A yummy start to Memorial Day weekend!

I'm constantly amazed by how fast Gracyn grows & changes. Everyday it's something new with her! I'm comparing this year to last year. This time last year, she was baptized, had just learned to sit up and had started eating solid food.

Now she's running around this house, tearing it up and screaming like a mad woman. She has an endless supply of energy. And, last night she rocked the corn on the cob like it was her job. I started to cut it off the ear, but she reached out & grabbed the corn & ate it! And not just one or two bites, but the whole ear!

And she had a smile on her face the whole time!

18 Months

Gracyn,

You are 18 months, and you have been for a while. I want to make sure to document some funny things you have said & done.

Weight: 25 lbs

Diapers: Size 4

Clothes: 18month & 2T (You are getting so BIG!)

Shoes: 5.5 & 6

- At night when I check in on you, you are either curled into a little ball in one corner of your crib or stretched out on your back. You take of 2/3 of the bed when you stretch out. I think ahead to when you'll be all grown and in a big bed and I will still check on you!

- You say the funniest things and have a pretty good vocabulary:

New words: Up, Down, Bedda (Bella), Bants (Vance), Poppee (Charles), Maddux, Bodie, Erin & Paul (our neighbors & dog), night-nights (blankies), boppy (paci)

- While we were in MB recently, Maddux ate the ear off your lovey. You were not happy and you told him! "No, no Maddux!" "No, No". Since then when you see Bears messed up ear you say "UhOh, Maddux". There's a video below - her serious expression makes me laugh!

- You are into throwing things: food, your paci (Boppy), your cup. Yesterday you threw you paci and told me "Uh oh, boppy down".

- I wanted to get you a bike seat and I was determined to have it. We went to WalMart Friday night to make our purchase and your daddy spend 1.5 hours getting it all set up on Saturday morning. You took one look at that seat on the bike and screamed your head off. But we strapped you in & took off. And you loved it!

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McCloud Farms

2011 Garden: Progress

Here's were we were on April 10th, and here we are now!

Front to back: Green beans, squash, watermelon, bibb lettuce, spinach, onions, peppers, tomatoes

Above: Green beans and squash

Above: We grew the green beans from seeds and ended up with a lot. This is the overflow area

Above: Watermelon, lettuce

Spinach!

These next two were the only green pepper & tomato plants that made it from seedlings. They've got their own pots.

Wordless Wednesday - Bejeweled Diva

Easter Egg Hunt: Part Deux

We were in Hartsville for Easter, it was a great weekend. We had an Easter egg hunt, dinner with the fam, celebrating a few birthdays and ate way too many of Meme's cake. It was pretty great!

Some pics from Easter Egg Hunt #2!

Take a look at the jewelry. Yes. It's a curtain ring!

The Easter bunny didn't leave any Milkbone eggs! Poor B!

Egg hunts make me tired!

Happy Easter Sunday!

Disclaimer: Picture overload coming!

Happy Easter everyone! We are so blessed and it's weekends like this one that are such a great reminder of ALL our blessings. Time together with family & friends to celebrate each other & our faith. A look back to last year.

The Easter bunny came and brought more candy + books + new clothes!

Then we freshened up for church & pictures!