8 month monkey

sophie is 8 1/2 months old and so active and into everything. she can pull herself to a standing position using objects that are low to the ground or easy to grab. like this basket, well, she's belly surfing right now, but look down a bit, she's standing.

that's my crazy girl who's into everything and cannot be left alone! oh, and on a side note, she likes baby food meat. yuck! what baby likes that stuff?

how do you tip a trashman?

i'm being serious on this question! our trashmen are the best! they've saved us numerous times from keeping our trash a few days longer or now, a week longer when we're just a bit late getting it out. today was recycling day and we got up too late last week to put it out. we almost missed it again today. i opened the door to peek down the street to see if any neighbors still had there bins out and they were stopped just a few doors down. quickly i ran to get our bin (which was overflowing) and as i was opening the door and stepping outside, they were driving past. out trashmen have great eyes though and saw me coming. they stopped the truck a little past our house and met me in the yard. then a gust of wind came by and blew paper from the bin around the yard. they helped pick it up! so how does one properly thank a trashman? saying thank you for rescuing me time and time again just doesn't seem like enough. and it's not as if i can't promise them stinkless trash on tuesdays!

cupcake of the month -october

this is really old but i finally uploaded pictures. molly and i made halloween black cat cupcakes to take to the library halloween party.

bath time got a bit easier!

now that sophie sits up really well, molly and sophie take their baths together. it really helps out a lot and it's so nice not to have to fill up the baby bathtub after giving molly a bath.

spohie loves being in with molly and splashes like crazy. molly complains that she splashes water in her face but then splashes back. because of the splashing, however, i'm soaked by the end of the bath.

aren't they cute! i love my girls!

going green

our trash service recently stopped picking up trash two days a week. now, however, it's picking up trash one day and recycling the other. they 're really encouraging people to recycle and have provided recycling bins. i was very excited about this when we got the letter in the mail. i know, i'm a bit lame and it doesn't take much to excite me but i've really never been a recycler. i recycled paper every so often at school but not consistently. the recycle bins were just down the street from us too but now, they come to me!

i challenge myself to see how little trash we have each week. i recycle just about everything i can. i will admit, it's a pain - rinsing everything that i used to just toss. but, a little extra work to help control the landfill population isn't so bad! here's our first week of loot!

if you know molly, you know where this is going....

a couple weeks ago sophie fell asleep with molly's blanket

now look down....i bet some of you can guess where this is heading!

first haircuts

molly and sophie both recently had their first haircuts. sophie was growing quite the mullet and so that had to go. i did it myself - it wasn't the easiest thing to do either because she kept wanting to look at the scissors. molly went to the salon and had hers done by the same girl that cuts our hair, emmy. she did great!

the mullet!

her hair really is pretty straight but doesn't look it from the picture!

curly locks

she looks so much older!