Gums

Megan is getting teeth! Her first little pearl broke the gums today before church. I am excited but sad at the same time. I absolutely adore her gummy smile. I know I will love the toothy one too, but the gums. I truly don't want her to grow up fast at all. It doesn't bother me one bit if another baby is doing something at a younger age then Megan. I love it when she snuggles me and just wants me to hold her...I hope it never changes. Both girls have a cough that won't go away so I have gotten extra cuddles, even from Alexis who barely sits down. I Love my Family!!! I think I will throw some pictures on the post....maybe a gummy smile from the mushy squishy.Don't you just love it!!! I sure do.

This is typical Alexis, if she is happy about something this is what you will see. Jumping, laughing and smiles!

I just love babies sleeping with daddy!

Alexis has a reward system at school, the teacher has a little chart and she gets to have smiley faces or frowny faces marked on it. We have promised her that we will take her to Great Wolf Lodge at the end of the year if she keeps get mostly smiley faces. Well tonight I reminded her to say her prayers and then left, I came back a few seconds later and heard her asking for help in getting all smiley faces so that she could go to GWL. She said I know I can do it. It melted my heart to hear her asking for help. If I could I would take her right now just for that prayer. She is such a good example to me of how we are supposed to believe and have faith.

This is our family painted by Alexis. Mommy, Alexis and Megan being held by daddy. She loves to paint and write!
I love babies right out of the bath. I need to find the one of Alexis like this!
To cute for words!
Our mini photo shoot, gotta love the knee high striped socks.
She is such a ham for the camera! Love her!
Tired girl, wearing an old tank top of mine...
Mom we are just playing. Poor thing had a cold settle in her eyes, she is still super cute though.
Sisters playing, hey put some clothes on that girl.
Tired Baby.
Christmas morning. Alexis had already opened the glow board behind Megan before we even got out there.

Stay tuned I have more to post but right now I am going to bed...well after I feed the baby who just woke up.

A miracle

Today I decided to download the pictures from Christmas and do a blog post; in the process I noticed that there were more then 600 pictures on my camera. As I inspected them I realized they were the pictures I lost with the computer crash. Not all of them mind you because I have 2 cameras but a good chunk including Alexis's birthday and my sister in law's visits. So yeah!!!! I am not erasing my card until I have the pictures safely stored online and on cd. So I think in honor of this I will post some of them.

Megan update She started saying dadadada Yesterday. It is so cute. She says it to all of us, but of course Daddy is extra excited. She also started clapping her hands today. I love seeing her learn these firsts! She still hates being on her tummy. I was able to get her on her hands and knees and show her rocking and she tolerated it. But she is a pro at sitting up and can catch herself before falling and she isn't falling quite so hard now when she does go down. She also leans all the way forward to get things and can right herself. She still prefers to only nurse. I can get her to eat a few bites of anything before she refuses to open her mouth. Her 2 bottom teeth are so close to popping out and she gets real grumpy about it. Poor baby girl. She loves hair...pulling it that is. She is the cutest mushy squishy 7 month old I know weighing in at 18 pounds!

Alexis is doing really good in school. She can write her name for the most part. She still has a hard time with the x's and will claim she doesn't know how. She thinks they look too much like little t's. We have fun finding letters at the stores and places we go. She likes to tell me Megan's needs, they already read each others thoughts I guess. She is very much into princesses and being fabulous and fancy. She loves to cook dinner with me. She has really grown so much since school started and is such a joy in our life. She can't wait to be 8 to get baptized and asks me everyday if she is 8 yet. I tell her she is 4 and she says that she is big and is a CTR 4 now. Apparently that is the coolest thing ever because she tells us everyday! She is doing pretty good with me in primary. She gets up and comes to me only a few times now and only if I am in front. She is so funny in Primary, she answer every question with the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ and a few other's. I guess she figures she is sure to get it right some of the time.

Being a mom is the best and even on tough days it still beats working with adults, their hugs are not nearly as great(kind of creepy if they hugged) oh and according to Alexis I am the best mom ever...sorry everyone I claim it(at least in this house!)



I have picture of Alexis like this also!
Cousins at Alexis's family party! I love having the kids pose up there.
Kansas cousins staying with us. Breakfast time!
Alexis writing her name, I think this was her fist week of school.
Sleeping baby!
Cambree kissing Megan, they are 9 months apart!
All Alexis's friends at her swimming party!
Silly baby
Alexis putting the finishing touches on her tree...she did everything but the lights, can you tell?
Cute little girls!

Today I decided to download the pictures from Christmas and do a blog post; in the process I noticed that there were more then 600 pictures on my camera. As I inspected them I realized they were the pictures I lost with the computer crash. Not all of them mind you because I have 2 cameras but a good chunk including Alexis's birthday and my sister in law's visits. So yeah!!!! I am not erasing my card until I have the pictures safely stored online and on cd. So I think in honor of this I will post some of them.

Megan update She started saying dadadada Yesterday. It is so cute. She says it to all of us, but of course Daddy is extra excited. She also started clapping her hands today. I love seeing her learn these firsts! She still hates being on her tummy. I was able to get her on her hands and knees and show her rocking and she tolerated it. But she is a pro at sitting up and can catch herself before falling and she isn't falling quite so hard now when she does go down. She also leans all the way forward to get things and get right herself. She still prefers to only nurse. I can get her to eat a few bites of anything before she refuses to open her mouth. Her 2 bottom teeth are so close to popping out and she gets real grumpy about it. Poor baby girl. She loves hair...pulling it that is. She is the cutest mushy squishy 7 month old I know!

Alexis is doing really good in school. She can write her name, every once in a while. She still has a hard time with the x's and will claim she doesn't know how. She thinks they look too much like little t's. We have fun finding letters at the stores and places we go. She likes to tell me Megan's needs, they already read each others thoughts I guess. She is very much into princess and being fabulous and fancy. She loves to cook dinner with me. She has really grown so much since school started and is such a joy in our life. She can't wait to be 8 to get baptized and asks me everyday if she is 8 yet. I tell her she is 4 and she says that she is big and is a CTR 4 now. Apparently that is the coolest thing ever because she tells us everyday! She is doing pretty good with me in primary. She gets up and comes to me only a few times now and only if I am in front. She is so funny in Primary, she answer every question with the Holy Spirit, Jesus Christ and a few other's. I guess she figures she is sure to get it right some of the time.

Being a mom is the best and even on tough days it still beats working with adults, their hugs are not nearly as great(kind of creepy if they hugged) oh and according to Alexis I am the best mom ever...sorry everyone I claim it(at least in this house!)

Our holidays

Christmas is over, it was great! Alexis absolutely loved every second of it from putting up lights, decortating the tree and wrapping presents. She lived and breathed on the hopes of presents. She got a glow board from Santa and asked daddy to color the picture and has erased it yet (so it has been played with except to turn on the lights and watch it for a few minutes). Megan really liked that pretty boxes kept getting placed in front of her, she would grab them and smile and even ripped the paper off. It was pretty cute. Our tree was down on the 27th and now it seems it was a month ago. New Years eve found our family in different states. Britt was in Oregon on his way home and we were here in Washington. It was sad and weird, didn't even feel like a holiday. The girls and I went to the Keven and Shiree's and partied until Alexis started complaining of a headache. So we packed up and drove home. While on that 15 minutes drive Alexis threw up and then fell asleep. Sad and gross, so she had a bath at 11pm and we watch Despicable Me until midnight. A few minutes later she threw up again, lovely. I called Grandpa in for a blessing and then went to bed. Very anticlimactic for sure. School has started back up and so life is speeding by again. I will post our Christmas pictures later!