Cicadas Invade!

So we aren't sure exactly how many Cicadas invaded our backyard today...we asked Jeryn and she counted at least nine.

On second look, it is at least a few thousand. Pretty gross...and loud for that matter.

Here's a little look for all our Minnesota friends:

Kidney Stone!

Yesterday was a long day for Outing...I had to pick her up from a friend's house because she couldn't drive home. I called her a wuss, but it turns out that may have been premature. Today she passed a kidney stone the size of FDR's face.

Sorry to gross you out with a weird post like this. Outing took a poll on facebook and her nurse friends won 10-2 to post the picture. Enjoy:

Look Mom, Lolly's Ball!

Lately...

Just a few pictures of the past few days...

The first is me pulling Jeryn around the kitchen on a towel-she came up with the game-but we told her she had to wear her helmet in case she tipped over. She looked so silly! And we all giggled a bunch while she was "sledding" as she liked to call it.

The next 5 or so are of our afternoon at The Discovery Center here in town. Mara had fun discovering pea rock and jingle bells.

The next two were so funny! Jeryn was putting her toes in Mara's mouth and Mara was loving it. Jeryn couldn't stop laughing. Needless to say, I grabbed the camera and got a couple quick shots of this silly moment. I wonder what Mara will think of this when she is 16?!

And the last one is Jeryn modeling her new tie dye shirt. We had a tie dye play date on Monday and she made her own shirt (with a little help from Mom). It turned out much cuter than I thought it was going to!

Preschool Program 2011

Jeryn had her end of the year program with preschool tonight. It was OVER THE TOP cute! We didn't really get any good pictures as there were a lot of people there, but I hope we can get the video on the blog this weekend. I'll have to sweet talk Josh to do it while I am at work tomorrow night. (In case you can't see her, her white hair matches her white sweater)

8 Months!

This is our smiley 8 month old!

Mara is such a sweet baby. Most days you can find her smiling, giggling and babbling all while sitting and entertaining her self. She has also really enjoyed trying new foods over the last month. I'm not even sure what her favorite is as she truly has loved most everything I have given her. She is known to eat 1-2 containers of food at a sitting! Mara loves to chew on plastic bags (oh so safe, I know!). I have already told her that in the months to come when she has some teeth she won't be able to play with them any more - she just smiles back at me with those lovable cheeks! Her other favorite thing is to chew on tags...tags of any kind really. Her favorites are the tags on some of her toys. I have found that the tags on the Taggies toys are not long enough for her to hold the tag and suck on it at the same time though, so that has been a disappointment. She would rather just have the plain old tag.

Jeryn continues to be Mara's FAVORITE person in the world. They are really becoming close. Jeryn tells me every day that Mara is her best friend. And Mara's face LIGHTS UP every time she sees her sister. Just the other day I was able to take a shower while they played together in Jeryn's room...how wonderful! Jeryn really has a mothering nature about her and it warms my heart to see how she loves being a BIG sister. WOW, two girls...I am just so lucky to have two beautiful girls!

Dad and his girls

My Bow

Mara's first bow. Look at that smile!

Christmas in May

It may be May 1st, but I FINALLY finished Mara's Christmas stocking! YAY! We will have 4 stockings on the mantle this year. I can't wait! A special thank you goes out to my mom, and Kirk for your help when you visited. If anyone else helped and I have forgotten, please forgive me.

Gymnastics Meet!

Jeryn had her first gymnastics "meet" today. Check out a few highlights...

Waiting patiently...

Present!

Ribbit ribbit! A little frogger action...

Crazy hair on my seat drop!

Check out my first trophy!! Yay!