PERKES FAMILY

A lot of Blogging

So I was a bit behind on blogging then we take our computer into the shop, well it was there for two weeks! I was naturally way behind at that point, so here is some of the last month. Enjoy

Brandon was digging one of chess sets out of a box for him and the kids to play with. He brought out a box and put it on the bed and started to dig in it, I hear Abagayle says "What are these?" Those are cassette tapes Abagayle. WOW are we old. :)
As a side note we found a mixed tape I made for Brandon when we were dating. Can you corny??

Lorelei or Abagayle

Lorelei

Abagayle
Obviously they are a little different but they look so similar to me. They are both 6 months in these pictures.

Abagayle

Lorelei

Big Girl Bath!

Lorelei had her first big girl bath with Abagayle today. She loved being able to splash around!

Childrens Museum

We also got to go to the Childrens Museum!!

Lorlei Six Months Old

She is getting so big. She had a dr appt the day before she was six months: she weighed 21 lbs 6oz and was 28 and 1/2 inches tall, yikes!! She is huge. She has just about out grown all her 6-12 months clothes, she wears either 12 months or 12 -18 months :)

She rolls all over the house, she started to scoot backwards, she gets up on her hands and knees and bounces I am sure crawling is soon :0 ) She sits up great! Plus today, she pushed herself up from laying on her tummy to the sitting position. She is amazing! She loves to babbles and spit/raspberries. Lorelei loves it when Jackson and Abagayle play with her. Abgayle had her laughing so hard the other day that she had horrible hiccups but still couldn't stop laughing. She has been eating fruits and veggies for a bit. Over the last month we have given her little veggie puffs, biter biscuits, some of my homemade blueberry wheat muffins (more to come on that), cantaloupe (which she loved) and lots of other things. She loves water! We are so blessed to have her in our lives. Sometimes I forget that at the 2am feedings :)

Loved the Popsicle!

She had been eating watermelon for about 15 min she was done, but loved it!

The Garden

A lot of pictures documenting the process are on here. The first week of break Brandon decided he wanted a garden. So he got some seed and a mini green house thing and the kids planted: corn, lettuce, radishes, basil, sunflowers, summer squash, carrots, zucchini and pumpkins. The seeds had to grow for what Brandon thought would be a couple weeks in the house then be planted. Well the next day there were sprouts by Wednesday they were ready to be outside. Brandon cleared the side of our backyard and put up a wood border to keep the dirt in and the kids out :)

The we put about 10 bags of topsoil on and some peat moss in it. The sprouts had to be "hardened", which is basically putting them outside during the day and bringing them it at night for a week, then you can plant them.

During this week we found out that the soil was about 3.00 cheaper a bag at WalMart so Brandon thought he needed another 10 bags since it was such a good price :) So today, Sunday the 5th, the kids and Brandon spread the dirt and planted the sprouts in the garden area. We shall see how it grows :)