Still a Baby
I love this chubby little girl...
Category: Cali
Two Firsts!
First time BYU has actually won a first round NCAA tournament Game since 1993!! Â Thank you, it is about time. I almost gave up and quit cheering but I pulled myself together. We survived the first overtime and then we had it. Whew – stressful morning 🙂
AND Cali is sporting her first pony tail today!! She is 15 1/2 months and finally has enough hair to almost do something with it. She won’t leave any bows in but we will see how long this pony can last…
Cute Cali Girl…Â 
Shy Girl…Â 
I'm not to sure about this.
15 months
Cali is officially walking! I’m not saying that she always walks but she can walk and does it without anyone’s help or prodding.
My other big news is that I was finally smart enough to ‘hide’ the Lite Brite! I have been picking up 100’s of little pegs, 100’s 🙂 of times a day for 100’s of days. I’m done. I put it away yesterday and I don’t plan on revealing it again for a long time. I am so proud of myself. Why didn’t I do this sooner?
SNOW BOARDING!
Ben and I went snow boarding Friday night!
I was going to put the pictures of all of our jumps and tricks but… well it was really cold so we didn’t get the camera out much and it was kind of dark since it was night skiing and oh yeah – we didn’t do any jumps or tricks! I think we barely made it down the mountain 5 times!! I still love it though. I love cruising down the mountain. I love that we have our own boards so we don’t have to rent and I love that Sundance is so cheap and SO CLOSE.
Today after church the boys found the snow goggles in the van – it was snowing a little so they had to go try them out. Aren’t they adorable!?
I love Sundays. I love the day I teach because then I am off for the next 3 to 4 weeks. Â And I love that Cali was licking the ketchup off of her plate after dinner last night. Check it out…
Fun in a Bucket
This little one thinks she is so big now. She turned 1 and seems like a kid instead of a baby. She now folds her arms for prayers. She signs for milk when she wants her bottle. She follows the boys around and plays what they are playing. She gets excited when I put her swimsuit on to hot tub or angry when she realizes that I’m going to give her a bath. And this week she is standing up all the time and trying to find a little balance to walk. Her problem is that she wants to run but she can’t even stand up yet.
playing with aunt Shanny at Grandma’s house.
Boy or Girl
Cali loves her Christmas Present! She had her cousin over to play with her today and all ages seem to have fun with the elephant tent.
I need a green or white or black bow so that Cali can support the Packers but still be identified as a girl. I’ll put that on my list cause it doesn’t look like we’ll be making pony tails quite yet.
A few party pictures
Cali at the cousin party:
Packer and Sam were loving this box. It wasn’t officially AT the party but it WAS a party!
Here is our wise man off to find the baby:
the pacifier
todays update
Benji was playing hide and go seek with his Dad and Brother. They found him in the dryer and he had peed his pants!!! yes peed! I couldn’t stop laughing. He was hiding so he couldn’t get out cause he didn’t want to get found so he just had to go in the dryer!! He was worried that he was in big trouble but since he didn’t know that it was ok to get out and go then he was off the hook. Now he knows. Better not happen again.
During the Sacrament hymn: “Dad, this song is kind of scary.” It’s just slow. “No Dad, this one’s a little bit scary.” And he then refused to go up and sing with the primary for our Christmas Program. But he volunteered for another prayer in junior primary and he’s already given 2 talks in his first year of sunbeams.
I stopped by the mall last week and Santa was there taking pictures with all of the kids. As we walked by Benji says, “that’s a pretend Santa mom – not the real one.” I don’t know where he got that idea. I told him it just didn’t look like Santa because he wasn’t wearing his big red coat. I’m not sure if he bought it or just let it go. I think one of the problems is that 50% of Christmas Specials are about not believing in Santa – I think they have put these ideas in our young children’s heads – boo.
He also took the time to try and understand the game of football today!! that made both of his parents proud!! He could read the score and figure out which one was the Packers. It was neat to see his mind grasping all of this new knowledge.
Cali crawls in circles when she is happy. She also gets shy and squeezes her eyes shut in a real cute way. She stood up for 30 seconds yesterday! She can only do that when she doesn’t realize that she is doing it. We opened a present today and Cali got hers open quick – I think the birthday this month got her ready for Christmas morning. She is also very protective of her mom. She refuses to share my lap with either of her brothers and throws a giant fit until she gets her way.
Cali’s not so goods would be her bad habit of throwing her food on the ground when she is full and purposely feeding it to the dog! and the poop dripping out the back of her diaper this afternoon was not fun. I’m just glad it wasn’t at church. And on that same note I am averaging 4 stinky diapers a day from her! (add 4 from her older brother and you can see what I do all day.)
Packer disappeared after church – he spent an hour in with the nativity set and lined up all of the people and animals and was holding his little nursery handout and comparing the Mary and Joseph and Baby Jesus. He wanted all of us to see that they matched.
He is getting so big – really outgrowing the baby stage all together. After Benji peed in the dryer he let me know that it is not good to do that. His biggest problem right now is fighting with his little sister. He gets mad when she grabs his toys or sits on the car mat. She is very grabby and Packer just can’t handle her in the middle of his games. So we are working on teaching both children to get along and play nicely together.
Food Addicts
Cali and I had a rough morning. Cali needed a lot of attention and wouldn’t let me get anything done. I try to fold laundry and she shimmies inbetween me and the clothes and hangs on my arms. I try to bake and she tugs on my legs so I can’t move. Eventually it got to the point that she wasn’t even content with me holding her – I had to be standing and walking around with her! I tried putting her down for a morning nap – (she is deciding if she needs one nap a day or two). She screamed in her crib for 40 minutes. I went and got her at 11:15 and put her in her booster seat at the table. She then ate a hot dog and a banana and drank her bottle. She ate a lot of food and then she was ready to play!! She disappeared and played toys and wandered around the house and I was able to get everything done!! Was she really just hungry that whole time?? What baby is starving at 10am?Apparently mine was. Tomorrow I will give her a bigger breakfast and see if we have a better morning. She willingly went down for a nap at 1:30 but – 40 minutes later I am hearing her awake – – ahhh – what to do. A one year old needs more than a 1 hour nap a day to be functional.
On a side note – we played outside yesterday!! The snow is sticking around but the sun was actually out and Benji was having fun Shattering the snow ice. Cali played outside for a bit but I made her come in and watch from the window…
This morning I built a fort for the kids – they are loving it…
and the more annoying part of the Cali problem is that I have been trying to get her eating schedule figured out with the switch to real milk, trying to get the constipation and stomach aches under control. So today I was making sure not to give her her bottle too soon and I ended up with a hungry grouchy baby. Do I go get her out of bed or do I let her cry herself back to sleep?