Catching up, again! aka very long blog w/ lots of pics!

I tell you that it has been hard to blog lately! I once again am behind in posting and blogging! I have this whole week off and now it is wednesday and I haven't gotten much accomplished except doing laundry everyday! I finally got both kids to sleep Hunter went down finally at 1:30pm and Grace at 1:45pm! Will see how long they sleep Grace already took a 2 hour am nap instead of her usual 1/2 hour power nap so I have no clue what will happen with this one cause this is supposed to be her long one.

Pretty sad I just had to look on my last blog to see what pic I posted last! On to July pictures~! Larry made the kids a sand box in the back yard. He used the boards from the previous flower boxes that the owner before us had. It took Hunter awhile to actually sit in it. He didn't want to get dirty. Must get that from me. He is used to playing with a sand box at daycare that they stand up for and it is more of a table sand box.

Here is Hunter being a helper. I love Grace's look. She looks like she is saying Mom can you save me!
Swimming! Grace loves to lounge in the pool! She stayed in for about 1/2 hour in this floaty just kicking back and kicking her feet and chewing on whatever we gave her. She loves the water!

This is our water boy. He also loves water. He started off with all these floaties and by the end of the pool time he was only in his life jacket having a great time!

Beware of Grace in the walker! She started walking in this at the beginning of the month and she is all over! Gotta love the hardwood floor!

My attempt at 6 month pictures of Grace. She wasn't happy with me when I was taking them so I didn't use them. I don't think I even caught a smile.

Here is what the backyard is looking like. Larry changed the retaining wall from wood to cement blocks and put the leftover dirt in that area. We haven't done alot more than putting the cement blocks around the right side or I should say Larry has. I am at a standstill with helping cause all I do is watch the kids and give ideas.

Big boy bed! Attempt #2! When I was pregnant with Grace we tried to put Hunter in this big boy bed and it didn't work. We were more excited to put him in it and we were just trying to do it to make it easier for us not Hunter. We learned a lesson by it. So 2 weeks ago we went to IKEA and got this leaf and told Hunter he could sleep under his leaf tent. It worked! He goes to sleep great and sleeps the whole night and we either have to wake him up to go to daycare or he wakes up around 7-8:30am. It is awesome! He hasn't walked out of it until today. For some reason he wasn't ready to go in it and I was trying to get Grace down and he comes walking out of his room saying Hunter okay. Which means that he hurt himself and fell out of the bed. Poor thing but all he need was kisses all over him and he was good and climbed back in bed and feel asleep. The first picture is of him sleeping that first night. I had to take a picture!

This is him on his big boy bed playing under his leaf tent the next am.

Grace was trying to get in his room when he was playing in his bed.

Grace loves his bed. This is her sleeping in his new sleeping bag that we got him that day. We were getting ready to get him prepared for camping/rafting in the next week.

This is one of the bins that I also got at IKEA for his toys but he and Lar both put them on their heads and neither one saw the other do it. My boys are crazy. Doesn't Hunter look quizzical in this picture?

Grace has moved to the big tub! She loves it cause she can splash! Hunter joined her and cleaned her hair for us. And for some reason he hasn't wanted to take baths or showers since. Not sure if it is because he knows Grace goes in it now or what. Drama I tell you! You'll notice that Hunter has black eye and forehead. He got that during 4th of July weekend. He can tell you how he did it and he will say Hunter fell Nana floor. Basically, he fell off her dining room chair and hit his head on the other hard wood dining room chair than hit the hardwood floor. He survived and all was well. Needless to say no pictures were taken of him on 4th of July. He wasn't to excited at first about the fireworks they scared him cause he wasn't ready for them and it was late at night for him. Grace liked them and fell asleep great. Misha wasn't as scared this year but wanted to stay inside the house under Hunter's crib when we had it still up. But that is an improvement for her! She wasn't shaking like a leaf this year.

So there you go! I still have more pics to post but I gotta take a break but hopefully I will be back soon!

Catching up on my pictures!

These pictures are from June I am very behind! The boys tented on the porch one night. We were trying to see how Hunter would do sleeping in a tent since we are going rafting. He slept the whole night and was a little scared when he woke up and didn't know where he was. Here is a picture the next morning of the boys in the tent and than of Hunter still sleeping in the tent and it was 9am! The boys didn't fall asleep until after 10pm the night before because we had him go out at 9pm and he was just to excited to fall asleep right away so they played with the flashlight for an hour. The picture of Grace is when we were waiting for the boys to get up since we were up at 6:30am!

