Graduation & teeth

Its been a busy chaotic week for us at our house; and I will try to post pictures and videos at some point soon.

• Saturday, Cooper's first tooth finally broke through! We had a crabby boy; and we have learned that Motrin is a good thing and makes him smile :) Also a snow day for us as we didn't have power for much of the day and the winds blew almost 70mph.


• Thursday, Paige's preschool graduation and first school program. Mom & Dad, as well as Rick & Jane attended. They sang some songs, did a skit, and were just very cute. I have the whole thing recorded! She is officially a kindergartener--as we got the results from screening back that same day. We'll get more info in August.


• Sunday (today) ran to Dickinson this afternoon to get some necessities and the Piper Palace. We purchased a kennel and doghouse--kennel is assembed and looks good. Doghouse is not assembled. Its a large kennel--a 10' x 10' so she will have ample room.




• Next Saturday the 7th--the garage sale. Our house is a mixture of neatly organized piles that are labelled; and messy boxes that need to be gone through! Its my goal this week to find as much as I can to purge!

Quick crawling video

He's on the go

This crawling stuff is easy! Its even more fun outside in the grass.

"What Mom? I'm not supposed to be pulling myself up on stuff?"

Big stuff

So, roughly the first week of April Cooper officially began to crawl. I think he snuck it in once prior; but that was when some consistancy showed up. Now all of a sudden this last week, he's figured out how to crawl to stuff and is up on his knees by it. I was okay with that; then on Saturday he crawled (rather fast) over to the box of diapers and pulled himself up and was standing up holding on to the box thinking he was the biggest stuff ever. I was just adjusting to the fact that he was going to be slightly mobile; and am so not ready for this. Miss Paige was no where near this early with crawling or pulling herself up. She was a content observer. Cooper is apparently not and wants to be where the action is. Boys :) He hasn't been the happiest camper the last few days as his teeth are still troubling him--lots of chewing and drool but still no signs of those chompers yet.

Crawling

Its been a busy few days and the biggest news is Cooper is crawling. He's getting a bit faster and going a bit farther each day; but so far he's resembling the tortoise and not the hare. I am okay with that. He did manage to crawl up to my legs and I swear he was trying to climb up my legs while I was doing dishes tonight. He has been up on his knees a few times with his hands on the edge of the toy basket; thinking he's pretty big stuff. I have some video and hope to post it soon; as I don't have any pictures of him crawling. He did discover the walker at Gramma Shelly's this weekend and thought that was pretty great. It was even better once big sister figured out it was fun to push him around in it. He also decided to really like the sippy cup we found in the cupboard and really thinks its fun to sip water out of it when he's in his chair. Too bad his teeth hurt so bad he's decided to not each any food though.

We decided to enjoy the spring day after work and we all played outside. Here's our cowdog loving her favorite cowboy.

Paige's 5th birthday

Today is Paige's 5th birthday. She is not feeling the greatest; so we are hanging out at home today waiting for the tummy ache and fever to go away. However, we had her birthday party on Sunday. Despite an almost birthday girl with an attitude; it was a good day. We had a 'Tangled' theme party. Paige managed to get a few Tangled presents--including the movie which she had been desperately hoping for. Mom & Dad got her a new bike which was test ridden around the house and works pretty well.

Happy Birthday to my peanut--thank you for a wonderful five years and we love you.

Two small ones

Snow dog. She loves the snow.

First joint bath. Paige has been waiting for him to be big enough.

Stare down. Piper trying to get one of his toys; and Cooper tring to figure out what this crazy thing is.

A hard day's work on Sunday. Tired boys.

An interesting way to chew on his Nuk. Hopefully a tooth will pop soon.

Its been a busy week at our house getting adjusted to this new small furball; as well as incorporating her schedule into our already fairly busy one. I am sort of having visions of two babies--I am up with one and Ryan is up with the other. Until he got sick about Thursday night and I have been doing most of the dog duty. Not loving that too much. However, he is feeling better and at least able to move around now without too many aches and pains. Speaking of things that aren't fun--this weather and trying to get a puppy to go outside in the middle of the night. The neighbors have to love my attire at these various hours. I am grabbing my cowboy boots, Ryan's boots or whatever is by the door and bolting.

We have a lot going on in the next few weeks--Miss Paige is turning 5; we have kindergarten screening this week; a party of some kind to plan; a baby so close to crawling its frightening as he rolls and pushes everywhich way but forward; and much more.

Meet the newest member. . .

So she's finally here. I think Paige has thought she was never going to be here. Paige and Ryan met Grampa Keith on Thursday night to get her. They got home at 9pm; so we had a short time with her before Mom was mean and wrangled Paige to the bathtub and bed. Bless my husband, as he dealt with the puppy all night long while I dealt with my baby (who is still up at night); but that night Ryan learned what a newborn is like! She cried a lot. The kids and I ventured that next afternoon to Williston and got home this afternoon about 2pm; so Paige finally got to get some Piper time in. Ryan reported that the crying is much better and she was quiet until about 4am this morning. The two of them have gotten some major bonding time in; and that's a good thing. She's had a few accidents in the house--most on the cement where her 'area' is; but hopefully we won't have to be watching her every move so closely hoping she doesn't go on my carpet! She had her first run in with a neighborhood cat this afternoon; but Paige reported that they 'didn't even tackle' so it must have went okay!