Saturday, October 29, 2011

Xiao Mei

Mei has insanely grown this month!! At 8 months she is crawling around like a crazy woman, wiggling, chomping, babbling, and racing up my stairs. (She taught herself the stairs and the first time I found her scaling them I just about had a heart attack!!) No surprise that I'm 11 days behind in making this 8 month post, she keeps me on my toes. Seriously, not hard to get my 10,000 steps in every day.

She's fearless. Jumping right in to the wrestle session with daddy.

She's climbing up furniture and walking along things already!! It's totally foreign to me. At this age Sofie had another month before she even crawled!! SLOW DOWN MEI!

Those blue eyes are turning slightly grey-ish brown and I'm sure they're be as brown as Sofie's by her first birthday. She's a pretty good eater, but usually doesn't have much of an appetite after finishing off her bottles. Her top 4 teeth are all cutting through this week! This is her typical snuggle for bedtime pose, however why she wanted to snuggle with a wet rag is beyond me! Those two fingers are still her favorite...any help?

Aside from my stairs, which she scales at least 20 times a day, her favorite activity is standing. She loves to stand one handed but occasionally is brave enough to let go. The longest she's balanced without holding on is about 3 seconds. Poor child's tailbone is probably so sore!!

Other random 8 month stuff:
favorite sound is "na na na"
sleeping 11 hours at night
3 naps usually 1 to 2 hours long
pats with her hand when she sees someone or something she likes
loves to be silly and tease
holds her breath instead of laughing outloud
sweetest darling ever and I want to keep her right here at this stage!!



This was a few weeks ago when she had a different babbling phase, then it turned into growling, and now it's mostly "nanana"

Monday, October 10, 2011

Kasey's Marathon!!

Over Conference weekend my sister-in-law Kasey ran a freaking marathon!
She did great and came in at 4 hrs 43 min!! It was a beautiful day (for those of us who weren't running...)

The whole crew!
Sporting our nerdy homemade shirts to show our support.


The kids melting in the sun.

Proud Mom and Dad

Almost at the finish line! Kasey is the less flamboyant one on the left.

Triumphant Kase! Way to Go!

Keeping Busy...er

As if the 3 year old and 7 month old weren't keeping me busy enough, I've been working on some fun fall creations to fill in the itty bitty moments I have free, or close enough to free.

I didn't create these flowers, but I did plant them, water them, and pick them... and they're beautiful!


I was kind of sad they didn't have the wire in brown, but the green works.

It was fun to pick through my sister's backyard and find "spooky sticks" as Sofie calls them. A little spray paint, some black buttons, some ribbon, voila.

This looks nasty, but it turned out tasty. My very first pie (no good at rolling out pie dough turns out...). Pear Pie!

I put these up high so they wouldn't disappear the first day.

Free frames, free paper, free-hand letters, done.

They ran out of the original candy corns, so the vase on the left has layers of normal and "harvest" candy corn, not as cute.

Made from leftover scraps and stuff found at grandma's house.

Family Night Candy Corn pudding treat.

Next time I will be using orange food-colored vanilla pudding, not butterscotch, too brown.
But a fun treat!