Cereal for Amaris

Amaris is old enough now to start solid foods so we started with rice cereal. The first time you are supposed to make it really runny. She didn't seem to be a big fan of that so we started making it like paste. By the time she spits it out several times, it gets all runny anyway. Enjoy a few pictures her second or third feeding! We'll get the video posted as soon as blogger decides to cooperate (we keep getting an error when we try to upload the video).

It's a girl dog

Sheinah gave Travis a lesson today on the difference between girls and boys. She had one of her stuffed animals (a little puppy) that she was playing with and Travis made the mistake of referring to it as "he." Sheinah says: "No daddy, it's a girl dog. See (showing him the dog's belly), there's nothing sticking out. Do you see anything sticking out? (Travis says no). Well then, it's a girl dog. If there was something sticking out it would be a boy dog."

I guess this means that all her stuffed animals are girls...

Rolling Over

Amaris has rolled over a few times (from her tummy to her back), but it has been so random that we haven't been able to catch it on video. Today she was a rolling queen. Here is how the story goes. Amaris rolled over three or four times while Travis was getting the camera ready. Once he got it, she rolled again and then he realized that he didn't have a memory card in the camera. Each of these rolls had been to her left side. Finally, he was really ready, and Amaris rolled one last time...to the right...right to Sheinah. If you listen closely in the video you can hear Sheinah something like "This time she is going to roll to me daddy." Enjoy!

Counting

Sheinah and Travis have developed a bit of a new ritual. On our way home from the store, they start counting to whatever number Sheinah picks. It helps pass the time on the way home. Tonight, Sheinah started the counting and asked her daddy to count with her. Normally, Travis says the number first. This time, Sheinah said the numbers. She counted all the way to 20 without missing a number. After 20, she skipped to thirty one for whatever reason and then she kind of started jumping around. It was just so cute to hear her leading her daddy in the counting!

Sheinah's prayer

We pray with Sheinah every night before we put her to bed. Usually, we do the praying and she does the listening, but we can occasionally convince her to pray her own prayer. A few nights ago, this is part of what she prayed:

Dear God, (some stuff we didn't understand)....everything I know about you, I love...(some more stuff we couldn't understand).

What a profound prayer from such a little girl!

Home Sweet Home

After nearly two years of hard work, our house is finally (mostly) finished...just in time to put it on the market. We were talking about why don't always keep our house looking like it is for sale and then we realized that it is ALOT of work! For those of you who don't remember what it looked like when we bought it, check out these old posts before you look at the Virtual Tour Travis put together:

Original purchase: http://daminnesotabums.blogspot.com/2007/03/movingagain.html

Demolition: http://daminnesotabums.blogspot.com/2007/05/kingston-progress.html

Summer progress: http://daminnesotabums.blogspot.com/2007/06/house-update.html

Painting done: http://daminnesotabums.blogspot.com/2007/06/painting-done.html

Finally done: Virtual Tour
http://www.tourfactory.com/488011

Princess nightgown

Sheinah has three special nightgowns that we have acquired over the past year. All of them have princesses on them (she is quite facinated with princesses). She has been working hard on getting dressed and undressed all by herself. Tonight, when she put on her nightgown, she stopped with it down at her shoulders and proceeded to explain why she had done this. It took a few repetitions, but Melissa finally figured out what she was saying. She said she was wearing it like this because sometimes this is how the princesses wear their dresses and then she pointed to the picture on her wall of Belle (see picture, it's a weird picture because we had to find one that wasn't copyrighted). Apparently, she'd be trying to explain this to Travis for several nights, but he didn't understand what she was talking about. There is not much you can say to convice her to wear it the normal way when she has a picture on her wall of the "off the shoulder" look :)