Milestones

Kamryn is now 6 1/2 months! 

She likes to taste what we are eating and drink from our cups.  She'll eat just about anything!  She still has a hard time with chunky things, but if it's mashed up well enough she'll eat it!  She loves her green veggies!

She has now started rolling onto her tummy to sleep.  And she loves to have things to cuddle with.. hence the blanket and stuffed animals in her bed!  She just loves them!

Her first Popsicle!  It was a very messy ordeal but she sure loved it!  Today she also tasted her first french fry!!!   

I can lay her on the floor and she will roll to get to the things she wants.  She hasn't mastered it yet and will sometimes roll the wrong way, but has started catching herself going the wrong way and then she goes the other way!  Way cute to watch her little mind think!

She is an official sitter!!  She can sit on her own for a really long time, play with toys, watch the kids, see things differently.. she only tips over if a toy is too far away and she is reaching for it or if she gets pushed by an older sibling! =)  Also sometimes she will have been sitting for a while and she will cry because she doesn't know how to lay down and she is tired of sitting!

The hair on the top part of her head is so long!!!  It is fun to put little clips or pony tails or bows in!

And this is what happens if I don't put a clip or something in!

Last week she got her FIRST TOOTH!  She is getting to be such a big girl and she is still so happy and such a joy to have in our home!!  I think she is always smiling!  However, she has become quite the mommas girl and I end up carrying her around in the above shown sling and I love it!!  I love having her close to me!  I love that she loves me so much!  Ya.. it's a little annoying when I want to leave her with a babysitter (or even Nik) and she cries the whole time, or if I want to put her down so I can get dinner ready and she wants to be held, but it's not going to last forever and I'm just loving it that she loves me so much!  She is very calming for me and makes me so happy!  Who wouldn't want to carry a little ball of happy energy around all day long?

Camping AGAIN!!!!!

Lets just say we love having friends that are really good at camping!! =)

Don't get me wrong... we could manage on our own if we had to, but it is nice to have those extra things like a camping stove, shade cannopy, chain saw, axe, a really big tent (instead of our little 3 person tent) and of course it is so nice to have the company of good friends!!

For Labor Day we headed up to Blue Ridge Reservoir.  So much fun!  We stayed in a campsite and we had a really good spot because we weren't close to anybody else!  It was almost like winging it in the wild!

The kids really love camping!!  They were so excited! 

Ian got to shoot a real gun for the first time!!  He loved it, but was also mad that Dad wouldn't let him hold the gun by himself.  We tried explaining that he wasn't big enough, but he kept saying that now he was 4 and 4-year-olds get to shoot guns all by themselves.  Pretty funny!  He still had a blast!

Nik doesn't get to shoot very often, but he really loves it.  It was so nice to have another guy there for him to shoot with and throw the clay pigeons!  There were also some girls that Nik and John go to school with there and one of them could also throw the clay pigeons really well so both boys got to shoot at the same time!  It was fun!

Playing in the dirt... one of the favorites of camping!!  Both kids get so dirty within the first hour of camping... but I usually don't clean them up until it is time to go to bed!!  What kind of mom would I be if I expected them to stay clean while we were camping? =)  Ha ha  It is really funny how dirty they get though!!

One of my favorite parts of camping is that the kids get to be kids!!  They are able to wander and play away from us a little bit and go exploring.  They kept pretending to go on hunts and look for animals.  There weren't any other kids this trip so they played with each other or begged one of the big people to play with them.  In this picture they were behind the tent and we could hear them talking together and laughing and talking some more... I peaked around and asked what they were doing and they were "playing Primary!"  What good kids!  Ian was teaching Miranda what he learns in Primary!

Now we have a tent, and we all fit in it (barely) and this trip John and Courtney had a big tent for us to use.  It was so nice to have room for all of us to sleep comfortably!  It was pretty cold so we all ended up cuddling close, but we didn't have to and that was the good part!!  It was like a mansion!

The last couple of times we have gone camping the kids wake up so happy and excited to be there!  It's like they wake up and remember where they are and get excited all over again! =)  They love the fire and sleeping in sleeping bags and throwing things in the fire and running around.

Kamryn did really good too!  There were lots of girls wanting to hold her and she is such a mommy's girl right now that she fought it, but did pretty good letting them hold her!  She is still such a sweet baby!!

Camping is definately one of our favorite things right now!! =)