Happy St. Patrick's Day!

We are just a wee bit o'irish but I still thought it would be fun to dress up the kids... if only just for me. It is so hard to get pictures of them together! Here are a few of my favorites...

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In other news: the kids had Dr.'s appts on Monday and I am pleased to report they are healthy. Noah weighed in at 28 lbs. and 14 oz. He is now 32 inches tall putting him in the 95% for height and 75% for weight. The doc informed me that he would be fine with 2%, maybe even 1% milk. No more whole milk for this kid!

Emma weighed 12 lbs. 13 oz. and was 25 inches tall. She is 75% for height and only 25% for weight. This is consistent with her growth curve though, so there is nothing to worry about. Plus, she looks healthy, not bony. She is just our tall skinny girl! Lucky thing.

growing up so fast

My kids are growing up so fast! I can't believe it! I want to remember a couple of things...

Yesterday, I saw Noah "pretending" for the first time. He was standing by Emma's exersaucer, playing with the toys and I could hear him babbling and making funny noises with his mouth. When I went to see what he was doing... of course... he was pretending to put food in his mouth and then pretending to chew it by smacking his lips together! It was so funny. I wanted to pull out the video camera, but he always catches me and stops whatever cute little thing he is doing. So funny that he is entertaining himself by playing pretend!

Emma constantly amazes us because she does little things way before we expect her to. Last night as I was changing her and getting her ready for bed I gave her a kiss on the cheek and said "kisses." Well our smart little miss Em turned her face and slobbered my cheek with a kiss! I thought I was imagining things so we did it three more times, went to show daddy and she kissed my cheek two more times then kissed Luke's twice! It was so cute. By that time she was tired and done with the parlour tricks, so we let her go to bed. Never would I have imagined that she would give kisses, on cue, at 4 1/2 months! It will probably never happen again, but I just wanted to remember this day and how smart my kids are!

Silver Creek Walkabout

Living in Silver Creek is sometimes like living in a really large petting zoo. We often smell manure wafting over and hear the bleats of sheep, and the naying of horses. It's actually pretty fun! It was a beautiful day yesterday, so we took the kids for a walk to show Noah the animals around the neighborhood. He loved it. He was bleating back at the sheep and barking back at every dog we happened to pass.

The sheep live just right around the corner from our house. The man who owns them trains sheep herding dogs or something like that. In the spring and summer, he herds them around the block a couple of times a day. It is pretty funny to watch.

The horses are at my sisters house. She lives about 1/2 mile away. We saw lots of horses on our way there, but none of them would come close enough to pet. Every time Noah saw a horse he would point and say "Horsh!" He was so excited!

My country boys! So happy to be out of the house for awhile!

What's For Dinner?

Check out my new recipe blog...

Cookin' For Kids and Cowboys

where you will find my weekly menus and recipes to what I am making for dinner tonight!

something has got to change!!!

I am really, really needing a haircut. Last time it was professionally cut (meaning not me in the bathroom, in desperation with scissors) was last May. Yep, almost a year. And this is the vicious cycle that I get in to... I let it grow and grow and grow, get frustrated and chop all of it off. And I get lots of compliments on my hair when it is short. So preview the pictures below (all from '06) and vote on the poll. Let me know what I should do!

Some thing to keep in mind... Even thinned out, when my hair is long, blowing it out straight takes a minimum of thirty minutes. Also, it grows like weeds! It will grow back if I cut it... it's only hair (can y'all tell what I'm leaning towards? But then I look at pictures and it does look pretty good long...) OH WHAT TO DO??