Kiddos and furniture makeovers

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After:

This is a table I scored from Craig's List for $10. I needed some new pieces for our new house, so I ran to Lowe's and grabbed some paint for .50 cents and voila! After a little elbow grease and some distressing, our coffee table was complete! Rylie really enjoyed helping me make it look "old"! Sweet girl!




This is Rylie and her "traption" aka contraption. You see, we have been having a bit of an ant problem and she got up one morning, found about 10 random parts around the house and built this ant detector. She wasn't quite satisfied until she raided daddy's closet and donned this hat, completing her Ant Buster look! She went around checking the corners for ants and where they might be entering our house:)





I don't think that my kids will ever know how much joy they bring into our lives. Stewart and I just look at them and smile and are so thankful for them and the way that God watches over them and protects us. Below are some pics from Cohen's baby dedication at our church. He was really hamming it up in front of the congregation. I sincerely hope that Stewart and I can raise these sweet babies to realize how much the Heavenly Father means to us and that he will abide in their hearts one day as well. I will post more about our visit to the ER later, but I am tired now:) Goodnight!

Rylie-isms

Rylie: "Mom, I am the mama lion and Cohen is the daddy lion. He is going to work and I am gonna pack his lunch....
Me: "What do you pack in a daddy lion's lunch?"
Rylie: "Oh, you know, dead stuff. Like Wildebeasts, Ducks...oh, yeah and some butterflies."




Meanwhile....this little lion has his first tooth! He is about 20lbs and came in at a whopping 90th percentile on the height chart at his 9 month check up. He will be 10 months next week and he is "cruising" everywhere, you know...pulling up on furniture and using it to hold on to while he walks! Busy boy:) He claps and says "yay" and is sooo smiley most of the time!