Elody's new favorite toy

Elody has discovered her feet! I had to take her socks off of her because they were soaking wet!
She has been trying to get them for a while but now can successfully chew/suck on her toes! Kinda gross but at the same time it's pretty cute.

Updates and videos

I cannot believe how fast both of the girls are growing, Camryn had another birthday and Elody is already 4 1/2 months old! They are both growing and changing every day and I hate that I miss so much.

Elody has been sick this week and got to spend two days home with daddy. The girls also got to stay home one day with their Grandma Teresa. On Wednesday Elody finally rolled over from her back to her front and I actually did see it. Daddy and Tonya both say that they haven't seen her do it so I think I actually got to see the first time! Elody has also started eating cereal (but has also stopped for a bit because of being sick). It won't be long and she will start on veggies too!

Camryn is still a little ball of fire. She never slows down and would be perfectly content to live outside. She recently has learned all of her letter sounds which I of course am very proud of. We just hope that she doesn't forget them. She used to be able to count to 10 perfectly and now always seems to mess it up. I guess we still have a few years until kindergarten so I'm not too worried.

As for me, I am finally able to catch up on all of this since summer school ended yesterday. And since I am not teaching this fall (as far as I know right now) I will be able to see many more "firsts" for both of my girls. Hopefully our house will sell someday and we will be able to move back to Hastings so the girls will be able to get to know their cousins better.

There isn't much to say about Brian I guess. He is still making the long drive to Minden everyday and will hopefully finish up his work for Orthman's soon. I think he enjoys being outside as much as Camryn, which works out well for her, but I think he would probably rather go golf than blow bubbles. Although he seems to enjoy that too.

I am putting a couple videos on so everyone can see how much both of the girls have grown, I hope you enjoy!


We are putting this one on here for those of you who don't get to see Camryn very often. Her new favorite activity is playing in the water, ANY WATER! I still can't watch her play in the water without remembering her last year in her little pool, she was a tank! I think she weighed the same amount as now but was half as tall.

Also I finally got her on video telling us some of the letter sounds. She of course had better things to do and would not do all of them for us.

Elody's video

After being sick all week it was nice to see Elody back as her old self tonight. She was in a VERY GOOD MOOD so we thought we would share the video. Please excuse Camryn though... she has hit the stripping stage and isn't always fully dressed :)

Camryn is TWO!

Camryn's 2nd birthday was Saturday and she had a Mickey Mouse Clubhouse birthday party. She did pretty good for only being two but I think she would have enjoyed the day a little more if it hadn't been cold outside. I thought it was supposed to be warm in June!!!


Camryn was fascinated by the fire...


and she blew out the candles... a couple times


she was very excited when she blew them out!


she was thrilled with all the clothes and books she got ;)


and Elody enjoyed the day too!

New Pictures!

We finally got decent pictures of Camryn again and even a couple of both girls in the same picture. Camryn hasn't really cooperated when it comes to doing pictures since her one year pictures a year ago. Anyway, we did Camryn's two year pictures and Elody's 3 month pictures both a little early. I posted a few of our favorites.

Wow how time flies!

Tomorrow is a big day for Elody. She is headed to daycare! She actually went on Friday for a test run, but only stayed a couple hours. I cannot believe that she is already 6 weeks old and I already have to go back to work. I think she enjoyed watching all the other kids on Friday and will be fine there, but I of course would much rather take her to school with me.

Since today was our last day together without papers to grade and lesson plans to write Elody and I decided to go shopping in Kearney. She was an angel of course and we found that we can get much more shopping done without daddy and Camryn. While we were at the mall Elody stopped to see the Easter bunny. I'm not quite sure why one needs to visit the Easter bunny weeks before Easter but he was there so we stopped.

If you want pictures

For those of you who want pictures of Elody- there is an album on the left hand side of the blog that contains all of the picture we have. I can get any of these in whatever size you want. I made some of them black and white but not all of them. If you want one in black and white that isn't I can do that too. Let me know if you have questions and also let me know which pics you want of our little princess.