Look who's walking

how does this happen??? I just had this little girl and now she is thinking she is so big.....
Adison has been trying to walk for the past month and she has it down pretty good now. She is only ten months so she is one of our youngest walkers. She can stand up in the middle of a room, and also bend down and pick something up. She did a great turn the other day without falling down and can almost do a summer-salt... But she still can get to things faster when she crawls and so she will crawl most of the time. She does a monkey crawl when she really wants to go fast and it is so funny.
She has just learned to click her tongue this month and she does it a lot. She can also suck air in and blow it out and it almost makes a whistle. She loves to play patti cake and will start clapping as soon as you start to sing it, and then whenever you say "yeah" or"big girl "she will start to clap. She can wave hi, and bye, and has blown a kiss a couple of times. She can squeal really really loud and say a bunch of baby words. She has started to do a funny fake laugh at herself every once and a while and then will do a really cheesy smile. She loves to be right next to someone and does not like to be alone in a room. She has to have eye's on you at all times. She still really loves to have a binki, and I think she plays with them more than she sucks them. At night when she is done with her bottle she throws them on the floor and then when you go in to get her in the morning her binkies are all on the floor also.
She is on a schedule and if you mess it up you can tell.... she likes to take a nap at 10- 12 then 2-4. Then to bed at 8 and up around 8 or so. This makes it hard to do anything......
Adison is such a happy baby, and is so much fun to have in our home. She brings such a calm peaceful feeling to all of us and it is so easy to be happy around her. I love this little angel so much and really wish she would slow down and stop growing up so fast!!!!

January

Why does time have to go so fast? I always felt like when I was younger that time would not go fast enough and I couldn't wait until I was older, and wished my years away. Now I just want to freeze time....

Alexis is growing up way to fast. She is going to be 10 this May... I can not believe it. She has started to act older also. Adison has really started to love being with Alexis. Most of the time she will choose Alexis over me. And Alexis is so great with her. The other day Ryan and I had to go to a wedding and Ryan's parents were going to watch the girls. They had not gotten to our house but we had to leave so we wouldn't be late. So we put Alexis in charge. I guess when they got there she had all the kids ready to eat dinner and had the table set and had spaghetti and meat with sauce all ready to eat.
Adison is getting big way to fast. She is a mover also. I don't know how we are going to make it through church ever again.....

Adison really loves anything electronic. We have tons of toys that she can play with but the things that she goes for are the girls mp3 players, the cell phones, TV remotes, wii remotes, and anything else electronic.

The girls were putting on a dance show and I had to sneak a few pictures.
Alexis isn't afraid to show off though
Look at those teeth. Adison has eight teeth now and is such a great little eater. One day when we were at church Brytlee had put a ham and cheese sandwich in the diaper bag and Adison got a hold of it. She was doing really well with it so we just let her keep it. About 10 minutes later I looked down and it was gone. I asked Ryan if he had it "nope" so I looked everywhere for it and it was gone. She had ate the whole thing.
There really isn't much that she can not eat, but for some reason she likes to blow raspberry's at you when you try to feed her and she HATES being put in her highchair, or bumbo. She would much rather sit on your lap while she eats. I am pretty sure we will not be taking her to any restaurants anytime soon.....

Missing Brytlee

Brytlee went on a week long trip to Las Vegas with my Parents, Chris, Cindy, and Tessa. They wanted to take Brytlee with them because Tessa needed a buddy, and she had not been able to go on a trip with Grandma and Grandpa yet. She was so excited and felt sooooooo special.
It is only the middle of the week so we have a few days until she will be back and we all have missed her so much. As soon as she left all of us felt a little sad and the house just didn't feel the same. Alexis and Elizabeth have said everyday they miss her and have been praying for her to come home safe every night. Adison has been acting different during the day and I know it is because she is board and needs her buddy to come back and play with her.
Brytlee has been such a huge helper for me also that I have really noticed a big difference. She has been a cleaning freak and during the day will go around with me and clean the whole house. The playroom has been a huge mess this whole week, and a few other things have been out that she usually cleans up.
It is funny because sometimes when the girls come home she will get on them and tell them "only get one thing out at a time" or "I just cleaned this up guys." It cracks me up. One day when I had made some kind of treat the girls were eating them and tried to sneak more and Brytlee yells, "guys, just one a day!"

She really loves Adison so much and loves to help me take care of her. Whenever I change her diapers she is right there waiting to go and throw it away. She will go to the garage and try and make a basket. She is getting really good at it.
Brytlee and I have a picture just like this from when she was a baby. I just made her a book for Christmas and she saw it and wanted to take another picture like it. (can you tell she is in a funny mood)

Brytlee can always make us laugh. She went on a little road trip with Ryan to Pocatello, and on the way there and back they listened to Napoleon Hill (which is a motivational speaker) and about half way home she turned the radio off and told Ryan, "I've had enough, I know it all dad."
Another funny story about Brytlee, one day she wasn't listening when it was time to go to bed and she was being a little grumpy. So I asked her, "Where did my good little girl go?" and she looked so serious and said, "She ran away." So I played along and said, "how can I get her to come back?" Brytlee say's, "you can call her." So I pick up my pretend phone and make a dialing noise and then sit there for a few seconds with my hand up to my ear, and then she walks out of the room and says, "Hello"
me - hi, is this my good girl?
Brytlee - yes
me - can you come back? I really miss you and need my big helper
Brytlee - ok, I will be three minutes
me - thank you, bye

then a few seconds later she comes running in the room with a huge smile on her face and gives me a great big huge and kiss, and then starts getting ready for bed and is the sweetest little thing. (we have done this a few times now and it works like a charm)

Brytlee has all of a sudden started to like having her hair done. She will tell me when she see's really cute hair ideas and tell me how to do them.... She loves to have her hair curled and then she will say, "oh lets take a picture"

This was a hair idea she saw on a girl at the store. She wanted to go home and try it right away.

Brytlee has changed so much in the last little while, and is really growing up. I am not sure if it is being a big sister that has made her change, or if it is the age, but I am really enjoying it. It has been really nice to have some one on one time with her while, and she has really learned a lot just by following me around and helping me clean house or whatever I am doing. (I just had to relax and let her do a lot of it without caring if was done perfect and that was a big key) For some reason it is sometimes hard for me to let something be done differently than how I do it so I tend to take over and just do it myself instead. I have to remind myself a lot of times to knock it off, and let them do it how they want.
Brytlee really is such a good little girl and we all love her so much. She has always been a daddy's girl and I can tell that Ryan is really missing her also.

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Such a great quote: “I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully, tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails. I want to drive up in a station wagon that has mud on the wheels from taking kids to scout camp. I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbors children. I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden. I want to be there with children's sticky kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder. I want the Lord to know I was really here and that I really lived.” --Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Some day's I feel like such a yucky blah because I do have food on my shoulder from Adison, and I didn't have time to fix my hair and get all beautified, but then when I sit back and look at things... I really don't care, and if people think bad things about me..... so what. I had time to play with my kids, and I had time to hold my baby and let her hug me while she wiped her hands and mouth all over me. I am sometimes feel like it is looked down upon by everyone to not look perfect and have everything look perfect all the time, so when I see someone as Amazing as the Prophets wife say something like this, it makes me feel SO much better about myself.