This morning Isak was insistent that he have the "bubble gun", aka...the ginormous bubble blower my sister bought him for his b-day this past year. I keep losing batteries for it and he really makes quite a mess inside with it so I try to hide it...obviously unsucessfully. So he settled instead for me blowing bubbles and "fighting" them with a fork. He kept saying, "poke the bubbles, fight the bubbles" over and over again, while battling them with the fork. Lucy watched in amazement...

My dad's b-day was this past Friday and Lucy wore her party dress for the occasion. We had lots of fun and had some decilious chocolate cake.

For all those who are interested, here is a video of Lucy crawling and talking with her mouth closed, one of her favorite activities, and just plain being crazy.
Lucy went in for her 9 month appt yesterday...she's 30 inches tall (just over 95%), 19lbs 30z, and her head is in the 90%. What can I say...we grow 'em big.

Lucy turned 9 months yesterday, she has 6 teeth although most of the time chooses to smile and talk with her mouth closed so we never get to see all of them. Although , I can assure you that they are definitely still there. I took this picture of her upside down in an attempt to show all of her teeth. I think Isak was getting his first tooth at this age so the fact that she already has 6 is amazing to me. She is crawling everywhere and loves to follow Isak around and try to do whatever he is doing. Isak is not a big fan of this and still refuses to call her by her name, instead referring to her as "baby" or calling her the cats names, "kiki" or "Sam". I'm hoping this changes before they get into school together.

Kevin and Isak playing on the tire in the backyard. Kevin apparently really wants this tire someday in our backyard, and since it looks like we won't be living far away, perhaps we can just roll it down the road.

Yes, the little stinker has started pulling herself up on Everything she can get her hands on. Lucky for me she doesn't have much balance yet so I don't think she will walk anytime soon but I can't believe she's already big enough to be doing this! I just found out my WA nurse's license was activated so I will probably start working soon as well which I am looking forward to.

As for everything else, we are trying to get a house here in Othello that was under foreclosure and is a pretty good deal. All we have left is the inspection this week so hopefully all will go well. It needs some work...well, a lot of work...it will give us plenty of weekend projects for the next 5 years. But its in a nice neighborhood across from the park (and the pool) so it should be fine. Hopefully everything goes through like its suppose to!

Halloween

This year halloween was pretty low-key...our costumes were packed away and I realized my kids were too little to know what the heck was going on. So I decided it would be a waste of time to put a ton of work into their costumes. I made them super heroes, complete with capes, shorts, boots and identifying letters. It worked. They refused to sit still for any pictures and Isak had to be bribed. Lucy is getting really wiggly now that she can crawl and lunges for everything she wants, Isak is starting to get annoyed I think. Anyway, we took them to the trunk or treat and Isak had fun getting candy although I think all the costumes and people kind of scared him.

Isak liked people dropping candy in his bucked but didn't really get why he couldn't eat it right away. He had a meltdown (s) before bedtime and I'm guessing it was all the sugar.

Here he is nicely posing for one picture, he ripped of his cape (darn velcro), but you gotta love the optimus prime boots.

So I just wanted a few decent pictures of the kids together in their costumes. This didn't happen. Shortly after this was taken, Isak got in trouble and it was discovered he had pooped up his shirt and lucy almost flipped off the couch (I caught her).

Lucy started officially crawling this past week, she still likes to "sit spin" as we call it but she moves around pretty well and is now actually moving up on all fours.

I think she looks a little like Alice in Wonderland in this dress. Isn't she cute?

Isak and Lucy watching some TV together with grandpa (who was cut out of the pic, sorry Bob).

Isak has found a tree to climb in the backyard. We officially now have renters in our house, we just need to find a place here in Othello that is available. So far we have come up with nothing but we haven't been looking for very long, hopefully something hospitable will pop up soon. Meanwhile I've decided to channel my domesticity (is that a word?) into fixing up my in-laws basement. We've already made some great progress and I have a great motivator in that I'm living that right now.

Fall Time

I took the kids to the park today (again) and Lucy sat in one of the swings, she is getting so big! I think this confuses Isak, he always looks at her strangely and will sometime say, "baby, out".

She loved it though and really likes watching Isak swing as well and will always laugh at him.

I took the kids to the pumpkin patch today with some ladies from church and their kids. It turns out there are lots of crazy little boys Isak's age with a similar energy level and they had lots of fun chasing each other and jumping off hay bales. Isak also insisted I carry him as well as Lucy which was rather difficult, I could only do it for a little while. They are over 50 lbs together and that's a lot to carry!

This child really has no fear. These hay bales were about 6 high and he would look at me and go, "big jump? big jump?" and then jump towards me and hope I would catch him. I'm already getting gray hair.

Theoretically, right now, I should be sleeping. It is Isak's nap time and he is sleeping and usually miss Lucy naps at the same time. But today she decided a 20 minute siesta was all she needed..so here I am, awake. She is trying to crawl/lunge herself all over the floor and I am going to update everyone since evidently, sleep is not a current option. Above is Lucy trying a popsicle, and below is her reaction. She got over the initial cold shock and ended up eating the whole thing. I'm not certain if 8 months olds are suppose to eat popsicles, but I''m beginning to think my kids eat a lot of stuff probably before they are suppose to. Anyway, she loved it and I'm guessing there will be war soon enough in our house with her brother over popsicles.

Not much has changed regarding our whole situation or with our house...we are in limbo at the moment and probably will be for some time. The whole thing is very frustrating and makes it difficult to feel settled when we will move at least a few more times probably before being anywhere for any length of time. I really miss having my kids little rooms that I can decorate and having a house I can hang pictures in and stick my half-made hand made crafts in. I miss having my own kitchen and being able to walk my kids through the neighborhood to the play equipment. I think the basic, everyday routine stuff that I took for granted is what I miss the most. Isak has had some difficulty with his bedtime routine and Kevin has been lying down with him everynight to get him to fall asleep. I'm guessing he's going to be out of sorts for a while and will just get used to it. Anyway, I think I hear a little knock at his door so I think he's awake. Below is another cute picture of Lucy and below that is a video of her trying to crawl/lunge. My next update will have pictures of Isak, I haven't had a chance to take any cute pictures of him between all of the lovely tantrums lately...