phone pics/other stuff

 

Andrew took this picture, abby is always trying to do my hair. often she comes up behind me and just rips out my pony tail (OUCH!) and starts vigorously "combing" my hair. she throws things like "it doens't hurt. hold your head still." and stuf flike that in there for me to consider. haha since she probably hears that when i do her hair....

did this one get posted? its just so cute.

she likes to sleep on her side a lot. i love the big baby legs!

Abby has discovered the JOY OF LAYING ON GRASS.... she loves doing it everytime we go to the park nearly. she told me the other day "grass makes you SPECIAL!" with a big smile. she LOVES grass.

sweet {big} baby sleeping

rub a dub... three is definitely company!

still a favorite position. she always puts her hands behind her head when she is tired and trying to get to sleep :)

wearing Isabella's 18 month shorts.

chillin in the stroller...

dizzy yet?! haha i love this drive to Church

she LOVES daddy.

GOOD point!!!

sometimes she reminds me of when she was a baby...

he was helping her shoot baskets

Andrew LOVES to play basketball and was totally impressing everybody!

they had a little festival. abby kept calling it the Fiesta.

wiped out!

we had Nutella for "N" day. YUM

Look who started crawling! she also got her 6th tooth recently

Andrew and his spider Max. he has been talking about "max likes this" and "max likes that". my favorite part was "when can we add Max's mi to the wii?" haha. serious serious!

her first candy- she LOVED it

yesterday was dans day off! so we went to the park.

our little crawler!! she loves to mess up what the kids are building

andrew was sweetly teaching abby to read The Foot Book tonight. he does SO well for a barely 5 year old. he can read Green Eggs and Ham all by himself (all 62 pages!!) what a smarty pants.

she is little miss early bird (5:30-6:30 almost EVERY morning.) and she always wants to rest on the couch. what a cycle! i try to keep her up so she will sleep longer but haven't figured it out yet...

im trying to remember things i need to write here...
the other day at dinner after abby said the prayer andrew said to her "that is the commandment after the "don't make stuff up" one". haha. (prayer was the other commandment)
oh when we were in long island with jen, dan was teasing and said "mommy was still in diapers when i was baptized!" (because i would have been turning 3 when dan was baptized. im sure i was not in diapers...) anyways andrew misunderstood and started laughing hysterically saying "mommy was still in diapers when she was baptized?!" oh dear...
anyways, there is a little. we are trying to figure out what to do for the fall. we have 3 options, alaska for a little while longer (i am going up there july 25ish), come to utah, or go to arizona. the vivint office wont be open in az yet, but we have lots of moving parts we are working out right now to figure out where we will be and when. big changes ahead i think... more details to come later when the wrinkles are ironed out a little. as in we would have a plan:) new jersey is incredibly green and i am loving that and soaking it in because i feel like i will probably be banished to the desert soon;) we are happy, and healthy, and together. and thats what makes life good. so we are good:) andrew is learning so much- monkey bars, reading, simple math, i know there are other things. he is making me so proud. abby is also doing lots of stuff to keep up. she is very daring and loves to swing. she absolutely would live on the tire swing at the castle park if i would only keep pushing her and spinning her. Isabella is now crawling and has 6 teeth. she is a HAPPY baby. i haven't switched her to formula. i got the nutramigen but when i read the first ingredient was corn syrup solids, i realized i would have to be desperate to feed that to my baby. i know breast milk is so much better, and she is doing so well on it that i don't have the heart to cut her off simply because i want to diet. i tried giving her half breast milk half formula bottle, and she just shook her head and grimaced like i was feeding her sour milk. so because she seems to be happy breastfeeding, i will continue until she can switch a little easier. i hope by 1 year she can have milk again, but if not we'll cross that bridge when we get there. she really likes me:) i love that about being a mom. i think i am a favorite (she really loves dan too, and follows him everywhere with her eyes, waiting for him to pick her up if he is home). i love being a favorite of someone so sweet and innocent and adorable and perfect. i'm not perfect at all, so far from it... but she doesn't hold it against me. she loves me always. anyways, i guess i'm going to sign off now. goodnight!