Time for pictures!

I feel like my blog went from picture overload to hardly any pictures. This month has just been so busy we have hardly had time to have any fun, let alone take any pictures of it. Ha ha. But hooray for Friday! I don't work on Fridays so we have just been playing this morning. Here are some pictures of my cuties. And yes, Mylie is wearing make-up. Grandma B. bought her a make-up kit and I still need to teach her the rules of eyeshadow, such as blue eye shadow may be a little excessive and you don't need to draw a unibrow with it. She is still cute regardless though.
And this is Mr. Big Boy. He is so proud of himself, that he can sit up all by himself.
Although Mylie looks like she is doing a little gangster pose here, she is actually trying to show off her fingernails. Her make-up kit has little fingernail stickers. I may have flower stickers on my nails right now too.
"I'm ready to crawl Mom!" I'm pretty sure that is what he would say if he could talk right now. He can *kind of* do it and he gets frustrated because he wants to move even more than he does. I think I'm in trouble though when he does start moving.
And this is what Mylie and I call his "ballerina boy" pose. He sicks his little butt up in the air and then scoots himself forward. So hilarious! Mylie and I are very entertained by him.

He is growing like mad though, wearing 12 month sized pants and already some 18 month sized shirts. He loves to eat and cracks me up. When he sees the spoon he just opens his mouth as big as it can go and scoots his whole face to the spoon. Mylie is still so cute with him. She is very protective of him and relishes her role as a big sister. They love each other to pieces and get the best smiles out of each other. If Blake is fussy in the car, Mylie sings to him and he instantly calms down. They make me happy!

Is it bad

that Mylie may love the Rocky movies? Tonight we watched Rocky 2 and she got a kick out of it. As Rocky is doing all his workouts she was telling us, "Oh, I can do that." or ""Ya, that's easy." Hilarious! She did decide that maybe she needs to wear a mouthguard when she works out in the garage from now on. I'm pretty sure that she is as entertaining as the movie. Oh, and I will add that I still get teared up at the end when he beats Apollo. Wow, I'm a nerd!

Crazy busy.

Just a quick recap of our week. It was crazy-busy!! September is inasane for me with work, I spend the whole month in all the high schools recruiting kids for as Youth Court volunteers. On top of this, yesterday and today I was in meetings all day for the Idaho Juvenile Justice Commission, then tomorrow I leave for Lewiston and will fly back Sunday night. I'll be helping set up and get registration ready for the Idaho Juvenile Justice Association Conference. I am on the board and should be going for 5 days, but pulled my Mommy card, no way I can leave the baby for that long.

Mylie started soccer again last Saturday and loves it! She did a great job and remembered a lot of what she has learned. Blakey is just a happy little dude. He is going to be crawling so soon ... ahhh! They both do a good job adjusting when I have crazy weeks. Mylie got to spend the day with Grandma Breach yesterday and they had so fun. She came home with an electric guitar, which she calls a violin ... ha ha ha. She serenaded Blake this morning at 7 (while he was still sleeping) with a little song she called "Wake Up Brother" She is a funny kid.

That's it. It's 10:30 and I had better go pack the few things I need for my quick trip. I will miss the kids like mad, but may get to sleep in past 7.

Ding, ding. We've got a winner.

Mary Poppins! Yep, we have found another movie that Mylie totally adores. Tonight we had a "movie party" and Jeff had been telling Mylie about Mary Poppins and that is what she picked. We guessed with her newfound love for "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" that this would be a success also.

I can't even think how many times she exclaimed, "What the heck?" For instance, when Mary Poppins was unloading the coat rack, lamp and plant out of her bag. Or when the horses came off the merry-go-round. Or when Uncle Albert laughed so hard he floated to the ceiling. She loved the music and was already singing along by the end of the show.

It reminded me of watching Disney movies when I was a kid. We didn't have fancy DVDs ... Ben, Courtney, Bailey remember VHS tapes with masking tape on the front with either Mom or Grandma's writing on them? Remember how we would occassionally get the Disney Channel free for a weekend and they would record everything so we could watch it over and over again. I loved it and remember watching those movies over and over again. I remember that one of my favorites was "Superdad" (wonder why?). One of my other favorites I thought was called something like My Mother is a Freshman ... or something like that. But I just spent the last 10 minutes googling and searching disney.com's old movie list and I can't come up with the name of it. It is an old movie, black and white and set in the 50s maybe, a mom enrolls in college when her daughter does. It is now going to drive me nuts! If anyone (Mom) can think of the name, please help me.

Check out this link though (http://www.ultimatedisney.com/oldliveaction.htm). I totally just thought of tons of other Disney movies I loved, Pollyanna, Swiss Family Robinson, Absent-Minded Professor, Parent Trap, The Love Bug. I think I am going to see if I can add some of these to our Nexflix list. I remember Ben's favorite movie was Bedknobs and Broomsticks, I already have that one on our list for Mylie.