Later that morning since both boys had shaggy hair Lar decided that Hunter could cut his. Hunter had a great time and here is his handiwork!

Hunter got his haircut after but we didn't take pictures of that. Isn't Lar so brave? The next two pics are taken at Annie's and we got a cute one of both kids and than of goofy Hunter with his Bam Bam shirt.

That takes care of June! I already have taken alot of pics for July. Alot is happening! Grace is rolling and cruising all over in her walker, she is eating alot of new foods, she took her first bath with Hunter in the bath in the bathroom yesterday and loved it, and is still sweet and calm as can be! I will try to post those tomorrow!

Grace's 6 month stats!

She is slowing catching up with her brother. I found out today that yes Grace's head is growing big. It has grown 1 inch since her 4 month check! That's alot of growth for a tiny little girl! So here are her measurements:

Weight~15.5 lbs (Hunter's was 20.4 lbs)
Height~24 inches (Hunter's was 28.3 inches)
Head Circumference~ 17.3 inches (Hunter's was 18.8 inches)

There you go, basically the doctor told me that Grace also will be taller than Larry and I. Great! Both of our kids are going to be tall!

6 months old!

Grace turned 6 months yesterday! My baby is getting so big! I will try to blog more later and I got alot of pics to show you all since I haven't blogged in forever. Here are a couple of pics of my cute little peach!

Pictures of Grace's scrapbooks

Here is the pictures of my scrapbooks that are finished. I apologize for the crooked ones for some reason I couldn't get them to flip.

Here is my prego book that my mother made when I was pregnant w/ Grace.

Here is Grace's birth book. All these pictures where of her in the hospital.Here is the scrapbook of Grace 1-5 months old.

Now I just gotta to plug away at the rest of my craft projects!

Scrapbooks!

A couple weeks ago I finally finished this book that my mother made for me to document my pregnancy month by month for Grace to read when she is older. I think my mother was trying to make me take pictures of me being pregnant but I didn't do very many. More were taken of me when I was pregnant with Grace than Hunter. Not sure why I didn't take pics of me I just didn't want to I felt huge with Hunter and didn't have time with Grace cause I was chasing Hunter. But all in all the book is done! I also finished Grace's birth book. Hunter has one that has pictures taken when he was in the hospital. Alot of pictures were taken of him and about 250 of them where from Uncle Dan. Grace didn't get that many pictures taken of her cause Uncle Dan wasn't able to make it which was totally fine! I was able to make do with the many pics that I took and that other family took when she was in the hospital. So that book is done. I just finished her January through June book so it is her 1-5 month book and I meant it to be 1-6 months but I took so many pics of her that the book got to full. My goal is to get rid of all my stickers and scrapbook paper and just order scrapbooks online so I can do books of both the kids and it will be alot easier. Don't get me wrong I still have 2 more scrapbooks to do one of Hunter and one of Grace my mother got me these cool packets of everything in them for Christmas and I am going to try to do them at the same time and order pictures as I go throughout the year. I am still one year behind on Hunter though. I think I did his scrapbooks up to his 1st bday when I was pregnant with Grace and trying to get caught up on all his scrapbooks. So I gotta figure out if I am going to back track and use the scrapbook stuff my mother got and make one from a year ago or do this year or just order a scrapbook through Snapfish or one of those places or see if Costco is still carrying the scrapbook kits that my mother got. I am almost out of my boy stickers and I am saving them for his memory book which is another project I have going on with both kids! It is never ending. But I can say that I got 3 scrapbooks done and I will take a pic of them this week to show you all! I was so excited when I finished Grace's 1-5 month book because I have been trying to do it during afternoon nap and today I got a mocha and didn't finish drinking it until after one and both kids were asleep and I powered through it. I had a mission I wanted to get rid of all my scrapbook stuff. I got some cool stamps from my mother that I am going to try out on a few projects I have up my sleeve I just haven't ventured that yet.

Picture of the backyard project (not done yet)

Here is the before picture just in case you all forgot how bad our small backyard looked!

