First Steps

 The exciting moments for our little Gabriel just keep coming and what kind of a mom would I be if I didn't brag about them?

The other evening, August 5th, while we were all hanging out in the living room, Gabriel took his first few steps. He was kind of confused by the uproar it created and I think wondered what the heck was going on. Watching Romeo and Olivia's reaction to it was just as cute. The look on their faces with grins from ear to ear and the praise and excitement they showed was that of a parent. It was a very heartwarming moment. I also noticed that in the past two days two more little teeth have come through on the bottom. So now our little guy has 3 teeth, just like that!

First Little Chomper

I have been wondering when Gabriel's first tooth was going to emerge. I figured it would have to be soon since he is a little over 10 months now and his upper gums have been super swollen. I have been checking with my finger for the last few days because I didn't want to miss the exact day of the big event! Well this evening was the time, I checked earlier and it hadn't but when I checked after dinner, there it was, a brand new little tooth, of course only the sharp little bottom of it but it had finally popped through. More exciting for me than him! I am glad that we are now on our way to more teeth because Gabriel wants to eat everything we do and its been a bit hard without teeth. Such a happy moment of development.

Today the children and I went to Minnehaha Park and rode on a bike cart, something Romeo has wanted to do for a long time. It was really fun even though it was a bit hot for it, we still had a good time. It was a little harder than it looked. My swollen feet are paying for it tonight, but my body definitely needed the workout.

Bad Blogger

When It comes to blogging, I am terrible at it. I honestly would rather write in my journal or Facebook. Its so much less time consuming to just update your status about your life in a nutshell or pour out your heart to a piece of paper that wont ever be able to judge you. I also would rather pick up the phone and talk to someone personally. I do like blogging though because its a place to keep memories, something i am big on.

This Thursday I will be 15 weeks along in my pregnancy and that is also the day we find out more about how the baby is doing, I can't wait. We did get the blood results back from Prob and it turns out he does have the antigen that my body is making antibodies to so that is scary because the baby probably does too. We'll know more Thursday and I'll try to remember to post a blog.

Here are some pictures to catch you up on whats been going on around here.

Our trip to Duluth-Gabriel was so afraid of the waterpark and snuggled me the whole time, I didn't mind that part. The older children had a blast and some very nice people we didn't even know paid for our meal the first day we were there. Thank You whoever you are!We walked the boardwalk on Lake Superior, it was beautiful and the kids loved it!



Gabriel's first time playing outside in the trampoline, he loves outside

Romeo teaching Gabe how to play guns, he seemed to like it to, go figure, all boy already!

Gabriel's first time at the park, he was so happy!

My first knit project, Romeo got me into trying to learn. I am currently working on booties originally for Gabe but I finished the first one and it is too small for him so I guess they'll be for the new baby. The first bootie looks great though.



At the Cambodian temple for the New Year, our first time going since I met my husband, good experience for the children and I also liked it even though it was yucky out.



Gabe just had his first sickness, took him to the Dr and he had an ear infection and a terrible cold, antibiotics are helping him recover. He got to sleep with Mommy and Daddy for 4 nights.



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Our very neat Easter eggs that we dyed with Men's silk ties from an idea we got from a thrift store, so cool. Check out the recipe below and give it a try!

My First Easter

Our friends Florence and Eleanor

HAPPY EASTER!

Uncle Dan ( who is going skydiving next week) and the boys

Daddy and Gabe at our trip to Linder's to check out the beautiful flowers I can't wait to buy and plant!

Also, to anyone who I am friends with on Facebook, alot of my friends got deleted by accident and whoever I noticed I re added but please check and see if I overlooked you and re add me ( if u want lol)! Have a great rest of the week (: 

Roller Skating and Yay for Gabriel!

Sunday Romeo, Olivia and I went to Saints North Roller skating rink. I hadn't ever taken them before because honestly, I didn't even think the roller rinks were still in business. Prob and the baby stayed home and napped. Going to that rink brought back a lot of memories from when we use to go with school. The place still looked just the same all these years later. It was really busy and all the children there were about Romeo and Olivia's age. They had a really fun time. I however was surprised at how unnatural it felt to be on roller skates after all this time and found myself holding onto Olivia lol. All in all we had a great time though. Here are some pretty bad pictures but pictures nonetheless. I really need a new camera.

Hoola Hoop Contest





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Another exciting thing that happened was Gabriel rolled over for the first time. Such a proud moment for us all.



Congratulations handsome (:

Milestones, Milestones

It seems like in these past 2 weeks Gabriel is learning a lot of things. Lets see, he started cooing loudly, which seemed to only last a few days, then he moved on to getting up just once in the night to sleeping through the night (we got 2 nights of that but last night he decided he'd get up once again) oh well at least we know its in the near future and besides, we can handle getting up once. He also is starting to grasp things and everything heads straight to his mouth. His newest thing today was that he rolled on his side and I almost thought he'd roll over had he not been on our soft bed. All these things are just happening back to back, it's crazy how fast they start to blossom. I remember all of these milestones with my other children but it has been so long that I couldn't remember at what stage everything happens.

Gabriel reaching for his toys

The children started back to school this week so it's just me and baby with a long list of things to do around here. Yesterday I organized the laundry room and got my new system all in order to make laundry easier for the kids to help with. We labeled baskets in the basement for each color and set up a laundry table where the children will pick up their clean clothes as they drop off their dirty ones from their personal baskets in their own rooms. They know how to sort now so all I have to do is wash and fold.While going through everything in the laundry room I found a pile of things that need to be fixed such as needs a button or has a small tear that needs to be sewn, so I thought today I'd make myself get that done.

Yesterday I went to bible study for the first time in awhile and that felt really good. I told one of the ladies at bible study that I haven't been feeling so well and she said, "You just need us". She was right, I do and I need God. So I am starting my daily devotions again and my bible reading which I had been really slacking on. If there is anything that I must get done daily even on my toughest days, it's that, then I'll have the strength to go from there.

Well, duty calls and before I forget Happy New Year all, hope it brings wonderful things!

Calii on New Years

Proud Mommy

Yesterday Gabriel had his first talkative day. Though he has been cooing for sometime, they had mainly just been single very low sounding ooh's, kinda like he couldn't get them out. On 12-21-10 he turned 3 months old and had a first little giggle too. I love these moments, they are so precious and I just had to share this video