Bodin's photo shoot

A girl after my own heart

I was trying to make some cookies and Journey was fussing so I threw some brown sugar and cookie dough on her chair. She could not get it fast enough. She started licking it up. She is working on putting the weight on.

Taking on the Jellies!

We were itching to go down and play at the beach last Saturday. We get there by 10 so it was not too crowded and we were having a great time. We played in the water for a while and saw dolphins jumping about 20 yards from us. We then decided we would go up to the shore to catch some crabs. We were almost out of the ocean completely (maybe in two feet of water) when McKade starts screaming and reaching for his feet. Ben was holding him and grabbed him and that is when Ben feels the same stinging sensation, a JELLYFISH. We quickly pour clean water over it and wrap him in a towel so he can not scratch it. We then head to McDonalds. We debated on taking him to an urgent care as his leg looked like it had blisters all over it. We were not sure if he was allergic. We decided that if Mickey D's did not fix the problem we would go. (I know parents of the year.) After about 20 minutes and his smoothie and french fries he was good to go. Here is what his leg looked like later that day. He got stung pretty good.

Bubbles

What's better in the summer than bubbles. We went down to the library to do some experiments with bubbles.


In this experiment they were making bubble art.



At this station they got to stand in the middle of a pool and with a hula hoop a bubble was made over their entire body. Pretty cool!



This experiment was neat. They got to make bubbles in this contraption and the bubbles were so strong they could stick their hands through them without them popping.
We then went and bought a bubble blowing machine. Yes, I am that lazy. I do not want to stand their blowing bubbles all day. This one blows them like crazy. The kids are having a great time with it.

And this is where Journey sat and watched the bubbles.

4th of July

We were not sure what to do or where to go for the 4th. We asked around and everyone told us to go to the Target parking lot as they set off fireworks at the Kemah Boardwalk. We took a neighbor girl and headed out. I will tell you that it was nothing compared to the Holbrook firework show. It was only about 15 minutes long, but the kids still had a great time. We then headed home and let the kids do poppers. They had a good time.

Galveston

We have been planning to head down to the Galveston beach for a couple of weeks now,but something always seems to come up. Well, here comes Saturday, and I am sick with the flu, Bodin is sick with the flu, and we had to go to the urgent care for McKinna's ear infection. I drugged everybody up and decided that nothing would keep us back (Ben who was feeling well actually decided this). We decided the beach would not be a great idea, but Danielle had sent us some cool info about Galveston. When Hurricane Ike hit the island a few years back it took out almost all the gorgeous live oaks. They wanted to remember them though so they have awesome tree carvings all over the island. We took the challenge to go and find them (we actually had all the addresses).
So off we go. We first went and ate and the beach looked so inviting we decided to go and put our feet in. I had heard that the water in the Gulf is warm, but I have been in many oceans and they are never really warm. I hate cold water. We put our feet in and the water easily had to be in the mid-80's. It looks dirty, but it is super warm. We played and got a little wet. Well, some of them got a lot wet.




We then went on to find the tree carvings. There are a lot of them, but here are some of our faves.






I had to wonder as we went around to these if the people that had them in their yards regretted it a little. There was a constant flow of people going through taking pictures of these and some of them are over fences in their backyards. I was picturing my mom. She would be losing her mind. "These people should not be coming here. This is my yard." I would feel the same way, however we still went and shot some cool pics.

Journey at 6 months

Journey had her six month check-up on June 23, 2010. She came in at a whoppin' 9 lbs. 1 oz, and her height is now 22 1/2 inches. She is, of course, not on the charts yet, but she has kept her same growth curve. They just continue to watch her and make sure she cotinues to grow. Her biggest growth is in her head, it is actually on the chart at the 4th percentile. The doctors had always said that it was a good sign if the growth was in her head, that is where they need the growth the most:).
Some other fun things about Journey at 6 months:
She can sit up for a few seconds. She is still toothless (I can't believe this since the rest of mine had teeth at 3 months). She eats like a champ. She likes her oatmeal, rice cereal, bananas, carrots, yogurt, and ice cream. She loves to watch her brothers and sister. She thinks McKade is absolutely hilarious. (I am not sure why she is not scared to death of him as he is usually mauling her). She has finally made it into her 0-3 month clothes. Yeah! She refuses to sit up in the bath tub. She loves to lay back and kick around.

Of course, we had to do a 6 month photo shoot, she was not in a particularly good mood.


McKade was feeling negleted and positioned himself into the photo shoot. He is not even dressed:-) Perhaps he is the neglected middle child.