Vinyl Giveaway

My cousin, Amy, is doing a giveaway for free vinyl on her blog Words & Wisdom. Head on over and check it out. She has a lot of great ideas for vinyl and does a really great job.

Scriptures

Emily was "reading" her scriptures this morning and was cracking me up. She had an elaborate story she was telling complete with "for behold" and such. I loved listening to her. At least we know that she is paying attention somewhat when we are reading scriptures at night.

JJ is signing.

We have been trying to teach JJ sign for quite a while. He is really stubborn though. I think that he has known a few signs, like he used to say drink on occasion, he just doesn't want to. Emily and Madison learned using food. I tried doing that with him too, and he just gets mad. Yesterday, when his Occupational Therapist, Erika, was here, she finally got him to say "I want it" using sign language. It is the cutest thing. He sticks his hands out in front of him and opens and closes his fingers. He would only do it for a while though and then he got frustrated that she kept asking him to do it so he stopped. We have had him do it a few times since then playing with a ball. Today we decided to make him do that for his drink at dinner instead of please since he won't ever sign it. At first he got so mad and started yelling at me and sticking his hands straight down like he does when we ask him to say "please". He flat out refuses. Today, I just ignored him and waited for him to do it. I finally went back to eating my dinner because he refused, and he went back to eating his. About 5 minutes later he finally was desperate enough and looked at me and did the sign for " I want it" I almost laughed because it was like he was rolling his eyes and saying "whatever, Mom I'll do it if you insist"

JJ is crawling!

Yes, JJ is finally crawling, and I mean full blown up on his knees crawling. He has been doing the army crawl forever. Only his involved his head much more than anyone I've ever seen. Today he finally decided that it was okay to stay up on all fours and crawl around. He is 13 months, so most kids his age are starting to walk, but I think that he has a ways to go before he gets to that point. That is okay though because I love that he still can't reach to get into a lot of things because he isn't even pulling up on things or cruising along furniture.

Grandpa

I love how Madison says grandpa, "Pampa" She can't say g's or c's at all so she has a hard time saying it. She loves to talk about her grandpa and will talk about him all day. Anytime we see a truck that is big she thinks it is grandpa and will start yelling out "pampa, pampa". She only gets to see my dad on a regular basis because Joe's dad lives in Arizona and his stepdad lives in Ohio. That is going to change soon and I know she will be really sad. She also loves her Great-grandpa and loves to talk about him a lot as well. At least he will still be close by, so she will get to see one "pampa"

Awesome Giveaway

One of my favorite hair blogs is giving away some curlformers. They make awesome ringlet curls. Go on over to Babes in Hairland and check it out.

Emily's confusion

Emily just woke up from her nap and informed me her penis hurts. "What did you say" I asked her and again she repeated her penis hurts. I had to explain to her that she doesn't have a penis and then tell her a little about her anatomy. Still don't know why it hurts though.

Awesome Help

Joe wasn't feeling very good this morning so he decided to stay home from church. I play the organ at church and was a little worried about what to do with my kids while I was up at the organ. I left them on the bench and told Emily to make sure JJ didn't fall off. Then went to play prelude. I looked down at the beginning of the meeting and a friend of ours was sitting with the kids. It helped so much. Another friend that was sitting behind us was holding JJ. After the Sacrament hymn I went and sat with the kids again and our friend went back to her seat. We had an intermediate hymn and during that another friend moved over and sat with my kids and then took her seat again when I was done. For the closing hymn yet another friend sat with the kids. I was so greatful and amazed at how quickly they got up and helped out. I really appreciate it. Thank you so much!

Pictures

Today, Sara came with me to Lake Lowell and she took some pictures of the kids. I was wanting pictures of Emily and JJ for their birthdays. I usually get the free one from Kiddie Kandids, but they have changed their policy, and you now have to buy a sheet in order to get the 8x10 free. I decided I didn't want to pay $20 to get an 8x10 because that is all I get for birthdays and then at Christmas we usually buy more pictures. Sara did an awesome job. Here are some of my favorites.I wasn't going to take any pictures of Madison, but Sara caught her with JJ before I had Emily set up. I liked this one with them sitting next to each other.I think this is the picture I am going to use for JJ because you can see his face the best.

I really like this one of him too.

This is the picture I am going to use for Emily. It captured her natural smile the best.

I think this one of her is so silly. She didn't understand what we were asking her to do and rolled her eyes. Sara took the picture at just the right time.

We tried to get a picture with them together, but they were done by this point. JJ wouldn't stop crying and Emily and Madison had ants in their pants. We'll just have to try it again another time.

Shoes

Madison loves shoes. Any shoes. She is often found wearing Emily's shoes. (Emily doesn't like this at all) One day I found her wearing my shoes. She thought she was so cool wearing Mommy's shoes.