Bradley is 4 and Alex is 7 months!!!

Today Bradley is 4!!  I cannot believe he is 4 already.   His coming into this world long and exhausting.  I was in active labor for 3 1/2 days.  I did a good majority of it at home and the drugs didn't work like they were supposed and I felt it all.  Bradley has always been so good.  He was a very happy baby and is still very happy.  He loves school and playing.  Some of his favorite things right now are anything to do with super heros, sports or poop. 

Alex is 7 months old today.  She is getting so big.  She is almost crying and scoots everywhere and is really fast.  She is intrigued by Bradley and he is so good to her. 

We had pictures of the kids done in Bakersfield.  If you are ever in California and want great family pictures call Kandid Kamera.  Bobby does an amazing job and can get good pictures out of little kids.

We have been in Bakersfield for a while now and are having a really good time.  We have gotten to have some good play dates and Bradley is wrestling with a high school out here.  Several of the local high schools do youth programs.  It is free to practice and you just pay for your wrestling card, singlet and entry fees to tournaments.  It is probalby one of the cutest things I have ever seen.  The coaches at the high school my Aunt works at are awesome with the kids.  I wish we lived closer because I would totally make the drive every week for him to participate.  My cousin's take their kids and it just started so they invited Bradley to come.  One of my cousins was a state champ in wrestling so I grew up going to tournaments and meets.  I am definitly finding Bradley a wrestling club in Texas.  He really likes it and he seems to be having a lot of fun.

Quilt Along

I am joinging a Quilt Along.  One thing I want to do before I die is learn to quilt and actually complete a quilt.  So, today I decided to join a quilt along.  You make one block for about 12 weeks.   Not sure what you do after that and I am already a week behind since I decided today and last week you were supposed to get the fabric.  So here is to my first quilt.  Now I only need to find fabric!

Some things to remember

Here are few things that I don't want to forget.

Bradley is trying to teach Alex how to TALK.  I am sure he will regret this someday but it is super cute.  He likes to try to teach her when we are in the car and he says to her "say mama, say dada, say mama and dada, say poop."  Yep I am sure one of her first words will be poop.  Bradley is into poop these days and just thinks anything that has to do with poop or tooting is hilarious. 

Bradley is getting really good at the XBOX 360.  I can barely turn the thing on and he can get past level 2 on a super hero game.  He is really smart and going to give us a run for our money in school.  He does really good now in classroom situation and loves to learn.

Alex is almost crawling and she will get anything she wants by either rolling or scooting there.  She will be one tough little lady because Bradley loves to play wrestle with her and she loves it.  She loves to pull his hair and poke at his eyes.

She isn't sleeping well at night but that is to be expected, Bradley didn't sleep through the night till about 14 months old.  Alex really is a happy baby.  Her personality is a lot like Bradley's.  She is really easy going and usually in a good mood.

A redone chair and SNOW

We had a ton of snow on Thursday and Bradley loved playing in it.  Here are some pictures.

I redid an awesome red chair that Bryan's grandparents gave us.  We had it in Bradley's room and I used it all the time, but red doesn't match Alex's room.  So I made a slip cover for it to match Alex's room and can still use the red in the future.  For some reason I can't get the pictures to turn the right way.

This is the embellishment I put on the foot rest.  The flower has a rhinestone in the center.

Update on the other night

I was outside taking pictures of the Lexus because we are selling it, anyone want a car, and a car pulled with a mom and girl in it.  I immediatly recognized them from the other night and the mom was at the next door neighboors asking about her daughters friends cell phone.  I am not sure why all these people are worried about getting this little girl her cell phone back, if it was my child the cell phone could stay lost and the service would be disconnected.  But anyway, she came over and asked me if I was the one with the baby, I said yes and she apologized for her daughters actions and started asking me some questions.   I answered honestly and told her what I saw.  She said that she had taken her daughter to the hospital that night and they did the rape kit and blood/drug screening.  She said that the girls told them that they meet the boys to talk and the boys told the cops that they were there to have sex.  She then thanked me for the calling the cops because she felt that if things had kept going like they were her daughter would have been raped.  She seemed pretty upset by the whole situation, and her daughter ducked down in the car the whole time.  While we were talking I asked where they live and she said just the neighboorhood behind mine.  So we figured out a timeline and the girls had only been gone from her house for less than 15 min.  I will never know why they picked my house to park in front of but I am glad I did.  I couldn't imagine being taken advantage of like that and what trauma and scars that would have left. 

