I let Kelsey suck on my apple slice. She thought it was pretty tasty. 
David has been leaving for work early so he won't have to work too late with all the business going on at the base right now. We took this picture to send him since we don't get to see him in the morning. 
Kelsey likes to lie beside me and watch me do my hair. She doesn't mind the sound of the blow dryer, and is fascinated with everything I do to myself before I leave the house. We can't all be naturally beautiful like you, baby girl. 
David and his mom nearly burned the house up with all the candles we put on their combined birthday pies. Pretty waxy, yum yum. 
Kelsey is starting to hold onto things now. It's fun. She especially likes to hold onto her pacifier and use it for a chew toy.
We started a Jeremy journal in school like my mom used to do with me. Hopefully he'll keep up the habit better than I have. I write what he tells me we did the day before and then he draws the pictures and I label them. It's my favorite part of school now. We cuddle up and talk about the fun things from the day before and write together. 
Jeremy wrote a list of all the words he learned to read in the Cat in the Hat book. 
Jeremy's ghostly fingers using pennies to learn addition and subtraction equations.
We love to visit our little niece and cousin Phoebe. She's so fun to watch.
My blue-eyed babes love each other. Jeremy loves to hold his baby sister and she thinks he's pretty entertaining too.
So, I am Kelsey's favorite most of the time, but nobody can get her to laugh like Daddy. When I play with her, she says ha ha mama, very funny, maybe a little chuckle and an occasional squeal. But when Daddy plays with her, I can hear her squealing and squealing hahahahahahahahahaha Daddy, you're the funniest thing ever! hahahahahahahahahahahaha Yeah, it's like that.
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I must share my small triumph with someone. So today I washed, dried, folded and put away the laundry. Granted it was only 4 loads, which to some of you is just the tip of the laundry pile, but still, to actually have the whole process done and it's not even midnight, is a small victory for me. So hooray!
Kelsey sat and watched us and chewed on the scraps. It's so fun to have them made; I bought the material a while ago but just hadn't made the time to sit down and sew them. Not that she needed them much, but now it is getting colder, some days. Now I just have to tie them with ribbon, my favorite!, and they'll be all done.
Can you tell I like polka dots? They had a sale on all these polka dot cottons for 1.99 yard, so I matched them up with some fun flannels and I think they're super cute.
So Kelsey's blessing dress, as you can see, is very long. I absolutely love it and am so excited we got to use it. I know it was silly but I really wanted her to have shoes to wear with it, even though you couldn't see them. So I asked my sister to knit me some little booties. She makes the prettiest little dainty booties ever. Well her life is crazy busy so she finally got them finished and shipped off to me last week. Well, every day I checked the mail anxiously waiting for them and they didn't come and didn't come. Finally, Saturday came and it was the last chance I had since we were blessing her the next day. The mailman finally showed up, and since he always parks in front of our house, I rushed over to him and asked him if I had a package. He looked and told me no. So I proceeded to tell him how important this package was to me, like that was really going to change anything. He said he was waiting for a package too, like I care! It can't possibly be as important as my booties! So I looked inside his truck and there was my manila padded envelope from my sister. I reached inside his truck and grabbed it, totally illegal I'm sure, and screamed and squealed, while he said, oh is that what you wanted? I was so excited, and they are so beautiful. Thank you sister friend!
Oh and a funny thing. We were waiting for our pictures and a family came in all dressed like Mickey, Minnie and a little Mickey in these awesome costumes. The little guy was screaming his head off and I asked if he could be bribed with candy. I gave him a piece of licorice and they got their cute pictures taken. The parents were very appreciative and I was just glad they could get it done. A good picture is so important to me. 
This was a fun idea I saw on several blogs. You take the 4th picture from the 4th folder in your picture files. This is me with my sister Susan who came from Utah to keep me company when I was pregnant sick. Anything with a waistband was definitely out so I wore this baby blanket as a muumuu whenever people came to the door.
Kelsey's blessing day was beautiful. 
She was beautiful. I bought her dress 6 years ago when I was pregnant with Jeremy and I am so excited I got to use it. 
I had cards for people to write messages to her for a memory book. 
The kids enjoyed the backyard. We had pasta, green salad, grape salad, and pie, of course. What family celebration would be complete without Marie Callendar's pie month?! 
Kelsey and Uncle Jon, one of her favorite peeps.
Okay, so he's just starting, but Jeremy read his first 2 words today by himself. Box and hot. We had worked on sounding out words before, since he's known his letter sounds for several months, and his letters since he was 2 or 3, but he always had trouble blending the sounds into words. I'd have to tell him what the word was. But not today! Good job my smart little man!
Yesterday we went on a field trip with about 70 homeschoolers to the Museum of Natural History in Balboa Park in San Diego. We took the train, which was a fun adventure I'd been wanting to try for a while.
Waiting for the train
We were supposed to be there an hour early, why I don't know, so we saw a lot of trains come and go. Jeremy kept asking, "Is that our train?"
Studying up on the safety procedures. He tried to open the window which is only for emergencies. It took me a minute to figure out why and then realized he was reading the instructions for how to remove the window for evacuation purposes. Nice to know he can figure out how to get out if he needed to. Resourceful boy.
Our views out the window were fun to look at.
The San Diego train station
Balboa Park
It was so hot I wanted to jump in that fountain. If we'd been closer to home I probably would have. I was glad we were going in an air-conditioned museum.
Jeremy was so excited to see the dinosaur bones.
"Take my picture with the shark, Mama."
I liked this carving because it reminded me of our little family.
Creating energy
Making friends with another 5-year-old boy
Good girl in the stroller. I got another comment from a dad that he thought she was a doll. Nope, she's the real deal baby.
This was cool! For those of you who've been on the Pirates ride at Disneyland, you know how they have that foggy curtain thing you ride through with the image of the pirate on it. Well I found out how they do it, see below. I was excited, since we were all mystified by it at Disneyland when they reopened the ride with that new addition. 
Making his traditional pressed penny
Okay I don't know if you can grasp the enormity of this tree. I couldn't seem to back up far up to get the whole thing. If you look at the cars and trash cans under it maybe you can get an idea. It was enormous. Amazing.
Balboa Park had so many beautiful things and we just didn't have time to go around.
Playing with his new friend on the train ride home. He took turns with the little boy with the Leapster since the boy was obviously very interested in it. Good sharing Jeremy!
