So Alexis is writing a book for Cameron for Christmas and it is the cutest thing since ever. She is drawing these really awesome cartoon pictures for it too, but I have no way to share those at the moment so you'll just have to imagine them, mmmkay ( Read more... )

Mama, when she grows up, I want Alli to be my girl-husband ( Read more... )

Alli pulls up on things. She is cruising. No joke. 6 months, 2 weeks and 3 days old. I had to go buy her some Robeez today because she can't be in footie pajamas and barefoot forever. I have now heard two stories of walking 7 month olds. Previously I would have thought this was impossible. But now? I am so scared it's about to happen to me. I am ( Read more... )

The moment, and I do mean the MOMENT, I found out that we were having a girl, I ran out to buy yarn to knit something cute for my daughter. I got this pastel colored stuff for not very much money at all at a nice yarn store and proceeded to try to knit her some babylegs on magic circle, even though I had never before knitted anything in the round ( Read more... )

Sorry for the poor quality, this was filmed on my phone ... it's still cute though. I spent most of the time trying to make sure that you couldn't see that she's diaper-free in the video. The hilarious thing is, that teeny tiny little fuss at the end was her way of nicely saying, "Mama, you'd better put that camera down pronto and get me on my ( Read more... )

I specifically packed my bathing suit for this trip so I could use the hot tub at my in-laws' house since I'm uber sore. (I schelped 40 pounds of groceries home from Fred Meyer because I forgot that there was no 3 p.m. bus on Sundays ( Read more... )

Ben: "Papa, my back is hurting right here from my dancing. RIGHT HERE!"

Me: "Do you want your papa to fix it for you?"

Ben: "Yeah"

Papa: "Yup, he's right. It's right here."

CRACK!

Ben: "Thank you papa!"

goes off to play again.

This was originally supposed to be a photo of all four grandchildren, but by the time we got the camera out and were ready to take the shot, Kaela and Cameron had wandered off.

So it's just Ryland and Ben. Taken some time last fall at Grandma's house. Note the adorableness of Ben's blond hair.


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This morning, my hair itched like crazy, and I decided that a shower was non-negotiable. I told Ben that he could take a bath with me, or watch Wonder Pets while I took a shower. He chose TV ( Read more... )

Things have been a lot better around here. Stephen just happened to be having a bad day on the same day that I was having a bad day. But we spent some time together over the weekend, going to Dad & Laurie's for Shabbat on Friday (Ben came home in Uncle Daniel's old Batman pjs that were about 5 sizes too big. It was the cutest thing on the planet) ( Read more... )