Church Camp out

I know, I'm way behind--again. Hopefully this program will work again (Picasa, LOVE it for organizing my pics, but the blog feature wasn't working for me earlier) and make it easier. Anyway...

We took the girls on our annual church camp out. We were able to borrow a friends tent trailer, and Ru slept at the hotel with G-ma Judy and G-pa Don, but we STILL didn't get much sleep. Teddy didn't sleep well and there was just so much going on she apparently didn't want to miss anything. (even at 4 am. Go figure.) But we had fun and got some nice pics, too.

We shared our campsite with our friend Brenda. She was a big help with the girls, and didn't mind the crying in the middle of the night. ;)

This pic is actually zoomed in enough it's not the best quality, but I wanted to make sure you could see the string of marshmallow. ;) The Ruthie Special is Chocolate graham cracker, strawberry marshmallow, and white chocolate. It's actually pretty yummy. :)

Family pic on the beach. We were on a scavenger hunt, which included pics in certain locations. It was good as it insured we actually took some pics of the gang together. (we lost the scavenger hunt tho. Badly. ;)

Another scavenger hunt pic. Or new friend there is named 'cowboy.' There is a horse camp section of the Nehalem Bay campground.

I was pretty exhausted when we got home, and telling myself I should have just sent Brian and Ru and stayed home with Teddy myself. But a week later I'm mostly recovered and will likely be excited to go again next year. Besides, they'll have to be sleeping better by then, right? ;)

Intro to solid foods

Teddy is making pretty decent progress at sitting up.  She still needs a lot of support, but she's getting the balance thing figured out.  She's NOT making any progress towards sleeping thru the night.  For that matter, I tried transitioning her out of her swing and into her crib where she belongs, and that lasted a week since she never slept more than 90 minutes at a time in there.  Ever. Usually less.  So I put her back in her swing, and get excited if I get more than 2 hours at a time.
So I thought maybe it would help if I started her on solid foods, since she always falls asleep while nursing, then wakes up hungry.  Ru's first solid food was squash, and let's just say it was not the highlight of her day.  Ru never really did take to baby food.   I decided to also start Teddy with squash, since I had some puree in the fridge that I usually add to Ru's mac and cheese.
Here's the before pic:

 She loved it!

 

She even grabbed the spoon from me and tried to feed herself!

 We'll need to work a bit on her manners, such as the 'no feet on the table' rule.

Overall she had a great time, may have actually consumed a tablespoon or two of squash, and did NOT sleep any better at night, but that's ok.  It's a process.  I'm sure we'll get there before she's 20. 

Oh yeah, and here's your after pic:

A couple more 4 month pics

I took these on Teddy's 4 month b-day as well, altho without the pretty dress.  The background is actually navy blue, altho it looks black.

Love her eyes in this one. :)

Oh hey! I never posted the 4 month pics!

Boy, am I a slacker!  Must be that second child syndrome I've heard so much about...I've sure got my hands full these days.  Maybe when Teddy sleeps thru the night I'll be more consistent.  In the meantime, here's a handful of Teddy pics!

Around the house

Here just some pics from our day to day life at home. There haven't really been any major events or landmarks to take pics of, but it has been a while since I've blogged so I thought I'd share these.

First, our fingerpainting fun. (Teddy was napping) After playing with the other colors, Ru kept asking for more orange, and more orange, and, well, this is what color she ended up with all over herself.

Here she's snacking on her 'bean chair' and giving Sammy the evil eye. "Not yours, Sammy! Go 'way!"

Baby sister in her little jungle gym. She's not rolling over yet, but she's making progress! She holds her head up like a champ, and is now working on torso control.

Ru asked me to move baby sister over so she could get some jungle gym action herself. She was happy to pose for some pictures, too. :)

Teddy's 3 month pics in the loveseat

Can't forget the loves eat pics!  She holds her head up well, and was nice enough not to lunge off the chair this time.

She was smiling at me. :)

Teddy's 3 month pics

Finally posting Teddy's 3 month pictures (which I took a little late, too ;)

Gotta get the red chair pics uploaded, I couldn't do those until Daddy came home and apparently haven't dumped them off the camera yet!