Mini Miss is 8 Months Old

My little Mini Miss is now 8 months old...

You are a very happy baby...

You are infatuated with your big brother...

There is nothing you won't eat...

Everything goes into your mouth...

You almost always have your tounge between your lips making a spitting noise...

Your memory is incredible and you are quite the escape artist...

You try with all your might to let out little high pitched noises and you really think your saying something to us...

We rarely see you crawl because you are always holding onto furniture and standing...

You have waved, just by hearing someone say "HI" ...

You are amazing!

Meet the Misses

The Mini Misses that is... better known as Sister.

Born in February... a wopping 10 days over due, at a staggering 13lbs!

That's right... I gave birth to a 13 lb 2 oz baby! ... and no, I did NOT have a C-section!

That's the part that is a little embarrassing, but in my defense she didn't just slip out. In fact, it was pretty scary during delivery... it only took about two pushes to shoot her down the birth canal (nicely put, huh?), but then she was stuck and that's when things got a bit hairy, no pun intended. Her shoulders were stuck. Fortunately, she was safely shifted and pulled out. Aside from a whole hand of finger prints on her poor little head and some swelling, she was a completely healthy baby girl.

It's no secret that I hoped for another boy... but as soon as I laid eyes on her, I was in love....

It's funny how GOD knows what we want, even when we don't!

We felt like celebrities in the hospital. We had nurses taking pictures of her in the delivery room on the scale and knocking our door down to see her during the rest of our stay. We were told she was the biggest baby ever born at this particular hospital... however, we do not hold the record for worlds largest baby born, there has been bigger... much bigger. We Googled it!

My little muffin.

She has conquered milestones so quickly and come out so big, that sometimes I feel like we got jipped on the newborn stage.

Crawling at 5 months ...

and pulling up to standing weeks after that... this little girl is on the move.

She examines and watches everything. Sometimes you can almost HEAR the information being stored in her little brain.

It's obvious that she can't wait to take over and start running things...

Meet Mini Mr. Rinehart

I think it's time I introduce the mini's....

I'll start in the order they were born... seems fitting....

First up is Mini Mr. Rinehart

My 4 year old! Yikes! You could never imagine how quickly 4 years could pass... well you could if you have kids of your own. Sometimes I even forget how small he actually was until I look back at pictures.

My baby boy! I wanted him so badly that I was sure GOD would give me a girl just to prove that I could love her just the same (which of course I would have), but he didn't, he sent me a perfect, healthy little boy! Everything I had dreamed about and more. I can't tell you why, but I had always secretly (or not so secretly) dreamed about having a little boy. I always admired how good boys were to their mothers and I guess I longed for that bond.

GOD made no mistakes! I have my boy and he is as boy as they come! He loves mud, snakes, rats, playing rough, peeing outside... dare I go on?

He's been obsessed with Thomas the Tank Engine and all his friends since the day he could play with toys! Every year I keep thinking Thomas will quietly fade away and he'll find interest in something new, but Thomas is still his favorite and he has quite a little a HUGE collection of trains, etc. to prove it!

He loves all animals and would prefer a trip to Petco over a trip to a theme park any day as he proved last weekend. He asks about three times a day to go to Petco and get a pet [fill in the blank]. One day it was a penguin, the next it was a snake, today it's a BOWWL frog (as he pronounces it)... and as soon as we get inside he is pressed up against a new cage everytime... "Hi Rat! You wanna come to my house?? .... he said yesss!"

He still requires a good nap and I have witnessed his head make a full rotation without one. He is a charmer and will play you like a fiddle to get what he wants, but all and all he is a good, nice boy that just wants to have fun and make you laugh.

Almost everyday he says something cute or funny... or just out of the blue and I usually have no idea where he's learned it or heard it... but I have to say that these are my favorite little moments! It's a garaunteed smile, every time!

He takes everything in and never forgets a thing!

I thank GOD everyday for him!

Sorry ladies.... he's all mine!

{Just one of them DAYS!}

I can't tell you how much I enjoy reading other people's blogs!! It's like my little happy place... in bed, on the couch, glued to the computer screen... kids screaming...I don't hear it...while I'm lost in someone else's perfect story...

Are your lives really that perfect?? What am I doing wrong??

I woke up this morning (not that I got much sleep), jumped out of bed after having just about all I could take of my 6 month old yelling... not crying... a deep, raspy, fake cry YELL (all night LONG...aren't 6 month olds supposed to sleep through the night?? That's what the books say!!)... pleasantly greeted by mother nature (a.k.a. my monthly bill, a.k.a Aunt Flo)... worst EVER might I add... and my four year old trying to hide the fact that he wet the bed... MY bed!!

Can I go back to bed and start over????

Nope! You have two kids expecting breakfast!!!!

HELP!

Now, it might help if you knew (whoever YOU are) that my husband is a US sailor and not around very often anymore! So most mornings I wake up wondering if this is the day I am going to completely LOOSE IT...?? Surprisingly, I've lasted quite longer than expected... it's amazing what you are capable of when there is no alternative!

I'd like to take this moment to personally applaud all the single mothers out there!! BRAVO!!!

Breakfast served, baby down for a nap... B in his room with cartoons.... I'm blasting Monica's "Don't take it personal!" Starting to feel like I might just make it thru another day....

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I've decided to add some TEXT to my blank blog.... There are so many great blogs that I've been following and have kept track of using this page. I've wanted to start my own blog for some time now (with many failed attempts)... so why not do it today...??