First Post...

Is your "first post" kind of like your first steps? You get better and better at figuring out this blog thing as you go along I assume. I decided to start keeping a blog so that I could keep in contact with family and friends without sending the mass e-mail to everyone. Now our friends can check in with us if they want to. I couldn't come up with anything creative...I don't like it when I am not creative...so I came up with the blog address of M and M Mama because of my sweet little girls Mesa and Mylie.

Mylie has sure been growing up lately. She is almost two and is really starting to talk in full sentences lately. Just yesterday the girls were riding Pepsi the pony down the lane to get the mail and she told Matt and I, "I want sissy to walk." (so she could ride the pony alone). I couldn't believe how clear it was. She also told me in a very clear complete sentence, "I need my coat, it's raining." She's getting too big! She is also very into wearing pajamas, which she calls "nammies." She throws giant fits about changing out of them in the mornings. Occasionally I can trick her with putting on sweat-suits and call them jammies. I find that a little funny, yet odd, that she loves to keep her pj's on all day. Sometimes, she'll go back to her room and change into them during the day.

Mesa is almost five. I can't belive it. Five! She is very into horses. Just tonight during her bedtime prayer she thanked God for appolossas, roans, paints, and the list went on. She is really learning about her world lately, of course all kids are sponges, but she's starting to really focus on things that are not just about her and her environment. She'll say things like, "Well, I didn't know that." or if you explain something to her she'll be reminded about some prior knowledge she knows. It will be fun to see how excited she'll get to learn things in Kindergarten.

Matt has been busy with training horses. This week my best friend came up with her 3 kids and husband for the whole week. Matt and my friends husband got the round pen built and also another pen. We have a lot of work ahead of us with moving into a place that was bare ground, but we'll get there. Maybe by this time next year we'll have a facility for all of the horses, a lawn, garden, the garage organized, and a painted house. Oh and all of the boxes unpacked of course! Someday......