers by the end of the day or stink up the house and the garage won't smell as deadly if I miss trash day. The whole flushing process takes about 30 seconds- shorter amount of time than it would have to go get a plastic bag and take it to the trash. John can just toss it in the trash if he doesn't want to deal with it, same as a regular diaper. I wondered if putting the refill in each time would be time consuming- nope, takes about 10 seconds. Even Madison does it and puts the diaper on him, she thinks it's cool. Also, after he pees, he is not wet at all, it is all absorbed, it wasn't like a soaked regular diaper laying against his skin. The only downside is when he poops, it can get on the inner liner, which you just have to rinse off, but you can do that later if needed and just grab another liner or another cover with a liner attached. It really is not any more time consuming and has a ton of pro's -number one being to me is no more stinky house. The cost is about $15 more per month for us right now, which would be less soon after he would get into size 4 diapers, so while it's not saving money like I had hoped to do with cloth diapering, it's a small price to pay for doing my part to save the environment. That's always a plus. Also, regular diapers decrease in quantity as their size decreases but the price stays the same, I always hated that with Madison. But the gdiaper refills do not change in quantity after small, it just goes to med/large and that's all you will ever need until they are out of diapers. So all in all, I am in love with these. I know I sound like I am advertising for them, maybe I should get paid?