Ladybug Snack

How fun does this look??! Had to share this post :)

Mama Jenn: Ladybug Snack: "We made these yummy ladybug snacks this week. We used an apple, raisins, peanut butter, and a chocolate covered hazelnut. I know the head..."

S.a.i.l.o.r.---> She can write it :)

Here's a pic of the Ladybug hard at work this week: She was working on her R's. I also learned this week that she can spell and write her name all by herself now... NO HELP AT ALL :)

Tot School

Cooc is 18.5 months

I just ordered a bunch of fun new toys to play with Cooc while we're doing Ladybug's school time. He did pretty good for his first time!! I brought out a couple different toys for him to play with and we sat down on the living room floor and went at it. He are a couple of pics:

I purchased these counting bears with stacking cups HERE. He really enjoyed them. He played with them for about 15 mins!

 

I showed him how to sort them into the cups according to their colors. Buuuuut....

 

...He had a better idea for them :)

 

We then decided we'd move onto our Geometric Stacker... purchased HERE. He really liked this one too. He LOVED the red ball (pictured by his foot) that stacked on the top! Mommy, not so much... the darn thing kept rolling under the couch :-/ and when you're 30 weeks pregnant, retrieving a little round ball under the couch every three minutes is NOT fun!! We really need a rug to put down to play on!!  He did great though!

Fun In The Sun---> Cooc is 18 Months

Well my baby boy has turned 18 months old already!! Crazy how time flies. He's not a huge talker (of the English language anyways), but he's SUPER smart!! Knows everything we tell him. I'm curious to see how he does when little Neener gets here... think he might be a TAD bit jealous. Which will be different because the Ladybug never was jealous when Cooc arrived!


Anyways, we went outside to play and I got a couple pictures of them both :) I heart them so much!!

I'm Baaaack!!

So, apparently the whole blogging thing didn't work out very well for me... my last post was 3 years ago, lol!! But I've really been wanting to get back at it!! So to catch up the 2 followers that I had 3 years ago... We've had another child... a baby Boy named Casen! He's 18 months and is a little firecracker!! Constantly moving, on the go, getting into things, eating dirt, climbing things he shouldn't, LOL, and I'm soaking up every minute of it! God had a plan for us when He blessed us with Casen!! I was super scared to have a little boy, but I'm so glad that my Heavenly Father knows better than I do!! And to add to our fun and excitement we've been blessed with over the last 5 years, we are expecting another bundle of joy in May!! So I've been pretty busy making and raising babies in the last several years ;)

I wanted to start blogging again to to give a little sneak peak into our lives for our family and friends that live so far away from us! I've been homeschooling Sailor for the past year in Preschool, and plan to start Kindergarten with her in the fall. Also going to start Tot School with The Cooc as well!! (For those of you who don't know, Casen=Cooc... a nickname from the big sis!) And adding a newborn on top of all of this... I'm honestly not sure WHY I want to take on keeping up with a blog too, lol. Call me CRAZY!! We'll see how long it lasts ;)

Ike Update

Well as most of you know, Hurricane Ike hit our area this past friday night/saturday morning. We actually just got off the cruise ship ready to go home, and got stuck in the Galveston evacuation traffic!! Then we were off to get some storm supplies and food from the store... which ended up consisting of 2 packs or water some pretzels, pop-tarts, and oreos!! WE WERE READY TO "SURVIVE", lol! EVERYTHING WAS GONE!! There was not one loaf of bread in the store!!

We were soooooooooooo blessed!! Our house only had a little limb damage, lots of leaves everywhere, and little hole on our roof! We looked down our street and saw soooo many houses with TONS more damage! One man lost ALL his trees in his yard.... they were all up-rooted with the soil still attached!! There were power lines laying all over the roads and one lady had her plumbing up-rooted when her tree fell over!! And there were tons of people with their roofs completely blown off!! PRAISE GOD for watching over our home!!

We don't have any power of course, but we are very fortunate to be able to stay with my parents!! They had a generator and could plug in a small a/c and the refrigerator!! Their power come on the very next day.... so we really only "roughed it" for like 24 hrs!! THANK YOU JESUS!! It's hard not having any electricity with a toddler!! So we've moved in with my parents temporarily!! They say that our power won't be on until OCTOBER 5!!! YIKES!!

We're ALIVE!!!

It's been FOREVER since we've posted anything.... But rest assured, all is well in the Lane household! Our computer broke a while back making it extremely difficult to post anything, but the problem is fixed praise the Lord and I can rejoin the blogging world!! I've taken some time to make some slide shows so you can see how our cute little Sailor Bug has grown into a sweet little girl!! She's so smart... it's hard to even think of her as a toddler these days (let alone my little baby), because her vocabulary is so extensive and so is her little personality!! Everyday she says things that just make us go WOW!! We are staying with my parent's (Christina's parents) due to our power outage back home resulting in hurricane Ike. The other evening my mom was holding Sailor and she asked Sailor, "Sailor, do you know how much I love you?!" Sailor looked at her and as serious as could be, proceeded to tell her Nana (while nodding her head), "Yep, I know that!!"...then put her hands up in the air and said, "I don't know why!!" I was laughing so hard when she said that, I couldn't even stand up!!

Sailor Bug is weighing in at about 21 lbs these days!! She's average height, just really skinny! 50% for height, 3-5% for her weight!! She's in anywhere form 0/3-6 bottoms and 6-12 month tops!!She can say her ABC's, she loves to sing songs... some of her favorites are Jesus Loves Me, Tinkle Tars (twinkle twinkle little star), and some silly songs you guys have probably never heard of before! She can count from 1 to 10.... just not in order!! I really don't have the heart to correct her either, cause it's so stinkin' cute!!! She LOVES "jumping" (when I say jumping, it's more like skip/hopping... she still can't quite get both of her legs off the ground yet!!) off of anything!!! ANYTHING!! If we're walking and the level of ground changes even by a couple of inches... we have to stop everything we do and count... "1-2-5-7-8-2-9-1... JUMP" it's the CUTEST thing!! Don't worry, she'll have the correct order by the time she goes to school, lol! Basically, there's not really anything that she can't say! She talks in complete sentences now. It might take her a minute, because if she gets caught up in her words, she starts her entire sentence over until she gets it right!! She's a very determined little girl!! I love her so much and it has been so much fun growing into a rambunctious little girl!! The energy this child has is CrAzY!! She definitely keeps me and Cameron on our toes!! I hope you enjoy these slide shows!!

She was 16-18 months in this slide show:

This was our trip to Garner State Park this year! We had so much fun:

This was 4th of July at my parent's lake house in Trinity:

We just went on a cruise last week! I was packign the night before we left (so please excuse the mess) and Sailor found this baithing suit and wanted to wear it! So I put it on, onlly to discover it's about 2 sizes too small!! She was waaayyyy to tall for it, so it exposed her little boobies.... but she didn't care and would not stand for me to take it off!! So she wore it for quite a while!! I almost died when I looked over and saw her wearing my high heels!! It was so FUNNY!! I promise, as she gets older I will discourage this look!!

And finally, these are our cruise pictures: