Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Smiles!

Mary started smiling every now and again a couple of weeks ago, and now I can usually get a pretty good grin out of her and have even caught it on camera a few times:



I think Mary looks a lot like my dad did when he slept in this picture:

Monday, May 11, 2009

Josh Likes His Vegetables!

Who says kids don't like to eat vegetables? Josh certainly likes them, especially tomatoes (okay, not technically a vegetable). If he has finished the tomatoes on his plate, he is known to not eat anything else until he has bummed tomatoes off of others' plates, until they are all gone too. I love my crazy boy!

He snatched this off the counter while I was preparing dinner recently.


This was a leftover potato from dinner a couple nights previous. It was in the fridge and David had taken it out when he refilled the water filter pitcher and left it on the counter. Apparently he reached up and snatched it, because I later caught him eating it in his room. He ended up eating most of it. Mmmm...delicious! *


But don't worry, he definitely likes the sweets too! He scored this cookie from Aunt Janice while we were in Thatcher this past weekend.


*I realize that many of the pictures I post of Josh these days are of him in only his diaper. He likes to run around practically naked (I'm sure he would love to run around completely naked if I would let him), so sometimes it is literally a wrestling match to get him dressed. Being the super nice mom that I am (ha ha!), I often don't get him dressed for the day until we are getting ready to go somewhere. And it just so happens that he does a lot of funny/cute stuff while wearing only his diaper!

Mary's Blessing Day

Last Sunday (May 3rd) David blessed Mary and gave her a beautiful blessing. We were able to have several family members from both sides come to our ward for Sacrament Meeting, and many of them stayed for the rest of out meetings as well. I've had a few people from our ward mention to me that when we bless a baby attendance at our ward doubles. Not really, but when you have two big families get together like that it sure seems like it! I especially missed having my dad there in the circle with the rest of the men, but hope that he was able to be there in spirit, at least. I'm so grateful to belong to two such wonderful and supportive families!

After our block of meetings we had a luncheon at Celeste's & Jeff's. They are so nice to let us use their home for pretty much every function we "host", and we are so grateful to them for that. It just wouldn't be pretty trying to fit that many people into our condo! I did take my camera with the hopes of getting some pictures of the luncheon crowd, but I forgot to actually take any pictures. Oops! Thanks to everyone who was able to come and share this day with us!

Pretty Mary all gussied up.

Sometimes Josh loves Mary a little too hard.



Josh thought using the timer on the camera was pretty funny. At least it made him smile!

Mother and daughter.