Baby shower, Baby bath..., new floor!

So, I was at Babies R Us and I had to stop and try this little number out for Talia. As the words "Little GTO, you're really lookin' fine", go through my head. Doesn't she look super cute in this car!?! I was very tempted...


Plus, it has a Fred Flintstone feature....



I threw a baby shower for my friend Danile. It was fun for Talia to have other baby girl friends to share slobbery toys with. :)Along the baby shower theme, I have pretty much given up on bibs for a better way. Each morning, I strip this baby down, feed her, then wash her up in the sink. She and I are both loving it. :)We finally have all of the tile down for our laundry room and downstairs landing. Yeah! All we have left is the grouting, tile on the face of the stairs, and refinishing the wood landing on the main level.laundry room by stairs

Oaks Park, Vancouver Lake, Camping-Paradise Point

Bobcat badge, Nan and Bob

So, Nan and Bob came and got to spend some time with us this week. They hung out in our neck of the woods the first day, the second day we went to the Tillamook Cheese Factory and to the "Octopus Tree" on the coast.Octopus treeCape Mears
Swim lessons-
faces in!floats
Belly swimsRobert won his bobcat award and a bunch of others for going to cub camp last week. He was so excited. :)Then all the kids let off rockets.
Austin had a lot of fun playing with Rob during FHE.

Hair cut, Swimming and cub camp

This is on our way home. The kids were exhausted!



My matching girls, so cute!

Bella got her hair cut short for the first time ever. She has been begging to have her hair like her friend Clara, for a long time. I finally gave in and she got a huge smile on her face when the first big cut happened. It made me happy.








Cute Talia. I have started her on solid foods now. She really likes bananas and sweet potatoes. She doesn't like blackberries, turkey, applesauce, or straight rice cereal. But, when she likes something she sure is a good eater! She is also doing really well at sitting up alone. She can do it for at least 10 seconds straight, as long as she doesn't get too excited!

Today she was in her swing and Robert started jumping for her. She laughed so hard that all the kids joined in to make her laugh. It was so cute!













This week I enrolled Austin and Isabelle in double swimming lessons while Robert was in cub camp. Rob thought I was crazy, but the kids ended up loving it!
It did wear the kids out. Austin fell asleep on the floor in the kitchen, Belly just likes to be in pictures.Robert had a lot of fun at cub camp this week. He especially liked archery.
Here is one of his arrows...
He got in a water fight.
He was an alligator in their "Indiana Jones" skit.
The other kids got up and danced before the cub scouts came out.