1 of a Zillion Reasons I LOVE my son...

Monday morning Maddux and I had a "cleaning/dance party" together. I blasted some awesome dance music and we danced and picked up toys for about 15 minutes. It was a total hit and we actually got a lot done together!About 10 hours later, it was bedtime and I insisted that Maddux clean up his play area before bed. We went in to pick up and at a closer look, I noticed his "mess" (above) was actually this...

A pile of Lions and a pile of Tigers...

Bugs...Not just dinosaurs, but all of his Brachiosaurases...

Anyway, there were like 10 different piles of animals. He had been sorting for an hour or two. I was pretty impressed!

I let him keep his hard work out and they are still strewn all over the floor in my entry. :)

9 Months

Today my baby is 9 months. Before I know it, she isn't going to be a baby anymore! Depressing.

Her stats are:
Weight- 17 lbs, 11oz - 25%
Height- 28.75 inches - 85%
Head - 17.5 inches - 73%

We have been calling her our Chunky Monkey for months, but I think we need to come up with a new nickname. I had no idea she was such a peanut!

This month she:
*Crawls like a big girl
*Has 5 teeth
*Claps
*Dances
*Stands (holding something) for prolonged periods of time (usually until Maddux knocks her over)
*Says "dadada", "mamama", and "bababa"
*Eats any baby food, rice, formula, AND anything and everything we eat
*STILL has no hair
*Loves Daddy a LOT
*Looks more and more like Maddux everyday

LOVE this girl!

Peeked in on Reese during naptime. I was certain she was asleep, she hadn't made a peep in 15 minutes.
Wrong...

silly girl

"it ok mommy"

This morning I went in to wake Maddux up for school (at 9:05!!). He was completely incoherent when I went to lay Reese down on his bed. Then I notice, on the top of his comforter, a giant wet circle. Ew. "Uh oh, Maddux, did you have an accident??" He leaps out from under the covers and says, "it ok mommy. I got new pants" Stands up to show off the fact that he had changed his pants after peeing the bed...

As if all problems are solved by the fact he simply changed his pants and threw the nasty wet ones on the floor, then went back into a deep sleep.

If you can't tell, his waist is in a leg hole and the top of the shorts is on the right side of his hip.

8 months

I'm way behind! Little Reesie is already 8 months and not so little anymore! She is ALL over the place. She still army crawls on her tummy, but she seriously can get anywhere in a matter of seconds. AGH!

Yesterday I put Baby Einstein on for her and went to put some toy's away, I came back just seconds later to find her trying to get under the table. I put her back on the rug and left the room again...

this was about 45 seconds later...

this is a little video of her in action...

Here are a few other fun things about Reese at 8 months:

*Has two teeth on the bottom
**Will eat absolutely ANYTHING we give her
*Still adores her big brother and vice versa
**Has almost no hair, just a few whispies
*Jabbers constantly. Drew says he will never be able to get a word in with a house full of three big talkers
**A pretty big scaredy cat. She is scared of a lot of things: loud noises, Santa, some people she doesn't know, Maddux pretending to be a dinosaur, etc...
*Loves books, looking at them, flipping pages, and chewing on them
**She gets up on all fours and rocks back and forth, but when it comes time to move, it's back to the tummy

11 in '11

This year, instead of making a new years resolution, which I can never manage to keep up more than a few months, I decided to make a list of goals. Something about checking stuff off a list makes it so much easier for me to do!
11 goals to accomplish sometime, anytime, in 2011.

1- Run a 10K in 45 minutes
2- Read a book to my kids every day
3- Read the Book of Mormon
4- Complete a Ragnar
5- Be on time
6- Find 15 new healthy recipes to add to my mix
7- Read the Ensigns each month
8- Complete a triathlon
9- Go to the temple once a month
10- Make more $ than I did in 2010
11- Do a RAK everyday

3

Maddux turned three yesterday and we celebrated with all things super hero!

I didn't get many pictures during the day. But, Daddy took the day off to celebrate.
We started with doughnuts for breakfast, Bounce Jungle, and then lunch at Chik-fil-a.

Super Hero Party...

I had no intention of having a bounce house IN my house, but of all days for it to rain in Phoenix.!!! So, we made due inside!

Super hero capes for each kid...Vander and Reese sporting their mini- capes...This was the stash of gifts that I have to find room for in the house. (We barely found room after Christmas!) Yikes!!!
Thank you everyone who made Maddux's birthday so fun!

Christmas 2010

Christmas Eve....

We took the kids to Build-a-Bear and let Maddux build a Rudolph. We watched Rudolph and the Island of Misfit toys at least 81567354 times this Christmas Season. He LOVES "Reindeer Red Nose", as he calls him.

Dinner at Kasey and Joel's. This was Maddux's first present of Christmas. His face quickly went from this....To this.... when he realized it was pajamas and not clothes.

Here is our elf Doodle. Santa hid my stocking because the cute basket for my bike wouldn't' fit INSIDE of it.

Christmas Day....

All Maddux wanted for Christmas was a "Cool Blue Shoot Gun". Turns out his little hands have a hard time holding up his gun, so he traded for the smaller, yellow one Santa brought Daddy. Santa is so smart!

Reese's toy from Santa...

All I wanted for Christmas. And I LOVE LOVE LOVE it...

Talking to Elder Ingram aka Uncle Bo...

Maddux was SHOWING Bo his cool toy over the phone...

On to my parent's house...

more toys...

Batman playing with his new tool set....

Our attempted sleepover in the tent next to the Christmas tree. Ended up in Maddux deciding he'd rather sleep in his own bed. But check out his cool new Batman sleeping bag!

Christmas was soooo fun this year. I absolutely loved it and I'm sad it's over. My kids were over-stimulated, under-rested, and big time spoiled but I wouldn't have changed it for anything!

Kasey told me yesterday that Reese looks like a toy from Toy Story.
Then she pulled up this picture of the toy and I was dying laughing!

Gingerbread House

This year Maddux was way more into eating the candy than decorating our gingerbread house.
I still think it turned out pretty cute.

This is how Reese helped to decorate the gingerbread house... ;)

Christmas Dress

I have two favorite Sundays every year...Primary Program and Christmas Program! I have always loved the Sunday before Christmas. I love Ooohing and Aaahing over all the little girls' Christmas dresses. I love the music, the program, everything. This was my first year to dress up a little girl and I have been SOOOO excited. I'm definitely a newbie because her tights were way too big, I forgot to get black shoes, and thank goodness it was warm enough to sport this sleeveless dress because I didn't think about a plan B if it was too cold.

I tried to take some pics of my two kiddos together and unfortunately, most of them ended up like this...So, Daddy distracted the big dude and I tried to get a couple of Reese's cute outfit.