C-Bird's First Birthday Party

All mommy's favorite colors in one bundle of ribbons, fabulous! And it matched the plates!
Our Favorite MD and Friend came by and wish our girl a Happy happy. Singing over the cake almost became too much but mommy reassured the quickly proud Cora.
All the hard work to prepare the food was sooo well worth it. We got to enjoy the leftovers.
Was really wonderful to have so many come and see us on this special day, including our Good Friends from Savannah Carmen, Scott, Isa and Maya
Cora partied so hard and would not take a nap, or be nursed to sleep at all, but dang it the cheesey puffs finally did the trick.

Grady's Fourth Birthday Party was Monkey-Pirate Themed!

C-Bird takes her first steps

Last Tuesday Cora took one tentative first independent step while we were waiting at the pediatricians office. Over the last two days she has begun to take 2 to 5 steps at a time. So Lets say Cora started walking at Eleven months. Yea~!

Still in love with Rosie Hippos

G Man

The many sides of GMan...

One super secure young man

Daredevil extraordinare...

Budding Artist.

Cuteness and a Spaghetti Dinner

TyTY 3rd Birthday party.
Happy B-Day Ty!

G-Man and Ta-Ran Enjoying the big water slide.
so ummm who is blowing out the candle?

This is how we roll now. Keeping the misquitoes at bay. Seems to be working. Kids play in Water Tables. DId you know food coloring can make a water table far more interesting.

Cora found one of her shoes and spent twenty minutes or so trying to put it on.

Father's Day

Happy Fathers Day!

A typical fun time with the Kids. This is what we are up to.

Photography brings great memories

C-Bird in the sunlightMy new favorite favorite picture of C-Bird
Mark with his four kids Eric, Nate, Gman and Cbird.

Cruising

Announcing : not only is C-Bird Crawling, pulling up, and cruising.....

She has a First Tooth comming in! Hurray! (maybe all the fussing will end soon)
C-Bird and G-Man really are pals, even though they fuss at each other and are clearly Jealous at times.

Life in the Backyard

Our Secular Easter and a Displaced Carolina Wren Nest.When Mark pulled the Porch off the house and took it down he discovered the Wrens had built their complete nest and laid eggs, but it was too late.

Md Trip

Impromptu visit to MD.Scott and CBird. Lindsey and CBird.
Lady and Cora.
The house in Clayton getting some fresh mulch and a scrubbing as it hits the market.
Cora doing all kinds of cute things like crawling around inside the Clayton home.
Grady drumming, inspired by OKGOs video of this too shall pass with the Notre Dame marching band.

Sigh...

G-Man is weaned, at 43 months. He is passing the torch to C-Bird and watches he nurse with love.

Thank You Party

Round Here...

A quick "mommy and Me" shot

So G-Man was drawing and letting CBird play with the markers with the caps on... and then he let her have one with no cap... uh oh! Totally washable, was off in one minute.

Angela took me up on a scone and tea offer! CBirdjust liked her right away, like she remembered her (my OB).


We had a little "Thank You" ceremony moment in the back yard since CBird was six months old now, just like we did when GMan was six months. Thank you placenta, your hard work is very appreciated!

Sorry for the Juxtaposition of pictures... but anyway these are those yummy scones. Anyone (with minimal advance notice) is invited over for tea and scones anytime.

First day of sunshine at the "Thank You" ceremony. CBird's body isn't too happy about grass apparently. Go figure.

An oddly calm quiet time/ moment. Nevermind the instrument banging, they were banging peacefully together. Really a lovely moment.

Little Note

Te kids love to bathe together. C-Bird is the splasher! G-Man is the loud one! They both come out wet and become cranky, but soon bed time beckons... and that is the plan tonight.

Water Play, while the hot water heater was going in... CBird could have been rung out like a sponge when they were done.