Don't park in front of my house at 2:45 AM or

I will call the police when I see you get out of your car and take your pants off. Yep it happened. I was in bed and heard some voices out side the front of our house. I looked out my bedroom window and saw someone get out of a small SUV that was parked directly in front of my bedroom window, take off their pants, put on shorts and then get back in the car. I watched for a few seconds and then saw a young girl and a boy get out and walk up my driveway and down the side of my house. I called the police and while I was on the phone with the 911 operator I saw something in car light up in the back seat and then light up in the very back of the SUV. When the cops came, in less than 5 minutes, 3 heads popped up from the very back of the SUV. Not one person was in a seat. I am watching all this through my window and everyone gets out of the car and I can tell it is two guys and girl. They all look really young. When the officer pulled them out of the car everyone had their zippers down but no one would say what happened. So the officer couldn't arrest them for anything. So for the next hour or so I watch from my bedroom, I was peaking through the window, as parents were called and questions were asked and curfew tickets are handed out and then they start looking for someone. I assumed it was the guy and girl that walked off. The officers start searching backyards and around the neighborhood. Around 4:30 I see the officer start to come to my door and so I go answer it. They wanted to know if they could search my backyard, I said of course. I asked if they were looking for the girl and guy and he said yes. The girls were only 13 and they guys were all 16 to 17 and had meet on My space. The girls were from our area but they guys were not. The officer had to give directions to one of the guys moms because she had no idea where they were at, it took her a good hour to even get to my street. I stood outside and talked with the officer for probably 30 - 45 min until they girls dad drove up to ask if we had seen her. We both said no and he asked which way they went. About that time he started drive off the young girl came out from between my house and our neighbors house and the officer stoped her and flagged her dad down. The brother was with the dad and while the dad was talking with the girl and the officer the brother asked if he could look for the guy in our backyard and I said sure. I went through my house and heard him hop my fence and start yelling. The brother forced the guy out of the neighbors backyard and walked him to the other officers that had arrived. The brother didn't touch the guy and I told him he showed good restraint and he said if thought if he had touched him he would have hurt him so bad they would have arrested him. The young gal couldn't find her ipod so after the officer was done giving her a curfew ticket her brother asked if he could again look in our backyard. The girl came with him and by that time Alex was up and fussing so I had her in my arms and tried to give her the boys at 3 am only want one thing and this is what you will end up and get no sleep with a new baby and he will hide from you when you have baby like he did the cops speech. She was very nice and so young, I asked how they got back there and she said they hoped our fence into our back yard and then hoped the connecting fence into the neighbors backyard. Both of the girls parents apologized for waking me up and her dad was super pissed. The other young lady that was found in the back of the SUV's mother told the officer that she was taking her in for a rape kit at the hospital. The dad of the other young lady was telling the officer that he also wanted charges pressed if anything had happened. Apparently the girls had snuck out of one the houses and came to meet the boys.
I felt really bad calling the cops in the middle of the night, but once I found out that the girls were 13 and int he 8th grade I didn't feel so bad. The one that was in the backyard looked so young. I really hope they learned their lesson. I couldn't imagine looking for my child for over 2 hours and not knowing where they were.

So today I will be researching how to extend our fence out and make it taller. The officer said that we should look at getting a 8 foot privacy fence. I am not an animal person but a trained German attack dog seems like a good idea right now, you know the kind that only speak german and can rip your arm off and chase down bad guys.

A little updating

I am going to start Alex on solid food soon so I pulled out Bradley's old high chair.  I love this high chair but it is blue and white plaid.  The white has actually turned yellow so it's not so cute anymore.  I decided I would make a cover for it.  I looked all around for patterns and couldn't find one that I thought would work, so I decided to make my own.  I am also recovering a chair and ottoman for Alex's room and am making the pattern for that it seems to be working.  By far the cover is not perfect, but it matches our kitchen and I like it.  The high chair has some navy blue plastic pieces on it, but they are really dark so unless you are really close you can't tell.  I found this black and white textured polka dot fabric at Hobby Lobby on clearance for $2 a yard and they had enough that I am able to do the chair and ottoman in Alex's room with it.  I love it, it's really bold.  I don't think Bryan really likes it, but when I asked what he thought I should use he said it was great.

So here are a before and an after picture and a picture of the happy girl who will use it.