LULU is 9 Months

Louise is such a cutie. I just love this baby stage. Not as much as the immobile stage. She is a really fast crawler. She loves to swipe things that are in her way and throw them behind her. She doesn't love to cuddle. She is a great eater. She loves carrots and avocados and corn. She hates being left out of the action. She loves it when Ruby crawls with her. She loves to growl. She is 23lbs and in the 85% for height and 95% for height.

Ruby likes to show off to Lulu, when she can do a new trick or looks pretty. She doesn't like lulu touching her or anything that belongs to her. Ruby calls lulu a "Skermer Wormer" or a squirmy worm.

Halloween Costume Times

See if you can guess what we all are-

1. LULU
2. BEN
3. Katie
4. Ruby

Group Shot

You know your an idiot when...

So while at Arco, waiting for my gas to be pumped. I was wondering about this $0.45 charge for using my debit card, and how it effects the per gallon charge. So after the pumped stopped I did the math. I busted out my calculator and discovered that the per gallon charge is actually $0.03 more. Surprised at my discovery I drove on, only to discover I was dragging the pump hose behind me and the gas station old guy was chasing after me!

I gave him my cell number and my drivers license number. The owner called me later on and told me a professional has to be called out to fix the hose. My thoughts, "A professional?! It is a snap on hose, can't you just snap it back on?" My Words, "Oh I understand, so you need $100 for his charge? K, I'll drop it off later."

The bummer is my $50 fill up, ended up costing me $150.

The best part is that now I have the Brea Arco owner's cell phone number.

"There is something in my leg."

This is a Rubyism:

After Ruby goes to bed for the night she likes to delay the inevitable: "i'm sick" "I need some water" "Mom can you get me some books" etc. Tonight was the best yet. She called me into her room to help her. She asked me to help her get something out of her leg. I couldn't find what she was talking about. She said there was an egg in her leg. So I finally found what she was talking about. It was her ankle bone. She just discovered her ankle bone. I showed her mine and told her it was her bone and I have one too. She was okay with this explanation and went right to sleep.

These pictures are Ruby's hiding spot when we play hide and go seek. she also has a really good one where she puts her face in the shower curtain.

Mike Moore- A Tribute

This is my Uncle Mike Moore- He is more like a brother to me, ever since I can remember he has lived with and been a part of the family. He has some really amazing things happen to him.

He loves CS Lewis (loves to read)

I do not know why crazy things happen to him ALL THE TIME. It is like bad karma just follows him around, sprinkling misfortune upon him. Just in the last year he has accidentally texted a cute girl in church about herself, spent the night in jail for an outstanding parking ticket warrant, and just recently...

Mike and Ruby have a special connection ever since he gave her a build a bear that he built with him bare hands and even kissed the heart that is stuffed inside of the "Fluffy Ruby Bear" (Name on the Bears Birth Certificate)

Mike was on a first date. Mike lives in Bakersfield and took the girl to Disneyland. Impressive. So while at disneyland they went on the roller coaster ride that does an upside down loop through Mickey's Head. While upside down Mike's keys come out of his pocket. Not Impressive. So they talk to the costumed employees about their situation. They try to enjoy the rest of their day knowing that they are just putting off the inevitable car issues that await them in the Daisy Parking Lot. Mike calls my Dad, who loves a good laugh so cruises over to disneyland to help out. They call a lock smith, who can only do so much because the new key needs to be coded by Honda. Girl in the mean time is texting away. My dad finds out from her what she is texting: "Mom if I never make it home from this date you can have my scrap-booking supplies, and sister can have my clothes."

The Honda place was not open until the morning so they decide to sleep over at my parents house. Girl sleeps in Cody's Room and Mike sleeps in the guest room. She was beyond tired and fell right to sleep. The only thing about sleeping in Cody's room is that the walls have an under the sea mural on every wall and on the ceiling is a silhouette of a hammer head shark. Kinda spooky. REALLY SCARY if you have a big fear of the ocean like this girl does. She woke up in a panic.

