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Corey is a sweetheart

tmcknit — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:57:17 +0000

Here is a rose Corey picked for me from their back yard. He wrapped it in wet paper towel and foil and gave it to me to take home – this was on Danielle’s first day back to work and I watched Zach while she was at work……….very special when my son gives me flowers.

That was nine days ago – it’s still beautiful today – I just took this pic…………..

A beautiful morning walk

tmcknit — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:41:17 +0000

It’s hotter than heck and I like to take a walk 5-6 days per week. Keith suggested the obvious when I was complaining about how hot it was when I take my walks………….walk earlier in the morning. I used to do that but now I enjoy laying in bed longer. Today may have reverted me back to my old ways. I LOVED my early morning walk. The weather was still hot and humid but much cooler than walking at 9 a.m. or noon or whenever the mood would strike me. I had shade from the big arborvitaes on one side of my track (our walking track is .19 miles per lap). The big payoff was the beautiful dew hanging off the fence wires, arborvitaes, grass, spider webs – just a beautiful morning.

Here’s our a pic of our house and shed from the back of the track………

…………here’s the beauty looking back toward the woods………….

…………and a gorgeous spiderweb (why do spiders freak me out but the webs are gorgeous???)………..

Plums anyone??????

tmcknit — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:22:31 +0000

Look at these gorgeous plums……..they are from my plum tree. Last year I got maybe six plums. This year I got many more and there are still more ripening on the tree. I am excited for the larger crop in years to come.

Uncle Keith on diaper duty :-)

tmcknit — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:10:48 +0000

I’m not sure if Keith has ever changed a diaper, but 4th of July weekend was as good a time as any to give it a shot. We set him up though……..we didn’t tell him it was a #2 diaper……….here he is innocently changing a diaper…….

………here he is starting to figure it out………

……………and here’s the money shot…………….he figured it out and Corey and Danielle were hiding and watching too – Keith grabbed me and threw me into Zach so he wouldn’t have to change him……….Keith………..you crack me up…………

No…….

tmcknit — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:54:36 +0000

No……………..I can’t be any cuter………….

Uncle Keith took a bunch of pictures of me with his new camera…………

It looks like Uncle Keith thinks I’m pretty special…………

McAmish

tmcknit — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:39:55 +0000

There are no pictures in this post. That’s out of the norm for me. However, Mark and I decided this weekend that we are McAmish (McDermott and Amish). We helped Don and Amy work on their new house on Saturday (so did Corey, Danielle and Zach). We think that’s how life should be – just like the Amish – people helping people with no thought of getting anything in return. Sure, the Amish get paid for whatever they do by way of jobs – some work in factories, or handcraft furniture, or sell their produce……….but…………..as a community, they help each other.

Why can’t everybody just help everybody and not expect something in return, like when the Amish help each other with a barn raising, for instance. Wouldn’t this world rock more than it already does?

Just thinking…………

Hungry???

tmcknit — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:31:56 +0000

I’m not into gardening. I did it for fifteen or twenty years when the kids were growing up and I’m over it. However, fresh produce is always nice and even though I can walk next door and Dad will let me have whatever, I still have a few things here. This is my plum tree – there are a lot on the ground because of the wicked storms we’ve had but still many left on the tree…………

………….and here’s a sweet sweet plum starting to ripen…………..

Here are some bucket tomatoes………….

…………………these are cherry tomatoes…………

I also have three pepper plants and two more tomatoes. Dad snuck over one day and planted the other two tomato plants under my trellis. Pictures of those another day – they didn’t turn out good on my iPhone camera.

Happy Zach-iversary!

tmcknit — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 14:00:08 +0000

Zach spent his first night at our house on our 27th anniversary. He doesn’t look happy in this pic but that was just one moment in time. Check out his sleeper. That’s the sleeper Corey wore home from the hospital when he was born almost twenty-five years ago. Danielle sent two sleepers and I asked Mark which one we should put on him after his bath and Mark said “Corey’s”, so Corey’s sleeper it was.

We had a great night other than he likes to be held instead of sleeping in his bed. That’s fine – I told Danielle we need to stop saying he’s spoiled (even though he totally is) and from now on we say he’s just very loved. Nothing wrong with that.

He had mirror time in the bathroom with Grandpa Mark………..

He had a bath in the big boy bathtub…………

He had cuddle time with Grandma Teri…………

Great Grandma Carol came over in the morning to visit and brought him a teddy bear as big as he is………….

Great Grandma Carol had the teddy bear watch over Zach as he slept – sweetness………..

Some of my favorite people

tmcknit — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 03:32:23 +0000

Here are pics of just a few of my favorite people in the world, showing Zach some baby love………

Uncle Keith……….

Julie………….

Uncle Justin……………………

Great Grandma Carol………….

Cousin Amy…………..

Great Grandpa Albert………..

Cradle

tmcknit — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 03:16:56 +0000

Twenty-six years ago, my grandfather built my first-born, Keith, a cradle. It was the most beautiful piece of woodwork I had ever seen. I loved watching my baby sleep in that cradle. I kept it in the living room window so during the day, I could watch him sleep…………

I did the same for my second-born, Corey……………

Now it is Zach’s turn. Danielle and I cleaned up the cradle and made all new bedclothes and bumper pads for it. We spent a day sewing those things and making burp cloths and receiving blankets. That little outfit in the cradle says “I make mud look good”. Here is the updated cradle the day we made the new bedding……..

As a point of reference, and just as a sweet look back, here is Keith and Mark when Keith was born, weighing 8 lbs. 13 oz………………

That was a big baby, I thought, until I had Corey, who weighed 10 lbs. 9 oz. Zach weighed 5 lbs. 11 oz. when he was born (almost half of Corey’s birth weight) and as of his doctor visit today, he weighs exactly ten pounds today. He measured in at 21 inches today. Keith and Corey were both 21 inches when they were born. Keith was ten days early. Corey was six weeks late. Zach was six weeks early. Zach will be nine weeks old tomorrow and still doesn’t weigh what Corey weighed when he was born. Here’ a pic of Corey and me when Corey was born……..

The pain told me he was big when I had him (natural child birth – ouch), but dang he looks bigger than it seemed at the time.