rice cereal,preschool,and rolling over...oh my!

THis is me feeding Eli his first spoonful of rice cereal. He liked it which is good because Zeke gagged on everything. He thought all baby food was gross. Eli was wanting more but still doesn't know how to push the food to the back of his mouth to swallow. But I'm getting him started on it now because I'm going back to work on TUesday!!! Yucky yuck yuck.....
Here's Eli after he rolled over from his back to his tummy. Can you see the look of complete surprise on his face? Oh wait he always looks like that.
ANd last but not least this is the kids on their first day back to preschool. THis is Zaiah's second year and she's the finally one of the bigger kids in the class. THis is Zeke's first day and he could care less about me. He walked in holding Zaiah's hand and said, "see ya wouldn't wanna be ya to me." (not really but it felt like he did). I left feeling a little sad that my baby (zeke) is growing up so fast. He's a little boy now. On the other hand it's been nice to have both the kids out of my hair for 8 hours a week! Praise the LOrd.

Eazy E!

Warning: This post that you are about to read has a lot of bragging in it about how rad of a baby I have. This is in no way a comparison to your baby(s) or meant to say your baby isn't just as radicle. Read on....Zeke wore this shirt when he was like 10 months old. Eli is 4 months. You do the math.
This is the raddest baby on the planet. He is so mellow, easy going, patient, and all around amazing!!!
He loves being tickeled by Zaiah's stinky feet! Don't you just want to eat those chubby cheakers. He even is learninghow to do graphic design. He's the smartest baby I've ever met.
And although he isn't in the picture I just have to tell you that I took the kids to Sinshimer pool (all by myself mind you) and as the kids played in the pool Eli was sleeping on a towel in the shade. What a fricken cool baby. I love him so much. He is a true miracle and a huge blessing from the Lord in so many ways. He came at the perfect time (I got the summer off of work...sweet) I had no labor pains (hey I deserved that epidural and he wasn't coming out) and I've lost all my baby weight already (granted I have baby weight from the other two but that doesn't count!!!!!Lord thank you for little Eli Cesar Brown (yes we spelled Cesar wrong).
Oh yeah and to put him to sleep I just put him in his little bed with his paci and walk out the door! No bouncing, no shushing, no pacing back and forth. He puts himself to sleep. Thank you Jesus!

all at once...

They were really serious about this rock band. Especially Stephanie's little boy Paul. He was rockin out better than Bono. THey didn't sound that bad either. Good times... This was at the open swin at Cuesta. The kids have so much fun in the pool i wish i had one. That could be my next purchase!!!! Look out craigslist.

Everything in my life that I rely on a regular basis has broken down within the last month. My car was doing this sputtering thing where it was acting like it was going to die but wouldn't. I had no choice but to keep driving it when I later find out that there was a 30 percent chance my car would have exploded into a million little pieces. Okay maybe not that dramatic. Two trips to the car guy (auto experts in slo i highly recommend them) and nearly 400 dollars later and it's fixed!!! My washing machine decided to lock my enourmously large load of laundry inside with soaking wet clothes in it so i'm having the sears guy out here right now. He gives me a quote for a ridiculous amount of money just to replace the lock. WHatever I tell him just fix the damn thing i need my laundry. THen both of my computers (which are both dells I highly do not recommend them) are plaqued with viruses. The computer i'm typing on right now the whole screen is upside down. I was so smart and realized if I just flipped my monitor upside down it would work. SO ghetto. My laptop shuts down after minutes of being on the internet. It has some wierd security settings that won't let me do anything on it including email. I hate that thing. I have to take them both in to get fixed. Tack on another 300 bucks to the list. WHy is stuff made so crappy these days. I hate it.
In better news but not that great since my money spending has just increadesed 300 fold, Ben and I bought a camping trailer. It's a 17 foot 1969 camper. It's old but cute and everything works. We were going to take it on our most recent camping trip (long long story I'll tell you about later) but we have no clue how to work it. BUt it's fun anyways. We're also going to use it as a spare bedroom for any guests that we have so if you're reading this and always wanted to come visit my house but didn't want to ask 'cause you thought we wouldn't have enougth room for you and your family think again. Stay in our trailer!!!!!!

I love saturdays!

I love Saturdays!!! Why you ask? Is it because my husband is home all day? No that's not it but i love that too.  I love Saturdays because I can go to GARAGE SALES!!! I'm obsessed with garage sales.  I love it so much.  I love finding amazing stuff that I don't really need or have the space for but can pay like 25 cents for a little toy I know my daughter will like for a whole minute.  But I'm not crazy about it.  I stick to Los Osos only and only the ones posted on craiglist...well that's not true i've driven around here and there but I'm not crazy.  And now Ben is in on it and always wants to come so it's like our saturday morning tradition.  I've found some amazing stuff.  Like our new purchase of a thule box (those storage things on top of your car) at a church rummage sale for 10 bucks.  Those things are like 300 bucks brand new!!!! I mostly find little toys and such that the kids don't really need.

Today we went garage saleing (don't think that's a word or i just don't know how to spell it) and it was awesome.  I scored!! then we went to the beach which was so much fun!! The kids were just in a zone.  They loved just to wander off ad play in the sand.  Zaiah met some beautiful little girls (3 sisters) and played with them for a bit.  Zeke started to fall asleep.  It was so nice I didn't want to leave.  I still trip out every day that I live here!!!!  I'm so so blessed it doesn't seem real. I feel like something horribble needs to happen soon.  I don't deserve this.

abort! abort!

So day one of nutrisytem diet and I've already quit. I have good reason though. It says not to do this diet while your nursing. They didn't say that on the infomercial.  But reading through the instructions in big bold print they urge you not to do it.  Whatevers I said and started the diet but now i realize why.  The portions are like for a little baby.  I go to pour my first bowl of cereal not even filling a childs size bowl and realize i give Zaiah about 3xs the amount as I'm supposed to eat.   What the???? Well if I wasn't nursing so exclusively maybe it'd be okay but I think there's only  about a thousand calories a day you consume on this thing.  No thank you. I'm hungry.  The other downfall is that you have to heat up the lunches.  I'm always out doing stuff I don't have time to come home and heat up my miniture bowl of soup. So I call my husband that I've already quit the diet and he says he wants to do it.  So i'll keep you posted as to how Bennie does on it.  

I am a failure. Oh well....this nursing ma ma needs to eat.

On another note our summer is almost over. (Tear shed here) THis means a lot of things.  Zeke starts preschool with his sister.  I go back to work (boo hoo).  Soccer starts soon for Zaiah. The sun finally comes out in Los Osos.  Hip hip hooray.  We're doing swimming lessons right now and turns out Zeke is a little fish.  He loves it! He loves jumping in the water and doesn't even mind me dunking him! It's awesome.  Zaiah is in a class with about 10 other kids.  She's a little bit more hesitant but does all the activities as long as she doesn't get her face wet.  Baby Eli just sits on the side and watches. He is such the little trooper.  I'll post some picture soon.