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Poor Bailey , the other day at my Mom's his cousin Ayan hit him in the face with a stick. I was fuming, Ayan is a real brat. But I calmed myself and since no one had actually seen what happened, I have to assume it was just an accident. However it is quite scary to think how close it came to his actual eye. He had a huge egg on his brow bone for a day, And now the poor kid is probably going to have a scar on his eyelid for the rest of his life. Jaden has one from where he hit the coffee table when he was about the same age. Anyway, my sister in law has been coming over to watch the kids at my house while I am at work, and while in one way it's a real blessing, in other ways it really stinks. Her boys (three of them) are really rough on stuff and I found that Bailey's beloved bike is now missing a peddle. I hope I can fix it for him, he really loves that thing.

Well, I am off to work today so I am going to try and catch up with blogs a little later.

Have a great fourth everyone from the USA that is! ;) And everyone else have a great weekend and Happy belated Canada day! ;)

seven months

Oh no! Why does time pass so fast?

My little baby is already more than half way to a year!

She is the spoiled one of the bunch. Anytime she makes a peep, either me, Baba, Jaden or Jasmine is there to pick her up. I know we should let her cry sometimes, but no one does. I don't know how on earth I am going to sleep train her!

So far this month she has really improved her sitting ability. She loves to sit up and hates laying on her back.

She is getting better about being on her tummy, but still doesn't like it much.

She started solids last month and her all time favorite food is green beans, she doesn't care much for fruit yet, though.

So far she is making a lot of "Da da" sounds, but no "Ma ma" sounds yet...:(

She started moving to music recently, which is pretty normal for our family who loves to dance.

Her hair is coming in a light brown so far and her eyes are almost brown with a speck of blue in her right eye.

When she is tired she rubs her face and whines. Her favorite way to go to sleep is either by being rocked or nursed...very very bad I know, but let me enjoy it while I can! ;)

Gummy bear

and now for your entertainment....

The wind has gone out of my sails

That statement is just exactly how I feel. I feel so defeated. It turns out that even with a cosigner we will not be able to get a loan, because they only count household income, not the co signer's income. I had a good cry yesterday about it, then panicked a little thinking I will never be able to own a house, and then I just started praying about it, I know there is a plan, I know somehow we will get our own place. I just feel that it will happen, but I suppose I just need to be patient and save more money. It just really thought this was it.
When I talked to the loan officer he said if we had a substantial down payment they might be able to work something out with us. So I am just going to continue saving and hopefully get us up there with the down payment. Good bye GYMBOREE, sorry, but I can no longer buy from you, my kids are going to be wearing yard sale clothes from now on until I can save money for our house! lol
Now on the working front. Naomi has been giving her grandmother's a hard time. Crying and not eating while they watch her. However she does like my SIL, unfortunately my SIL is usually buzzed (she enjoys drinking almost everyday, not to the point of being totally drunk, but you can usually smell it onher breath)) and honestly I love the girl, but whenever she watches my kids, Bailey comes up with some very strange behavior (she has three rambunctious boys who have less than good behaviour) yesterday Bailey wanted to pee in his toys like inside on of his tractor trailer toys..lol (don't worry I wouldn't let him, and thank goodness he asked first).....(something her four year old has been known to do) and he also hit Naomi with a toy (the four year old again)
My SIL fed Naomi Cheetos's...I know that isn't the end of the world, but I am trying to develop Naomi's pallet to have a taste for healthy organic food, I started her on veggies like I did Bailey and her favorite foods are green, and then my SIL thinks it's cute that she loves Cheetos's... not something I wanted to start at this young age. The good thing though like I said is that Naomi loves her, she never cries and my SIL doesn't mind carrying her around which is what Naomi likes. Also she is willing to drive to my house and watch them, and I don't have to drive anywhere.
So as you can see there is no perfect solution. Thankfully though I only work for a few hours at a time.

Wow! And stats

Wow, I can't believe Michael Jackson died. I have to say that although I haven't listened to him latley, I was a real fan in the 90s and I feel reallty bad for his children
RIP
Now for the kids stats

Naomi 6 1/2 months
height 26 1/2 inches 75th%!!! wow, I am pretty sure I have never had any of my kids in the 75th for anything...especially height! maybe she will be tall like me! Yay!
weight 15lb 11 1/2 oz 50th%

Bailey 2
height 33 inches
weight 25lb
10th for heght...lol
25th for weight

Kai-Li 4
height 39 1/4 inches
weight 36.5 lb
50th for both

Jasmine 7 1/2
height 49 inches
weight 55lbs
50th for both

Jaden 9
height 51 inches
weight 58 lbs
I am not sure what percentile Jaden was in, he usually falls really low.