This girl....

Has been cracking me up lately! She is just full of funny things to say. Here are that latest, for your reading pleasure:

Hannah: "Mommy, I want to have really long hair like Kiki" (My sister in law has really long hair)
Me: "That would be nice Hannah."
Hannah: "But mommy, how will I poop with really long hair?"
Me: "Ummmm...."

Hannah: "Mommy, did you know that God got a camel, and rode it to the stable to see the baby Jesus?"
Me: "No, I didn't know that. Are you sure it wasn't the wise men who rode the camel to see baby Jesus?
Hannah: "No, it was God. Mommy, is Gabe the baby Jesus?"
Me: "No honey, he is just our baby Gabe."

*For this last one to make sense, I need to explain that we were at the Dr.'s office. I had taken Gabe in because he kept fussing and pulling his ear, but it turned out that he did not have an ear infection, and the NP thought that he was probably just teething.*
Nurse Practitioner: "Well, it looks like his ears are fine, sometimes kids will pull their ears when they are teething. You can go ahead and get him bundled back up, and head out."
Hannah (to the NP): "But aren't you going to check his nutter-butters?"
NP: "His what?"
Me: (Red faced and trying not to laugh, because being a nurse, I always call everything by the correct anatomical name....) "Do you mean his boy parts honey?"
Hannah: "Yeah mom, his nutter-butters."

*She has gone to all of his well baby checks with me, and they always check the diaper area, so I am thinking she just assumed they would check again this time....Oh me oh my.... :)*

Hope you enjoyed that as much as I did!!

5 months

I can't beleive that my baby is five months old today. Gabe you are already turning into such a big boy! You are rolling from your belly to back and your back to your belly. You love being in your exersaucer, and playing with your activity gym. You still have your blue eyes, and your smile and giggle melt your mommy's heart. You think that your big sister is sooo funny, she can make you laugh better than just about anyone. You love to snuggle with your daddy, and when you end up sleeping in our bed at night, you always wiggle your way over to his side. I love you very much precious boy, you bring your mommy so much joy! Happy five months little man :)

Cutie Cousin

My sister, her husband and my niece were up to visit this weekend. It was completley wonderful! Isn't my niece just the most beautiful little girl?! She is so sweet :) Steph, you guys seriously need to move closer! Oh the fun we could have.... :)

Wordless Wednesday

Practice, Practice, Practice

Practice makes perfect, right? :) I have been practicing learning to use Photoshop to edit my pictures. I feel like I am starting to make some progress, although, it is still kind of intimidating. I like taking pictures, especially of my children (the poor things probably get sick of having a camera in their faces all the time) and I really like the challenge of trying to make my pictures better. So here is my latest effort.

Original picture

Color edited version. I am not sure that you can tell much of a difference on blogger, but it did look better to me in Photoshop than the original.
Black and white edited version. This is my favorite. But I am kind of partial to black and white.

What do you think? What is good and what is not so good? Any pointers or thoughts to share?

Also, does anyone know how to make your pictures look better on blogger? I edit them and like how they look on my computer, but when I upload to blogger, I always think they look fuzzy. And it annoys me...

Wordless Wednesday

A Bumblebee and a Dinosaur

That's what these two cuties were for Halloween :) We had Trunk or Treat at our church on Saturday evening, and it was lots of fun.
My sister and I were in charge of handing our candy. :)
While daddy took care of taking our little bee around to fill her basket with candy.
And this little guy did a good job of staying bundled up and snoozing the evening away :)