Pictures july-August

Making baby food.  I also have found a brand of organic baby food that Brent and I love.  Its called Sprout by Tyler Florence.

Playing with daddy.    

Eating a hybrid zucchini/squash.  (its a hit)

Sleeping in his daddy's arms.

Wearing jeans for the first time.

Love his smile.

attempting to crawl

Crawling!

cuteness all around.

getting so big!

6 months and so cute!

         We have been so blessed in so many ways.  Brent has brought into our lives, such a joy and happiness that is different from just being a couple.  Being a family WITH a child, is so wonderful.  I can not explain how happy we are and how much joy we have.  I mean, we were happy before, but having Brent, its just awesomely wonderful.  Watching him learn and grow is just amazing.  I am so lucky that I have the opportunity to stay home with him and help him grow and develop and as well as able to watch him discover things himself.  *Also to be a stay at home wife too ;)  that is very fun!

         Brent has grown leaps and bounds since last I wrote.  He is 4 1/2 months old, and can do so much!  He is standing (against something), he rolls over, he picks up his back end and attempts the crawling motion but his front end is down, but then picks up his front end while putting the back down. He has not quite gotten the idea of picking both sides up, but he is getting there!   He grabs things, and puts them to his mouth, he has done that for awhile now, and if your hand or arm is in the way, he will most likely bend down to gnaw on you or bring you closer to him.  He loves to talk and play. Ok so this post is kinda old.  He is now 6 months old.  He just had his check up today and is 16 pounds and 26 inches long! I can not believe how big my baby is getting.  He is crawling! I know!  And rolling and doing little army pushups.  He does so much and is aware of so much already.  He loves to play with his toys, but he ESPECIALLY love paper.  All babies love paper. right? I suer hope so.  I cant remember back when Elise (the little girl I nannyed for) was this little. It seems like so long ago and that she was always past the age of one.  But yes, Brent LOVES paper.  If he can get his chubby little hands on it, it goes straight to his mouth, where sometimes if it is cardboardish, I will let him chew on it, but once it starts to disintegrate, then I take it away and oh my, its the end of the world, and I have done something so horrible to him.  But other than paper....  He especially loves his daddy.  When Truman gets home from work, Brent will be doing something else and then when he hears Truman talk, he lights up and turns his head to find him.  I love watching Truman play with Brent.  It fills my heart with joy when I hear them laughing together and talking to each other.  Truman is such a great dad.  Brent loves to go on walks, and loves to be in his sling.  He also loves swimming, and now that the weather is warm, well hotter...the pool is a constant room temperature.  So, when we go swimming, we are able to go in and get used to the water in a matter of seconds, instead of taking about 15 minutes to adjust.  We went swimming yesterday evening for an hour and fifteen minutes and when we came back inside, showered and dressed, Brent was ready to eat and then he slept for 4 hours straight.  He was so tired, but I knew all the giggling and splashing he did wore him out.  And that little fact, made me smile, because just a month and a half ago, he did not like the pool very much.

     We met some pretty wonderful people.  They moved in a month after us and they have a 8 year old boy and a 9 month old girl.  We had them over for dinner this past week, and it was nice to get to know some new people.  Fort Stockton had quite a bit of people for the small size, but people here are just not too friendly.  It makes for some lonely times, but I enjoy my time with Brent and he keeps me company :)

    Truman is working and enjoying his station here.  Actually, he loves it here.  There is only 17 of them working, but he says that this is best place he has been, so that makes me happy.  We are doing great and enjoying our lives together.  We spend lots, well ok, most of our time together.  And we love it!  My mom travels up to see us about 2 or 3 times a month and so we are blessed we can see her often (she is only an hour away).

     We got a kitten.  His name is Marvalo.  (high five if you know where we got the name from).   If you guessed Harry Potter correct.  If you guessed it was Lord Voldemort's real name *Tom Marvalo Riddle* two high fives for you!  We had once had a black kitten named Taz, and he was a little helian.  Well, we figured, since this kitten was black as well, he would be no different, so Marvalo it was, and what a little helian he is!  we found him a new home with some people from church, he was one evil little kitty who liked to stalk and play a little too much.
   We just got back from a 2 day trip to Alpine, and we had a blast.  We got to see my mom and brothers (and it was Matthews birthday on Sunday the 27th) and we got to see the best family with 6 kids: the Rasmussens!  We always enjoy hanging out at their house and visiting with them.  They are truly an amazing family, and they are a great example to us.  I have gotten so much awesome information and advice from Amy (the mom of the family :) ).  She is such a wonderful and exceptional lady.  She has truly eased some of my new mommyhood fears and put quite a few of them to rest.   They are the best.

    Another thing I wanted to do, and I have wanted to do for a VERY long time, is turn this into a family/food and craft blog.  I LOVE cooking, and this year had made me need to budget and simplify and cheapen our meals due to our income, but nonetheless they have always been awesome meals.  I want to keep a record of the meals I have made up, gotten, stolen (just kidding, borrowed and now use from friends, family).  So my meals will be budget friendly probably 98 percent of the time, and the 2 percent will be a bit more expensive but not so much.  Those 2 percent of meals will be the ones that  you go out to eat, or you would cook food that is above the normal price range.

   Anyways, I better publish this now so I can update nowaday stuff.  This post is from back in June.  With the exception of the 6 month update.