Braska Bear

First, is it any wonder one of my pet names for this girl is Beauty? Braska and KiKi are at Grammy's house for a few days while I have a weekend to catch up around the house and try to regain some energy and sanity (and hopefully catch up on horribly neglected blogs). Much thanks to Grammy and the gang. Many of you are familiar with the term "siggy," referring to an image used in forums and message boards to show off your kids and announce who you are in a fun way. There are about a gazillion styles, and I'm new to learning about them, but tonight I decided to try doing one with a few particular effects I liked. This is the first finished one. It took quite a while. The picture is actually a combination of two shots of the girls (one where K was smiling and the other had B smiling...so I tried some tricks) with some fancy Photoshop action. I am pleased with it...not bad for the first try with this method. Doesn't hurt that these girls are so darn adorable... If an...

I'm aware that the readers of our blogs are not all on the same level of geekhood or tech ability, so we've got something new to share to make keeping up with our blogs simple.I talk about Google Reader alot. It keeps me from having to check blogs when there haven't been any posts. I receive notification of new posts on blogs I choose to watch. I like it, I use it, and I don't quite know why everyone doesn't. But for those of you who don't have alot of blogs to watch or just choose not to go the Reader route, there's a new option for you on our family blogs ( RK's , Kinlee's , and Braska's). In the margin, you'll see a box that has "Enter your email address" in it. This allows you to receive blog posts in your email so that you don't have to keep coming to check the blog when it's not being updated every day...something I still aim to return to soon. Just enter your email in there and that's it. When there's a new p...

Wow, we are way behind! I’m going to try to put up some more pictures and stories this week if Mommy has time to help me. We have been super busy running all around. This week might be better, I hope. A couple weeks ago I went to see my new friend Matthew at his house. He lives in another town so we took a little trip in the car to get there. We stopped to see Mommy’s friend Miss Lainie and her baby Sophia before we went to Matthew’s house, too. When we got there, I had made a messy diaper and it was extra messy, so there was alot of stuff to do right away to get cleaned up. (Sorry Miss Ria!!) But when I got all clean and new clothes on, we had lots of fun! He has a really neat place to sit and play with balls and all kinds of toys. I liked it alot. He is a pretty funny guy! He liked my glasses, too. Everyone likes to touch my glasses! The mommies ordered pizza when it was lunch time. I helped call. “Hi, can I have a medium barbecue chicken pizza, please? Deliver it to Matth...

On Tuesday, last week I got the best surprise!  My blog friend LC came to my house!  She's like a superstar in our house, and I couldn't believe she was just right there!  She even brought her Mommy and two grandmas! "Is that really LC?!?"  I think we felt a little shy at first. Then she started to grin and be silly. I still wasn't sure about it. I showed her my favorite stacking cups.  We chatted for a while on the floor. And then we tried to be real still so KiKi wouldn't see us. LC is so cute!! She was all happy and is way better at smiling for pictures than I am.       At the end, we took a bunch of pictures of all of us. But LC took one all by herself when she grabbed Mommy's camera.  She's pretty good at that too, don't you think?! You can read on LC's blog about her visit with us . And Mommy did a short story about it too. Thanks for coming LC!!!  Can't wait t...

I had the most bestest fun today!  I love to play on Mommy and Daddy's great big bed, but I'm not allowed to be up there without someone to watch me because Mommy says I don't watch the edges like I should.  But that's ok because it's way more fun when Daddy plays with me! Miss A lets me climb all over the big cloud pillow thing at school, and to practice at home, we put lots of big pillows all over the bed and I climb on them.  It is SO much fun!! (Mommy note: The "headboard" to our bed is a mattress, turned on it's side.  It's a longer story than you want to read, but it actually works really nicely, and it fits perfectly with our king-sized bed.  You'll see why this info is helpful... back to Braska.) So today we were playing on the bed after we got up from nap, and I wanted to get up on the higher part of the bed.  And I found a NEW fun thing to do... Here, I'll show you in a little movie. Make video montages at www.One...

Yesterday I went to school for PT with Miss A.  Miss J came too so she could see how much I talk when I'm playing in the PT room.  (I don't talk very much with Miss J.  They don't know why and I'm not sayin'.) I just love the PT room!!! I wish I had one of those at home!  Today we did 2 kinds of swings, and I did a good job staying on when it was really hard.  I crawled under things and went through the big tunnel and worked really hard to crawl over the big cloud pillow thing. There's a basket of big letters in the PT room and I always find them and get them out.  I really like letters and numbers, and I like to say what they are.  When we go in the PT room, there are number cards on the floor and I pick them up and tell Miss A what number is on them.  Today we got the basket of letters and I stood up at the rock wall and put them on there.  When Miss A gave me the letters, I told her what they were and then we put them on the wall. ...

My baby sister KiKi is 5 months old today. When we were taking her birthday pictures this morning, I wanted to get in on the fun.  Mommy  put me in the bed and told me to sit out of the way.  At first I did. Then I climbed up on my feet. I got right up in front of the camera.  (This next one is one of Mommy's favorite new pictures.  She says she wishes I would be more fun and silly in front of other people because I always get quiet and shy.)  Then I thought I was so funny that I giggled and let go and sat right on KiKi!

For Daddy's Day a few weeks ago, Grandma C's church got all the girls and mommies shirts that said "my dad rocks!" and "my husband rocks!" so Grandma C got me and KiKi shirts to wear that day too.  But Mommy forgot to put them on us.  When we got to their church that day, Mommy got a funny look on her face and said, "Oops!!"   So we got to wear them the other day and we took a bunch of pictures for Daddy.  And for Grandma C, too. (Don't forget to click on the picture if you want it bigger.)

Today we went to have lunch with a new friend that Mommy found from around the blog world.  Matthew and his mommy and daddy don't live too far from us, so we met in the middle.  I'm pretty tired, so I'll just show you some pictures that we took today of all of us.  Don't forget that you can click on the picture to make it bigger and see it better.  It was nice to meet you Matthew and Mr. Bill and Miss Ria !  Hope we can play together soon!

We've been playing at home alot the last few days instead of going out.  Mommy and Daddy are sharing a car now, so we can't always just go and do stuff like we used to.  But it's fun because sometimes we get to take Daddy to work, and I like that! KiKi is getting bigger and likes to play with her toys.  Mommy says soon she'll like to play toys with me too.  I can't wait!