the joys of motherhood

Today has been a really fun day! When I say that I am being more than a little sarcastic. It starts off with Lily deciding that she wants to play with my makeup while I am getting ready. She loves to watch me do my makeup and pretend to put on her own. I let her play with the stuff that I think that she couldn't possibly get open. Not only does she get it open but she rubs it all over her face. Then I guess she was wondering if it tasted as good as it looks because she puts a bunch in her mouth. She is still alive so I am guessing it wasn't toxic. I think it is a miracle kids make it past two with all of the things that they decide are a good idea to put in their mouths. We get her mouth cleaned out and I decide to throw her in the tub to get her cleaned up. I was a little distracted and accidentally made the bath water a little warmer than usual so she jumps up out of the water and yells that its too hot, which of course wakes Landon up from his nap. I then spent the next two hours trying to get him to go back to sleep. By the time he finally went back to sleep Lily tells me that she needs to use the potty. I was so proud of her so I take her into the bathroom, she sits on the potty for a while, then nothing happens. She says she is done and runs in the living room and hides behind the rocking chair. I go over to get her to put a diaper back on and she shows me that she has just gone pee on the carpet, so we get that cleaned up and go on with our day. Someone please remind me why potty training is a good idea, I am convinced diapers aren't so bad. Then later the filling falls out of my tooth. GREAT! Just in time for Thanksgiving. I call the dentist who tells me that the office will be closed until Monday. At least Dave loves me and wants me to enjoy thanksgiving. He called around to find a dentist that would fix it tomorrow. Hopefully that goes well. The dentist is always so much fun. I really love being a mom, I am grateful that I don't have to re-live some days, and I am also grateful that God gave us a sense of humor so that at some point down the road even the most stressful days usually seem funny. I think that today might be one of those days.


Lily is trying to help Landon get ready for bed by giving him hugs and helping to give him his medicine.

This is a nice little area!

This is Lily's favorite spot. We put all of her books down at the bottom of this bookshelve. She loves to crawl in there and read them or hide in there when we play hide and seek. Today she decided that it would also be a good place to take a nap. She grabed her favorite blanket and got Landon's pacifier and said "nigh night" and crawled in to take a nap.

So Big!

Landon is getting so big. He is growing up so fast I can't believe it. He had his 4 month check up on Monday and he now weighs 16 pounds 13 oz. and is 25 1/2 inches tall. He is such a big boy, he is going to weigh as much as Lily does pretty soon. It seems like he has reached so many big milestones all at once. He can now roll over both ways. He just started solids, and is loving that. So far he has had rice cereal and sweet potatoes... YUM! He even got his first haircut last week. We had to leave it a little long because we just couldn't part with all of his curls on top, but at least we got the sides trimmed up. He has so much curly hair that people always call him Elvis. I know I am biased but I think he is the cutes boy ever. He is such a good baby. He loves to laugh and he loves looking at books. Today it was time for a nap and I just tried laying him in bed awake and he fell asleep all by himself, well I guess he had a little help from the musical frog, but I was so excited. It just feels like it is going by way too fast, he is such a sweet baby and I just want him to stay my little baby.

Halloween

I love this time of year! The fall is by far my favorite season, it is beautiful, and I love the weather. I love all of the holidays coming up, and I especially love Halloween. It is so much fun! The Saturday before Halloween we all went to go watch Alex play football and then we all went to the cider mill to go get pumpkins afterwards.

We had such a fun time eating hot dogs, looking at all the animals, bobbing for apples, and looking for the perfect pumpkin. Turns out that the Saturday before Halloween is not the best time to find pumpkins, they were all rotten and picked over. We ended up just getting some pumpkins from Costco instead. That night we had a trick-or-trunk at the church so we took the kids. Lily was blue from blue's clues and Landon was a skunk, they both looked so cute. Lily thought it was so awesome that she got to carry her purse, which is what she called her Halloween bucket, and people put candy in it. I think she was a little bit freaked out by some of the costumes, but she didn't mind too much since she was getting all kinds of treats. On Monday night we colored our pumpkins instead of carving them because we figure that would be a little more appropriate for Lily, the less knives around the better. It was a lot of fun, we even got little googly eyes to put on them and that was Lily's favorite part and Dave's I think. Lily just kept pulling the eyes off of Dave's pumpkin and putting them on hers. On Halloween we decided to take Lily to a couple of houses to go trick-or-treating. She thought it was so much fun, again mostly because of the candy, until a guy would answer the door and then she would run and hide. It was so much fun, and I am just excited to have a child so that I have an excuse to go tick-or-treating again.

I Love Dave!

