Pictures

My friend Chelsea was kind enough to share her talents with our family.

Making Waves

Miss Aftyn is my little 'social butterfly.' She loves to wave at everyone.... I mean everyone. It is so fun to see how she loves to brighten days and bring smiles to faces. She has become a big distraction to those sitting around us in Sacrament meeting, because she sits and waves to them and smiles at them throughout the entire meeting. When we go grocery shopping I will look behind me and see everyone waving back at her. Her favorite thing is to find someone who is not looking at her and she will stare at them and wave at them until they notice her. In fact, I thought it was quite fitting when I was looking through some old pictures and I realized that she was a 'waver' even from the womb....

My exact quote from my post was that "The baby kept waving at us!  Hi Mom! Hi Dad!"

 

Here are a couple of Videos... I know, so rude of me to always interrupt her when she is trying to eat.

Roll Over!

Baby girl learned to roll over a couple of days ago. Here is a video of that! (sorry for the loud Strawberry Shortcake in the background, big sister Maiya begged me not to turn it down.)

And she has learned to scoot backward with her feet while laying on her back.  I will lay her on her play mat, and then come back a few minutes later and find her like this....

 Let the mobility begin!

Pumpkin Carving

We all had a fun time last night carving our pumpkin.  It is just so fun to have kids around for holidays.  They make everything so much fun and exciting.  I love Fall and Halloween. 

Love Maiya's face in this one ;)

She thought the pumpkin guts were 'DEEEESCUSTING'

Quince loves pumpkin guts.

Look Mom! I'm a pumpkin head!

Uhhh. Mom? Daddy's gone crazy!

My boys

The Finished product. Side A 'Quincey's side'

Side B 'Maiya's side.

Dancing Queen

Maiya officially started her dance class yesterday. It is a Ballet/Creative movement dance class for 45 minutes every Tuesday. She had a great time. And told us that she learned how to 'tip-toe, tip-toe' (she says it in a really cute kind of high pitched way, if you can imagine.

Little miss thing, showing off her ballerina moves.

 

I just thought this picture was cool because Quincey was caught jumping in the air. 

22 weeks

I have such a majestic pose ;)

On the phone (not so majestic).

I am still feeling really good! I love the second trimester.  I have got my eating a lot more under control.  I eat a lot more often throughout the day so I am not so ravenous around brownies and the like.

We found a book called 'The Wild, wild Inside: A view from Mommy's Tummy" and my kids really like it.  The book is narrated by the baby that is inside her mommy's tummy and she talks about how people will always ask her mom what the baby is doing and she always says the same things.  Like, sleeping, eating, kicking.  And the baby explains that she isn't doing just those things, she dances like a ballerina, or plays baseball, or cooks food for hungry puppies, or does yoga and flies rocket ships.
Q has really gotten into it, he is always coming up with things that the baby is doing.  And even though he still says he wants a brother, he always calls the baby she.
So today I tried to tell the kids that the baby was sleepy so I needed to take a nap, and Quincey said, "No, Mom the baby isn't tired she is wanting to dance."  Ahhh man.  

Things to Remember

Things my kids do right now that I want to remember:
Quincey

(pictured here with his pre-school friend Cooper)

-He says, "I am the one that......"  ie: wants you to get me juice, likes superheroes, doesn't want to go to bed.
-He loves his sister, and defends her and translates for her.  ie: 'What Maiya is trying to say is,....'
-The other day he got it in his head that he wanted to go camping and he went and got sleeping bags and pillows and put them outside, collected sticks and was roasting marshmallows on the (pretend) fire.
-He is good at applying scriptures to daily life.  For example when I was talking about not being bad and being good, he said, 'Alma was bad, but that angel came and told him to be good.' (P.S.  Maiya is good at this too.  She loves to talk about how Laban is a bad guy.)  

Maiya

-Miss Maiya's language has always been really good, and has learned to talk really well, really clearly, pretty early (which has proven to both be really cute, and a bit embarrassing)....
-She pretty much disagrees with everything.  ie: Me: Maiya you are so pretty!  Maiya: (yells, and puts her arms on her hips, and stomps her foot) No! I am not pretty!!!!  I don't want to be pretty!
-She also yells at poor innocent strangers.  For example a woman will come up to her in the grocery store and tell her what a sweet girl she is, and she starts screaming.  "No, I don't like you! You are a mean lady! Go away!"  (admittedly, a bit funny until you keep running into the same lady in the store and she ends up behind you in the checkout line).
-She says Quincey like 'Hen see'.  And calls her niece Amrylin, "Lemon"
-If you ask her to stop doing something she will get so mad and go put herself in time-out in her room, close the door, cry for a few minutes, and come out when she feels better. (I love this, saves me from putting her in time outs!)
-She loves to be outside.  She climbs through the doggy door, (so funny to see) and can sit out there and play with her toys by herself for hours at a time. 

I wouldn't trade them for anything :)

Back in the Saddle Again!!! (Updates)

I just got done re-reading all of my past posts on this blog! What a blast. It is so fun to have the memories documented. It has inspired me to try to start blogging better again. I used to be so good at it but have slacked as of late.

First of all, I am so excited that Thanksgiving is coming up. My parents are planning on driving here and spending Thanksgiving at my house! This will be the first time that I attempt a Thanksgiving dinner and I am having fun with the planning and preparation. Been recording a bunch of Food Network shows on Thanksgiving meals. I will let you know how it goes.... I think trying new things is so fun.

And coming up in Dec. the kids and I are taking off to fly to Boston for a week. We are staying with a friend that I met while I was in Sweden. I am so excited to see her again after 6 years!!!! And to meet her brand new baby girl. I was originally nervous about the flight alone with 2 babies. But, I decided I would rather try and have it be horrible than not try. So, we will see!

Just so you know, I sure love my kiddos. They are both growing and changing so much. Quincey is still really into Spiderman and pretending that other people are his enemies. He often will just randomly yell, "We're not so different!" (pretty sure that he got that from the green goblin Spider man movie.) And our little miss Maiya is really not so little anymore! She is walking everywhere (she started walking about a week before Halloween), and has just really taken off! She also says, "YUCK!" Every time she has a dirty diaper. She also throws it away all by herself, and without me asking! What an angel. She also says yes, no, mama, dada, this, that, and knows a few signs as well.
They both nap for a couple of hours during the day, and sleep so well at night. I am sure spoiled right now. :)

Also, about a month and 1/2 ago Geren was called as the Bishop in our Ward. We already feel many blessings from this. It has been a change for sure, keeps us on our toes. At first it was really hard for Q to see daddy up on the stand but not able to sit with him, but he is getting used to it now. And thanks to the activity bag from his Grandma, and to many big helpers, he keeps himself pretty entertained, and I've actually been able to catch some talks!!

Okay! let's hope I keep this up! I still need to talk about my thoughts and feelings with So you think you can dance! Stay tuned for that!