Nursery

Yesterday I was sitting in RS listening to the announcements or something and I got asked by the primary pres to come help with nursery. This didn't surprise me because I am usually the first on the list called to sub. There were a few kids having a rough time and the class was larger than usual. Nathan is a worker in the older group of kids, so when we were switching rooms I left Jez to play with the toys with daddy. I am glad I did since in needed both knees for kids to sit in. When it came time to switch again, Nathan held J up and told her to walk to me. We have been waiting for a bout a month for her to start walking, she has been so close for that long. I asked if she had yet and he said that it was the cheating walk. I stood her up and stepped away from her and she took 4 steps to get to me. 2 more times during the rest of nursery she walked 4 steps again. Then after sacrament (we have backwards church) she did it again in the foyer.

Last night before we put her in bed she did it a few more times. We can see that she is still nervous about doing it, but her confidence is definitely building with it. There were 8 babies born in our ward from the beginning of Sept to the end of Oct and JJ was the last one. Of those 8 babies, JJ was the first to crawl and to walk. She is so smart and such a joy to have around.

moving

So we have had a major roller coaster around here!! We are no longer trading houses with my in-laws, but buying a different house also in Cedar Hills. It is such a cute house and we are so excited. We can't wait for all the great things about this house like central air, separate bedrooms for Avi and Dai, the tv where Dai can't watch from her room, a TON of storage space, and a garage. It is going to be so great. It really isn't final yet, but it is a pretty sure deal. We are hoping to be moved in within the next 3 weeks so things can be done before school starts on the 25th. Luckily we have 3/4 of the house packed and moved out, so it will be easy to finish packing up the rest of what we have.

Now I am crazy busy trying to get this house ready for new renters by painting the whole basement and half of the upstairs. Anyone want to help? Wish me luck, I am going to try to survive the next two weeks then hopefully move in to a new house that is our own.

Big News

We have been looking for a house to buy for a little over a year now, and although we found one in a non conventional way, we are moving in soon. Before we can do that though our house we are in needs a little fixing up. My mom and neices have spent the last week with us helping out more than I thought possible. We primed, painted, packed, and moved so much stuff that I have very little left in my house at the moment. On Tuesday a construction crew will come in to finish the basement, and when it is done we will be moving out. We are excited for the next great adventure and Avi is excited for a new school. Wish us luck as we get things moved and taken care of over the next few weeks.

Start of Summer

Hello everyone. So summer is approaching the halfway mark so I guess it time to update everyone one what is going on. We spent the first week of summer down in La Sal. Unfortunately our camera battery was dead, so we don't have any pictures, so if you want to see some you will have to check out my siblings blogs. We did have a blast with all the family and all the kids had so much fun together. We did some dutch oven cooking (thanks so much Brandon and Sara), jeeping in Moab (thanks mom and dad for the jeep), shooting, games, and just hanging out. It was fun to have all the babies there too.

We got home and I had to really quickly put together a wedding cake for my friend Janina. I baked the cake that night and scrambled all the next morning frosting and decorating it. Thanks to my wonderful friend Sherie we were able to get it done right on time.
After all of that we had to get our house put back together. We have been having fun at the library, swim lessons, with friends, and hanging out. Last week we had Janina come at take some family pictures for us. Here are our favorites for you to enjoy. Just a month and a half left and school will start again.Dai kept squinting her eyes as she tried to smile bigger and bigger, so occasionally we would have to tell her to open her eyes and this is what we would get.

We all had a lot of fun taking the pictures and a great big THANK YOU to Janina for taking them for us.

Infection

Dailynn: "Mom I think I have an infection."
Mom: "What kind of infection."
Dailynn: "A cereal infection from eating so much of this cereal."
Mom: "Well tomorrow we will have to keep you from eating that cereal again."
Dailynn: "Why?"
Mom: "So that you don't keep getting your infection."
Dailynn: "ok"

Words for you

Dailynn can sure make us smile. Yesterday she was trying to get me to do things so she started saying "Mom I have 2 words for you, you need to help me, wait I have 4 words for you, come help me do this, no 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8...." then later that night she comes running in the kitchen while I was working on dinner and loudly states, "Mom I have 2 words for you HELP!!!" Yeah, she doesn't have counting words down yet I guess.

Last night while Jeslyn was winding down for bed she was rolling around the living room playing. She grabbed her blanket and kept rolling until she was completely wrapped and tangeled up in it. After a few seconds she was quite upset about it. I released from the blanket and a few min later she did it again. All that was hanging out this time was her little feet. She was in there pretty tight too. When I got her out, she just smiled at me. Silly girl.

Already 6 mo

I can't believe that it has been 6 months already. Jeslyn has been such a WONDERFUL baby. She is growing up so fast and is so fun. We are so entertained by her and her discoveries.
The problem, she is developing way to fast. As my dad put it, she just wants to grow up too fast. At the 6 mo check up the Dr. came in asking the usual questions for her age. I set her on the floor and he was surprised by her ability to sit up so well. Then I put her on her stomach and she just rocked back and forth on her knees. First he said that I am in trouble then that she is acting like a 9 mo old with both of those things. Then when he started checking her out, he held one hand and expected the other to just stay still because that is normal for her age. Instead she started pulling at his hands trying to stop his progress. Another 9 mo behavior I guess.

Then on Sunday she started army crawling. She doesn't have it down yet, but when she starts crawling instead of the roll thing she has been doing for the last month she can cruise so fast across the floor. Now I have to baby proof even more. She is just anxious to be able to walk and do things for herself.

She wants to eat our food anytime we are eating, so when I had a fruit smoothie one day she wanted to drink it with me. Dailynn is pretty good at taking pictures sometime.

Nathan was being silly one night and grabbed some fake teeth and slid them into her mouth. It's a little creepy but so cute.