They ended up getting the key coded and heading back to bakersfield just in time to miss church. She had a really good attitude about the whole thing. And Mike (so cleaver) sent her 34 Daisy Flowers for their 34 hour date while the car was stuck in the daisy parking lot.

Disneyland-(a different trip) I love how he is shielding Ruby's face from the sun. What a nice uncle.

They still have a connection

Thugs

if I'm not going forward- I'm going backwards

I have been thinking lately (weird), about life and bad things happening to good people and about my faith. As a youth I had unshakable Faith. I used to bear my testimony and say that I look forward to trials and tribulations in my life to help me to grow and become even stronger. I just knew whatever was thrown in my path I could get through it. What has happened? I now pray that everything will go smoothly and that nothing will go wrong, I get upset when something bad happens to good people and question - WHY? Why is this happening?

This has been an interesting week. Everyday this week (6 of the 7 days) I have babysat kids,either for the whole day or part of the day with one sister in law who just had a baby and another sister in law needing some extra help, a best friend whose grandfather in Utah passed away and left the kids with husband who works, and having it be my co-op day (babysitting swaps) -I have been, as Ben calls me, Mother Hubbard.

I had a crap day on Tuesday, seemed like everything was going wrong, I was the target of an offensive judgmental comment from a silly old Gossip in another ward (she was talking to someone else and saw me and said, "I remember when you were in the singles ward and decided to go on a mission to force his hand" Wow what an awful thing to say to someone who doesn't even know me... Yah I am not going to go there, even though I really want to, that is not what this post is about, Later that day I was thrown up on by Lulu (projectile vomit) just as I was leaving and in a hurry to pick up my nephew from pre-school. I had to change myself and Lulu for the third time today thanks to an earlier event that was also very messy. Last event of the day -Ruby locked me out of her room and when I tried to take the door knob off neither one of us could open the door. I just about Had it. Ben came home and I took off, just needed to get out of there. Just as I was leaving my SIL Heather texts to see what I am up to and offers to do my hair. What a great way to end such a crap day.

All I am saying is I want to be that Faithful Katie I once was where a crap day, or family tragedy, or worry will not get me down or bring down my spirits.

PS things that make me happy: Lulu's gap front teeth, Ruby asking me if I love her, Ben winning me a wet suit from dress up day at work, and ease dropping (can't help myself)

Pumpkin Spice

I love Halloween! I love the candy, the decorations, the anticipation, and the smells. Several Years ago I bought this Pumpkin Spice Oil Scent. It made my house smell so festive. This year I pulled out the oil and set it over a candle. Half an hour after lighting the candle Ben complained of a head ache due to the pumpkin spice scent. This confused me because just recently I read that Lavender and Pumpkin Spice are mens most favorite scents. So I blow out the candle and try to air out the house.

Monday I was in a hurry to leave and accidentally knocked over the pumpkin spice oil and It pour all over my feet and pants and other items around that area. I jumped in my car and knew I made a mistake to not change my pants/shoes instantly, but I thought by rolling down the windows it would dilute the smell. After I got home a couple hours later I took those fragrant pants off and wondered if washing out the inside of my nostrils would help get the smell out of my nose.

Tuesday- again in a hurry with not much time to pick out an outfit, grab the pants from yesterday. Leave in a hurry to my Parenting Class (more on that later) then on to Target for an amazing deal on tupperware (which they were out of and had to get a rain check). Again the Smell haunted me all day long. Why didn't I change my pants when I got home? Beats me! Then again left the house to go to the Brea Target Grand Opening - Which was awesome!!! They were giving away all sorts of goodies and they had plenty of tupper-ware for me to buy.

After Target we went to the Library to return our books, Ruby loves to put the books in the book return slot on the outside of the building, then we went inside to pick out a couple books. When we checked out the librarian dude asked if we had just returned books because we smelled just like the books he just checked in... like pumpkin spice!