This post I've been thinking for awhile and writing things down here and there about what I want to remember about our kids at this stage in their lives and it has been a lot of fun.
Emily: this first picture of Emily I want to remember that right now if given the choice she would always, always choose to wear this outfit. Her Chipettes shirt and pink sparkly tutu (which all the sparkles have washed off because i have to wash it so much)
for some reason i couldn't turn the picture.
She is the BEST big sister and a good helper to her parents. She is very artistic and is getting really good at drawing things. She is so smart, sometimes too smart for her own good. She figures things out that Ben and I are trying to talk in code about. And she asks SO many questions, which i guess is good so she will learn lots. She is learning to read and always asks what things spell. On the drive home from St George it was just she and I awake and she would ask things like, "mom what does, t-d-r-g-d-q-i-l-y-b-q-w-s spell?" over and over and over, i don't know that she ever actually came up with a word. She loves to play with her friends and stands up for her brother and sister anytime someone tries to take things from them (but has no problem herself taking things from them). This is her favorite stuffed animal and loves to sleep with her and she named her herself.
Emily and Pettygoat
She has learned to cross her eyes and will always look something and say "2 mommy's " or whatever it is that she is looking at. She loves to sing and dance, especially High School Musical songs and when you ask her what she wants to be when she grows up she says a performer. Loves to wear swimsuits and will sneak them on under her regular clothes when we go out and we usually don't know until she has to go to the bathroom and it takes her forever. She is more cautious and won't ever do ANYTHING that seems scary, even if it's not remotely scary. She is very thoughtful, Annie was just really sick and she wanted to write her a note and draw her a picture and made sure that she used purple because that is Annie favorite color. Loves acting out her favorite shows. Has a super super big imagination and loves to get caught up in whatever she is playing. This is her on her first day of school, her teacher has told me how much she loves having her in her class and she's the only student who laughs at the jokes in the books and that it is so much fun to have her there. She is learning so much and always tries to incorporate what she has learned into just normal stuff. For example, she knows how to spell all our names and this morning she said, would M-I-K-E-L like to help me zip my boots?
Annie: Annie is HILARIOUS! she does and says the funniest things and the look on her face it what makes them even better. When she is telling a story her face often looks like this...
She wants to be bigger than she is. She is without a doubt our daredevil. She will try anything and isn't scared of anything. She is feisty and stubborn, which can be not fun at times. She also likes to change her clothes about 15 times a day. Something that she does right now is if Ben and I are on the floor or couch or bend over for anything you can almost bet that in a couple seconds she will have jumped on your shoulders.
it's precious
She either hits her head or gets her head hit with things ALL the time. She is a pretty big clutz. She is obsessed with lip gloss and loves to eat it.
Here she is trying to sneak some lip gloss
She is so so skinny and small, it is usually easier to carry her around than Deacon. One of my favorite things she does is that if Deacon or one of her younger cousins is hurt, she goes up to them and tries to calm them down in a high pitched voice, it's very sweet. She is learning a lot right now, while Emily is at school we try and have our own school. She loves, loves, loves animals. I have always thought she should be a veterinarian. From the time she could walk she would go up to the biggest dogs and try and touch them and not be remotely scared. She is beginning to love to draw and getting better at it. She loves to make stuff up and tells us the funniest stories that aren't even close to accurate or even possible. She is very entertaining. She is gross, which i didn't know if i should put on here but right now it's one of the things that makes Annie, Annie. She will put most anything and everything in her mouth like sucking on the kitchen sponge or rubbing her toothbrush on the toilet then putting it in her mouth. Another charming thing about Annie is she gets tired really quickly (lazy) but also another thing that makes her who she is. It cracks us up to see what she will be too tired to do today.
An example of her laziness she was trying to lay down and ride her bike at the same time. She crashed.
Deacon: is so SWEET! I don't know if it's just his age but he is so sweet and so fun. He is also a big stinker, he is going to be an even bigger handful than his sisters.
Something about him is that anytime he was sad or cries you can turn on the song "not over you" by gavin degraw and he calms down almost immediately. Some nights I would put my phone in his room and if he woke up crying i would just go start the song and he would go right back to sleep, it was awesome. Right now he is also OBSESSED with toy story 2, he will sit and just stare at the tv while it's on. If at some point while it's on he starts getting into stuff, it's because it's a commercial.
Here he is right after his first haircut
He hit his head on everything, he typically has a bump in the same spot on the left side of his forehead. He changes a lot which one of us he prefers to hold him and who he goes to when he's upset or hurt, right now he is obsessed with Ben and always wants him when he is home. He loves to bug his sisters if they fall asleep before him. Here is is with Annie.
My video stopped working right before he pushed her off the couch. It's pretty funny because it's like he knows he can get his revenge for all the things they do to him during the day when they are sleeping.
Love these cute pictures of him... he is so sweet
at the zoo
at the park
They are growing so fast and learning so much. it is a lot of fun and want them to be able to know what they were like at these stages in their lives.
1 comment:
Oh, this is so sweet! Precious little kids! And congratulations on adding another to the family!
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