Giggle, giggle, bark, bark, giggle...

Josh was making Kora laugh with Isabella's doll.

All sorts of things make that baby laugh these days.

She really gets going after the dogs make a ruckus.

Chicken update

Our girls have a fondness for the top step.

Try to move them.

Not going to happen.

When I picked Rosetta (sitting) off the step to put her back in her coop, Linda (black) scurried into the house and made a ruckus when tried to get her out.

The other hen is Mary.

Everyone should have chickens.

They make wonderful pets.

Farm Day

We went to Backbone Farm for their open farm day.

We had a lot of fun and met some very lovely people.

There was delicious food too.

Yum,

Yum,

Yum!

From the source.

Max teaching the children how to thresh oats.

The children threshing oats the old fashioned way.

It's a real good way to get out your aggressions out.

End product.

My attempt to get a picture of Isabella's tomato person as she is running to watch the draft horse demonstration.

Veggie creature creations.

Amazing creativity from the kids there!

Isabella did the three in the center.

Draft horse demonstration.

Just us..

Isabella is at Grandma and Grandpa's house tonight.

Kora and I have 100% one on one time.

Aahhhhh.......

Kora giggles.

Kora is lifting her head quite high now.

This is the sweet face that greets me in the morning.

She's always happy when she first wakes up.

You can see from the video below.

Look at the little wrinkled nose and the dimple.

She smiles and coos all the time.

Kora at 3 months.

Here she is, already 3 months old.

She weighs 11.07 lbs. which puts her at the 20% of baby girls her age.

I'm used to dealing with excessive height, weight, size and what not.

Having a smaller addition to the family is unique for us.

She's very strong and loves to sleep on her belly. Always flips herself over onto her belly or side when she sleeps. She seems to really dislike heat. She gets particularly cranky during these hot humid summer days.

A girl and her grandpas

This is one happy girl. Enjoying a cup of cocoa and sitting in a Grandpa sandwich.

Sock Monkey has a homebirth.

Isabella ran in to the kitchen the other day to inform me that Sock Monkey was about to have a homebirth. When I went into her room this is the scene that greeted me.

She explained that because she could be a little clumsy, Snow White (the husky dog in the picture) would be the midwife and Isabella would just be there, "for support and stuff".

Soon Sock Monkey had her baby. Isabella caught it, held it gently in her cupped hands and brought it up to Sock Monkey's chest very gently. Isa was telling her what a good job she did and how cute her baby was. It was so touching to watch her genuine tenderness with this imaginary scenario.

This kid is off to a great start!

May's nature findings.

First I go out mowing and I could have sworn I heard a rustle under to the side of me like a chipmunk or snake but I saw nothing. Then I noticed it there is a little duckling peeping and waddling through though the grass. I see no Mama duck and after a while picked it up. I took it back into the woods behind our house in the hopes that Mama duck was waiting unseen to retrieve her little fellow. A few moments later I see the duckling waddling back towards me. It laid near my feet, preened its feathers and proceeded to wattle towards the road. As we have it now, I put the little fellow in a plastic tote with some grass. I really hope I see or hear a Mama duck soon. What the heck to I do with this duckling?

Then, I get my shovel to dig up a rose bush to replant elsewhere. As I uproot the rosebush a huge amphibian of sorts untangles itself from the roots of the plant and plops down into the hole. Woah! I'm real glad I didn't hurt it with the shovel. So what is it? It's absolutly beautiful but what neat-o species is it? Isabella and I ended up putting it into the woods where she/he dug back on into the earth.

Look at that sweet little face!

These are it's markings.

Welcome Peeps!

Just look at them! Look at these sweet little girls. One is named Linda. I think the other two should be named Florence and Darlene but we will have to see what Isabella thinks when she gets home from school. This is her project.

A photobooth story.

I was unaware that I had photobooth on our computer until I went searching for it after reading this woman's blog. Playing around with the images is so much fun!

Here's our story:

A witchdoctor shrunk Isa and Kora's heads (I should show them Beetlejuice as a cautionary tale!). Ahhhhhhh!

So we hopped in our trusty TARDIS to go back in time to undo the tragic mistake of angering the witchdoctor. Kora's not a fan of a time travel, yikes!

During our travels we ran across the cutest little alien I've ever seen :)

One month old.

One month old. Sleeping good, nursing good, snugly, sweet wonderful little baby. We enjoy her so much!

Gene Simmons training.

Miss Lizzie's Music Program

Forgive the shaking camera and less than stellar pixelation of these movies. I did them on a digital camera (instead of a video camera) and it's really hard to hold that little camera still enough so it doesn't look all shaky.

If you don't have time to watch the whole video just scroll over to 2:56 because you'll get to see Kora enjoying the performance. You can't really see Isabella in this one.

This is evidently a very common children's song in France. Is that true Morkin-Terada family?

I love how this becomes the Sacred Meadow mosh pit and how Isabella loses steam halfway through it and becomes a mid-mosh pit observer.

What big eyes you have...

This picture makes me wonder which creature is more amazed by the other.

These two have fun together.

Sweet Sisterhood

Isabella is a wonderful, loving sister. Cuddling Kora is the first thing she does in the morning and the last thing she wants to do at night.

Ready to pop!

Like Avatar, we went 3-D too.

Kora is 33 weeks now and we got another round of sonograms to make sure she is doing well (with all the stuff that kid's been through the last 2 months!!!). The tech tried to get us some pictures in 3-D but it was a bit of a challenge because sweet girl had her hands up to her face on the left and the placenta makes it look a bit fuzzy on the right.

We got a couple of relatively good ones so without further ado....Kora's face:

There were also a couple of regular ones:

Look at the teeny nose and mouth.

This one looks like she is smiling.

"Solar, Wind, Water, Compost..."