The big rides.

We went to the Oregon State Fair this weekend, and had a great time. Liam loved seeing everything, and Ben was finally tall enough to ride the BIG rides! It was awesome. I went on the swings with him, and the gravitron (I am WAY too old for the gravitron. It was not that fun.) Ben said the gravitron was cool, but it almost made him puke. After that I was done with rides, so he went on the spider all by himself. Some bigger kids (7ish?) were on it too, and the guy had to stop the ride so they could get off because they were freaking out. Ben totally loved it and laughed the whole time... so I was all proud of him!

Swings!


I tried to convince him to let go, but he wouldn't.


Barf. Don't do it.


All the excitement made Liam sleepy


Spider!



It's probably good we gave him this AFTER the rides.


Bumper cars are always fun.


Liam was a big fan of the animals... He got really excited and kicked his legs a lot when he saw the sheep.

More signing

Liam is getting good at signing "more" now. He still signs "come here" when he wants something, and now he signs "all done." He also claps and waves hi and bye :) Genius baby. Not that I'm biased or anything.

I'm back!

Well, hello there, blog!

I am finally done. I took the bar exam July 28&29. Hooray! And now, since the results don't come out until September 25th... plenty of time for crafting and playing with the boys!

Liam is an army crawling fool now, and TODAY did his first little sign. I have been signing "more" to him every time he eats, but apparently "come here" works better for him. I always do this with my hands when I want him to come to me, and he just started doing it at everything he wants. So I got some videos of him signing "come here" to bread. haha. Silly little man.





Ben is starting kindergarten in September. I'm super excited... and REALLY excited for school shopping. My favorite thing in the world! He's getting so big and smart. I can't wait till he starts elementary school... he is going to the one two blocks from our house, which is nice! And I like the school a lot, I think. He likes it because
1. our little neighbor girl goes there and
2. there is a rock climbing wall in the gym.
Speaking of rock walls... here's some pictures of him climbing the traveling rock wall in the park the other day. He loved it, and got to the top 3 times!

My crafty kid.

Ben had been working on this for quite a while at school. It's a frog... a magic frog, apparently. Because it's golden. He sewed it all by himself, and I think he did such a great job. He usually sews with big embroidery thread and a big needle, but this time he got to use the little needle and thread. Fancy.

He's very proud of it. He's been telling us about his progress on it for a while, and today when we brought it home he said "I'm really awesome at sewing."

Caryn Jones, Esq.

I am finished with law school!!! Hooray. Now I get to call myself esquire, even if I don't pass the bar :) I AM going to pass, though. Between my last final and the start of the bar review class, I had about 2 weeks off. It's been pretty awesome. I cleaned out my car (which looked like homeless people were living in it), we did some big spring cleaning, and a little reading of silly books. Well, okay, I started reading silly books before school ended. Jason got me the newest book in my favorite series. I had planned on waiting till school was over, it was going to be a little reward for myself. But I couldn't wait. So I read it anyway, after I'd finished 2/3 of my finals. I read really fast anyway, so it only took me a couple nights to finish it.

Oh and the point of this post! I forgot, it had a point. I did some crafting, finally. Today I fixed some clothes that needed fixing, sewed a little dress for Amelia, and made pants and a little stuffed bunny for Liam. I made the pants and bunny out of some pants I got on sale at Urban Outfitters a year or so ago. They were too small, but they were only $9 and I figured I'd just use them to make something. And I finally did. These pants are going to fit him for about a week, because I underestimated how huge he is. His butt just barely fits in them. Oops.
And for those of you who went to high school with me, these are the same kind of pants I used to make out of random fabric all the time in high school. Only tiny.

The bunny is cute though, and I gave it nice big flat floppy ears, so he can chew on them. He's teething and loves chewing on fabric these days.

Here's the craftiness. I also found the battery to my camera while we were spring cleaning, so no more cell phone pictures on the blog!!