OSU reunion/baby BD party

while in tulsa, we went to a friends' in-laws to get together with all us OSU friends and help little brody celebrate his first bday. of course our camera batteries died before we took the group picture, but imagine this: a hot afternoon with 15 kids running everwhere (and having no naps) and sugar in their systems, k? then you can paint your own visual of what the group photo (taken at the end of the day) probably looked like! ha! (LEFT) myah and claire wearing their party hats (RIGHT) bday boy and myah wearing their matching outfits; across the chest is their name embroidered in green. too cute! (thanks, berg-for myah's outfit!)

myah and buddy

kevin's parents got a cute new puppy; he and myah were good friends right off the bat-just each other's size. myah was constantly trying to feed him his chew stick. cuuute!

on the road again...

we drove to tulsa this past weekend to stay with kevin's parents; this was the true test-to see if the DVD player would keep her attention and allow me to sit up front with kevin...at first she just stared at it-her arms still kinda frozen in the air. she was mesmorized. funny! then, as you can see from the pix on the left, she got real comfy and loved it! the right pix is of her on the way home. she put her puppy up there like that. they watched veggie tales together! and life on the road with a little one was good, whew!

the fair, the food, the fun

the local lions club hosts an annual OK-TX fair (small) here every year, so we took myah last nite for a change of scenery...
this petting zoo had a kangaroo, goats, deer and something that looked like a small cow (bison? see pix below w/ myah and me) it was a great nite to go (weather was in the 70's) and myah loved all the bright lights, as well as the funnel cake, yeah baby! oh yeah, we think goats must like the taste ofcotton t-shirts, too!

mommy, myah and the ducks

a few more duck pond pix...

this was from my friend's camera; how sweet! is it legal to arrange marriages in america? :)

pleeeeeease, mamma?

she reminds me of our cats, gazing out the back door-longing to be outside, but THIS is the kind of thing that is outside...i.e. the reason why she CAN'T go out (unless we're with her, of course).
this is a for-real texas-sized spider. i was actually too freaked out to kill it, so my friend julie did-she started screaming when she sprayed it cuz hundreds of baby spiders went every which way, crawling off the mom-spider's back! NASTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! if you click on the spider picture, you can tell there were baby spiders on its back. SO GROSS!

here kitty, kitty

scooter only THOUGHT she was hidden in a safe place! poor kitties! and how 'bout them curls in myah's crazy hair! ha!

such a big girl!

well, it didn't take her long to learn how to climb! she can get up AND down from this chair all by herself! (there's a foot stool she uses in front of the chair). once she's up there, she does her little grunt/point thing to her basket of books on the floor. we're gonna have to teach her to put the books on the chair first, then get up there! i just can't believe how big she's getting!

mothers' day out

here she is, proudly pointing out her 'report card' from her first day at mom's day out.
it's at a church just a few minutes from our house and the workers in her class are super!
they even got her down for a nap! i was very shocked! i'm choosing to only leave her for 3 hours, but she's allowed to stay for 5; that just seems like too much right now. she did just fine when i left and was obviously excited to see me when i walked over to her 'crib.' she said MAMMA pretty loud from behind her paci-so i scooped her up real quick before the other kiddos woke up. i'm SO thankful of how well she does when i leave her, and SO floored at how fast 3 hours goes by! :)