Etsy...

Here are some things I am loving from this site today....

Slippers for Henry.....

This amazing wool coat, for ME

This diaper bag (since I don't carry a purse)

This necklace... with my kids initials. I have another one I love....

These longies for lizzie to wear over her diapers. Cute for Christmas!

all photos from www.etsy.com

Go Wyo

Henry.... likes Wyoming. He liked football and those cowboys....

And now? Well, Liz likes them too. Good girl.

Baby Food

When Henry was born one of the things I wanted to do as a STAY AT HOME MOM, was to make all his baby food. I mean, I was at home all day, it was the least I could do. Plus, you have read the benefits, right? It is full of vitamins and cheaper, plus there are no preservatives and I am keeping the plastic out of landfills. You get it.

Well, when it was all said and done, there were about 5 things that I made regularly for Henry. Squash, bananas, pumpkin and applesauce. Wait, that is 4 things, and he HATED the bananas. So pretty much, I gave up. And you know what? Henry is a picky eater. He doesn't like many veggies, and the fruits he does eat are random- one day he likes them, the next he doesn't. Maybe this isn't about the fact that I fed him jarred baby food. Maybe it was the fact that when he didn't like something we gave in and let him have something else. Who knows.

With Liz we (ok, I) really wanted to try and make as much as we could. We waited until she was 6 months old to start any kind of solid- we figured she wasn't ready at 4 months and didn't want to push it. We started with some organic jarred foods- I wanted to see what she liked (and really, what liked her). Once we had a better idea we got started.

We use a Beaba- it makes it so easy to steam then puree any food. That said, I don't think it makes the food as smooth as Lizzie likes. And it is only good at making small batches. So we switched it up to the large steamer and food processer. We now have a freezer full of food that lizzie loves.

A quick sample of what we have:

- mango/banana
- mango/sweet potato
- sweet potato/ banana
- brocolli/pear
- chicken/cauliflower
- peas/carrots
- peas/apples
- apples/chicken

Here's hoping we can keep this up.....

My kids

A quick update on Henry and Lizzie. This is for my one reader.... and my mom :)

Henry:

- Started MDO this fall, he LOVES it. There are 8 boys and 2 girls. He wants to go everyday. Looks like next fall will be 3 day a week preschool!

- Is POTTY TRAINED. This is the best news ever. Seriously, B and I had a mini party to celebrate.

- May or may not be using some choice words he has heard mommy use. Bad bad news. I won't tell you what ones they are, but I will say, they are not ones I hope he uses while at church.

- Loves, loves, loves his sister. It is awesome. He crawls in her crib after her naps (and sometimes during her nap) to play. It melts my heart.

Lizzie:

- is army crawling

- is still cloth diapered. 8 months- wasn't sure we would make it. But still love it.

- is eating EVERYTHING. I make all her food so she has some pretty great mixtures (post to come, I am obsessed)

- waves at us (oh lord, this is the cutest thing, ever)

And because they are cute......

Busy, Busy

It seems that we go weeks between posts these days...

What have we been up to?

Watching Lizzie grow (and make her mad face)... she now weighs just over 10 lbs and is 23 inches long. She is tiny compared to Henry. She is still in her tiny clothes- NB and some 0-3 months...

Golfin'- Henry and Daddy have gone 3 or 4 times in the last couple weeks. Daddy has taught Henry how to tee the ball up, how to putt and how to "put the ball in the hole!"
Playing with our trucks....

Watching Henry and Daddy play golf. She was as excited as her momma...

More to come soon, this time we promise!

Where are all the pictures?

Good question.

I think they are hidding with Lizzie's birth announcements and all of the thank you notes I have yet to write.

I am a bad mom.

All of those things will be coming before the end of the week though! I am in the process of ordering the birth announcement and I just dug out all my stationary to write thank you notes- FINALLY!

Stay tuned.

Selling our House!

So last week our house officially went on the market. Crazy times here at Casa George.

We have always known that the house we are in was a "starter home" (well a starter home with plantation shutters, granite and other lovely finishes!). There are only three bedrooms here, and now that they are all full it makes the house seem very small. We really want to be able to add one more child to our family in the future and so we need at least one more bedroom, we would really like an office and we would also love a guest room (in case someone wants to actually stay with us, especially with the kids living in our house!), a basement for the kids to play and a back yard big enough for running and jumping!

We are also thinking it is time to move given the current school district we are in. We knew from the day we signed our closing papers that our kids wouldn't be going to school in this district, and although we could chose to open enroll or send them to private, neither of those were ever really in our long term plans.

So the house hunt is on. We have no idea how long it will take to sell the house, and we are prepared to have the house listed through the summer and possibly through the very early fall months, but if we don't have anything by September we will take it off the market and try again in the spring- we just don't want to have to be on guard through the entire holiday season!

We have had one showing that has proven to be rather good- we are at the top of the list for the buyers, so only time will tell what they decide! In terms of finding a new house, that has proven to be more difficult. There have been a couple of homes we have liked, but neither of us can seem so agree on what we want and what is most important! We know that in the end it will all work out and that we will find a house that we love as much as we love this house.

My mom is actually our listing agent and she will be the one to sell us a new house too... bless her heart for working with us at all! Hopefully we will have good news sooner rather than later, but we will be sad to leave this house. We got married and had photos taken here at the house, we brought both our kids home to this house and this is the only home Henry has ever known. We also know that a new house will bring lots of new memories!

We will keep you posted!