Perrine Perch: August 2012

Friday, August 17, 2012

Funny kids

Audrey is 6 months old! Yikes, how the time is whizzing by! She is sitting up, unassisted and is on the verge of crawling. She gets up on her knees and rocks and blows raspberries...its a hoot:) Here she is sporting a skirt I crafted. It is really poorly made but she makes it look darn cute. We had shots today and she was a real champ. After the initial cry she was back to all smiles and flirty eyes. She does this cute head turn, in her carseat, like she is being shy, while cracking a coy smile. Needless to say, we are stockpiling guns and ammo. She is starting to REALLY enjoy solid food, especially pancakes. She was below average in length and about 75% for weight, maybe solid food will allow her height to catch up...ha!
Jetty had had enough of our impromptu hike and fell asleep all smooshy faced. I can't resist pictures of him sleeping, it is about the only time I can get his picture without it being blurry!
I just found this app for my dumb Droid, so I am giving the whole "mobile blogging" gig a try. Who knows, maybe I'll be better about sharing...

Monday, August 6, 2012

Montana fam

We had the pleasure of having the Bedfords join us for the 4th of July. We had discussed the possibility of them coming while we were at THEIR home, meeting the beautiful little Vesper Grace, I mean, Claire, I mean Eileen... Vesper Eileen :) It takes a bit to get used to a brand, new name, even Addie thinks so. Anyway, on Sunday I reminded her of the conversation and asked if they were indeed coming. They hadn't thought about it, so they talked, rearranged and packed up! It is kind of funny, at this point in our life, vacation isn't so much about doing a lot of fun things or seeing all of the sights. It is now about trying to relax, somewhere besides home, eating meals not prepared by you, and watching the kids enjoy themselves. Down the road, you can bet I'll be going to exotic, awesome places, without kids, and plenty of mojitos...who's coming with?

Rob and Addie were too pooped to care about going some place to watch fireworks and the huge trees in back blocked most of what was going on near us. So, we lit some tanks and bang-bang noise makers and then Bing and I packed the kiddos down to Honeysuckle Beach Hayden Lake. It was wonderful, the kids enjoyed the display and the boom in their chest with each mortar that went off and so did we.

The next day, Bing took Maddox and Blake to Silverwood for some water-park fun, I have zero pictures of that...sorry. Rob worked while Addie and I got coffee and enjoyed some quiet time together before everyone was in one place again. It was mostly relaxing and a delight to just BE together.