give me some real food mom

Gabe has never liked baby food. In fact he used to gag and shudder. He is getting better at not gagging but he still doesn't like the stuff. He would much rather eat what I am eating. We usually do this but I wanted to use up my baby food. I thought he might like to try applesauce again. I was wrong. At least there was no gagging. After I tried to feed him I ate my cereal. He ended up eating 1/4 of my banana. I took this little video and thought I would post it. Try and ignore the background screaming. My other kids don't understand the term "quiet on the set".

We are all connected

I was thinking today about how no man is an island. I know that sounds cliche but I really can't think of a better way of saying it. Maybe that is why it is a cliche. There is nothing that we do that does not some how affect another. I was also thinking of how even a stranger can touch our hearts and inspire us. Sometimes this can happen by us listening to the radio, watching the news, reading the paper, or even by hearing about someone through a friend. I recently came upon such a person while looking at blogs. I have a couple of blogs I like to read, most of which are people I know. The other day however I was bored and none of my friends had posted recently. I decided to look at the blogs that Haylie has listed on her site. That led me to a blog that had this great story on it. So, I posted a comment. Funny enough she posted a comment on Haylie's blog addressing me. She told me to check out a blog that was listed on her blog. Follow me? So now I am reading this woman's blog regularly. She is battling lymphoma. She set up this blog when she found out two months ago to keep people up to date on her progress. It is kind of funny how I found a friend of a friend of a friends blog. I look forward to reading her blog every day. It is sad, funny, inspiring and heartbreaking all at the same time. Through my wandering I stumbled upon it. I thought I would share it with you. Reading it has helped me gain a little perspective. I hope that this stranger can inspire you the same way she has me.

Just a spoonfull of Sugar

My mom's dog Winnie recently gave birth to a litter of six adorable puppies. They name them just for fun and this particular puppy is named Sugar. She is in my opinion the cutest puppy of the batch. Gabe really likes her too. He giggled every time he saw her. He really liked her chewing on his hand. At least we know he can take what he can dish out.

Gabe and Caleb

Gabe really likes his cousin Caleb. He loves him so much in fact he tries to put him in his mouth. Come to think of it he likes to put most things in his mouth but mostly Caleb. This was yesterday at Adam and Danielle's house. Caleb was a little bit tired. Usually he is a little more understanding of being chewed on.

Gabe is almost crawling. He is still trying to figure it out. When there is something he really wants to get to he tries really hard. I thought that being with Caleb would be a good time to practice his moves. He really wanted to get to him. As you can see from the prior clip I think he wanted to chew on him.

Splish Splash

I have finally decided to put a video on my blog. Haylie and Kristen have inspired me. What could make a more fitting first video that a baby in the tub. I don't know that there is anything more enjoyable to watch.

I've been a slacker

It isn't that I haven't had anything to blog about, I have just been lazy. Things happen and I say to myself, "I must blog about that!", and then I forget. My life really has been quite busy. We went to Park City with my family for a week. We had 20 people in one condo. Four beds and 20 people. Granted 12 of them were 12 and under, but still. It actually was not as bad as I was anticipating. We had a lot of fun together. We went to the oulets, went swimming and stayed up way to late watching movies and playing games. They have great hot tubs up there. It was a good thing too because halfway through the week it got freezing cold.

Don't these guys make the cutest little family. I really love Janie and Ryan and Elizabeth. Really really really.

Bella loved going down to the pools. We had to watch her like a hawk. She would all of a sudden decide to go find Jaden or climb on top of the rocks. She is very slippery.

My dad is so adorable. I really like hanging out with him. He is an awesome Grandpa. This is also Gabe's first time swimming. He LOVED it. He especially liked playing in the waterfalls.


Mystery and Hayley. Aunt Mystery to be exact. They had a blast hanging out together.

While we were up there we put Gabe in his walker to keep him happy. He went crazy. He was running all over the place. He had never done that before and I think he liked that he could get to people he wanted i.e. Me. When we got home we put him in it again and he tore through the house. Can you tell what is coming next? Yep, he went down the stairs. Luckily we have three little stairs and then a landing before the big drop. Still he now has a big scab on his nose from landing right on it. It was so sad. I have never heard him cry like that. I knew he was seriously hurting when he wouldn't nurse. He is doing fine now and the walker has been put away. He needs to learn to crawl anyway and now that he knows what it feels like to move forward I think he has the motivation.
Well I think that enough of me writing. I promise to not let myself go this long between blogs. I hope this makes you happy Haylie.