Cookie cake

Well I decided that I would bake a cake for my brother’s birthday party last Saturday. He told me that he wanted a chocolate chip cookie cake. I told him that was fine even though I had no clue how to make one. I looked up a recipe on the trusty internet and found a recipe on Food Network.

I mixed up all of the ingredients and then proceeded to put them on my round baking stone. I left 2 to 3 inches around the dough for any spreading that might occur…oh and did it spread. Next thing I know, my oven is smoking and there are cookie pieces falling off of the sides. We have an electric oven so of course when the cookie fell on the burner, it caught on fire. We got that minor problem fixed; when like 3 more chunks caught on fire. Haha, well the cookie still had like seven minutes before it would be done, so I pulled it out so that we could remove the charcoaled cookie pieces from the bottom of the oven. Meanwhile, the smoke set off all three of our fire alarms which set off our two sweet babies!

After opening all of our windows, calming the babies down, and scooping out burnt cookie, we put the cookie back in for the remaining seven minutes. The cookie turned out really well despite our little adventure. 🙂 Unfortunately I didn’t get a picture of the finished product, but I did get a picture of the plate that was full of burnt cookie pieces.

Just for fun…

Collage

My little firecrackers :)

They’re getting so big. Samuel pulls up on just about everything. Kaylee is scooting all over the place and if she sees something she really wants, then she’ll actually crawl.

It makes me sad that planning a birthday party for them is actually in the near future. 😦

8 months and we are so big!

Well since my last post, Samuel learned how to crawl, pull up, and climb out of his Excersaucer! His first tooth has even broken through the skin. As for Kaylee, she is trying to crawl, and she has two little pearly whites!

First swim!

The babies went swimming for the first time yesterday! They loved it! My parents found this little boat that they can float around in, it’s really cute!

Oh man…

I do believe this little boy has me wrapped around his tiny finger! Look at his face and those twinkling eyes!

Just a few pictures…

Green Beans

Let it be known that Kaylee Harbison does NOT like green beans. Haha, not only did she make funny faces when we gave her a bite, but she actually gagged!

I tried feeding her more today and she wouldn’t open her mouth at first, but if I put rice cereal on the spoon with it she would eat it. Babies are weird. 🙂

Samuel doesn’t mind it. Besides, he’s a male, he’ll eat anything. 🙂 Today he ate all of his green beans. No faces.

Peas are next on the list, maybe Kaylee will like them more than green beans.

We survived…

-6 months of sleepless nights
-Samuel and Kaylee getting a cold at only 3 months old.
-all of the family (except me, praise be to God!) getting the flu a month after they got over the cold.
-being spit up on and peed on more times than I even want to know.
-lots of other things that I can’t think of right now.

I love these babies more than I could have ever imagined I could, there are not even words. I do have to say that being a mom is probably one of if not the most hardest and trying things I’ve ever done. Samuel and Kaylee are huge blessings and I feel so grateful that I get to be their mother. Everyone says having a baby will change your life, but there is absolutely no way you can grasp just how much until you’re there. Though the wonderful joyful times far outweigh the rough times it is hard, it’s the hardest thing I’ve ever done but at the same time I love it!

It’s so awesome to watch them grow, they smile and laugh at us now and make all kinds of cute little noises. They change daily, it’s just amazing to me. Samuel just randomly decided last week that he knew how to sit up, so he can now sit up unsupported. Haha. Kaylee is going to have two little pearly whites in a few days. We went to see my sister’s new baby a couple of weeks ago, and it just blew me away that my babies were ever that small. In fact, they were smaller than Marshall. They only stay so tiny and cuddly for a couple of weeks, then they learn how to do all of these things for themselves. It’s so easy to wish that they can sit up, crawl, walk, so that they become more independent…but as soon as they do you wish they were little again. I’ve learned to cherish every little waking moment with them. I feel like I’ve only blinked since they were born.

They had their 6 month check up yesterday. Samuel is now 16 lbs. 10 oz. and 26 inches long. Kaylee was 14 lbs. 15 oz. and 24 3/4 inches long. It’s crazy to think that they were just over 6 pounds when they were born and 18 1/2 inches long. Both of them roll all over the place and are slowly figuring out how to scoot. I’m going to be in big trouble here in a couple of weeks. They are going to be into everything! It’s funny when they learn a new sound because then it seems like that’s the only sound they make for a while. Kaylee is currently babbling “ba ba ba ba ba ba” and then the famous “pig squeal”. 🙂

Well there have been times during these 6 months when I have had to think back to when my last shower was, or if I remembered to put deodorant on that morning, but for the most part I am a survivor – maybe a smelly survivor, but a survivor none the less!!!

Five months and counting…

They get big so fast! We were looking at pictures last night of the first couple days and they were so tiny!