It's a really live dolly

This morning Audrey and I went to visit my friend Jackie and her son Carter who is 2 weeks old. Audrey was in love with Carter and wanted to hold him and pick him up the whole visit. At one point she was playing with some baby toys that we were passing on to Carter and had a bunch of rings in her hand and was trying to pick him up out of his bouncy seat and couldn't do it (mom wasn't letting her little did she know) and she was trying to figure out how to lift him when she dropped to toys and tried again, like maybe if she didn't have anything else in her hands it would work.

She was very sweet with him and loved to hold him and kiss him. We are so excited for the Koenig family! Congrats.

Crafty Momma

Well I would love to take all the credit but I found this pattern on line and have been making these little skirts for the girls that are too cute. I will have to take pictures of them wearing some of the matching ones I have made for them but here is one I made for Annie. We were at Walmart getting some ribbon and Annie asked if I could make her a skirt out of this Ariel fabric. It turned out really cute and I even made a little one for her doll that matches.

Oreo's first bath

Well today after school the kids and I went to the park and took Oreo with us. Oreo somehow (Annie & Charlie) managed to run into the creek bed and got all muddy so we had to give him a bath when we got home. He did great in the bath part- he is just so little and mangy looking when he is all wet. Afterwards he went crazy running around and rolling on the carpet. He didn't like the blow drying very much but when it was all said and done he was adorable!

5 Mile Club

Charlie's school has a program where kids can walk a measured lap at recess and once they get to five miles they get a little foot to put on their shoe lace. Well every day Charlie comes home and tells us how many laps he has done and today he made it to 5 Miles. Now he says he is going to try to join the 10 mile club!

Introducing the newest member of the Garrison Family!

Meet Oreo!

Yesterday we adopted Oreo from some friends of ours. The kids were so excited to be getting their own dog! We had dog sat Oreo a few weeks ago and he fit in to our family wonderfully. Annie adores him and carries him around like a baby. When he went to go home she sobbed and sobbed. Our friends have a little girl that was frightened of him and it wasn't getting any easier for her or for Oreo.

Oreo is almost 5 months old and is a Havanese. Right now he is about 5 or 6 pounds and is just the friendliest dog you could imagine. He loves to play with the kids and will curl up where ever they are. It is adorable when Audrey says his name, it comes out like Orrdio. She tries to pick him up and play with him. They have a love hate relationship though, as soon as she takes her binky out of her mouth and drops it or has it in her hand Oreo grabs it and runs off, then she is running after it yelling for her binky which he thinks is a big game. All in all it is really cute.

We are all excited to have Oreo here and are looking forward to having him as part of our family. Do I have to change our title from the Garrison five to the Garrison six for a dog?

Another Day Another Thing

Last night at bed time Charlie yawned then told John that his ear was hurting. We both told him it would be okay and that it would feel better after he got some sleep. Little did we know! I went on a walk around 9:00 and when I got home at 10:00 he was sitting on the couch sobbing holding his ear. He cried off and on all night and didn't sleep much. At one point in the middle of the night he asked if we could just go to the hospital - the earliest I could get him in to his Dr's was at 2:00 today. We thought he might have an ear infection so we gave him some Tylenol and some benadryl to help him sleep.

He finally stopped crying and fell in to a deep sleep around 5:00 and woke up around 9:30. He stayed home from school and while he looked tired and a little under the weather he was up playing and running around. Right before we went to the Dr's though I looked in his ear and it looked like there was ear wax everywhere. It was pretty gross!

Dr. Isakson took one look in Charlie's ear and said that both ears were infected pretty badly and that one of the ear drums had actually ruptured - hence why he was in such pain. He said once it finally ruptures that it relieves all the pressure and doesn't hurt that much anymore which is why he probably was able to fall asleep.

We got him on antibiotics and antibiotic ear drops and he seems fine. He has been playing all night and seems totally fine! We are so glad he is okay!!!!

Corn filled adventure!

After school today I took the kids with some neighbor friends to the corn maze at the local produce stand Davis Ranch. They have a huge set up for Halloween with pumpkins, hay rides and corn maze that just opened this week.

My kids had a blast! They loved the adventure of trying to find their way out and loved running around with all their friends.