I have the sweetest husband ever. The whole month of my birthday he gives me a present every week. This year he gave me all of the books from the Twilight series, and if you haven't read those books yet you need to! They were so much fun to read. The other night when I got home late he had the table all decorated in Halloween things, which is my favorite holiday, he even made me a couple of grab bags and made his own Halloween floral arrangement, it was awesome! Who doesn't love grab bags...it is so much fun to open them and see what's inside. Then for my birthday he took me to eat at Johny Rockets, nothing too fancy, but hey we are poor. That wasn't the biggest success but it was so much fun just to spend time together. When I got my clam chowder it was totally cold, so I asked the waiter if he would warm it up a little. I don't think I have ever sent food back in my life, but that is how cold it was. The guy says someone had turned off the crock pot and so it would be a few minutes. He comes back just as Dave was finishing his burger and tells me that it is broken and asks if I want anything else. Since Dave was already done eating I declined. So we went home and watched Harry Potter, since we actually had the house to ourselves we decided why go out. And I ate frozen pretzels for my birthday dinner, which was fine by me because I love them. It was so much fun just to be able to spend the evening together. He gave me an electric blanket for my birthday. Those are the best inventions ever!! I love mine! We had a great time and I am so grateful to have such a good husband that tries so hard to make me feel special.

Blessing

We finally blessed Landon on Oct. 21st but it was totally worth the wait. Dave's Dad came home and my dad flew in and he also flew in Nichole and Timmy. We had such a fun time that weekend. Lily was so excited for Nichole and Timmy to get here that was all she could talk about. The night before they flew in we were driving somewhere and Lily thought we were going to pick them up and she was so excited. Dave had to explain to her that it wasn't until tomorrow and she had to go to sleep for the night first and then when she woke up it would be time to go pick them up. So she pretended to be asleep and threw in a few fake snores and said lets go get Cole and Timmy. It was so cute how excited she was to see them. We had so much fun while they were here. Nichole and I took the kids to the farmers market on Friday and got our favorite thing ever... crab cake benedict. YUM! Then Timmy and Lily shared a cow cookie which they thought was the best. We tried to take the kids out shopping and that was an adventure. We both left our wallets out in the car and so I went out to the car to go get them. It was pouring rain and I was carrying Timmy and when I lifted up the back gate on the car everything fell out, our diaper bag landed in a puddle and poor Timmy got soaking wet. Lily found a doll that she loved at the store and the lady that owned the store gave it to her, it was so sweet of her, Lily takes it everywhere with her. On Saturday we all went to the zoo together. It was so much fun for the kids to see all the animals and I loved being able to spend the day with my family. Then we went to our favorite Chinese place, which has the BEST hot and sour soup. Then my dad took Nichole and I shopping for some new clothes and totally spoiled us. It was such a fun day! Sunday we blessed Landon. It was such a great blessing and I feel so grateful to have such a sweet baby. A few things that stood out to me in his blessing were that he would have a love for the Lord, be a great example to those around him, and have a great love for learning throughout his life. He wore his cute little tuxedo that Dave bought him and he looked awesome. We went to my moms house after and had a huge lunch with all of the family. Monday we went to breakfast with my mom and we braved the mall with the kids once again. My mom bought Nichole and I a bunch of cute clothes and shoes and we got spoiled rotten again. It was so sad to have everyone leave but I was so glad they could all be here for such a special day. It meant so much to us to have them here.

Our little Star!!

Lily decided that she wanted to put on a performance for everyone!! We hope that you enjoy this little performance!! I have no idea where she learned this, but she was so amazed at what Grandpa was doing that she kept covering her mouth and saying "gosh." It was cracking us up so we decided we had to get it on video.

Lily has such a fun personality. It is so much fun to watch her develop into her own little person. She is such a little performer. She is hilarious and she loves to make us laugh. If she does something that we think is funny she just keeps doing it over and over again to keep us laughing. She loves music, and she has started to love to sing along with me and the radio. She loves to dance, she always comes up to me and asks me for a song and says "dance." She also loves to play the piano. She has her own piano book and sits at the piano and flips through the pages and tries to play each song. I remember when she was blessed as a baby Dave blessed her to have a love of music and that is so true, music makes her happy and puts her to sleep at night. She loves to use her imagination, especially to pretend to be different animals. She will chase the dog around the house pretending to be a cat and meow at her. She loves to color and she is starting to learn the different colors. she loves pink of course and she also likes "geen" and "poo poo" (purple). It is so much fun watching her learn everyday. She is such a girly girl and loves to play with her dolls and pretend to feed them or sing them rock a bye baby. She loves to watch me put on makeup and pretend to put on her own. She is very independent and likes to do everything by herself, and she definatly always knows what she wants. She knows what she likes and doesn't like and I love that about her. She is already such a good example to me. If we sit down to eat she will fold her arms and say "prayer" so that we remember. Dave has been teaching her about the sacrament and this Sunday she took the bread and said "bread, Jesus" because Dave had taught her that we take the bread and water so that we can remember Jesus. It is so special to watch her learn develop her own testimony about the gospel and I hope that as she grows she will have a close relationship with her Heavenly Father.