Sunday, September 27, 2009

8 Months Old




Our baby has grown up so much this last month. She's turning into a big girl in so many ways. She's crawling, standing up on everything, eating real food, clapping, waving bye bye, signing "more," crying for mamama in the mornings, sleeping 11 hours at night, trying to sing and dance along with music, and getting into the stranger danger stage. She's been sick all weekend and it's so sad, but it's felt good to do nothing but cuddle her. I hope she gets over it soon so we can get some sleep again!

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Happy Birthday JD

Tuesday the 22nd was JD's 27th birthday. Maddie and I took him out to lunch and later that day we had a little birthday get together with our families. We also went to the Angels Yankees game last minute. I think he had a pretty good day. I got him tickets to the BYU vs. UNLV game in October. We're excited to have a weekend away in Las Vegas!

Maddison and I are so lucky that JD is ours. He's the best husband and father. Thanks for all you do for us babe. We love you so much!!!

Monday, September 21, 2009

Prodigies

...in the making.

Saturday, September 19, 2009

iPhoto


After realizing that it's been way too long since I've posted, I decided to get on my mom's Mac and try to come up with something to blog about. It's not that my life's so dull that that there's nothing going on...quite the opposite. I've been too busy to even charge my camera battery, let alone document all of the momentous things that are happening every day. And believe me- there are momentous things. Like Maddie perfecting her speed crawl, pulling herself up on EVERYTHING, and refusing her afternoon nap. Who refuses an afternoon nap? And me making it to work on time after trying to have every detail taken care of for whoever's babysitting, along with my six meals a day I'm supposed to be eating. (Work's going great, by the way. I love working in the ER). And JD managing to stay up on all the latest BYU football news while working his buns off at the office (and in the gym:). It's a miracle that we have any energy left at all to do the fun stuff. But of course we manage to fit it in. A lot of it. We've been hanging out with friends and family all summer long. I keep having to remind myself that summer's never really over in California. There're plenty of beach days left for us. Jealous? Come visit us. We miss you. Maddison loves seeing these two buddies almost as much as I love seeing their moms. I hope their moms don't care that I cartoonized them.

Here's Nanette. She's got a birthday coming up on the 27th. She's pretty smart. This is what she did when I asked her how old she was gonna be. We got to see her tonight and she is just too cute. Maddie envies her lovely locks.
Here's Savannah. She eats constantly, and particularly loves eating sand, dirt clods, chips, and anything she can get her hands on. And Maddie still weighs more than her. She just had a birthday and sleeps in til her mom wakes her up at noon.
I just realized that these girls have some same nicknames: Nanners, Nanna, Nannerpus. Wow this post is random.

p.s. Don't go see "Love Happens," the new Jennifer Aniston movie. It was brutal. I thought it was never going to end.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

09.09.09

Happy Birthday to my newest nephew Dylan Slater Lindsey! And what a cool day to be born!

Get this:

September has 9 letters

Wednesday has 9 letters

Today is the 252 day of the year which equals nine when added up

AND he was born at 2:34am (Add it up people!)

Congrats to my brother and sister-in-law (who is amazing and gave birth naturally again). I'm anxiously awaiting more pictures of this little guy!

p.s. Happy Birthday Erin Low and thanks for letting me steal the info from your blog :)

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Best Buds

Last week was so much fun. We had Jess and Mike and Bryce, Sarah and Briggs here to play for a whole week. Basically we just soaked up the sun, watched the babies interact, and played tennis. Maddie and Briggs were beyond adorable together, and let's face it, they're way cuter than we are, so the cameras naturally gravitated towards them. (Explaining the lack of pictures of adults here).
Surfer babies.
Munchkins in the spa.
With grammy at Newport.
Happy in the bath.
Mesmorized by the fish at the Aquarium of the Pacific.
Sharks too.
Briggs teaching Maddie how to crawl.
We miss you like crazy little Bubba! Can't wait til Thanksgiving.

P.S. We miss everyone else too. Can't wait for our next baby boy to be here Sammy!

For Daddy

Go Cougs!

We're so glad you had a fun in Texas but hurry home cuz we miss you!

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

7 Months




It's so hard to believe that my baby's 7 months old. She's leaving the infant stage and heading toward toddler at lightning speed. As I'm typing this, she's pulling herself up my leg and standing at the couch, (a trick she undoubtedly picked up from her cousin Briggs last week.) She's in the process of perfecting her crawling, picking up puffs with little pinchers, and mimicking sounds. She cracks us up with her whimpery whine, her obsession with electronics, her determination to get what she wants, and her intense bearing down. Lately when she wakes up, she'll crawl to the side of the crib nearest the door, push down the bumper, grab on to the rails, and wail til someone comes to get her. I love seeing her personality come out. She's still zero to sixty, but so much more happy than she was those first couple of months. We just can't get enough of her.