Happy Birthday Journey!!

Wow, I cannot believe my baby is one. She finally started walking more yesterday. The Early Intervention Childhood lady was here and I had told her that Journey had started taking a few steps. She puts Journey up against the couch to see if she will walk to her and wouldn't you know it, she turns her little self and walks right over to me. She did this twice. Little Stinker! The good news is that she has been gaining weight nicely and will probably be released from the program next month. Yay!! She is 14 lbs at a year.
We are so blessed to have little Nurney (as McKade calls her). She is my little cuddler. She is super easy going, and I can tell you that she did not inherit that from her father. She is different in every way from my other kids. The others all just adore her as the baby. McKinna and her friends love to take her in McKinna's room and babysit her. Bodin loves to play with her. McKade is super protective of her, he will chase down and tackle any kid that messes with her. We love you Journey and cannot imagine our lives without you.

McKades version of Journey puking.

McKade decided he was going to tell us the story of Journey puking on the way home from looking at lights. I think his story was better than the actual event!

Rule # 1, 547,698

"No, McKade you cannot ride that reindeer!" (As he has it straddled walking around saying ride, ride, ride, ride, etc. )

"OTay, Mom!"

He then proceeds to ride it saying, "Walk, Walk, Walk, Walk, Walk"

Rule # 1,547,699. We do not walk the reindeer either.

Flu season is here

BECAUSE IT'S ONE, TWO, THREE STRIKES YOU'RE OUT

Since we missed Soccor sign-ups we enrolled Bodin into coach pitch baseball. Having never played baseball, we went to the store and bought a bat, glove, helmet, and some youth baseballs to whip Bodin into tip top shape for baseball. Ok, ok, I was just hoping we could at least make it so he was not scared of the ball.

It started off pretty bad as Bodin would move out of the way everytime a ball came his way. So to overcome his fear of the ball I made an offer he couldn't refuse. I told him everytime he "dodged" the ball I was going to beam him with another (I had six balls all together). Bodin learned real quick that I wasn't lying.

Bodin did really good and got better with every pratice and every game. Bodin only struck out once and got a couple of people out while playing the field. Every time Bodin was up to bat his teammates would chant his name "BODIN, BODIN, BODIN", you should have seen the smile on his face. In the end they only lost one game. After the first pratice I became the pitcher for our team. I actually did pretty good, only hit a couple of kids but no harm no foul right? This picture is not of the whole team as not all showed up for that particular game. And yes, that kid is grabbing his weiner! Good job Bodin!

Standing

Yeah, Jouney is standing all by herself at 11 months. She could totally walk, as she pushes cars, and chairs all over the house, but she is too scared to let go and take off. That is okay, with her being the baby, I kind of like to carry her.

Hard day at work!

After a year of living here I finally got around to getting my fishing license in time for the last two weeks of the Flounder season. Saturday morning we got up early, packed up the Armada and headed for the place I work at to fish off the dock. A quick stop for bait and another for donuts then straight for the fishing hole. I set Bodin's pole up with a mullet minnow and dropped it into the water. Before I could get my pole set up Bodin started yelling that his line was tight. I feel his pole and sure enough, he had a fish on the line. We reel him in and I am thinking "We are going to catch a lot of fish today." WRONG!! In three hours that was the only fish we caught. Bodin actually caught another fish but I messed up and if got off the hook. We had plenty of bites but they are a little harder to catch that the normal fish especially with light weight line and a walmart "kids" pole. Oh well, the fish was good and so was the time with the family.