Overheard at our house...

Setting: Getting Brinly dressed for church, and like everything, she is trying to stuff her dress in her mouth

Mom: (In pobably and obnoxious yet playful baby voice...hey, we all do it, whether you want to admit it or not!) "Brinly...get that out of your mouth. That's gross. What are we going to do with you?"

Michael: "I think we should take her to Baby training school."

Hey! Now there's an idea... NOt that I would want to be the head master of such school...but to send my baby and have her trained? Sweet....

Have you ever seen anything SO cute!?

So, I have to do a 'shout out' for my sister's blog,  Red Hot Designs. She is super talented and I love these paper piercings she's done. You can put these on your own cards to make them "yours" or on scrapbook pages.

 She also does custom work (see rockets below) and cards, and hooded towels.

Check em out!

(Sorry about the obnoxious picture placings and sizes...I'm still learning this new format...)

(This Zebra one is my personal fav)

          

She even does custom things! Check out these awesome invitations she made for Michael's space birthday party! I just told her the theme and this is what she came up with. I think they are perfect and love how the invite folds into the rocket.

These are some cards she has made me. 

Aren't they so cute? 

Aren't you just dying to send some of these to YOUR friends?! 

Pumpkin masterpiece

Remember this?

Skillfully crafted by him?

well, he's at it again...

This year he got his inspiration from this sweetie...

made her into a "pattern"...

which somehow resulted in this!

Isn't he amazing?

I sure think so!

Tip: The best sculpting tools are dental instruments!

Why babies have mothers...

Perry Monsters can Dance!

I couldn't upload the movie directly, so click here to watch us do some serious dancing.

Happy Halloween!

overheard at our house...

Setting: we're eating lasagna...the version that uses cottage cheese instead of ricotta cheese.

Michael: "Look mom! There's little marshmallows in my dinner!"

Needless to say, he actually ate all of his dinner tonight. Maybe we should put "marshmallows" in a few other entrees. :)

As for other news:

Here's the progress on our lawn.

The grass is coming up better than we thought it would, despite our little upset, but now the weather is quickly dropping in temperature, so its growth time is about over. :(

Dan turned 31! Holy smokes, he's old! :)

The kids made handmade cards for him, he got an alarm clock with "soothing nature" sounds to wake him up, instead of the heart-attack-beeping that our current alarm gives us. He also got a picture frame with the kids' recent pictures for his office.

Dan almost gave Chelsea a broken nose!

okay, it was more of an accident than anything. They were playing, and Dan tossed her on the bean bag, and her knee made contact with her face. IT bruised pretty bad, but nothing broke. The day after it happened, we asked her to tell us what happened, as she would be going to school, and we didn't want "authorities" contacting us. She said "Dad threw me." We had to help her with her word choice before she ran off to school... :)

Chelsea got her ears pierced!

I've always told her she can get them whenever she wants, but she's always been too scared. A few weeks ago, she asked if she could get them done, so in between the Saturday sessions of conference, Grandma Perry and I took her to the mall. I think it hurt her more than she expected, but now she loves the fact that there are holes in her ear, and she can't feel a thing!

I could tell she was nervous, but I was proud of her for going through with it!

Grandma made the smart suggestion of getting a treat to get her mind off of her ears until the "shock" wore off. What doesn't ice-cream cure?

Brinly is still the cutest thing ever.

She learned how to roll from her back to her stomach yesterday. :( A very sad day for me as I realize the inevitable is happening....my baby is growing up.

Her 4 month check up:

weight: 13.7 lbs (dropped to 68 percentile) there goes my chubby baby. :(

height: 25" (increased in percentile)

What's new?

What's new with the Perry's?

Well, Michael got Brinly to laugh. Her first laugh!

After she giggled for him a few times, I got her to giggle for me a few times. She hasn't since that day... (sigh) It's the most beautiful sound and I can't wait to hear it again! She's getting less stingy with her smiles, so hopefully her laughs aren't too far behind.

Michael got a "big-boy" bike and LOVES it. Sometimes, he rides it to drop Chelsea off at the bus stop, and to pick her up again. He loves to go zooming fast!

Check out the concentration on his face as he works so hard on the "hill".

We have been working hard in our yard to get grass in before winter. You might notice the yard in one of the bicycle pictures. We pretty much dug up the entire yard by hand, in search of bermuda grass roots. Then we leveled it off with rakes and sweat. :)

Finally, it was time to hydro-seed. This is where they come and spray the ground with a mixture of water, glue, fertilizer, and grass seed.

Now, all we have to do, is make sure the ground stays wet so the seeds can germinate and make us a beautiful, lush, green lawn.


However, nature seems to have something against us. Here's the pathetic story:

Our neighborhood is still being developed. There are several lots that have not been built on that have weeds taller than we are. The HOA hires landscaping crews to come out and level out the weeds, once in a while. The day Dan and Chelsea were to fly out to Texas to join me and Michael (upcoming post) the landscapers were doing just this. The worker somehow busted a main water line for the irrigation water, so the city had to shut it off until they could repair it. Dan tried to soak the lawn before he left for the airport the best he could. The water was turned off for about 2 full days, both with temperatures in the upper 90's. UGh!!!! We're hoping the seeds somehow survived and germinated, but so far, it's not looking good. To make things worse, the temperature this week is to be in the LOW 60's! Looks like we'll be seeding again in the spring. We'll keep you updated.

We do have good news, though! Our blinds finally arrived! We have privacy again!!!!