A Conversation

Ethan: "I think somewhere in colorado springs there's a broken stop light."
Me: "Oh yeah? Do you know what to do when there's a broken stop light?"
Ethan: "Yeah, you fix it"

Ballerina

Daddy's Girl

 The other day I put Lucy in her crib for a nap, I turned around to grab something and heard her give a happy little coo. When I looked back I saw a standing baby smiling at me, proud as can be! She's found that she can pull herself up using her crib and our legs if we're sitting down. She is into everything and is getting very fast at crawling. Today was her second time going to the nursery at church and she had to move to a new room! The Crawlers instead of The Infants.

Definitely a Daddy's girl

Waiting for him at the bottom of the stairs

Crawling, kind of

This is what happens when I try to take videos in this house. Do you see anyone that is starving for attention?

My sweet baby has suddenly hit a milestone marathon. She now has both her bottom teeth and started her own form of crawling. Michael thinks she kind of looks like a limping dog, not that she looks like a dog, but how a wounded dog would hobble along. She is BUSY! And into EVERYTHING! Especially if it's small (choking hazard) or made of paper or plastic or not hers or small, did I say that already. Baby proofing is now going to be kicked into high gear. Ethan's room is going to get a make over so that he can house all of his toys in an organized way so that it will still be fun for him to play. Wish us luck, we're going to need it.

From The Mouths of Babes, #3

As we drove to church this morning, Ethan told Michael and I how much he'd miss us (we leave him in Sunday school while we attend the service). After some normal conversation on the subject he tells me;

"You'll always be in my heart, Mommy."

*tears*

Busy Baby

I have one happy little girl. She is up, wide awake, past her bed time, perfecting her new skill. She learned how to get herself from her belly to a sitting position. As I'm writing, she keeps turning my face so I'm watching her. She flops back to her belly, then pushes herself up, then looks at me smiles and spouts some gibberish. I'm trying to be upset that she's sleeping, but she's so cute!
It all started yesterday. I don't know what happened yesterday but she learned to sit AND she started cutting her first tooth! Then, did you see the Broncos game!? I mean there was something special about yesterday. 

(We're down stairs now)
She was in the living room, playing with her toys and she ended up on her belly, like usually. I knew it was only a matter of minutes, maybe, before I had to go rescue her. But the next time I looked, she was sitting up. I thought maybe I had seen her wrong the first time, or Ethan put her back.

on her belly

bum in the air

almost

so close

nope

 but later that night, at my mom's, she did it again for everyone to see. Then overnight when she called me in (I like the way that sounds more then when she was crying) she was sitting up in her crib. I promptly freaked out, I hadn't lowered her mattress yet. I was so scared that she would try to pull herself up and flip out of the crib. The first thing we did this morning was lower the mattress.

feeling her new tooth

This is her new face, at first I thought she was scared, nope, it's just her new face to give

On the verge of crawling

Cowboys, Ninjas and Babies

 and Vader and penguins and Minnie Mouse.

We went from a white Christmas to 60 degree weather this week. The kids got to try out their new winter gear

 Lucy is desperate to move, she's trying so hard to crawl, she gets on her hands and knees but the flops down to her belly and gets very frustrated and cries till we put her back to a sitting position. She is not satisfied with any toys that are close to her, she has to try and reach the ones further away and somehow she gets herself over to them. I think it involves some kind of scooting on her bum and maybe some magic, yeah, probably magic. She stands any time she can, she's not quite pulling herself all the way up but she's trying. She'll walk while holding your fingers too.

 Ethan's a ninja, and, although very much his father's son, I took a bunch of these photos of him and all I can see is my dad in him.

You better watch out, partner, I've got cuteness and drool on my side

 Our friends Nathaniel and Corinna (with baby Gavin) came over this past week. Ethan kept Nathaniel busy with ninja stuff and games and Lucy watched over Gavin for us. She really wanted to touch his face, or grab, same thing

 He didn't care too much

 Then there was the Rock Em Sock Em Robots issue. Picture this, your at a rodeo, the star cowboy gets thrown from the bucking bronco and one of the clowns didn't move Rock Em Sock Em!! That's about how it happened.

 Here's the spring like weather, she loves the swing

The boys are in the background

 She also loves grass, eating grass

 and more ninja moves

Ethan went back to school Thursday, thank goodness. He was asking every day "is tomorrow school day? I miss my best friends." As soon as we got there, there was no more hand holding, with me anyway, just his girlfriend. He's looking forward to the spaghetti dinner they host for the kids and their dads.

Christmas in Pictures

All ready for Santa; cookies and a welcome message on Ethan's new doodle pad

Santa came through!!

Lucy was more interested in the paper

Wow! We are blessed

Checking out the new toys

Vader winter gear

Facetime (video chat) with the family in Florida

What kid doesn't want to be surrounded by a pile of presents

Then to Grandma and Papa's for more boxes

And presents

Going duck hunting in the backyard

Angry birds!

Her, new, Christmas dinner outfit

Some assembly required

Katie, waiting for some marbles to head her direction

The girls

Red cheeks, stuffy nose, short naps and way passed bed time

No one can make her laugh like her brother. And "walking" is her new favorite past time

The whole group, serious pose (notice Michael had to hold down E's arms)

Umm, Broncos fans tebowing, Chiefs fans chopping, and add in a discount double check