Serious Cuteness

I bought the cutest owl hat at a craft fair last weekend.  Oh. My. Gosh.  It came in ten different colors, and everything inside me was screaming to buy one of each.  I refrained and brought home just this pink and green beanie that happened to match her outfit perfectly.  I tried to sit the girls down for a cute sister shot.  Well, a dozen clicks later and this is the closest I came to a 'nice' group photo.  Good enough for me.

Thanksgiving 2014

And She's Up!

All Clean!

 

We all love bath time.  I would actually love it a lot more if we had a much, much bigger tub.  You see, when I give the girls a bath, I've found that it's best on my back if I just get in the water with them.  So, if you can imagine (but please don't try to), there are often five bodies, both large and small, trying to get clean in our little tub.  I know.  It's not smart.  I bring it on myself.  But sometimes these routines get started before they turn into something big, and by then, old habits die hard.  When I had one baby, it was fine.  Two was ok.  Three was pretty cramped.  And baby number four just barely gets her feet wet due to lack of space.  This is just how things are done at the Downey house.

All grown up

My, oh my!  7 months have just flown right by.  My 'baby' girl is crawling all over the house, saying "momma" and "dadda".  I recently started giving her baby food, and she's a huge fan.  Green beans, peas, oatmeal.  She says "I want it all.  Give it to me now."  Well, maybe she's not talking quite that well.  But she communicates it just fine, all the same.  I left the kitchen in the middle of dinner for just a moment.  Any mom knows that 'just a moment' is usually a moment too long for kids to be left alone.  When I came back, Talullah had tried to help by just handing the jar of food to her sister.  And this made Amberlie a very happy kid.

I could just cry

We have been dealing with this since she was just a baby.  Berlyn must have the absolute sweetest blood on earth.  She is covered in bites for most of the year.  We have 'bombed' the house countless times.  I've sprayed the yard with bug killer.  Of course, I've washed all bedding and vacuumed every crack and crevice.  We recently got rid of our cats to rid the house of any fleas. I'm sneaking some nutritional yeast into her diet to ward off the bugs.  We spray her with all natural repellent.  We treat her bites with tea tree oil.  Looking at her scarred, scabbed, and itchy skin just makes this mom want to cry for her.  The animals have been gone for a month.  I'm giving it one more month to see if she stops getting bites... if it doesn't end, I told Nick I'm burning the house down so we can start from scratch.  I don't know what else to do!