A season of change

Change #1: Cody is now a Kindergardener. :( He is growing up so fast. He was so excited to go to school. He goes all day. 9:00-3:30. He has an army backpack that he picked out himself, and a spiderman lunchbox. And, we can't forget the cool red shoes he picked out.


Change #2: Natalie is now 6 months old. :( Time is flying by so fast! She is helping it go a little slower by taking her time hitting milestones, and I really don't mind. She can roll over both directions, but she sometimes forgets that she can, so she will roll onto her belly, and then think she is stuck, and get mad and cry. She doesn't sit up by herself yet, or crawl yet, but that is just fine by me. She needs to stay my baby for just a little longer. I am in no hurry for her to grow up. She can take her sweet time in doing things. She is my cuddler, and I love it! She is probably a little bit old for the swing by now, but she still has fun in there, so who am I to kick her out of it. She especially likes to see if she can turn herself sideways. Silly girl. :)

Busy, Busy, Busy

That pretty much explains the past week at our house. It has been crazy busy over here. Jared's little sister got married today, so for the past 3-4 days, we have been helping out with last minute food preparations, and decorations, and directions, and...oh yeah....watching my kidlets. Well, it has been a fun week also. I am trying to do more crafts with the olders while Natalie sleeps after lunch. The afternoon just gets so long some days... This week we decided to do something easy. I noticed that Jacob will pay attention to crafts a lot longer if they involve food, so we made fruit loop necklaces. :)

Natalie had a big week this week too. She cut her second tooth on Thursday, and she also managed to finally get her chubby little legs up to her mouth to suck on her toes. It is tooooooo cute! She is so proud of herself. :)

Her most favorite thing in the whole world though, is to attack Cody's face. Both of them just start cracking up at each other every time they play like that. It is so fun to hear.

We have a TOOTH!!

Natalie has a tooth anyway. It popped it's way through last night, and I found her first pearly white this morning as she was eating....let the biting begin. :( Natalie has also started eating baby food. She kept grabbing at my plate, so I figured she was ready to eat.

Last Thursday Cody was able to participate in his first ever parade. He rode on the float for our ward primary in the Pioneer Day Parade. Sorry the pics aren't any closer, but I was taking them one handed and holding Natalie at the same time. She kept grabbing the camera too, so half of the decent ones came out blurry because she pulled it away. Cody is the second one away from the big white sign. He is wearing the black hat.

A SNAKE!!!!

A foam snake that is. :) Today yielded itself to another craft project. I found the idea here. I got to work making the complicated blowing contraption while the boys were wrestling in the front room. I couldn't for the life of me find any rubber bands at my house, so I improvised with string. It worked ok, but rubber bands would be better. Anyway, Cody loved it. Jacob, not so much. I think Jacob is a little too young to understand the concept of not sucking into the bottle. He inhaled a lot of foam bubbles. :( Anyway, here are some pictures of our fun today.

Here Fishy, Fishy

Well, I got creative today and decided to let the boys try a craft project while Natalie was sleeping. I got the idea from here. The boys seemed to enjoy it. Didn't take up as much time as I had hoped, but that is okay. My boys aren't big on coloring, and that is just fine with me.

One Week Later

Well, I had every intention on writing every Tuesday, but that didn't seem to happen. We had a wonderful 4th of July up in Parowan with my parents and some of my siblings. It is so fun to get together (most of the time :P ). We set off fireworks in the middle of the street, and the kids thought it was the best thing. Granted, most of my nieces and nephews are from Arizona, where it is illegal to buy fireworks, and set them off yourself, but it was fun nonetheless.

We also had the opportunity to get our family pictures taken finally. My sister-in-law is a budding photographer (Andrea Whittle Photography), and she was excellent! Check out her blog in the next few days for some of our pics. The boys were mainly good, but they were goofballs at the same time. Only one minor accident, and everyone involved was satisfied with a cookie and a bandaid. :)

My New Blog

Well, we will see how long I keep this up. :) I am creating this blog for all of our family and friends to be able to share with us the things that our family does. Since most of our family don't live near us, I thought this would be a good idea. Also, I love showing off my kidlets, so what better place to do it right?