Some Tummy Time!

More of the Farm

This is a shot from their porch out to the tree house that Joe had just started building. There was a swing that Layla loved. She keeps going "wheeee" to tell us she is thinking of the swing (=

Here is baby Roz - she was a real sweetie - very mellow as only the youngest of four could be. She's about 13 months old.
I LOVE this pic of Layla - if you can see it, her eyes are really red and puffy - we both had AWFUL allergies with runny eyes and noses. What a drag. Anyway. I don't know what she was trying to say here (=

The top left here is the kids gleefully jumping to see the goat (= He hops around in quite an unbelievable manner. You can barely see Lj trying to push Baby Roz in the stroller (= She actually did a great job of pushing her around on the grass!

This is in Sue's garden - they have done a GREAT job! We had a lovely salad one evening.

Strawberry Picking!

I Love this last photo of her - even though it is blurry, it just makes her seem like she's thinking something really interesting!

It was a fun day and we enjoyed making jam from all the strawberries! Yum Yum! I can NOT tell you how much better these strawberries are than anything you'd buy in a store. Truly amazng.

We are back and we are sick

Hi folks.
Not saying much. Too tired, head too stuffy and throat too sore to get excited about showing pictures. I have them, they are great, and they are coming. Just not now.

Our Trip to the Country

Layla and I are on a big adventure this week to visit lovely friend of mine from ages past! We are SOOOO excited. As Sue so eloquently described it, "I have a wad of toddlers and basically live in a petting zoo". Layla will have the TIME OF HER LIFE! We may even to get pick berries and "put up jam". Ah. The way my mama grew up!
Anyway. Enjoy the week. I'll be back with wads of photos!!!!

This is where we are going:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=map,+taylor,+MO&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&um=1&ie=UTF-8&split=0&gl=us&ei=ZLUHSqWvAaTosgP_nNnWAQ&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1

If it looks like a bunch of white space on the map with nothing near it, you've got the right place (=

Trying Layouts

Highly irritating. I've been trying different layouts and NONE will let me do anything but print all in a line. Boring. (okay so I've checked and this one worked......)
Anyway. Layla loves to sweep with this little brush. Even the van (=

Learning to Water things!

One of the latest things Lj enjoys is helping mom water the plants on the balcony. After MUCH discussion, we bought the white plastic fencing to keep Layla safe on the balcony when she plays by herself. We don't have a yard, so this is the only place she can run around outside without me two steps behind. Anyway, she's a doll and terribly excited about dragging the watering can around with wild abandon! Note the necklace. She loves that thing.

Layla LOVES it when people pretend to sleep or are napping. She pretty much thinks the options in life are sleeping, taking a bath, and working. Those are her guesses about what everyone is doing (= She can say the word Work, but she snorts and snores for the word sleeping and does the sign for bath instead of saying it.

Anyway, here she is interrupting Jen's nap (= She'll lay so still and content for about 5 seconds and then want up and down again. If you have a blanket on, she'll want to arrange it for you. Love this girl.

TaDAAA!

One of Layla's latest things is to step up and down on this little stool. We must have five stools in this house (we didn't buy them!) and I HIGHLY reccomend it! She likes to use them to look out of the window....drag around for reading in different places...step up and down and say TA DAAA!