playtime

These pictures are super typical of Tenley....Me trying to get a good picture of her, but she is always too busy watching her brother play.  In fact she is CONSTANTLY watching him, no matter what he's up to!  I'm sure he is going to find it pretty annoying once she is mobile and follows him around everywhere :)  I can't wait to see them playing together more, it's fun enough at this point and they don't do much together anyways.  It's usually Kaleb building or playing with cars and Tenley rolling all around trying to jack his toys :)  Oh don't worry Kaleb steals her toys all the time too....sharing is a concept we are working on lately and it's not going veey well.  It usually results in Kaleb slamming his head on the floor in frustration!  I sure do love these two crazies :)                                        

Tenley sitting up!

She has been sitting up pretty good for a little while, but only for very short periods of time...until yesterday! The day after she turned 6 months old she was sitting up super good and for a really long time!  She still topples over eventually and she can't get into the sitting position by herself yet, but she is getting so big! I cannot believe she has already been with us for half a year, especially when I put into perspective how old Kaleb was when we got pregnant with her (he was only 7 1/2 months old) crazy!! No repeats of that hopefully!  We sure love our little Tenley!!

Silly Kaleb

I found Kaleb playing with my heels one Sunday morning, and he tried walking around in them for the longest time!  Now he does it almost everytime I'm putting things away in the closet.  It's super cute, but now I find myself searching for my shoes a lot!!

Daddy took him on the big kid slide and he loved it, even though the slide down was pretty slow :)  I think Jared is a little bigger than the kids that slide was designed for!

Jared was giving him a bath and told me to come in quick with the camera....this is what i found :)  He put the bowl on his head and thought he was pretty funny!  He is such a hilarious little guy and he manages to entertain us daily, we love you bubbas!!!

For Grandpa Tieman!

I know how much the family appreciates seeing videos and pictures of the kids (especially grandpa T!)  So here is one....there's a bunch more on my YouTube channel too!  http://www.youtube.com/user/schmucky45

a typical day at home

a little while ago I had a friend ask me what I do all day, since I am home with the kids. She said "i would get so bored being home all day" I just smiled and said something like, "not much" but inside I was laughing really hard, she is currently pregnant, so soon she will understand exactly what that "not much" really means :) What I should of said might have just scared her, haha!

Anyways, here are a few pics of some common things we are up to around here...

Tenley hanging out and watching her maniac brother

Kaleb trying to hide from diaper changes...he hates them, but I am not excited about potty training him!

Tenley posing for the camera...she almost always makes silly faces when i take pictures of her, guess she wanted to pose in a cute position instead

Kaleb being Kaleb, silly and always entertaining! He really is growing up so fast!!

Happy Happy Easter!

Easter was interesting this year...we had a sick Kaleb so we didn't make it to church and he wasn't his typical rowdy self all weekend either. Still, Saturday we colored our eggs...well mom and dad colored the eggs and the kids watched :) Let me restate that again, Kaleb watched and Tenley ate her toes....see below :)

Kaleb touched a couple of the eggs right after we dyed them, so they were still wet and he got some of the color on his hands. This is a boy who plays and eats dirt, so a little dye shouldn' hurt right? WRONG! it was the end of the world that his fingers turned blue :) He wouldn't even touch them when they dry! So hunting for eggs was pretty funny, he liked finding the eggs but refused to pick them up :)

Daddy also got Kaleb a new bubble gun for Easter. We seriously went through an entire bottle of bubbles so fast! It was pretty cute watching him squeal over them!! I sure do love watching those two play together! It was a fun day even with the sickie for a kid :)

Hanging Out

So I decided to take the kids for a walk today since our playgroup was cancelled....everything was too wet at the park! Anyways, I don't think I've mentioned this before, but there are a ton of hills around here! So everywhere we go, there is a lot of downhill and uphill walking. Soooo, as I'm huffing and puffing, and pushing the kids up one of the hills this woman comes jogging passes us with her dog. She gave a nice little smile, but I'm sure my returned smile looked something like a dying woman, who can barely make it up this hill :) Yah, I felt great about myself as she jogged on up, so needless to say I gotta take these kids out on walks more! Jared did make me feel slightly better by stating that I was pushing up a double stroller, thanks for trying honey :)

We stopped at the park, had some goodies, watched some golfers, and squealed at a few dogs...it was a good trip. On the way back home we saw this bad boy perched in a tree. I wish I had a better camera, because when he flew off I wanted a picture of his wings spread out, but my camera got a really crappy shot! You can't really tell by the picture but he was pretty big! the tree he was on is HUGE, so those branches are actually really big branches...they look kinda small in the picture.
It was a fun, quick little afternoon out of the house, which is pretty rare around here with all the ghetto wind! Here's to hoping for more cool, breezy days so we can enjoy this lovely weather!!!