April Update

Okay so I am getting extremely behind on this blog. It is just so hard sometimes to sit and write when my free time is so precious, but I have got to keep this up. This is an April update, and I it is not even really current anymore but at least I am getting there. 

Julie

Julie has been riding a strider bike since she turned 1, and she has been balancing on it for a while. I didn’t know how she would do with balancing and pedaling. My cousin had two small bikes that she was giving away down in the Salt Lake area, and it just happened to be around the time we went to Riverton for an eye appointment for Melanie. So, we stopped and picked one of them up. The back tire wouldn’t hold air for very long, but when we got home we filled the tire up and had Julie ride it. She did awesome and away she went. Her main thing she needed to figure out was the braking, which took about a week and half and then she had that down. She is getting stronger and can bike up the street a lot easier now without me having to give her a boost.

 She is doing great at the potty, she has to be on a capful of Miralax every day to keep her stools soft enough, but for the most part she is doing good. Working now on getting her to pull her pants and underwear down by herself. This is just an amazing accomplishment for her though. When she washes her hands it is a game to see who will rinse their hands first. If I am moving my hands toward the water she hurries and beats me to it saying, “I win”, although she is fine having me win to. Then it is a race to see who gets to the towel first to dry. So fun! I got a video of her that cracks me up when I watch it of her talking in the mirror while making faces with her mouth. Hopefully it will load.

 She loves to run around the block and I am grateful that we have a nice neighborhood that she can do that. I still worry. I am going to be awful when I have to send her off to school on the bus. We tell her to watch for cars backing out of driveways, and so she stops at each driveway and looks both ways before going across.  Right now it is strolling her baby around the block with a stroller that it leaning because it is missing screws or they broke off, she doesn’t seem to mind though.

When I ask her to do something that she doesn’t want to do, she says, “I am sooo tired” while falling onto the floor so dramatic like. Sheesh, this drives me crazy!

Some of her favorite things are plain pinto beans, carrots, watermelon, grapes. Cucumbers, and bananas. She doesn’t like her food mixed.

Julie: Why did Elsa freeze everything?

Me: Because she did not know how to control her powers.

Julie: I don’t want to have powers, I want to grow up and be a Mom. I just want to be a Mom. Will my belly button change(don’t know where that came from, haha).

Melanie

Melanie loves oatmeal, she pretty much waits to eat anything else until I give her her oatmeal. She also loves bananas, beans, peas, bread, popcorn, and nectarines.

 Rob made Julie a house out of the paper towel box. She had fun coloring all over it.

My brother drew a cute picture of Julie, maybe I should get it framed.

I love making these pita pizzas!

When Rob was in Ohio for a business trip, I had my mom watch my kiddos one morning so I could go to the Temple. Seems so hard to get there these days, and it was wonderful. It was snowing pretty good when I went, but was beautiful when I came out. So glad I made it that morning.

 It is always kind of strange when one direction looks like this and then...

 it is beautiful and sunny in the opposite direction.

Fun in a box

Climbing and more climbing.

Playing and drinking their green smoothies.

Julie started preschool since they had some openings and she is loving it.

Melanie found the bag of cheerios in the diaper bag and got it open. Haha!

Melanie has been loving playing the piano, and of course Julie has to join in since Melanie is doing it.

Loves to turn our rug over and scratch the bottom. Loves texture.

I had a box of DI stuff on our kitchen floor and Melanie found it and unloaded everything.

Enjoyed listening to Conference.

I love Julie's little people and I love that she made them with her cheerios. Her first one wasn't quite as elaborate and the next days creation, which has hair and arms.

More messes.

Eye appointment in Riverton at the Moran Eye Center.

She walked all the way in and all the way out, gotta practice.

These two love being outside, all day long Melanie is signing "outside" to go out. Springtime

Having fun sticking pom poms down her shirt and having her get them out.

Beautiful spring blossoms on my neighbors tree. Julie has noticed all the blossoms this year. She will point them out while driving.

Trying to get her used to the grass, she is getting there but still had to have her feet on Grandma.

Love this!

Julie's awesome tower she built.

Admiring Grandmas flowers.

Her pink parasol(I hope the spelling is right) she earned. 

Molars coming in, drool city.

She just cracks me up, she was so excited to have gotten on the couch and was giving me these awesome faces. She seems to always have her tongue out lately. She will stick it out wanting us to stick ours out, and then she will try to grab it. So funny!

Julie loves to dump everything out of the bins I have to stay organized so that she can reorganize. "Mom, I am good at organizing", baskets do not help keep things organized at our house.

Our little princess.

I gave Julie a bath in the morning because her hair does a lot better if it is not smooshed from sleeping while it drys. This particular time her hair dried super curly, wow, after it was all dry I combed through it and it relaxed quite a bit but look at that curl. I am still jealous of both of my kids hair.

Started keeping a journal for each of the girls with just little things they do that I don't want to forget. Now to keep up with it.

Life sure keeps me busy.