He did it!!

Last Saturday Timmy went with me on a women's retreat while Joya stayed with Daddy. While on the retreat he said "Mama". He said it all day Saturday and Sunday, but as soon as we got into Tim's presence he stopped saying it and has not said it since!! I try so hard to get him to say it and he just looks at me and says"mmmmm."
Yesterday on Monday Timmy started army crawling. No one was around to see it and I tried to get him to do it again when Tim was home again, and again he didn't perform!
Last night I had Timmy on the floor and got him to inch his way forward for the little Elmo doll that Joya has. Timmy did it, he army crawled toward Elmo and Daddy was so excited to see it. Joya was even excited for Timmy and told him "good job, Timmy!"
It's been an exciting few days, crawling is next and he will probably be a lot faster at that and we will have to set some serious boundaries for him and for Joya as far as picking up after herself!!
Here are some pictures from the Picture Me studio. They turned out great!

Whats that smell?

Well I walked into the house a few days ago and smelt something really bad!! So I did what anyone else would do, emptied the garbage, cleaned the sink, ran the disposal, Lysol everything. Anyway the smell was covered for a little while but then it came back, so I started following my nose. I followed the smell to to corner of the room where Joya has her kitchen, I thought Toby had puked or pooped back there so I was on my hands and knees searching. I found the culprit...it was a white butcher paper covered, pound and a half of beef! Joya was playing with one of the frozen packages of meat when we got the half a cow and we were putting it away. Tim was working in the garage putting it away in the outside freezer and I was putting a few pounds in the inside freezer. Joya was walking back and forth between us bringing meat from Tim to me and visa versa. Well neither Tim or myself realized that Joya still had a package and she put it in her kitchen. She was cooking her meat in the oven, and that's where I found it! A couple weeks old, nasty smelling, rotting meat! Bing...it's done!