Music, clean up, wild bird, and yummy cookies!

Tons of people are still without power, including my parents. I didn't mention before, but my dad was looking all over for a generator, and Lowes and Home Depot all sent their generators to Texas, leaving all of us in Ohio without power, and generators! (Of course it is great that they donated them to Texas, they didn't know that we would get this much damage). Well Josh and my dad went to Home Depot on Monday to get us some more Culligan jugs, and while they were there, Home Depot found two generators, so Josh went and sat on one. So now my parents have a couple little lights, and their refrigerator hooked up to it. Luckily it hasn't' been very hot, I can not imagine what it would be like for all these people if it was burning hot outside.

Last weekend Suzanne, Clyde and Adam (Josh's cousin) came to visit for a night. While they were there Suzanne and I went to Flower Factory, where I got Farrah a little container of make-up in the shape of a cell phone. Suzanne assured me that it was not messy at all and there was hardly any color to it. We both didn't realize that under the eye shadow there was very colorful lip gloss. Farrah had a lot of fun putting it on herself, and she also loves to put it on me!

Adra was very curious about my fancy lips!



We had a fun music filled morning yesterday. Here is Farrah playing her "drums". Watch Adra's face, while Farrah plays, it is so cute. David would be proud of Farrah playing the drums!

Music from Chelsea Childress on Vimeo.

Adra has been sticking her tongue out a lot lately. She used to do this a lot when she was a newborn, but hasn't done it in a long time. I just love it, and her tongue is so long! Here is a video of it. Also Adra is getting two new teeth on the top.

Tongue from Chelsea Childress on Vimeo.

We went to my parents yesterday to help clean up the yard. We gathered up a ton of limbs and made a huge pile on the bonfire. It was a lot of work and a lot of fun.


My parents were pretty lucky, they didn't have any huge trees fall down. The tree below is going to have to get pulled out. I don't know if you can tell but the tree is snapped in half at the base.







When we brought the last pile of brush to the bonfire a bird swopped down and almost hit us in the head. At first we thought it was attacking us, but then we saw it was a baby bird that was that great at flying yet, and it was hunting little bugs. We saw it catch a lot of them, but it seemed to not care that we were there. Farrah and Adra had so much fun watching it. It landed on Farrah's shoes once, and flew inbetween my legs once!


I love how in this picture Farrah and the bird are both looking at the camera.

I think Adra wanted to eat the bird!

Yesterday we also make cookie dough and icing, Farrah helped a lot, and she picked the two frosting colors.....of course one is pink! Today we made and decorated the cookies