And He's Off!

Cannon is officially crawling as of this past Monday. He's not a speed demon yet, but I'm sure he will be next week.

In this picture, Cannon is in deep concentration...very serious.

Here, he takes a break to pose for the camera. He's very proud of himself.

Heat Rises

The picture is not great, but here is Carroll showing the girls "convection." Something about cold water being denser and pushing the hot water up. I'm not sure if this falls in the "chemistry" category, but if it does, that means an "F" for me. So thank goodness Carroll is the designated experimenter in our house.

Women of Faith

I was the recipient of a God wink about a week ago. I had been eyeing the Women of Faith Conference for several months, but as it got closer, I decided there was too much going on the following week and I was going to miss half of the conference because I'm still nursing Cannon and the girls didn't have school that Friday. I hated to spend $140 plus dollars for a day and a half. Here's where the God wink comes in...I got a call from a friend from Sunday School on Wednesday night who said someone had just called her trying to give away two tickets. My friend couldn't use them so she called me and a few others. I knew this late in the game I wouldn't find anyone to go with, but I gladly took one ticket and went by myself.

Of course it was awesome! Mandisa opened the conference on Thursday night. (By the time I got my camera out, her gig was over.) One picture I did manage to get was of Mark Schultz. I was familiar with his songs, but did not know his name. Wow, the stories behind the songs are incredible.


The two people I really wanted to see--Jim Caviezel and Anita Renfroe--were presenting on Friday, the day I was not able to make it. Bummer.

The person I was surprised most by was Sherri Shepherd. She has definitely had a rough past and currently has some difficult things going on in her life, but boy does she love Jesus! Very inspiring.

It was a wonderful conference and I highly recommend it.

Breaking Through

Well, another doozie of a week gone by...let's catch up now.

Cannon is sitting up pretty well now and his first tooth has broken through.



He is up on his hands and knees quite a bit, but doesn't know what to do next. He lunges forward sometimes, but he ends up falling on his face.

We will have those gates up again soon.

Girlie Girls

Elle and Piper are girlie girls. And boy, is my mom lovin' it! She is catching up for lost time. I think by the age of 5, I opposed all things girlie. No dolls for me...I was all about Big Wheels, skateboards, bikes, snapping turtles, climbing walls and crawling through drainage ditches. I took one day of ballet...hated it and never went back again. I took a couple of years of Brownies/Girl Scouts...hated it. My friends were boys or fellow tomboys. I even had an imaginary friend named Scott.

One year when I was about 10 or 11 (long into my tomboyhood) my mom MADE me wear culottes for Christmas. I was horrified!! I can't find a picture of me standing, but in the picture below I look like a pirate or maybe an elf. Kind of looks like Jerry's shirt in the "Puffy Shirt" episode of Seinfeld.


Like I said, my mom is enjoying dressing our girls. She buys dresses on an almost weekly basis. Here are the girlie girls in her latest purchase.

In Case You Were Wondering...

why I call myself "MamaMia"...well that's because Carroll gave us all nicknames a couple of years ago. There is Daddy-O, Ellerousky, Piperoni, and most recently, CannonBall.

For those of you that don't know, Carroll is quite the funny man. He has us laughing all the time. Maybe it's because we love him so much, but I really think he's hilarious.

When we were trying to figure out Elle's middle name, Carroll said "we'll just call her Elle Camino." Lucky for her we gave her my middle name...Cristina.

Then when Piper came along, we joked about calling her Piper Comanche. Again, lucky for her...she's Piper Margarita--my grandmother's middle name.

Speaking of El Camino, here is a picture of my dad's El Camino back in 2003. Below that is a picture of the Piper Comanche, which was recently sold--Dad and Vinette decided to try something new...they bought a motor home.