Delta Trip

Animals...

These things are all over my house. Who ever dreamed the making of these creatures is rolling in some cash.. I'm sure the Callaways helped pay the light bill this month. Notice we have all farm animals and a giraffe.. Giraffes can live on farms too.. they do on Campbell's farm, anyway. Campbell loves them! He can occupy himself with the animals for awhile.. He's gotten good at that...

Payback?

I guess I'm getting payback for having a great sleeping baby with a non sleeping toddler. Campbell has been sleeping with us since October.. I know, I know.. bad habit. He would have no part of his baby bed anymore. I'm not sure if something bit him or he pinched his finger or what.. but he would not sleep in it. I let him "cry it out" for an hour at a time. Only to go get him and within 5 seconds he would be asleep on the couch. Now we're experimenting with the "big boy" bed. He loves it... during the day. At night I put him down, I have to lie down with him too (Another bad habit). I'm trying to break that habit early... sometimes threatening Swayze's bed (his baby bed) works... other times it doesn't.. Downside of the toddler bed? He can get out of it. He woke up four times last night. I could hear his little feet pitter pattering across the house with his blanket in tow. He peeked into our room and then hopped in our bed. I hauled him back to his bed.. stopping by Swayze's room each time and showing him the baby bed. He was up for good at 7 this morning. He went down without a big fight for a nap in his own bed... That's progress.. I'll take it!

Starts here...

... and ends up here

Fingerprint Friday...

I meant to do this post yesterday.. since it was Friday. I forgot.. Imagine that. Forgive me? Thanks.. Here it is..

There is a song by Steven Curtis Chapman that says:
I can see the fingerprints of God
When I look at you
I can see the fingerprints of God
And I know its true
You're a masterpiece
That all creation quietly applauds
And you're covered with the fingerprints of God
So look around you and see where YOU can see God's fingerprints. Is it in nature? Kids? Animals? Where do you see them? Here's how to join.

Brush Brush Brush

Campbell loves brush his "teef"... The kid would brush them all day long if I would let him. I chased him all over the house to get a picture. He ended up in the laundry room. I've now figured out where the best natural light comes in the house in the mornings... So what did I do? I drug Swayze in there for a photo op as well!

Shiner...

It's not the first or the last, but it's the best one so far... He got in a fight with the couch and the couch won... this time.

Country Mornings

These are just a few of the amazing views we have of living in the country.. You don't get these views living in the middle of town.

Don'tt we live in the South?

What's with all this snow? The South hardly ever gets snow. Must be that dang global warming. I've seen more snow the past two years than I have my previous 23 years of life! Southerners aren't used to all this snow.. So what do we do when the meteorologist predicts "winter weather conditions"? We wait until the day of the storm and then try to buy all the bread, milk and eggs off the shelves at Wal-mart. Then we go home and check our cabinets to see what we have to use to slide down the hills the next morning. Drum roll please.. we use cookie sheets, tupperware box tops, large tupperware box tops, and even the tupperware box itself. Everything slides better if you lace it with Pam. When that gets old, we tie something behind the four wheeler and "sled". We did all the above except tie something behind four wheeler... We even used the top of Campbell's turtle sand box and slid down the pond bank. Had I been in the delta, I would have loaded up Campbell and headed to the levee.

The snow bunny....

The tupperware box method..

Campbell-2 years Swayze-5 Months

I knocked out two birds with one stone and took them to the Dr. together. I mentally prepared for the day for about a week. Campbell doesn't like the Dr. much...ok, let's be honest.. He doesn't like the Dr. at all. I'm sure he's like most two year olds. The nurse opens the door and calls his name and he starts telling me "dough" or no in adult language. Long story short, he did really well. I thought he would have to have shots, but since we're not following the normal shot schedule, he didn't. Swayze did have her four month shots and she screamed. Broke my heart! All in all, we have two healthy kiddos! Thank you, God!

Weight-29 lbs- 60%

Height-36in-83%

Weight-14lbs 10oz- 41%

Height-25in-44%

Little Man

I never thought the day would come when Campbell would need a haircut... Technically, I guess it still hasn't come. He had about ten hairs on both sides of his head that stuck out over his ears. They was starting to drive me nuts... So we trimmed around the ears.. Which led to trimming other non- needed areas as well. I should have just put the scissors down. I didn't mess up his do.. I just trimmed too much of his little duck tail.. which was so very cute!! I tear up ever time I think about it. He's getting too big too fast! It will grow back.. Cooper says until it grows back out that I'll probably get the curling iron out and curl his hair. Thanks for the idea, baby! Of course you can't tell in these pictures that I did anything. The pictures just show how big of a ham I have on my hands..

Take One...

Take Two...

Take Three...

Take four... A Good one!