My Little Cuties

John and Olue are just so cute!  I can now give them a bath at the same time (since Lu can now sit up well in the tub).  They were both very dirty when we got inside tonight.  Lu had her first taste of dirt in the garden tonight while we were digging carrots, and I accidentally dropped some dirt on John's head while we were tossing cabbage plants into the chicken pen....So both kids needed a bath tonight.

Olue is crawling around.  She doesn't look very fast when you're watching her, but when you turn away she seems to get into the "naughty" places very quick.  Some of her "secret spots" she likes to crawl to when Mom's not watching are...My lilly plant, the garbage can in the bathroom, and a tear spot on the wallpaper in the dining room that Johnny started to tear off a while back.  We hope to remove the wallpaper and carpet in the dining room this winter, and I know she's just trying to help, but I don't want her to eat it!  She puts everything in her mouth.  I keep her busy when we're in the gardens, by giving her vegetables to suck on and play with, like carrots, beans, beets.  She loves them!  She just loves being outside.  If its past bedtime, naptime, or lunchtime, she doesn't realize it until the minute we step inside the house.  She is just so happy sitting on a blacket playing with a toy and watching Johnny, Cedar, and the kitties.

John loves to talk.  He likes it when I sing to him.  He has names for songs that I sing, like "Sky Blue", "Clifford", "Go Go", and "Happy Beetah" (birthday).  He likes to sing the happy birthday song, and we have to sing it for Lu Lu.  (Maybe because Lu Lu rhymes and sounds better than John???  I don't know, but it always has to be for Lu.:)  He likes to tell me what he's doing, what Lu's doing, what he wants to eat, how Daddy gets to work, and like a good big bother, he tells me when his little sister is doing something she's not supposed to..."Lu Lu Naughty!"  Here are some of his common phrases:

• "Lu Cryin"
• "Mommy Eat" (When he wants me to eat something.  He never wants to eat breakfast by himself.  I always have to eat with him, even if I'd already eaten with Josh.)
• "Gedar, Home?" (When we're at the church, which has been a lot lately, he wants to go home and play with Cedar.  He might also think that home means outside-not sure why.)
• "Reesins" - raisins
• "Cracker"  He always asks Mary Lou (at the church) for a cracker.
• "Johnny, we're going to the church today."  "MairLu?" (Mary Lou) "Yep, we'll see Mary Lou."  "Mac?" (Max - our friends' dog...they watch John sometimes.)  "No, John, we're not going to see Max"
• "Ball Sky?!" - He always wants us to throw the ball in the sky.
• "Kitty Owee" - He got a bad kitty scratch in his hand last week.  It's healing really well, but he still needs to tell me about it multiple times a day:)
• "Showeree" - shower
• "Shooee" - shoes
• "Car Shirt" - He's usually upset when I take off his Cars pj shirt in the morning.
• "Nigh Nigh TenT" - He really liked camping.
• "Fishin, Go Fishin, Peese" - He loves fishing and playing in the water at the lake.  He thinks that if he says please, we'll do whatever he asks.  It's so cute!
• "Bee!  Football?" - He likes watching football on tv with his Daddy.