Random April Stuff:

Looks like we have a tooth!

More happy pictures:



In the bath ring:

After a long day at Nick's baseball game in American Fork. What a great traveler--just whatever is great with him! Quick note about the game--it was so windy in AF that I didn't get my camera out for photos of Nick--we have the whole season for that. But, Papa and Grandma Lynne came right when Nick went in so perfect timing. They got to see the kids (and the kids got to see them!) and my mom snuggled with Jamie in the car so I didn't have to be in the wind with him. Miracle: Jamie was sitting on a blanket--I stood up with him cuz my back was hurting. Next batter hit a foul ball, low screamer right across the blanket through the exact spot Jamie was sitting. . .Our neighbor said we must be living right. . .

Hangin' with the boys:

Little Mowgli pre-crawling:
(He looks like he is on Jungle Book. I love the tongue-out concentration.) None of my babies have done this on-the-toes thing. It's pretty funny. He cannot actually go forward like this--he just gets up, then goes back on his knees, then on his tummy.

What a cute bum!!!

Easter

Coloring Easter Eggs on Saturday night--This was painful for me--not in the mood--but I did it so the kids would feel like I sometimes do fun things. It ended up being fun. I still don't know why you add vinegar to some colors and not to others. Whatever.

Beautiful. I discovered a couple of days later that everyone loves egg salad sandwiches. Easy, fast and cheap. Awesome.

Easter morning--Jamie got visited by the Easter Bunny with new bottles. He was thrilled. Cute new outfit too!

Loves the bucket:

Now the grass:

Carter and Mallory got a fun hand held device that tracks your exercise, then lets you convert the exercise points into games on the computer. After playing with them for a while, Carter figured out that you can just shake it and rack up a ton of points. That is cheating. He did go on a 2.5 mile walk with us and a bunch of neighbors so I guess I need to give him credit for that.

Mallory in her darling new Easter dress:

All the kiddos pretending to be happy even though we are in a mad dash for church.

Spring Break in St. George

Michael had meetings in St. George on the Mon & Tues. BEFORE spring break, so the kids got a whole week off. (Pretty fun, but now we are paying for it by having to catch up in school.) The first day we were there, we hiked at Snow Canyon--the kids begged to stop at the sand dunes instead, but we wanted to go where the rocks were--much cleaner. They ended up loving it. We topped off the evening by visiting Michael's sister, Diane and her family and then eating at In and Out--everyone's favorite. For the rest of the trip, we swam at the hotel pool and shopped. It was Jamie's first time swimming ever--he was skeptical at first and then seemed to really like it. The weather was great, which was a huge bonus since the forcast was cold, windy and cloudy. So, we felt lucky.

General Conference

Michael and Nicholas got the chance to attend the Priesthood session of conference at the Conference Center. Our home teacher, our former bishop and now 1st counselor in the State Presidency got the tickets for them. All the men in my family also got tickets so we joined with everyone for dinner at the Sky Box at the Gateway. It was a great evening. Nick really enjoyed it and he and Michael had a great father/son time. While they were there, I joined the girls and kids at the Children's museum at the Gateway--Carter and Mallory absolutely loved it. They also loved being with cousins. After Sunday conference, we headed for St. George--great weekend!

Pinewood Derby

(I forgot to add these photos from January:) Carter and Michael did a great job on the car. It was so cute to see them work together, deciding what to do and listening to Michael tell stories of all of his pinewood derbies. Again. . . Anyway, Carter designed the shape on paper, sanded and painted. It was even cuter to hear Michael in the garage until 1 in the morning cutting out the wood and making sure it was put together correctly. It was hard to keep Carter from playing with the car on the day of the derby--we didn't want him to break it! It was a good evening--Carter and the rest of the boys had fun and were good sports. He was thrilled with 3rd place!

SIX MONTHS! And other fun stuff. . .

March 25th--6 months old. Where has the time gone? We celebrated by taking him to his 6 mo. check with shots. What an unthoughtful thing to do! (I scheduled it for that day so I would remember it!)

You can practically hear him giggling in this photo!

Our next door neighbors gave us this excersaucer--he loved it right away. What an upgrade from Nick's when he was a baby. Thank you, Powells!

He loves his feet so much that sometimes I undo his jammies so he can eat them:

And, who can raise a baby without the Johnny Jump Up? What a great invention. He hasn't caught on to the jumping part yet--he's satisfied with just the hanging right now:

Carter is so helpful in the bath. It keeps me from having to lean over and hurt my back. By the way, please don't mention to Carter that you saw this: (Thanks!)

Carter's 1st Stitches

Carter fell off the neighbor's rock wall (about 8 feet!) and fell on his chin on the one small area of the lawn where there is still ice. At least he broke his fall with his hand and knee, or it would have been a lot worse. There was blood everywhere. When we used the word "stitches", he completely came un-glued--screaming, begging, pleading. . .lots of drama--but we felt like it was a pretty deep cut. I was surprised by his reaction--I thought he would think it was cool to get stitches. He shook the whole way to the ER. Once we were there, he calmed down and was great. He was freezing so I requsted a blanket while we waited for the numbing medicine to take effect--they brought him a heated blanket, which Carter absolutely loved. The Dr. had a hard time finding enough skin to stitch to--it was kind of a mess, but she managed to get 5 good stitches. Please don't look at the photos if you can't handle a little blood: