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Me at 12-13 months
Yes, I am wearing a crocheted shrug in 100 degree weather… I was modeling it and decided to do the baby picture while I was at it. It actually looks cute with that outfit don’t you think?
Oh, you REALLY wanna know how far along I am? Let’s see… um… 23? 24? weeks? Who keeps count?
Now for the best news ever!
EMMA IS WALKING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, Grandma, She took her first 5 steps today. Food, great motivation for the get-up and go girl. 
Just can’t do it. My idea. It was a cool beans one but I am a mom, a stay at home wife, and a seamstress… I love blogging but I just cannot keep up with the daily life and daily posting. So, I will still have a contest at the end of this month but I am going to continue writting like I was before.
The decluttering is done for now, Thank God for giving us patience, endurance, and perservance to do it all. There is still much to be cleaned out but until the bigger things are advertised and sold we are at a stand still. My house was once filled with boxes of stuff.. now it is filled with packing boxes. LOL.
It is the begining of the school year for most. Our time has not yet come. I know I shall look forward to the planning and schooling part but I cannot stand teaching. If we were all so easy that we could pick it up like that I would have no problem, however we are not all Einsteins. I would also miss the moments like this—
and this…
Deep in thought and play.
Hubby and I were talking the other day about schooling. I made it clear that I believe homeschooling will be the best thing for our children but I know that it is not what I want to do. It is the right thing to do. He pointed out a instance that Susanna Wesley went through;
” One day Susanna was teaching a difficult rule of grammar, and Kezzy could not understand it. Patiently. Susanna went over it again and again. Then noticing a shadow, she lifted her eyes and discovered that Samuel had been listening. Shaking his head he commented, ” I wonder at your patience, Sukey. You have told that child twenty times that same thing.” Susanna smiled. “If I had satisfied myself by mentioning it only 19 times, I should have lost all my labor. It was the twentieth time that crowned it!” (Taken from Mother of John and Charles, Susanna Wesley by Charles Ludwig)
How true it is! It not just area’s of schooling but in the daily teachings of life! THe most daunting and repentive thing we will teach will be the most useful to them later on in life.
Still decluttering… but for my Emma’s adoring fan’s…
I am going to have a little bit difficult time doing this. My question goes to, well, what should I do? Fiction? Spiritual? Children’s books? All three? I finally decided to do a children’s book this week.
Recently this book has come into my posession;
I love Usborne books. They books are SO nicely bound and fresh looking. So full of good information but keep the kids reading and reading! I am very interested in butterflies and nature (thank you Roger (for the clueless, time to watch Wives and Daughters from BBC)) and have found Emma to be of the same mind too. That’s my girl. So I bought this book.
It is so full of information, small snipets, more extensive, etc. that children CAN learn from and look forward to their next outting. I highly recommend this. I have picked up nature books here and there from yard sales, thrift shops, etc but I will say that this was WAY worth the money. The other books just had so little information that could commonly be applied as just common sense. I am learning from this book.
It does not ONLY go into details about insects but how the flowers or tree’s and such can benefit from the insects. Emma my 10month old baby loves to look at the pictures. I am not exaggerating.
This would be a GREAT gift. I am so so pleased I put the money out there. I have such a hard time buying new books. But this was worth every cent.
I have only one complaint about this book. I didn’t like the new book smell.
There are many ways we enjoy the first fruits. In this respect it’s our first Fruit enjoying the first fruit of the garden…
One yummy tomato… no, we didn’t really let her eat it..yet.
Our five month old cutie…
I dont think she knows what she is getting…. But as you can see, she loves it! 
