February, 2010

Jayci loves her dress-ups so much she rarely takes them off, even to sleep!

(Sorry, I hope these aren't inappropriate)

Yes, that is Jayci dancing in my G's.  She thinks they are dress-ups and empties my drawer with them all over her body.

Here she thinks she's in a princess skirt with a "swishy dancing tail" like Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty.  

(Kind of sad that her whole body fits into my leg hole.)

I think Jayci just slightly has Jess wrapped around his finger.  Okay, bound to every limb!  He loves to bring her flowers, especially pink ones, because her reactions are priceless.  Her whole body lights up and for a moment she knows she's the luckiest little girl in the world!

When Jess brought her these she said, "Mmmmmm, they smell like pink cupcakes!"

On Valentine's Day we made cookies to deliver to the kids' primary and preschool teachers.

I'm not sure who's responsible for this one, they both seem fine to take the blame. That's the key hole to my piano lid, where they meticulously placed (carelessly shoved) "little, tiny balls" (aka, air-soft pellets) into.  I loved being able to lock my piano so they couldn't open and close (bang and slam) the lid so much, or play (pound) lovely tunes (obnoxious noise) on the keys.  

Who's in charge here?  Apparently not mom.

Moe loves to attack his unsuspecting captors.

I had a shower at my house for a ward friend Nici, a name you've possibly seen on my sidebar.  I'm happy to announce that their adoption was successful and she now has her sweet baby boy home in her arms.  I visit-teach Nici and have come to greatly admire her.  She and I got married just a week apart but infertility has plagued her and her husband for the past six years.  Growing  up I always knew that I wanted to be a mom above anything else.  I also knew that if that wasn't to be part of my future, that would be one of my greatest challenges.  I don't know why some have such a hard time bringing babies into the world, while others (like fertile Mertle here) don't.  

I respect and admire Nici because she's always just happy, funny, and cheerful, and you'd never know what her trials are.  I used to wonder (before I knew) why she didn't have kids because I thought she'd be the cutest mom in the world, and now she gets to be!

This is my first attempt at a diaper cake and I thought it turned out pretty cute.  Very simple too.

Congrats to Jack for graduating from his 'Tiny Tumblers' class!  He loved it, good job bud!

Caleb and Jayci=so naughty behind the scenes that their mommies wanted to pull their hair out and scream into a pillow