Very Smart

Jenna is getting to be such a smart little girl!  She knows all of her body parts now.  She easily identifies eye, ear, nose, chin, neck, head, hair, elbow, thumb, finger, shoulder, belly, boobs, butt, knee, foot, and toes.  She can identify all the parts as well as call them by name.  We started working on this while I would sit and breastfeed Shelby.   

She also has started singing a couple songs.  She knows the tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star as well as Pat - a - cake. 

treehouse

One week ago Tuesday night, we had some really strong storms.  I think most of the state of Indiana got some strong storms.  I have heard there were multiple tornados confirmed throughout the state.  I woke up a little before 11:30 to a pretty wicked storm.  At 11:48 I heard a loud crack.  I figured that the Tulip tree had come down on the house.  When I woke up, I figured out that I was correct!

We are very fortunate to only have suffered minor damage.  There was only one small puncture hole, on the back porch.  The yard substained the most damage.  The tractor made several ruts and there are are an abundance of cleat marks all over the yard now.  However, we escaped, unharmed...and for that we thank God!

Joined Forces

Evidently, the Tooth Fairy joined forces with the Easter Bunny for Shelby this year.  We believe that between Saturday evening and Easter Sunday morning Shelby got her first tooth.  This new bottom tooth has been a long time coming.  Several of us thought it was odd that at 10 months old, she was still toothless.  I suspect that she will have her second bottom tooth before long!

A Mess

It seems we have been on the road and busy every weekend lately.  We were excited when we discovered that neither of us really had anything planned for Sunday!  We got up and all got ready for church, went to church and came home.  After lunch, I was itching to get outside.  Cabin fever has been horrible!  We were walking around in the yard, looking at the blackberry plants, the hot bed with my growing vegetable plants for the garden, the land scaping that Lance did last week, and the brush pile we burnt a few weekends ago. 

While out in the yard, I happend across a couple of mushrooms!

This inspired us to go seek out more mushrooms.

 While we were out, we found several small white flowers,

 as well as a few small purple flower...

 We also found a MESS of MUSHROOMS!

That count ended up somewhere around 45 during this hunt.  We went out to another spot and found about 20 more later.  We had them for supper tonight and they were delicious!

Shelby Leigh

As I mentioned in my earlier blog, I got an idea for a photo opportunity.  I took Shelby out under the tree just to see if I could get any pictures of Miss Shelby.  These are my 9 favorites out of the 80 some that I took.

 I love the attitude in this picture!

 Grabbin at the flowers!

 I threw a hand full of petals, then I got a look!

 Actally, I got several looks.

 Mommy, these petals don't taste very good!

 There's a grin from my happy girl!

I think this is my favorite one, pure giggles!