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Look at him! He's been rolling to get what he wants for a couple months, and then about a week ago he started army crawling just a little bit. Yesterday he learned how to get up on his hands and knees. He rocks back and forth and then he'll either launch himself forward or backwards. It's pretty funny to watch. At this rate he'll be crawling well pretty soon.

I'm proud of him, but so not excited. I want him to stay my little baby forever. I thought he wasn't going to crawl for awhile, and I was thrilled. I suppose I was wrong. Why, why, why do they grow up so fast?

Nana

I love Lila's face in this picture. She didn't care a lick about the book, but she wanted a spot in Nana's lap.

Nana came out to our house to visit last week and bring Lila her birthday presents. The kids had a ball with her. I wish I had taken more pictures of all their adventures. Sunny loved having a book read to her (Iris La Bonga - Mok sent them and they are so cute). Jackson and Nana played football in the backyard and then Nana went down into the pit with the big kids. They loved it and had such a good time exploring with her.

Pretty Dress

Nana got Lila this new dress for her birthday and I just love it. Lila looks so adorable that I couldn't resist a few pictures. Then the big kids had to get in on the action and have their pictures taken before we went to church. Don't know where Griffin was, asleep maybe? He was pretty cute to though, don't worry.

We're Back to This Again

Back to the nebulizer again. Poor Lila is having a really hard time with wheezing. Her cold isn't all that bad though, which I'm grateful for. The doctor said last month that after a kid has RSV the wheezing can come back when they get a cold anytime during the next 6 months or so. Hopefully it didn't trigger asthma in her. That's what I am afraid of. Jackson was fine until he was two and then he started with the wheezing and breathing problems.

Nevertheless, she is a tough girl and she loves her fishy medicine. She can do it all by herself. I don't even have to hold her at all. She also knows how to tap on the part that holds the medicine to get the last little bit to come out. Notice in the picture how big she is smiling behind the mask. I'm not kidding when I say she loves it!

(I finally ordered us a nebulizer of our own. I think it's about time. Unfortunately it won't be here until tomorrow, but we had a couple of great neighbors that helped us out with one this time.)

Family Home Evening -- Week 13 --Sunny's Version

Tonight I was in charge of the lesson, but Sunny wanted to do a little lesson first. She seemed very excited about it, so I said okay. First she passed around a sheet of paper and had all of us sign our names. Then one by one she blindfolded each of us and made us walk to the Jesus statue (about 6 feet straight ahead). She was very proud but I could tell she didn't know what to say next, so I prompted her...

me: By walking to Jesus we learned about?

her: being blind

*insert hilarious laughter all around*

She cracks me up. She obviously has a issue about blind children. She brings it up all the time and draws them pictures quite often. She also collects money and other random objects "for the blind children to see"

At least her intentions are good :)

I'll post later about our real lesson. It went really well and I'm hoping to see some big changes in attitude around our house.

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.