She's still learning

Madison found the sunscreen and decided to help herself. It was bedtime, so it was pointless. 

Today she used the expensive face cream to lotion her entire body and she got into John's cologne and sprayed enough that you can smell her from across the apartment!

While writing this Madison got a Jocelyn bottle and filled it 7/8th full with formula powder. When John told her to stop she took off running to add water to it.

The other day Madison was "crying" and John asked her why she was crying. She immediately stopped looked at him and said: "that was my fake cry." She just fake cries so she can have what she wants she informed us. She's only two. Can you imagine what twelve is going to be like?

Friday night John and Alexis had the stomach flu. We each had about two and half hours of sleep. It was a a very long night for all of us needless to say. Alexis told me during one of her bouts of throwing up and she was a very brave little girl because she wasn't even crying! I concurred. Luckily we knew it would only be a 12 hour flu since Madison had it on Thursday. Madison however didn't wake us up after she'd lost her cookies multiple times in her bed, she just went back to sleep and told me in the morning. Crazy girl. She had it caked in her hair, all over her shirt, sheets, and comforter. BLAH.

Jocelyn likes to do what the big kids do. I found her in the kitchen the other day drawing her very own picture. She was so happy to be doing her own thing. She's learned how to stand up without holding onto anything, which means walking is right around the corner. AHH!

She has a vice grip like most little kids do, but it is usually my hair that is in her little fists. I'm ready to chop it all off so that I don't have to deal with it any more but John really likes my long hair. 

Drew has a new bike and he's terrified of riding it. We bought him a bike with training wheels so he'd give Madison the three wheeler. He's afraid of going too fast because he might fall. Too fast includes but is not limited to a normal persons walking speed, yes, you read that right. He prefers to walk his bike.

Alexis gave a talk in primary today. She was nervous, but she did really well. She read the talk all by herself and didn't want either of us to come up and help her. We were very proud. 

My three girls

Aren't they so cute?

Touring the floods

For my 29th birthday we took a couple of nice long walks to see the flooding throughout the Logan area. The kids loved getting out and stretching their legs - it's been nasty weather for too long! It was a great birthday - we relaxed and enjoyed doing nothing all day!! What is better than being with your family and not having any fights?
John also got me a house for my birthday! Hooray! It's only three doors down from where we are currently at. It's not officially ours yet, but it is under contract and by the end of June we should be completely done and able to move in!! Such a great gift. Next year I'm expecting a beach house in Florida!! ;)

Flooding 2011

 At the beginning.

 During the flooding.

 After.

 This is just east of the bridge pictured above. The sand wall they built didn't hold in the flooding at all.

 After the flooding. It washed away about 5 feet of road on the side.

 This was at the beginning of the flooding.

This is the same spot, but the banks caved in and the river flooded the pastures.

We talked to a nice guy who was watching the flooding who has lived here for the last 60 years. He said that this is the most excitement that this town has seen! Even the flooding of '83 and '84 didn't do this much damage.

Frog feet

How do you like my new shoes? Alexis thinks they make me look like I have frog feet!

They are super comfortable and really light which makes them great running shoes. I don't know if you can call what I do running, but maybe one day I can say I run.

Finishing swimming lessons

The kids finished their swimming lessons. Although none of them can float or swim, swimming lessons are over for the year. They all LOVED taking lesson and their teacher, Alyson. It was nice to have 40 minutes twice a week to only have one kid to entertain!

Jocelyn - 9 months already

My baby is getting so big!!

On March 23rd she started crawling, one day before she was eight months old!

She still has no teeth - which isn't surprising for our kids.

She LOVES to be outside and cries and cries until we take her out.

She loves to crawl around the house and find things she shouldn't be into, ie chalk, markers, barbies, etc.

She's our only brown eyed child, amazingly! My parents say that she looks just like I did as a baby - man was I cute! I think she looks just like the other two girls, she has darker coloring than they did though.

The kids love to hold her and play with her. When they do hold her she usually ends up crying, but the kids think it's cute when she cries so they don't mind, or so they say.

She's figured out that mamamama gets mom and dadadadada will get daddy! She likes to feed herself, can we say independent? She thinks that she can walk and she would take a step to start going and fall flat on  her face. She's quit trying to take steps while not holding onto something, but it's coming and I'm not ready.

Some days she's a great sleeper and you can just put her down and she'll asleep on her own, other days she screams and screams until we play the ant smasher game on the phone. The sound of the squishing bugs puts her to sleep within five minutes usually!

At her nine month appointment her stats were:

weight 16.25 pounds = 10%

length 27.5 in = 49%

head 17.2 in = 45%

In other words, she's tiny, not a surprise for us again.