I don't know why this hit a chord with me today but it sure did. I came out of the shower to find this today. Haylee had set up a hair bow store all by herself and I thought it was in the most creative fashion. I just cannot get over how much fun it is to have her as my little gal. All mine!! Ok well half Weston's but she is just a treasure. She is the most creative little person and what I love is watching her. She can entertain herself so well. It's like she gets in her own little world. I can hear here carrying on all sorts of conversations with her pretend peeps. I am truly fascinated by her! She is learning so much all the time. She can write all of our names in our family, and she is starting to write many other words. She can memorize anything. Anything! She has so many songs memorized. She was sitting with a lady at church on Sunday and when we sang praise to the man Haylee sang it all. The lady came up to me afterward and said, does you daughter know the hymn praise to the man?" Yup she sure does. And many others, and who knows how. She knows the first 9 articles of faith completly from memory. Like I said, I am fascinated by her! Where did she come from? She is awesome and I can take no credit. She came out this way!

get to work!

I love my little helpers. They beg me to empty our silverware everyday! It's great


And is anybody else excited that the last day of January is tomorrow? Goodbye, just one month closer to spring!

Hunter

We were blessed with a pretty fun little guy to come to our family. And now he is already 18 months old. Happy half birthday Hunter (a few days ago). He has been so much fun to have in our family. He is one hefty little guy. He weighs 27 lbs and is about 32 inches tall? I'm not quite sure exactly how tall he is. He is wearing size 24 months clothes. He isn't saying a whole lot of words but he is loud and makes lots of grunting noises. He can say, mom, dad, ball, whoa, wow, hot, hi, off, and that's about it. He can say quack quack for duck, moo, and baa baa for sheep. He never liked to read books before but the past couple of months he LOVES to read books. He is now very into coloring and will color as long as Haylee is, which can be for hrs. He loves to take all of the lids off the markers and put them back on. He is also crazy obsessed with toothbrushes. Seriously obsessed. Most often he has two or three in his hand. He loves to watch Weston brush his teeth with his electric toothbrush. He laughs at Weston the entire time. He loves to have his face splashed in the bathtub. It makes him laugh the cutest laugh you have ever heard. He can throw a ball better than most five year olds and he loves to run and he runs FAST!! He loves, cars, trucks, airplanes, balls, animals and tools. I didn't even have to teach him any of these things. I can't believe how boy he is. The other day the snow plow was plowing our parking lot. Hunter just stood at his window watching it for 30 mins saying wow that entire time. I called haylee to come in so she could watch too. She watched it go bye once and was done. Hunter loves to jump and climb. We go to open gym at Haylee's gymnastics and he is a wild man! Hunter loves banannas! He has 2 to 4 a day. He never gets tired of them. He's a pretty good fruit eater and basically just wants to eat whatever Haylee is eating. He is a very independent eater. I think I spoon fed Haylee for 3 yrs, I'm not kidding but he has been eating with a spoon and fork for months now. And he refuses to eat in his high chair anymore. He always eats at the table with us in a big chair. He loves, loves, loves Haylee and wants to be around her all the time. He is going through kind of clingy phase with me right now. Even at home I feel like he wants me to hold him all the time. He loves his binks and blanky and is quite the snuggler when he is tired. He loves to play tackle with Weston. Anytime Weston comes home he always wants to play chase with him. They have the cutest relationship, I just love it. Oh ya, he says amen too. He is pretty good at folding his arms during the prayer. He went to Nursery for the first time a couple of weeks ago and was so thrilled to be in there with TOYS! Let's hope it continues to go well. He is taking one nap a day pretty much 2 to 3 hrs. I always know when he is up in the morning because he jumps in his bed like a trampoline and yells, "mom, mom, mom!" Very loudly until I come to get him. One of these days he is going to go jumping right out of his bed. He can get some serious air in that thing. He is such a tease. He will tease anybody like crazy and just smile about it the whole time. He is a super cutie and loves to smile at all the ladies at church. This is just so I remember how adorable my 18 month old is. We love you Hunter!!





It really is all gone bud

Snow day

We woke up to this. When I wake up to white I pretty much confine myself to the house. I'm terrified of driving in the snow. So we had a snow day. Here it is in pictures:


We started out jumping on my bed. For a long time


Then we played with the doll house.


Then we played school






Haylee loves to play church. She gives talk after talk after talk. She says tons of prayers and sings every song she can think of. And she always says she is the primary president.






Finally the kids couldn't take it anymore and we had to venture out in the cold snow.




I'm great with one snow day but we have more snow today. Ugh!! Spring anyone???

riding bikes

The past couple of days it has been so nice here. Still no snow, and not only no snow but in the 50's! So yesterday I got the kids all excited to go ride bikes outside. But when we got outside it was freezing and so windy. Way too miserable to be outside. So we moved to the garage, and Haylee has been having so much fun riding her bike out there ever since. I've decided our garage is like our new basement. I just tell the kids to go out there for a couple of hours.