4,5,6,7,8,9,10

here she is ....... counting, counting, counting.. she counts everything right now. so fun.

ruthie's accomplishments..

in the last couple weeks, ruthie has accomplished yet another ear infection and a yeast infection in her mouth. she has also made great strides in her abilities. she climbed out of the crib to fall onto the other side. she got a pretty good black eye from doing that. she is a girl full of energy and adventure. but to no dismay.. i was made to keep up with such a young one. i try to always be one step ahead, yet often feel one step behind with her. she no longer eats baby food and doesn't really prefer her bottle. i have to get her good and tired to drink that. think ruthie might think she is older than she is. she has also added three words to her mommy daddy vocab.... she said "dog", "cat", and "all done" shocking i know. i was too. she is an incredible baby, but very hard to keep up with. i think our next step is walking. we'll see. she has taken a couple steps... nothing too big, but a few in a row. it has also been pretty fun to see the sisters interact more and more lately. they really do enjoy each other. i love to leave the room and watch them from the corner of my eye laughing and playing with one another.

one more big step

i left out something about elly m. in the next post. she started eating cereal for breakfast. i don't know about anybody else, but that has been a milestone for us. she can sit at the table and feed herself a bowl of cereal. i am most delighted, breakfast just got much much easier.

you would think..

you would think that nothing of excitement is going on at the schmit household the last couple of weeks... but no there have been some exciting milestones made the last couple weeks. i don't know what i have been doing. i started going to the y to run on the elliptical... or whatever you do on that thing. i signed us up so we would have a place to swim with friends this summer... the added bonus, there is free child care while you work out.. lovin' it. i might be able to actually lose some of my extra lovins that i have been wanting to get rid of. i would normally walk my two incredible children around town in the stroller except for one of those darling little angels screams her living head off if i even think about strapping her into something. gotta love a moving soon to be nine month old. but let's talk about elly m. for a little while. we started the potty training process... she wears underwear at home quite often now. i think i got a little too into it, so we are taking a little break from talking about it... but i am going to ease us back into it next week. i think elly m. is a schedule kind of girl, so if i make a little b-room schedule. i think that will pay off better in the end. she has accomplished much in her life recently. she can now count to ten and sing Jesus loves me and Jesus loves the little children... and almost has her ABC song down. she talks as though she really knows what she is thinking now. she can say complete sentences often. it is fun, but sometimes the question "what is ________ doin, mommy?" gets old... we talk about everyone here there and everywhere constantly. i love it though ... she is so precious and her way of talking is so fun to listen to.

SAND

hey there tania... I bought sand at lowes and it is in the weirdest place there. it is in the lumber area and it is called play sand. my mom also said that you can buy colored sand at wal-mart. she bought the grandkids blue sand. It was only $3 a bag. well worth it for sure.

ruthie toothie.

this little one ruthie is definitely planning her own little course of development. she is working on tooth number 9. number 9 because she has been growing an extra tooth behind her top front teeth. i am not sure what or if there is something i can do now, but i will ask the dr. next time we go. so hopefully after this number 9 we will take a little break for awhile.

just cute ones.

here they are just being cute. as you can see ruthie is standing up all the time now trying to take steps. i really don't think it is going to take much longer before this little one walks. she definitely watches her big sister all the time. it is amazing how much she watches her. i mean she is very enjoyable to watch!!!

sandbox... sandbox.. sandbox.

our new favorite activity these days is playing in the sandbox. it is so lovely to just walk outside and have endless entertainment. i love it. as do the girls. and the picture of the two of them where neither of them are looking at the camera is one of my favorites. i just think they are so cute. definitely enjoyable.

yesterday's little friend.

elly m. needed a little friend to push or pull around the yard in the wagon. her sister almost weighs the same as her, so pushing her is difficult, but don't worry it is tried often. elly m. has also really wanted to hold ruthie a lot lately. i wonder if she realizes ruthie might out weigh her at this point. probably not.

bath buddies...

it is always fun to have bath pictures with our little buddies, so that when we are older.. .we can say. we used to bathe together. that is how long we have been friends. evie is such a great friend. i am crossing my fingers and kind of hoping teresa has another girl in october. on my birthday for that matter. we find out in about a month!! yeah.