On the Verge...

Today was a good day here in beautiful Colorado.  We started out with church and after a visit with some friends and lunch at IHOP (exciting!), Uncle Pete came for another visit!  We had told Abram last week that we were going to go to the Colorado Railroad Museum in Denver and we ended up not being able to go.  We weren't able to make it all the way down there this weekend either, but as luck would have it, the "Little Train" in Loveland was still running!  It's a tiny replica of an old steam engine that runs on a quarter mile track around a park from Memorial Day until Labor Day.  It even goes through a tunnel!  We have one in Austin in Zliker Park that Quinn and I have gone on with my sister and brother in law before we had kids.  But now that we have a son who is obsessed with trains, this was a highly appropriate and exciting outing.   But before we rode the train, we found a nice bench by the pond and took some unofficial family portraits.

We have never really used a budget in our house.  I feel really bad admitting that.  Neither one of us has ever had a credit card and we have always been smart about our spending.  Smart, but not intentional.  Now that Quinn is not working and we have a little more than two months until we will (hopefully) have a salary again, we are having to be intentional.  This may seem small, but there are many reasons that my most recent project was making my own baby wipes:   1: Cost.  It makes less than a box of wipes would, but it basically costs whatever half of a paper towel roll does (plus a few pennies for the minute amount of baby wash and baby oil used). 2: Convenience.  I honestly made some for the first time the other day because I was stuck at home with a kid I knew was going to poop that morning, no car, and no wipes.  So I looked up the site I pinned here and made my first batch.  I've been using them on Selah and they work well!  I've actually found that, even though

"Suh-gwaaaa-sus" Abram has been so much more communicative lately.  He repeats pretty much everything we say to him and we are often surprised by what he remembers from seemingly inconsequential conversations or comments.  Today, I showed him where our friends, Cort and Anna, were on a map of the U.S. (because he kept asking for them).  I told him they were in Texas and Abram was in Colorado.  The rest of the day he kept repeating "Abey Co-wado". Playing piano with Papa By far, his most repeated phrase is "Ah fah down".  Everything "falls down" all the time.  This became a very applicable phrase for him when he fell out of the back door to the house onto his face.  He cried for a little while, but calmed down pretty quickly. Quinn and my mom prayed for him when it happened and, while it might look bad, he has not been bothered by it at all since then.  And whenever anyone says anything about his nose he responds with "Ah fah down&

I know I haven't posted in awhile, but I had to stay on top of Selah's monthly updates, so here I am!  This will be an exclusive Selah post and I will do an exclusive Abram post as well.  Because if there's one thing that kid needs, it's more attention. Not! (Says junior high Anaka) So here she is: Date:  August 21. 2012 Weight : I weighed her and I on my mom's scale today and she is apparently about 13.5 pounds!  That girl does not have an issue with weight gain, that's for sure. The pediatrics growth chart says that's right at the 50th percentile, which is where she has been for awhile.   Clothing size : Some 3 month things (dresses), some 6 months (one pieces).  She's pretty long and  lean, despite those chubby cheeks and thighs. Feedings per day : 4/5 depending on the day. Night sleeping:  Still good!  She's been going an uninterrupted 12 hours at night for about a month now, which is pretty amazing and why she only eats 4

I am debating cutting my hair.  This is the longest that it's been since I was a sophomore in high school.  That's 14 years, people!  Normally, long hair is great.  You have so many options.  Normally.  However, I am now back in grabby baby hands stage - which continues for quite awhile.  We are also on the verge of moving to a country which is, presently, sitting at right around 120 degrees during the day.  Yes. 120.  That's right.  I am sure that I will not want my hair on my sweaty neck.  So all of this  basically means that it is in a perpetual pony tail.  And a perpetual pony tail makes this mom mistakenly think that she can get away with multiple days without showering.  This is far from the truth and, really, if I needed to, I could find time to take a shower. I just don't prioritize it because of the perpetual ponytail.  So my thought process is that, if I have shorter hair, I will be forced to shower.  And it won't get stuck in baby hands as easily  I'