Broken Computer

Ahh!! What's a girl to do?!?! My beloved computer is officially broken. I think I've actually been using it on borrowed time, but I was hoping it would last until the end of the month. We had a crazy plan to updgrade all the computers and build a home server for movies when we got my retention bonus at the end of the month. So I will have limited computer time because I just love my computer too much to use one of the other two that we own (yes we own three computers...two adults, three computers...now that I write it out, it sounds absurd!).



I use Windows Live Writer for blogging because I hate the blogger input for pictures and I don't have it downloaded on any other computer. I have the pictures all organized on my computer, so I don't want to deal with the hassle of having pictures in two places. Basically, I refuse to deal with change at this given moment, mostly because I'm lazy. We'll see how long the laziness lasts...

Photo Entry

Hmm, what an interesting book

Hey mommy, just lookin' at the books

Hmm, what's this?  It opens!

And there goes the book

<Picture coming soon.  I'm sure it won't take her long to figure that out.>

Mom, the bouncer is boring.  Even with Charlotte eating the side.

Still boring, even when she plays with me

Okay, get me out of here! (This is how Cooper lets us know he's done in the bouncer chair.  He gets stuck like this and it freaks us out...the kid is going to break his neck!!  No more bouncer chair!)

Wow, this bowl is amazing!  (Not sure why we buy toys?!?)

Don't you know?  You buy toys because I'm THAT cute.

Gimme a drink!

All mine and she can't have them!

Charlotte:  Give me the phone.  Cooper: No.

Beat me up all you want, I'm still not giving you the phone!

Go away already!

Yum, tasty toys!

Lolz Charlotte (click here for more Lolz):

Bitstrips

Haha, I found a new website.  I'm sort of stealing it from a blog linked to a blog, linked to another blog that I read.  Yeah, I'm a blog stalker and I'm proud of it.  I can't help but be incredibly fascinated by people I don't know or have never met.  And did you know there are a LOT of women pregnant right now??  Like all of them between 25 and 30 weeks!!  What happened 25-30 weeks ago??

Oh, yeah...the new website.  Check out Bitstrips...so fun!  Here is the family being corny on the beach.  And yes, I'm wearing shoes.  I don't like the feeling of the sand between my toes.

It was short and sweet visit with my dad and brother.  They flew in about 10 on Saturday morning  and then went to the hotel around 8 pm.  They left at 6 am the next morning to drive back to Denver, so we only got to visit for the short time on Saturday.  Charlotte started to warm up to my dad, but she was still unsure.  Cooper, was well, typical Cooper and couldn't get enough beard pulling in.  I think my dad really enjoyed it.  My brother actually held the kids this time too!  I was surprised, but I'm glad he's taking an interest.  He can be the cool uncle when they get older.

Here are some pictures from the visit:

Charlotte pokes Grandpa's eyes out, and enjoys doing it!

Cooper snuggles, ur, pulls grandpa's beard.

Take 20 pictures to get all four looking at the camera (sorry...no time to fix red eye):

Chris only

Chris only

3 out of 4

A different 3 out of 4

Success!

Cooper playing on the computer with Uncle Larry:

Free Handbag

Stealing from the Schrenks and increasing my chances to win a free handbag...

Go to Handbag Planet to win a free handbag. They are giving one away every hour for the next 24 hours.

Wipes Incident, Round 2

Gosh this cold and lack of sleep is killing me!  I'm finally getting around to blogging.  After everyone starting to get better, I got worse and for the last week or so I've been fighting off the cold.  It doesn't help that Cooper is reverse cycling and eating every 2 hours at night and then eating about 4 oz while I'm at work.  I'm flattered that he prefers me and wants to spend quality time with mommy, but I. am. tired.  The last couple of nights he seems to be sleeping through the night again, so I hope it sticks.

I've been doing pilates twice a week since June.  I've seen a tremendous difference in my core muscles and I finally feel strong enough to start doing some other physical activity.  I am not quite at pre-pregnancy size, but I'm close.  Of course my shirts won't fit for awhile so I have had to go buy new tops. 

It's tough to make time to workout, but I plan to add in at least one more day of workout (cardio) and then after I make that a habit, I want to add another day for weight training.  Maybe I won't add another day, but instead go early or stay late from pilates and do the weight training or cardio.  I'm excited to do more and see faster results.

Chris is also going to start working out again.  He is finding out that he doesn't need to feel guilty for doing things for himself.  I think he also finally trusts me to take care of both kids at one time.  I quit joking around about how he knows more than I do about taking care of both of them.  I think that helped.

We bought a new snack food.  We generally snack on healthy stuff with some junk food thrown in.  We LOVE every flavor of Goldfish.  The ranch, pizza, mozzarella sticks, extra chedder, chedder/pretzel mix, cinnamon graham, honey graham.  They are all so good.

We've been having food issues with Cooper since we got back from Denver.  He refuses to eat the baby oatmeal, by itself or mixed with anything.  He will gag and shudder before the spoon even reaches his mouth.  This is new since he used to love it and we couldn't get it in his mouth fast enough.  He also refuses to eat anything we've offered him - peaches, pears, avocado, blueberries.  We are going to wait until he is over the cold, then start all over with the cereal.  It's amazing how much a parent can stress over food for their child!

Charlotte is almost completely on finger foods now!!  It makes meal times fun and super easy.  She likes it so much she rarely lets us feed her anymore.  We are still able to do cereal in the morning and then every once in awhile we can squeeze in green beans and rice or pasta primavera baby food.  Now if only we can get her to do the sippy cup by herself.  She knows how to drink out of it, but she doesn't understand the tilting.  Strange since she drinks all her bath water out of a bowl!

She is starting to eat the things we eat too.  Last night we gave her some roast, carrots, and potatoes.  We hadn't started eating yet, but gave her the food first.  She picks up the carrots first (she likes colorful food best) and after putting it in her mouth, she made an awful face and starts yelling.  So we quickly tested some of the food.  Holy pepper batman!!!  We made the recipe slightly different and all the food was so peppery.  We felt so bad and quickly gave her some toast and juice.  Then we took away the food and gave her something else.

Charlotte is really starting to pull up on things.  She doesn't understand to move her legs underneath her, so it looks more like she is working out her arms.  Cute though.

Charlotte is fascinated with my boobs.  She will sit on my lap and pull my shirt down then face plant into them.  I think she sees Cooper when he's feeding and is trying to figure out what's so great about them.  It cracks me up.

Cooper has started really yelling when he cries.  It's like he enjoys his voice so much he changes it up just to cry.  I'm not liking it.  He loves the jumper and both kids like to try to get Scout on the couch.  Of course Scout has learned to lay just out of reach.

We had another wipes incident.   This time it was a few more than 6 wipes.  She knows how to open the Kirkland wipes.  Doesn't she look so innocent...like, I don't know what happened?!?

And I guess we need to get right on that baby proofing:

Here are some cute ones of Cooper.  I had to put the little turkey outfit on him now so that he will get to wear it before he grows out of it.

And this was an attempt to put the blanket over his head like he likes to do.