Almost August already???

Yes it's cliche, but I am going to say it anyway, time sure flies. I have meant to sit down and write about my goings on for a while, and now I am finally here. Austin is getting bigger and bigger, at his four mouth appointment he weighed in at 14lbs 6oz and 25in long. The doctor said he was in the seventy-percentile height wise so he's pretty tall for a baby. It was also confirmed that his head is GIGANTIC being in the seventy-percentile while his weight is only in the fifty-percentile. I may have to start putting him in clothes the next size up before he's big enough just because his head barley fits through the holes they make in baby clothes, even with all the little clasps undone. But it's kinda funny, even though he has a big head he is still cute, and here's a picture to prove it.

Boy, he is going to be really embarrassed when he's a teenager to find out I posted a naked picture of him on the Internet!

Anyway enough about him I want to talk about me, it's my blog dang it! J/K! No, but I really just need to express to everyone how dang excited I am for Breaking Dawn!! I think I may wet my pants in anticipation. I just hope I can finish reading Wuthering Heights before Friday night. It's funny because reading Wuthering Heights has actually given me some insight into the Twilight Saga, I'm not saying that Stephenie Meyer has stolen anything from it but there are little things Heathcliff does that give me insights into both Edward and Jacob, even though Heathcliff is a totally diabolical jerk. I guess you'd have to read both books to really understand. So now that I've vented I won't say anything more about that, Whew! *wipes brow*

Going back to what I started to write about at the beginning of this blog is how time has flown. It seems as if everyday passes so quickly and I hardly get a moment to just sit down and write. back on July 19th I meant to write a blog about Austin's first hike but didn't get a chance, then on July 22 I was also going to sit down and write about Austin eating his first solid food and now here it is July 30th and I never did either of those things so here is brief recap using mostly pictures,

"Why the Heck am I in this thing, what's going on?"

"So this is Hiking huh? Great..."

"Yay, we're going home!!"

Needless to say, hiking didn't go as well as I hoped, the path I choose was way to steep; with him on my back, and I really could have used some help, so hopefully next time will be better :) Now for our eating adventure!

"What's this thing being put in my mouth?"

"Ummm, carrot face..."

"Why are you still taking pictures of me?"

Feeding him the first time was really fun! He looked so cute with food all over his face and hands! He really likes to eat now and does really well. Anyway, that the updates I have for now, see-ya later!

Book review: The penny tree

My rating: 3 stars

The Penny tree, written by Holly Kennedy, is a story of an "almost" divorced mother of two who gets her world turned upside down when an ad runs on front page of a local newspaper asking "have you seen this woman?"

I had a hard time getting into this book because the heroine seemed like such a victim, her husband had left her, her son had gotten sick, she had been fired etc. Which are all understandable reasons to be upset, but it seemed like all this woman did was mope around and complain. In fact complaining to her patients is what got her fired from her physical therapy job in the first place! But the author does redeem herself by showing how a person can be in control of the circumstances around her and make good come out of something bad.

For example, when she feels like her two sons (Luke - 13 and Eric -11) are alienating themselves from her she starts to really focus on the things that she thinks will make them better rather then just wallowing in self pity. In the end the book becomes inspirational, and yes she chooses the right man to spend the rest of her life with. So even though it was not my favorite novel, I enjoyed the main moral of the story.

What's new

Our House

If you read the first post then I will start by explaining that Cordell couldn't keep the secret and showed me this blog over a month before our five year anniversary, which is on August 16th. So now, yes I am taking over the reigns and beginning a blog - yippee!

Anyway, I like to write so I am glad Cordell thought of starting this for us, and hope people will read it, because past experience has lead me to believe that no one really will; but I will sit here and write anyway, simply for the therapeutic joy of it. :)

As most of you who are reading this know either me or my husband you most likely know the most the major things that have been happening in our life lately. These things include us having a baby boy (Austin Jay) who will be four months old on Saturday, Cordell working full time and graduating in week (huzzah!!), and me taking on full time motherhood ("you pooped again!?!") but what you might not know is more about our day to day life, so below I have written a little story outlining a typical day in my life. Which I am certain you will find captivating, and you may even beg Hollywood to have it translated to the big screen, j/k!

It's four-twenty-nine am in the Bennett household and all is quite. Sitting next to Cordell is an innocent looking clock that, when changes to four-thirty, becomes the perpetrator in a major crime - waking Cordell and Jennie up. The first one to hear the offense will be Jennie who after about three minutes of listening to the radio will finally roll over and tell Cordell his alarm is going off. Cordell will then stretch and turn off the alarm, which will destroy all evidence that the alarm has committed any crime. Jennie will roll over and go back to sleep while Cordell will work on homework then get ready to go to work.

By six-o-clock Cordell is out the Door and Austin has woken up. Jennie falls out bed and crawls into Austin's room where he is trying to convince Jennie that he has never eaten before in his life and needs breakfast right away. So Jennie takes him and feeds him and changes his diaper and puts him back to bed. On good mornings Jennie will take the next two hours in which Austin is sleeping and exercise and shower, but most days Jennie just goes back to sleep.

So now I know what you are thinking, man Jennie you have the easy life! But I really don't. By the time Austin is awake for the day chaos begins.

Since Jennie skipped exercise before she compensates by cleaning her house like a madman, which is no easy task when you have a three month old who not only needs to eat every two hours but is also teething. Teething means there is a constant mess caused by constant drool, so the cleaning is never quite complete. Not to mention that somehow when you have one little baby, who has little clothes, and little blankets, you have massive loads of laundry. (I'm still trying to add that one up.)

Jennie wants to be good mother so she tries to spend some time each day reading books to Austin and can most of the time barely get through three pages of Cat in the Hat before Austin becomes uninterested and tries to squirm away. In another attempt Jennie spends time trying to play with Austin, which is normally received with this look -



No I'm kidding, Austin is normally a smiler :D

Throughout the week Jennie then also goes grocery shopping, does quite a lot of cooking, changes several diapers, and takes Austin to the park or up the canyon; and he really loves to be outdoors.

By the time Cordell gets home around six Austin can't wait to play with him and by Eight Austin is asleep. This is when Jennie takes a huge sigh of relief and talks Cordell's ear off because Jennie can actually have a real conversation instead of the following:

Jennie: who has a cute belly?

Austin: Mauh, thhhhhhh *Spit flies everywhere*

But seriously, I do have a really good life and I do really love spending time with Austin and Cordell. So now you all know how life is going for us, and it's pretty dang good.

*Note to Steve and Shea: Ok, I do have the easy life compared to the the two monkey's you have running around.