And here are the pics of 1/2 the backyard project done! We dug out all the grass put a liner type thing down and put rock on top. Lar made the flower beds and we finally planted starts and seeds yesterday. Anthony helped Lar with the rocks and the retaining wall by the AC unit. The next stage is the next half of the backyard. Gonna pull out all the grass and make it a place for us to hang out and put a sandbox there for the kids.

Picture download!

Wow it has been a long time since I blogged! It has been very busy in the Robinson household! Gotta catch everyone up! We went to the outside OC pool and Hunter had a blast he was smiling the whole time! Grace was in her carseat most of the time and than Lar took her out and got her feet wet. I think she like it. Grace sleeps through the night! Yeah! We had a day or two where she didn't but we powered through them. She is eating more real food and that has helped her get through the night, I think. She loves banana's but can't get to many it clogs her up. She can't eat to many peaches that upsets her belly and we tried plums with bananas but when we gave her the plums she was waking up twice in the night. So we are bagging the plums. This weekend she gets pears! I just put them in the rice cooker to steam while Hunter is sleeping. Grace also hadn't been taking her Pedilax in about a week but with all these different food combo's she is getting it through her system it just comes out like rocks so we are going back on pedilax but at least she has a BM everyday with out it so we are getting somewhere! She is a little ham. She can laugh so hard when Hunter laughs with her she thinks he is pretty funny.Hunter just amazes me! He remembers everything and talks up a storm! He is getting better at going potty in the toliet and I am not forcing him to he does it most of the time on his own. He loves stickers and puts them everywhere even on his toes!

The other day he wanted to tak Grace's temp and he put it under her arm! I don't do this I put it in her bum so I found out that he learned this from Annie when she did it at daycare. Poor Grace she was a trooper though. Just stared at Hunter the whole time and Hunter was very gentle with her and would take it out and check it and say no temp and put it back under her arm.

We are going rafting this July in a few weekends so the boys tented last night on our porch! It went pretty well and Hunter stayed in it the whole night! We weren't sure if that would happen. We learned that he needs about an hour down time to get used to the idea of staying in the tent and than he will crash. Lar didn't sleep much just worrying about him. I guess Hunter tosses and turns alot and ended up one time down by Lar's feet. I think we might have to get a light weight sleeping bag for mr. mover.

Today, Hunter cut Lar's hair! He was pretty excited about it and when I tried to help him he would so no mama i cut papa's hair! We were just trying to get him to get his hair cut so this was another angle to get him to let Lar cut his.

We are slowly getting the garden/backyard project done. I planted the flower beds full of veggies and fruit! So excited. I know it might be to late in the season but oh well. I will try to post pics of what the backyard looks like later I still haven't taken any pics of it since I posted the before pics. Lar and Anthony are working on the backyard right now while the kids sleep. They are putting up a small retaining wall to seperate the garden part from the lounging/sand box area for the kids. This all was Lar's idea so I am just rolling with it. The pic below was the progress we made last weekend. We dug up the grass and put a drop cloth down and rock over it and laid out the beds Lar had made. So I better post some pics of it all. I think that is about all that is new with us!

"Hunter says..."

We have a big talker in our house! Hunter talks up a storm and he uses his name in almost everything he says. He says Hunter pick up toys, Hunter eat peach and last night he wanted to play with his train set and it was his bed time so I told him to talk to his papa and he went up to Lar and said Papa Hunter play with train! He is such a smart little cookie! I don't know any other kid that said their name with everything! Not sure if this is a good thing or not. I think he started saying it because I would say his name and than tell him something. He is such a little man. Grace is getting big! She has grown lengthwise and grabs at anything in her reach and it goes straight in her mouth. She loves to eat peaches. She follows Larry, Lucy, and Hunter like a hawk if they are in the room she is watching where they go. She is wearing 6-9 month clothes and mostly has bare feet because socks are impossible on her. She loves to kick her heels. Larry gave her a nickname the other night at 3:30am when she was kicking her heels in her bed wanting to eat or she was all gasey and it was uncomfortable for her but she was still asleep. He called her Thumper (not sure if that is how you spell it), from Bambi, and she totally is cause she kicks all the time. She is still a great baby! She cries when she is hungry or bored but all in all she is pretty content doing whatever. Her hair is starting to turn blonde. Not sure if I am going to get my redhead out of her yet! Gotta jet and get some housework done. I just wanted to post about Hunter talking so I can look back and remember when he gave him self the first person language.

