And Then There Were Four

We have company today!! Jaye L. Knight of jayelknight.com will be answering some questions, and has allowed me to share an excerpt of her newest book, Samara's Peril with you. Samara's Peril  is the third book in her Ilyon Chronicles series. Hi Mary! Here are my answers for the interview! :) Hello, it's exciting to have a real live author with us today! This lovely young lady wrote the book "Samara's Peril", and is taking a blog tour for a couple weeks. I'll add a book excerpt at the end of this post, hopefully you'll like it so much that you buy her book :) Thank you so much for hosting me here! :) I'm trying not to ask you the questions everyone probably asks you, but I probably will. What's your most frequent question? Do you have a stock answer for it, or do you give different ones every time? Some of my most frequent questions are writing advice or where the inspiration for Ilyon Chronicles came from. Ther

Yep, you'll still be seeing blog posts about my child monthly for a looooong time! Get used to it ;) So, four months old today! And at the advanced age of 18 weeks, she can: Laugh out loud Roll over both ways Put all her weight on her legs Sit up propped on her hands Reach for things she wants Hold her feet and try to eat them She's in 6 month clothes at 16 pounds and 26 1/2 inches. Sadly, she has begun to outgrow many of the small clothes that were gifted to us. So I bought her some new clothes, including this dress Which she was fascinated by My very lady-like daughter in her pretty new dress I did get some good pictures though, after Daddy came to make her laugh. And laugh she did!! And here's her hair at four months. Eek, it's getting so long! Mommy can hardly wait to fix it up!!

Pudding cake 1/2 cup butter 3/4 cup sugar 2 beaten eggs 3/4 - 1 cup of milk Small box vanilla pudding (powder) 2 cups flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt ~~~~~ Chocolate drizzle filling 1/2 package chocolate chips 1 Tablespoon butter 2 teaspoons milk 1/3 small package chocolate pudding Mix together on stove over lowest heat. ~~~~~ 350 degree oven 9 inch greased and floured pan Cream the butter and sugar, then add eggs, milk, and pudding mix. In a separate bowl combine dry ingredients, and add to the wet ingredients a small amount at a time. Don't mix the batter too much. I made a two sided cake, chocolate and vanilla. Just mix a second batch of batter, this time adding 2/3 of a package of chocolate pudding. The batter looked and tasted good enough to eat right then! I folded a cardboard divider, and poured out a small amount of batter on each side to hold the divider in place while I drizzled the c

Here I am at six in the morning, writing instead of sleeping. I've had a busy, fun, and productive week! I got quite a bit of driving in, even a little practice on wet roads, and drove somewhere I haven't driven before. I took the baby to see her great aunt Wilma, our visit was too short, but I hope we can go back next week. My plan was to drive to Wilma's, then church, then home, but it POURED as we were about to leave her house, so Garrett's dad drove to church. I never thought I'd be the weird mom at church until we started homeschooling, but people already know I'm different. I guess you can't hide the weird!! Haha! I let a lady at church hold Anna, and when she went to her seat with the baby, I followed her. She thought it was pretty strange, but I'm going to be where my baby's at, no matter who holds her. I so love watching the older ladies at church hold her and enjoy her. There are so few babies to enjoy. Most of them have 2 or 3 grandch

Somebody was three months old yesterday! It's so exciting to see her doing more every day, and being more deliberate in her movements. She now can: Roll over Laugh Squeal and shriek Reach for things Hold her back and head steady when set upright Babble Turn when she hears a voice Watch TV :P Put things in her mouth Put quite a lot of weight on her legs She weighs 14 pounds, is 25 inches long, and LOVES airplane rides on my knees. She's also in the middle of her first cold, but she's taking it  like a little trouper. I decided to practice using the baby thermometer (underarm) and either there's something terribly wrong with the baby, or the thermometer, because my little girl had a temperature of 95*. I checked mine to compare, and was about a degree warmer. I know I always measure colder, but not that cold! It seemed to be working later that evening, though, showing Caleb to be 98 and me 97.  Anna at Three months   Two

Here at the Crouch house everything went smoothly on Sunday morning. Everyone was dressed, some people were adorable... ...and then she threw up on my dress and hers. Ah well. A good reminder that Easter is not a time to dress up and be fancy at church. I found an emergency outfit for her, and threw myself something together, and we headed to church to hear a very good message. After we got home, we picked up a few things from the house and went to Garrett's parents house.  I got some more driving in! Learned how to pump gas, and stopped by our favorite antique place to browse. I picked out $4 worth of children's books (some titles I read when I was little!), and Papaw bought Anna a little rocking chair. It was a very good day, and we ended the day satisfied and filled. He is risen!