Something you may not know about me is I love old movies. Elvis movies, my favorites. The Beach Blanket Bingo movies, I love them. Doris Day movies with Rock Hudson or James Garner, sigh. In fact, someday I am going to break down and buy a collection of Doris Day DVDs. Oh and what about Jerry Lee Lewis and Dean Martin comedies? Hmmm, I may just have to up our Netflix plan!

Just me and my guy.

Grandma and Grandpa Breach took Mylie to the movies today and Jeff was at work. I don't work on Fridays so it was just me and Blakey today. Mylie said I should put Blake down for a nap and do chores while she was gone, but we didn't. Blake had had a cold and I have the beginning of one so we just had laid back afternoon, he fell asleep snuggled on my lap and I just let him stay there ... for an hour and a half. There is something pretty sweet about baby boys.

This is picture overload and they probably all look the same to you, but I love all the different expressions on his face.

"Getting the camera out, huh Mom?" "I'd better smile and show you my teeth."
"This one is my mischevious look."
He always sucks in his bottom lip, even when he was a brand new baby. He is sure a sweet little boy!
Mylie had so much fun with Grandma and Grandpa. They went to "Kung Fu Panda" and then out to lunch. She was dressed in one of her new dresses and ready to go at 7:30, it was a long wait until 11:15. She was ready for her date! She reported that the movie was funny, she got tootsie rolls, popcorn AND soda at the movies. Lucky kiddo.

New tricks

Blake is pretty interested in moving around. This is him yesterday. "See Mom, I can get my head up ..."
"and get up on my tip toes ..."
"and get on my knees. I'm just not sure what to do next!"
"I like to play with my big sister ..."
"well, most of the time."

Our three day weekend.

We had a nice laid back weekend and it totally feels like the end of summer and the night before school starts. For me it is, I go back to a more regular work schedule tomorrow and the kids go back to a regular day care schedule. It didn't get out of the 70s today and it really feels like fall is upon us.

A couple pictures from early in the weekend. From Friday at lunch ... what are you hiding there Blake?
Yep, his first french fry and boy did he love it. He had this major happy grin and he was gumming that thing.
Friday night while I was confined to the recliner, Mylie got our her notebook and we were practicing writing her letters and then we were practicing writing people's names, I would tell her the letters and she would write them. She wanted to write Papa, so I told her P-A-P-A and she started writing it, then started giggling and said, "That sounds like Big A." (You may remember the story of how Mylie calls my Dad the Big A.) So I did what any good Christian mom would do and taught her how to spell Big A. Of course I had to get a pictures, I love her drawings. This one is for you Dad!
Saturday I was finally feeling a bit better, Jeff's Mom took the kids for the day and Jeff and I went out to lunch and then to the "Dark Knight." Batman has definitely come a long was since Michael Keaton. It was a great show and so fun to go on an actual date. We ran a few errands and then went back to Melba and stayed for a while and had dinner with Mary. Mike and Devin were out of town for the weekend, it was fun to just sit around and chat. Mylie had tons of fun and hates leaving.

Sunday was a quiet day (as quiet as days can get with two little ones). We went to church, came home, ate a yummy dinner and then went on a drive. The weather was nice and cool and I just love the feel of fall!

Today was busy with some errands and work. Jeff and I both had to go into our respective offices for a bit to get a few things done. He took Mylie and I took Blake. Blake was not content to sit while I worked. Today he was totally up on all fours shaking and wiggling, trying to figure out how to move. Good thing I didn't have too much to do, he was not up for working today. I called over to Jeff's office when I was done (our offices are about 3 minutes away from each other) and Mylie answered the phone, "This is the boss' office." Jeff got on the phone and apparently he wasn't getting too much done with Mylie there either. I reminded him that I know full well how difficult it is to work with Mylie around. I went over to pick her up and she and Blakey and I sat in the car in the parking lot listening to music so Jeff could hurry and finish up what he had to do. I asked her what she had been doing at Daddy's office and if she had drawn any pictures. She told me no and then launched into this long explanation about how she had been writing checks and then putting them on the jail chair (there is a chair at their office with handcuffs in case they have to arrest someone and are waiting for the jail to come and pick them up.) She told me that if she gave checks to the guys on the jail chair then they wouldn't need to go to jail. I asked Jeff what in the world they were talking about that brought on this conversation and he had no idea. I would seriously like to get in her mind sometimes.

After more errands we finally made it home. Both kids were a bit grumpy by then. Mylie was sitting on the couch trying to play with something and kept yelling, "I am so frus-ter-a-ted!" I had to hide my face. But eventually their smiles came back. Mylie was eating a sucker after dinner and Blake was quite interested in it. He is such a super cute super happy little dude. You can kind of see his two little bottom teeth in this one. He's growing so fast and will be 7 months this week. He gets a smile like this almost everytime he sees his sis.
So that is pretty much our weekend in review. It is 7:30 and the kids are both in bed, I am going to go make some cookies and we are going to watch "The Bucket List." I have such a busy week a head of me, but I am grateful for the structure that comes along with fall.