November 2014

Lexi's first non-milk meal! We started on oatmeal, because that's what our friends had leftover from their babies and gave us :) By the end of the month she pretty much figured out how to swallow the liquid substance and not push it back out with her tongue. Notice the darling bib made by my former VT companion, Emily.

Lucy can fall asleep at random times, in random places.

She is just like a ray of sunshine

We love workbooks! 

Lucy has such a cute little girl face! She loves her kitty, Rosie. Of all her cats, this is her favorite. I don't know if it's the pink bow on it or the fact that she earned it from potty training. BTW, potty training still isn't going well with her. *sigh*

Sometimes, when Jordan goes away overnight for one reason or another (I think he was gone doing the ragnar race here), we need to create some extra fun. Watching a barbie movie in "boats" suddenly makes the evening magical.

I'm pretty sure she knows just how cute she is. She has turned from the chillest baby ever to the happiest baby ever. The two most common comments I get about her are, "Is she always this happy?" and "She looks just like Lucy/her sisters!"

Lucy, she is such a unique character. She's so expressive! I finally got her a leotard for gymnastics and she refuses to take it off until she has an accident in it. . 

Lily's love for her baby sister hasn't died down - she still loves to hold her, although Lexi is getting more difficult to hold now that she wants to be on the floor more often rolling around.

Jordan got LASIK on his eyes this month - something he's been wanting to do for years. It's taken some getting used to seeing him without his glasses, but he still handsome Jordan and he is so happy. The surgery wasn't fun (he was extremely light senstive for the first 12 hours, thus the sunglasses).

Relaxing, warm, bubble baths will do this to just about anyone.

These two. They're best friends, and although they fight, they play well together more than they fight. Things can get pretty crazy in our house sometimes.

Sunday afternoon castle building! They've started drawing out a plan before they build, each castle seems to be a bit bigger and better.

Lily is learning to read! This was taken just moments after reading her first book. She's worked really hard to get to this point, and still has more hard work ahead of her to become a fluent reader, but she's eager to start the journey.

Lexi loves her jumperoo. She loves to stand and jump and be active, so this toy is perfect for her. 

Hurrah for little friends who see our hidden desires to dress fancy and cat-like.

We're on a witch-kick after reading "Littlest Witch" and "Bed knobs and Broomsticks." We like to play that I'm the mama witch and they are my little kid witches and we go about turning all pink things green, stealing all things sparkly and giving each other compliments such as, "you're funny looking."

Craft time with Niki. Lucy wanted to give up, but I was proud of her for continuing on with her craft. 

Lexi's first banana! I think this was really in December, when she was 6 months. She loved the banana, up until it gave her the biggest stomach ache that lasted for 20 miserable hours until she threw it up. Good times.

This sums up how we all feel about bananas now a days.

Thanksgiving this year was pretty fun and laid back. We got together with some friends, the Davis's, Mijangos and Soares and we all brought some sides for the dinner. Good food and great friends make a for a fabulous day. Jordan would have liked to have thrown in football watching, but, we can't have it all. 

Tender moments

Lucy tonight: She was in bed in the room by herself about to go to sleep. I went and snuggled her and she said, "Mommy, we going to die at same time?" I reassured her that what ever happened here on earth we would live together in the Celestial Kingdom forever after the resurrection. Then she asked, "You still be my mommy? Will you be my mommy forever?" She is such a sweet, sweet girl.

Earlier today she was looking out the car window at the sky and she asked, "We get to live with Jesus in the Celestial Kingdom?" When I answered her yes, she smiled and said, "I love Jesus. I want to give Jesus a BIG hug!"

She is getting so good at sharing with others and helping little Lexi.


Lily, while we were in Calgary, we were using the TomTom to find my mom's chapel. Unfortunately we had the wrong address, and then under the Points of Interest in the TomTom, the LDS chapel listed in there turned out to be a Church of Christ. We were lost, without phones and had been driving around for 25 minutes. Until Lily piped up from the back, "we should say a prayer.". She offered a prayer for us, and not 2 minutes later we found the address hiden in the TomTom under "Calgary West" in the saved addresses. We were at the church just 10 minutes later.

The first Sunday of January 2015, Lily got up in Fast and Testimony meeting and bore her testimony for the first time in sacrament meeting. She was a little nervous, but she did it anyways because she knew it was the right thing to do. I was so proud of her. And after that Lucy was asking to go bear her tesitmony. She couldn't because it was the end of sacrament meeting but it shows that Lily is a good example for others.

Lately, Lily only wants to hear scripture stories at night before she goes to bed. Last night after I told her the story of Captain Moroni forifying the weak cities in preparation for Lamanite attacks, she asked me if I could tell her scriptures stories at breakfast, lunch and bedtime because she just wants to hear them more often.

Lexi, almost 7 months is such a happy baby! She smiles at everyone all the time. Strangers are frequently coming up to her because she'd been smiling at them. They are always amazed at what a happy, sweet baby she is.