For Comparison's Sake - Gloria

11 months

9 months

Here is Gloria as a baby.

Gloria definitely got short-changed when it comes to pictures of her as a baby. I've been having fun looking at old pictures of the kids when they were Benaiah's age. We have SO MANY more pictures of JB than we do of Gloria. Even when Gloria was a baby, all of the single-person photos are of JB....I guess he was doing more interesting things, being two years. The only way I could get a single shot of Gloria was by cropping everyone else out. Poor Gloria...a pwincess stuck between two highly cute brothers. She's getting to be beautiful young girl with loads of personality. She has a beautiful smile and big dimples on her cheeks.

Gloria and JB are about the same height and very close in weight even though JB is 20 months older. Somehow my children just keep getting bigger and bigger...give it another year and people will be asking if I have triplets! We thought Gloria was big...Benaiah is 10 months now and only fits into 24 month clothing!!! I don't think it has to do with how much they are eating because Benaiah has nursed the most and gotten the least solid food at this age out of the three of them.

Brothers

This is JB's attempt to keep Benaiah, who is all over the place now, in his lap.

Benaiah has made it his goal in life to go head first down the carpeted stairs leading to the basement. We have a gate up now every time he is crawling around. I recently found him 2-3 steps up the wooden stairs going to the second floor. The problem...the only way he knows to get down at this point is by falling. I think I will have to gate off the hallway area with the wooden stairs until he has more practice going up (and down, without falling) on the carpeted stairs...although still shocking and painful, a much softer landing than wood.

We didn't do the gate thing with JB and Gloria because they discovered the falling down the stairs thing accidentally on their own. After that, they stayed away from the stairs. However, in Virginia we did not have wooden stairs. Thankfully, the carpeted stairs they tumbled down in VA were not full staircases, but turned around corners so they were broken up, like our current house. Full, wooden staircases are the scariest, especially when their at the top with an adventurous look on their face.
Here is JB in his "stair phase", but here he was already a year old and an "expert" at stair climbing and descending.

Good company

Benaiah is interested in his friend's hair. She seems to be taking it very well....

Lined up on a winter's day to read a book. I just had to take a picture of this line-up with our friends who come to play almost weekly.

The hard way

Benaiah is trying to escape the hard way...there's a door going to the outside just beyond him. He did manage to drop my watch out the window.

We Match!

Gloria noticed very quickly that her dress matched these Colorado trout fish.

Denver Aquarium! In the fish tank.

Aunt Cami, Gloria and JB in the fish tank.

JB in the fish tank.

Tamsey, Gloria, and JB in the fish tank.

Bath boy

Duncan and Michele (Max's parents) recently got new counter tops and a big, deep sink, which serves very well as a Benaiah tub for bath time.

Santa Baby

This was just too cute not to post. Max's mom bought a bunch of Santa hats on clearance and this one was just the right size for Benaiah.

Mother Gloria

Gloria often pretends to nurse her baby dolls because that's part of taking care of a baby...as she sees her mom do with Benaiah.

Is there a baby in this picture?

Yep, he's gettin' places. No, I didn't put him under there!

Piling on the sled

This was about a week ago when we just HAD to get outside despite the cold.

All American...Pwincess

Here's Gloria "using" two of her Christmas presents...one, the "dancing dress" from Gramma Shell (she wears it pretty much everyday with different clothing underneath) and the other a magnetic map of the United States from Gramma Lois. It's a good way for them to learn the states, especially since they ask me what the state is whenever they find where it goes on the map.

Benaiah and Brocolli

Benaiah has been different from JB and Gloria in his eating habits. He loves nursing and at first introduction of solid food, he hated it! I realized more and more that he didn't necessarily hate solid food, but he didn't like me feeding him mush on a spoon and he's not real excited about mushy textures. He a hand's-on kind of eater; he loves being able to hold something solid in his hands and munch on it. He's very good at picking up cheerios (his first love...after nursing, of course) and little pieces of meat (his second love). He also likes sitting at the table with the rest of his family during dinner time.

Oh Brother!

This is JB at an early 10 months old, about 4 years ago.

For some reason, this picture (although Benaiah's hair is not sticking straight up) reminded me of the above picture of JB. Maybe it's because they are both showing their top teeth while making a goofy, cute face.

Selling Things

I currently am working on another blog (refer to "Things I Make and Sell" on the links at the side) that Max initially set up for me and is helping me with to sell the things I make. So far I only have sold nursing wraps (otherwise known as "Hooter Hiders") and tag blankets on ebay. I can also make grocery bag holders if anyone needs those:). I've found that grocery bag holders (fabric ones that hang on door knobs and have elastic at either end) are difficult to find in stores and if they are available, are kinda ugly.

I will use this new blog to eventually sell nursing wraps and tag blankets, but will probably still sell on ebay as well since that has a much much wider audience (the world) compared to my little "Tamsey's World". It will also be very useful if someone I know wants me to make them a hooter hider or tag blanket, they can just go to the link off of my blog (or go straight to http://www.tamseystreasures.blogspot.com/) and pick any of the fabrics I have available and shown on my "Tamsey's Treasures" blog. It also gives me a record of what I have made in the past, some gifts, some sold, and some not sold.

I don't have all of my fabric swatches (the close up pictures of my fabric) up on the blog yet, but I'm working on it. Some of my fabric up there is not my taste, but I have found is trendy and will sell on ebay.

This process has been very fun (especially making them!) and educational (selling on ebay, dealing with buyers, and making this new blog/sell site). I hope you enjoy it too!