Feeding the birds and backyard project!

Earlier this week we went and feed the birds down at the Oregon City park by the river. Lar has taken Hunter there before to feed the birds but this was Grace and I's first time going. Hunter had a blast! He would feed the Canadian Geese a whole piece of bread and when one would come close to him and took his bread he would either drop the bread and scream or scream when the geese toke it from him. Super cute. I am pretty sure that Hunter wanted to just walk right into the water to get the ones that were swimmin. It was a fun time and I have never seen a Canadian Geese up that close before. They are quite beatiful I think.Last weekend Lar and I worked on the backyard project. I called up my mother and her husband to come steal the kids for a couple of hours so we could figure out what we are going to do with the planter beds that Lar made a couple of weekends ago. I had Lar take a before picture to show you why we were doing this project in the first place. Our backyard is tiny and the people before us had a garden area that was going down the slope and the grass was full of weeds. We got alot done thanks to the kids not being home to have to worry about. We are going to do it again this weekend and see how much we get done. Here are the pics of the not so nice backyard.

This picture shows the flower bed on the right that was there before.This is a picture from the other direction looking up to the flower bed. Small backyard, huh?!

I will post pictures of the finished project when it becomes a finished project! Hopefully, this weekend we can get a couple more hours into it. I have sunflowers that are potted that need to be put in the ground very soon!

Food Processing!

I am going to try to not buy baby food this time with Grace. I did with Hunter cause I was just excited to use the baby food jars and containers that you buy at the store! This time since my sister in law is doing pureeing her own foods I thought I would try to be better and save some money and do the same. Don't get me wrong Lar bought a few baby food jars just in case we have a no fruit/veggie emergency. Grace's first food other than rice cereal, which she doesn't like, is bananas. I know I should start with the veggies but her doctor said to start with fruits since she gets constipated for days and she is on daily pedi-lax. My goal, hopefully, is to get off the pedi-lax and that the fruits will make her regular. Which the bananas seem to be doing since she has a BM 2 times a day now w/ meds and not one or none. So we are on the home stretch! I have been mashing her 1/2 banana in a bowl and giving it to her and it seems to work alright I can't get the chunks out. I tried our big food processor that we got for Christmas and made more of a mess than I need just for 1/2 banana. We have a small food processor that chops veggies but it has too many parts also. So! I saw on my girlfriend, Noelle's baby registry this very cool baby food processor and I had to get it! Noelle, by the way still hasn't had her baby and she was due on Saturday! Hurry baby Conwell we want to know if you are a boy or girl! Anywho, here is a pic of what I got I haven't opened it yet just in case Lar doesn't like the idea and I have to take it back. We start Peaches on Sunday very excited! Also, anyone have advice for a very novice baby pureeing mom?

5 months old!

I can't believe my baby girl is 5 months old today! She started eating banana's on Sunday and likes it alot better than rice cereal!

House projects and big girl bath tub!

Last weekend Lar finished the rocks going underneath the porch project . The house is looking alot nicer. We are trying to make some improvements before we try to sell it. Here is what the house looks like now. I tried to find a picture of it before Lar did the rocks but I couldn't find one or I didn't take one in the past years. I think the house looks alot better now! Good idea Lar!
Lar also started on the making the flower beds project. Hunter has to help with everything! Especially if Lar is doing something new and exciting. Hunter was helping Lar put screws in the holes. Lar made 4 boxes to go in the backyard that we will make into a full garden since it is a small space. This weekend he will get to work on getting the ground ready for the boxes. His goal is not to mow back there since it is just weeds growing anyways.

Last night Miss Grace grew out of her baby bath tub and we took the straps off it and now she is in it but it has turned into a big girl bath tub. Funny thing is we didn't even know the straps came off when we used it for Hunter! I just realized when I was giving her a bath last night and she wanted to sit up not lounge in it that it was made for her to sit! So I took her out and off came the mesh and here she is big sitter girl! Which is kinda funny since she doesn't like to sit she is a big stander! She sat pretty good. Notice my bath helper! He is always right there to help out and wack her head with her brush. Such a nice brother.