Pulling Up and Walking

Yesterday Blythe officially pulled herself up with no assistance. Jason has her sitting in the laundry basket (she likes to sit in there) and the next thing he knew she was standing. I hadn't left for work yet and I was a little skeptical that is was completely unassisted, but she decide to show off for mommy too! She has pulled herself up when we give her our thumbs and even though we don't think we are assisting her we might have been, but this was ALL Blythe.

Yesterday Blythe and I went to wish Maddie a happy 2 weeks. While we were there Blythe did not want to sit, she wanted to stand and walk. She has been working on getting one foot in front of the other (thanks to the walker daddy made) she has figured it out. She walked (with her hands being held) from one side of Jennifer's house to the other. I was very impressed and thought "that must be like a baby marathon!"

No crawling yet, but each day I think we get a little bit closer......

Bluebonnet Pics Attempt

This is what Blythe said when we asked her "don't you want to give us one good smile with the bluebonnets?"

Sew Mama Sew

Several of you saw my post on Facebook that I was turning old shirts into reusable grocery bags and wanted to see the finished product. I would love to say that I had this idea all on my own, but I got the idea here. There were several steps on there that I didnt like so I basically read through hers and then did some of my own....Here it is

1) Cut out the sleeves and neck

2) Make about a one inch fold on each side (at bottom) to create a pleat for a more reinforced corner
3) Pin your corner fold and the bottom hem together (unless you are talented enough to free hand it!)

4) at the center of the neck line measure down 3-4 inches and make a dot
5) From the start of each sleeve measure down 5-6 inches and make a dot
6) Connect your dots to create a W shape - see neck line in above picture
7) Cut out your W - this makes tabs like you see on plastic bags

8) Sew 2 "straight" lines below the bottom hem of the shirt

9) Get your husband to model your end product!

Bat in the Pool Room

The other evening I was putting the diapers in the washing machine and when I opened the pool room door I thought I saw something rather large flying around. I shut the door thinking maybe it was just a shadow and opened the door again...NOPE..something was definitely in there. I went inside and told Jason that there was something large flying around in the pool room and it was trapped b/c the sliding glass door was closed and I closed the pool room door. Jason didn't go outside immediately and I guess we forgot about it for a coupld of hours. Jason went out to the pool room for something and then he saw the large flying "thing" which he said looked like a gian flying cockroach. I told him I thought it was a bat. Jason took the video camera outside to see if he could video tape the "thing" through the glass pool room doors. Above is the first video he got.............

Happy Birthday Madelyn Claire Cabezas!!

Congratulations to Robert and Jennifer on their Baby Girl. Born 3/26/2009, 8 pounds 1 ounce.

Crisis Averted

It is POURING outside (at least in Bryan). I went out to the washing machine (in garage) to put the diapers in and I thought I would let the dog in who was probably in the the pool room (connected to backyard and garage) b/c of the rain. I opened the door and no dog?? So I called for him, still no dog. So I thought there must be another place that is out of the rain by the shed. I opened the garage door to call him on the other side of the backyard and that's when I saw..................The fence has blown OVER...Great...I am the only one home, its pouring rain, I can't take Blythe out in the pouring rain to look for the dog. So I quickly grab Blythe and a towel and I am about to take Blythe over to the neighbors when here comes Luke (the dog) up to the front porch!!! Thank Goodness. That was a lot easier than I was expecting it to be.

***Update***

When Jason got home he informed me that the fence was not blow down, but the large gate (for cars/boats) was open, I couldn't see this much detail standing in the garage in the pouring rain...I just saw a large gap. We were both surprised that strong wind could blow this gate open because it is not easy to open and close, but its better that is was just an open gate and not another repair job!

Spring Break

For Spring Break we headed to Colorado to go snowboarding with the Wilkes Family at Copper Mountain. This was Blythe's first airplane ride and she did great!

Since Blythe isn't quite ready to hit the slopes we all tag teamed watching her. While Becky was on duty she fed Blythe rice cereal and taught her how to drink water from a cup. Blythe thinks it is SO fun.

Blythe would sometimes hang out at the bottom of the mountain in her snow suit!

When went out for Pizza and Blythe did her usual high chair "trick"


And this is the look we get when we say "Blythe, that's gross, stop"

We had a great trip and look forward to the next airplane adventure with our little one!

When we got back to DFW Blythe had her first Bubble bath:
And had a photo shoot on the pool table:

While we were packing for Colorado Momo had Blythe in the laundry basket and we caught her trying to pull herself up. When we got home Blythe pulled herself up on this toy and was very exciting to be standing solo! Blythe is now rolling around to get to toys and getting up on all 4's...we need to start baby proofing: