Blooming

Our little man is becoming just that, so curious of his surroundings, loves to put his toes in his mouth (not my favorite) army crawls ALL over, so close to figuring out crawling, has a new word "ba, ba, ba, baaa, ba, ba", has 3 more teeth in the works, doing better at sleeping during the night and just loves attention!!!

Spring is near, the new leaves are sprouting up everywhere
It's beautiful!

Our little girlie keeps us on our toes with random comments, lots of primary songs (she knows about 3 by memory) her new favorite song is "Sunbeam", loves to "help" me with Weston in every area (feeding, changing, playing, sleeping) - When he's crying or upset she yells to me "Andrea, my biggie boy is crying", or she'll call him baby Weston - but she thinks it's funny to call me by my name. She has mastered her tricycle pedals (they used to be too far away)! She is growing up too fast and I just adore her.

Next post will be about my trip to Vegas with my parents and my kids! Oh and I had a great 27th birthday, even though I mostly feel like I'm still 18 or 20! gotta love getting older

"Sick Day"

Today was a sick day for us which means NO church - well except for Blake who had to teach a lesson in YM! It all started this past Wednesday and both kids started hacking away and getting stuffy noses. It hasn't eased up at all and at times I wonder if it's getting worse. I took Weston to the dr. on Friday because I wanted to make sure he wasn't getting pneumonia because of how bad he sounded/acted and his age and all, plus I didnt' want to worry all weekend. If he doesn't show signs of getting better by Tuesday I need to take him to get a chest xray. Blake and I get NO sleep these days because our children have decided to only sleep a few hours at a time and then needing one of us to help them fall back to sleep. Let's just say it makes for a grumpy mama during the day!!
We did however have a wonderful Valentine's (well the night before) - my parents watched the kiddos so we could have an evening to ourselves (Thanks a million). We had a yummy dinner at The Keg Steakhouse and then walked around some shops and had great conversation while snuggling in the crisp weather. To add to the greatness my husband has been doing all sorts of great things around the house just because -laundry, dishes (load and unload dishwasher), make dinner, clean up the kids and I haven't asked him to do any of it. LOVE HIM

Here are my tired and sick kiddos in there jammies - LOVE THEM
(her bangs are getting longer)

6 months and a TOOTH

Alright so it's so much easier to find the tooth when the picture is blown up, you might have to click on it to enlarge it. I promise it's there and we are so excited to finally have a tooth (being that he's been biting me for weeks now) I plan to "wean" him this month! At 6 months Weston loves any fruit baby food, we're starting veggies this week! He makes SO much noise ALL the time just to hear himself I think... it's not because he's upset or hungry!! He's ALL over the place and ends up feet away from where I set him down, he most always gets stuck up against something and can't roll any further. He's trying to get on his knees, but ends up with his bum in the air and his face in the floor! He grabs anything in reach (ex: hair, nose, lips, chin, earrings, clothes, toys, food)... has the sweetest belly laugh and loves his big Sis! We adore him and can't believe 6 months has passed us by.

*PS- Ashlyn loves play dough and asks for it on a daily basis - today we were sitting in the living room and she put 2 plastic knives in the container and began singing Happy Birthday to Blake (not his birthday) and then continued to blow the candles out for him! We laughed pretty hard, but thought she was pretty creative at the same time.

Shamrock Farms

Saturday My family along with my Mom and Grandma Bird, took a Tour at Shamrock Farms down by Maricopa and it was a fun day! It took about 45 minutes to get there and the tour was about 1.5 hours. We learned a whole bunch and the farm grounds are very clean.

They had life size shamrock farm containers to play in, you could climb the milk bottle and slide down the cottage cheese container! you could also see what it feels like for a cow to be milked (on your fingers)

This is the milking station and there's a whole process of washing the cows down and cleaning them with iodine to make sure all bacteria is gone before milking them - They are each milked twice a day

They have 10,000 cows and the average born each day is from 15-25 (when we arrived at 11am they had 13 new calves already)

Ashlyn was able to feed a new baby, she didn't understand why it wanted to suck on her fingers before eating the grain.

Grandma Bird, Weston and I watched Ashlyn feed the cows from the tractor/train

Farm facts:
-1 cow drinks 35 gallons of water everyday
-1 cow eats 100 lbs of feed everyday
-1 cow produces 30 lbs of waste everyday
-1 cow produces 8.5 gallons of milk everyday

Zoo Date

A week ago we met up with some of my friends at the zoo and made a day of it! let's see there was Me, Sara, Natalie(and her cousin Heather), Jamie, Kristi, and Katie. Between all of us there were 13 kids and one in Heather's tummy! We enjoyed the fabulous weather and great company! Ashlyn wasn't in the picture taking mood as you can tell, but cute Logan was so happy to smile!

We loved the Monkey area where they were climbing on the ropes and trees right in front of us! They were so cute

Ashlyn wasn't sure about this guy but observed nonetheless!
She loved the "Little People" play land by the petting zoo
So did Elise and Emery
And Chloe

Thanks for such a fun time girls, we will have to go again - we need to go to the Splash pad when it opens again!