Thursday, June 17, 2010

belly buttons and video monitors

A couple months ago Jamie planted gladiolas in large pots on our back porch and they are starting to bloom now. They are so pretty! Lots of different colors, but I just snapped a couple photos of the purple ones.

And in other random news... Annie finally has a belly button! Her stubborn umbilical cord finally came off yesterday after 31 days. About time! :)

Also a couple of my friends had asked about our video monitors so I wanted to give you a quick update on those. We got the second video camera in the mail yesterday and set it up in Annie's room- and it works GREAT! So how it works now is- we have one monitor screen in our room that we can flip a switch on the side and flip back and forth between looking in on both their beds. The image is crystal clear for both channels (color image during the day and "night vision" when it's dark). The sound quality is awesome, too.

Ok, now the catch is- you can only hear whatever room you have the channel switched to. So last night (Annie's first night in her bed all night- yay!) we kept the channel switched to hear her room since Audrie never wakes up anyways. But in our case- our two girl's rooms are next to each other so I can actually hear both rooms no matter which one I have it switched to because the sound quality is so sensitive (make sense?). So even though I left it switched on Annie's room- I could still hear Audrie when she woke up in the morning because her room is so close to Annie's. So anyways, some of you had asked- so there you have it. We love them and are so glad we have the video monitors (hope they last until they're teenagers... ha!)

Oh and to make this post even more random... here are some photos of the girls I took yesterday!