Anything but the chicken!!!

Nine months is the recommended age to add meat to a baby's diet, so this week I made some chicken baby food for Lydia.  Shepherd was never a picky eater, but Lydia almost never likes something the first time I introduce it to her.  So I wasn't all that surprised when I got the following responses to her first chicken meal caught on my cell phone (hence the poor picture quality).

With Lydia, it typically takes trying a food about 2 or 3 times before she decides I'm not in fact trying to torture her, so I was optimistic when I set down last night for her chicken dinner number 2.  Here's how that went:

After getting this look more times than I can count, I am now fairly certain that Lydia's first words are going to be, "Seriously, Mom?"

Happy Birthday, Papa: Our second attempt at a birthday video-card for a grandparent

Happy birthday to my wonderful father-in-law, Papa!

A Great and Productive Weekend

After months and months of participating in the soul crushing activity that is searching for a rental in Ardmore, BJ and I have decided to make the best of a not great house and just try to fix up the rental we have.  This past weekend, BJ's mother (aka Nana) flew down to help us with this undertaking.  As a result, we spent most of the weekend like this:

After two full days of doing nothing but painting, we managed to get the living/dining room, bedroom, and bathroom all painted.  Here are a few picture of the bedroom.

For the bathroom, I did three paintings last month of monsters doing bathroom type things (brushing teeth, washing hands, and flushing).  Dad built some frames for the paintings, and we painted the bathroom a light blue green.  I never thought I would say this, but I now sort of love my ugly, brown-tiled bathroom.  And Shepherd is enthralled with the monster paintings! 

And last but not least, the living room.  It is just a nice beige.  Painting the horrible white walls that have been the bane of my existence for the past year and a half was wonderfully therapeutic.   It feels so much more like a home now.

Thankfully, painting wasn't the only thing we did.  Here are some pictures from Nana's camera of the kiddos thoroughly enjoying her visit.

Happy Birthday, Pap!

I know it is a pretty unimpressive video, but it was the best we could get a half hour before bedtime.  At least Shepherd was into it.  We can hardly expect Lydia to be nice about things like birthday wishes.  I mean, it's Lydia.  But seriously, happy birthday to the sweetest dad on earth!