Little Okie Homestead

After some miscommunications and some family trauma stuff I have finally got my maternity pictures. I love the ladies at  Memories Photography !  (warning if you visit there site it's not G rated so please keep that in mind).  I have taken some other photos with them that I will not share on the internet and they turned out awesome!  I have to say I'm lovin' my maternity photos too! Adrienne did a great job! Love her! If you are in the Denver area and need photos done you should really check  them  out! I'm sure you will be really happy with the final product! Also I think every woman should have their boudoir photos taken at least once in their lives and that is what these ladies specialize in! So all you mommies out there you should keep that in mind! It's a great way to pamper yourself and a great gift for your hubby!

Yesterday was Goose's 2 month birthday! STATS: Height: 24 inches!  (I can't believe he is 2 feet long! Crazy!) Weight: 13 pounds exactly! He loves sitting up however he can...Mommy, Bumbo Chair, Swing, ect. He has the hiccups all the time! His sneezes constantly! He is a night owl & will only sleep on his tummy now! He smiles all the time! He loves watching Monkey play all around him! He loves to laugh at Mommy being silly! He sleeps for 6 hours at night & catnaps through the day! He nurses every 2 hours & let's Mommy accomplish nothing most days because of it! He's a Mommy's boy through and through! I'm not sure he was happy about getting older! Or maybe it was all the pictures I was trying to take right after he woke up ? Monkey had to get in on the camera action too!

7 weeks old! This was after she cut his ear! (Totally kidding! He was just super sleepy!) She cut off an inch of hair! Crazy huh? (Told you he was sleepy!)

Toddle Along Tuesday  this week is all about things you can't believe you say...after thinking and thinking and watching what I say all day I only came up with one theme... ...Don't eat your boogers! ...Quite picking your nose! All day long, everyday! How do you get a kid to quite picking their nose? I have no idea! I wonder if Monkey will hate me when he grows up because of this picture being out there on the internet?!?!

I got a great idea from a friend but the problem is that it doesn't work for my family so I'm hoping that you all might be able to give me some ideas.  A friend of mine said that she takes a loaf a bread and makes peanut butter and jelly sandwiches out of the whole loaf. Then she freezes them so she can take them with her when her and the kids are heading out for a day at the zoo or whatever. She said it's perfect because they are defrosted by the time they are ready to eat lunch and it helps keep the rest of lunch cold like fruits or cheese. So here is my dilemma...Monkey is allergic to peanut butter! Yep this idea is great for me because I love peanut butter and jelly but I can't feed it to Monkey or Hubby and most likely Goose. I'm thinking of trying a regular ham and cheese sandwich and see how it goes. I'm just not quite sure it will work.  Does anyone else do this? Anyone have suggestions on what I can use instead of peanut ...

Teaching kids everyday is really pretty easy. Most of the time I don't even realize that I'm teaching Monkey until later when he repeats it back to me and shows me that he understands it. It's amazing to me how easy it can be. Today's "How I Everyday Teach" tip is                     Use Your Child's Interests! Monkey's interests change almost weekly. He will want to know everything he can one week about bugs then maybe next week it's farm animals or snakes. Right now we are in our 3rd week of everything dinosaurs! He just loves them! We have spent many hours reading books about this dino or that dino, struggling over how to pronounce their names, and watching Dino Dan or Dinosaur Train. I love that he is so excited to learn everything about dinosaurs he can but I have decided that this is our last week on dinosaurs. I want to stretch him out of his comfort zone and into another area of learning. We will head to...