Family Home Evening -- Week 12

First, pictures of Griffin in his new Atlanta Braves shirt. Very cool.

This post needed some pictures because I completely forgot to bring my camera when we went out on Monday night. On to Family Home Evening.

The kids school had skating night at Classic Skating. Ryan and I left the two little kids with my Mom and Dad and took Jax and Sunny skating. They were so excited to go skating with us and with their friends. However, that excitement was short lived. Once they put the skates on and realized it was kind of hard to do they both got pretty upset. For Jax, we decided to swap his skates for a scooter and he was happy. Sunny swapped her regular skates for some training skates, which were a little more stable, and she started to enjoy it all a lot more.

We had a blast with just the big kids. It is fun to spend time with them doing activities. They also enjoyed spending time with their friends. Makayla and Emery (two of Sunny's best friends) were there, as well as one of my 8 year old activity day girls, Caitlyn, who Sunny just loves (she is adorable and I must admit I love her too). Caitlin was so helpful and held Sunny's hand and skated all over the place with her. I could tell Sunny felt so important that Caitlyn paid so much attention to her. We are definitely blessed with some wonderful friends and neighbors.

After skating we went and got ice cream at McDonald's before picking up the babies. It was a great night!

Matching Haircuts

I was going to get my haircut today and at the last minute Sunny decided to come with me. I've been trying to get her to chop off her long hair for a month or so and she didn't want to, but something changed her mind and she got it all cut off tonight.

My hair was super long and driving me nuts. There is a girl in our ward who cuts hair (she also went to high school with Ryan) and so we went over to her house to get it done. She has a really cute salon in her basement, and she did a great job on our hair.

You can see how swollen her upper lip is here. Hopefully the antibiotics kick in quickly before she is in too much pain.

You can also see the swelling pretty good here, but ignore that, look how cute our hair is.

Fashion Show

Lila wanted to try on all her new clothes. She is hilarious!

I love this little purple set. Too cute!

She finally settled on what she wanted to wear.

"Dis one"

The Tooth Thing...AGAIN!

Sunny woke up with a huge swollen lip this morning and I knew immediately what it was. Her other front tooth! We knew there was a chance that she could need it pulled too, but we were hoping she could keep it. Yesterday she was acting pretty strange. Very sad and whiny, which is so unusual for her. She wasn't even super happy while we were at the skating rink, and I just knew something was wrong. Unfortunately I was right. When I saw the lip and the glazed look on her face I called the dentist right away and they were able to get her in this afternoon. Her tooth is abscessed and infected and has to come out. She is on a 7 day course of the super strong antibiotics and will have the tooth pulled on the 25th. Poor, poor Sunny Bunny. She is such a trooper. I hope we can get rid of that tooth and be done with the dentist for a good long while. Thank goodness for good dental insurance and a great pediatric dentist!

Birthday Package

Lila's package arrived today and boy was it worth the wait. She dove right in and started ripping open her presents. She got a new baby doll (who has since been named iCarly --by Lila, not Sunny), a tea set, a puzzle set, clothes and a cute ELMO book. She is so sweet b/c she is so excited for each thing and kept repeating what they were over and over. Then she told Griffin, "These mine, Dwriffin, not for you." Sunny was just about as excited as Lila and she loves her new book and coloring book that Mok sent her.

The pictures are out of order, oh well, it is too much of a hassle to fix them.

In her new hat and asking me to PLEASE get the baby out!

Griffin reading his new book.

I made her smile and pose before she could open the package and it was all she could do to stand still for 10 seconds before she was back to hopping around the package and trying to tear off the tape.

Getting rid of the newspaper on top.

"My presents, my presents. Open them now"

Sunny showing her how the baby works.

Thanks so much Mok and Pok. It really made Lila's day. I need to get a video camera so you can see how fun it is to watch her get excited about all her presents. We love you both and appreciate everything you do for us and our kids. You're the best!

Happy Birthday Baby

March 14, 2008

I remember being so thrilled that Lila was finally born. She was so sweet and such a good baby at first. Her birth was the 2nd best of all my kids (Griffin will always be the winner...who could beat being born in the van!?!) and it was pretty easy. She was born somewhere between 3 and 3 1/2 weeks early and weighed 7 pounds 4 ounces.

Her blessing dress. I think she is around 3 months old here.

3 1/2 months old. This was taken by Jessie O'Neal during a BBQ at their house during Summer Fest.

Her 1 year old birthday. She sure has gotten a lot of hair during the past year!

This is one of the pictures that Sarah L. took of Lila for Jess and Darci's store. Doesn't it make you want to go buy headbands?

I can't believe how fast the past 2 years have gone. I am so in love with my little Lila. She is such a perfect fit in our family and I couldn't imagine life without her. She is so funny. She makes us laugh constantly. She is sweet, sensitive, and feisty too! I can't wait to see what the future holds for little miss Lila Cate.

Lila's Birthday Lunch

We took the kids to IHOP for Lila's birthday lunch. The kids all wanted "Funny Face" which is a chocolate chip pancake with whipped cream, chocolate chips and cherries. They were thrilled that we allowed them to have such a sugary treat for lunch.

Griffin was there and as usual, he was pretty darn cute.

He was also very loud. He kept talking the whole time and wouldn't stop. I guess I'm lucky he was happy talking and not crying.

I hate this picture of myself, but for posterity's sake, here it is.

Digging into her pancakes.

The big rascals. It is so cute how excited they are for their sister's birthday.

Coloring.

The birthday girl with her Daddy.