Silly Girl

I always think that I should blog when Layla says things that make me laugh, but then by the time I remember to blog, I can't remember what funny things she's said lately:). So I'm trying to get better at writing them down! One thing lately was in the car she said, "Mommy, I broke my leg again." I just said, "Oh, okay," having no idea what she meant, but then I looked and she was pointing to her jeans that have a slight rip in them. Leg, pant leg, same difference, right? :)

So I started this post like a month ago and since then when she has said funny things, I of course still haven't remembered to write any down:(. I love the age she's at and love how creative their little minds are becoming. So while a couple of things are fresh in my mind I thought I'd quick share them mainly for my own memory:). This afternoon I was vacuuming and she took her socks off. When I finished vacuuming she made sure to tell me that she had taken her socks off. When I asked why she had taken them off, she said, "Because it dangerous to leave them on when you vacuum!!". And then yesterday she had shut the door to Gibson's room when he was in there so I told her that she knows not to shut doors when Gibson is in the room and she responded excitedly with, "But then the butterflies will get out!! Not real butterflies, Mom, just pretend." Not sure where she gets some of her silly ideas! She sure loves pretending!

I'm adding this a bit later b/c I remembered something else not really that funny, but just shows her personality with how concerned with things she gets. I had some "me time" yesterday going to get a pedicure and as I was leaving Joe told me that the car didn't have any gas. Layla then watched me leave out the window and saw that I was taking the car so I guess she was all concerned that I took the car without any gas in it, so Joe told her that it'd be okay and that'd I'd get gas. Well, when I returned home a few hours later one of the first things Layla said to me was about how it was nice that I got Daddy gas in his car. Also, the other week she made Joe a Valentine's Day card and was really excited to give it to him when he got home, but once she gave it to him she started apologizing for not making him 2 cards and to me for not making me a card:). She sometimes apologizes for such silly things!

Sledding and then some

Gibson is TERRIBLE with going in my cupboards and he knows just what he wants to pull out, he really likes these Saran Wrap cover things...

He fell asleep on Joe the other week when he was sick so I thought I'd take a pic since it's so rare that he falls asleep on us!

Since many of my pics I post are of Layla and Gibson I thought Elv should get his own pic too:). He was only slightly embarrased to be wearing Layla's tutu:). The Valentines Day shirt he's wearing (which I finally just just took off of him today!) reminds me that the other week I found a tiny red sequin on our floor and said to myself/Layla, "Huh, I have no idea what this is from" and Layla goes, "That's from Elvis' shirt", and so I was like, "Wow, Layla, that was really good that you knew that!" and then she said, "I pulled it off". :)

As long as he's in a good mood, he doesn't mind when Layla lays on him:)...Layla on the other hand pretty much never appreciates him laying on/getting too close to her (or anyone else for that matter). She must have gotten that from her mama:).

Layla thought it'd be a good idea this morning to take the laundry out of the laundry basket so that they could go for a ride in it:). We stayed home from church today b/c the ear doctor said that if he got a bad cold before surgery he we'd have to reschedule and we want it done as soon as possible so we didn't want to risk him getting sick in nursery (like he always does!).

We had lunch at Joe's parents today and got there a little early so the kids could do some sledding. Both kids seemed to love it! Don't mind Gibs' pink mittens, he had brown along and I couldn't find them once we got there and had extra for Layla that he then wore. We later found his mittens in Joe's pocket:).

Auntie Rachael and Layla...

Sledding down the driveway...

They both love Grandma's little table she got for them. Gibs thought he was pretty big stuff sitting there! Too bad he just wants to stick Crayons in his mouth instead of coloring:).

Layla also enjoyed eating her angel food cake...with her hands:). Typically she's a pretty neat eater but apparently the frosting on her face didn't bother her today:)...

Uncle Steve and Auntie Heidi hanging out with Gibs. He doesn't just sit and play on the couch by people very often, but he was pretty tired! He's been extra sleepy/grumpy/drooly lately so I think a tooth must be coming (about time seeing that he only has 2!). However, seeing as how grumpy/sleepy he's been lately, he didn't do too bad after all the sledding and lunch, he just likes attention:)...

Gibson Walking

Gibson's walking has really been taking off! He still crawls at times if he falls down while walking, but for the most part mainly walks. I didn't get video of his first moves b/c I forgot:(, but here is him walking tonight. Layla has finally gotten over the excitement of him walking. For the past month, or however long it's been that he's been taking steps, when she's see him walk when I wasn't looking at him she'd be sure to yell, "Mom! Look! Gibson's walking!! What a big boy!". She's a proud big sister:). Today she decided it was more fun to try to walk like him so she often wobbles around after him or at times it's him chasing her which she then doesn't always appreciate when he then catches up to her and hugs/tackles her:).

Ear Update

Gibson had his appointment at the ENT this morning and the doctor said that he does indeed need tubes. Not surprisingly, he still had fluid in both ears, so in order to make sure it doesn't cause any damage to his ears (since it's been 5 months and hasn't cleared on its own), they recommend doing tubes. He has his surgery scheduled for next Friday. Hopefully he appreciates being able to hear good after the surgery! I know it's just minor surgery and really doesn't take very long, but I'm sure I'll still be a little nervous for him!

Trouble

Ever since Gibson has been on the move he has been getting into trouble. He just somehow always finds the naughtiest thing to play with and does not like to listen to "no". Joe likes to call him Captain Destructo:). It's just hard to watch EVERY single thing he does. Well, last night we were at church (we left quite early b/c I was in nursery and wanted to run some copies for nursery stuff b/f I had to be in nursery and then didn't find out church was cancelled until we were almost there) and I was running copies in our office at church and Gibs was in there for just a minute with me before Joe was going to take the kids to the nursery to wait for me. All of a sudden I noticed the tray that catches the paper was lying on the ground. I picked it up and tried to put it back on the copier when I realized that it was missing a couple of pieces that had cracked off. We looked on the ground for the little pieces and didn't see them so we figured that Gibs must not have broken it--that it must have been broken before and had just been setting on the copy machine instead of being attached. Well, then Joe took the kids out of the room to go play in the nursery so I could finish up making copies and putting them in mailboxes. Joe came back to me like 10 minutes later to show me what he had found in Gibs' mouth--two hard sharp plastic pieces, from the copy machine!! So obviously we knew that Gibson was the one that broke the tray off and that's scary that he had been moving all around with those sharp little pieces in his mouth!! So anyway, just another example of how quick things can happen to your kids!! I'm so glad that with all of Gibs' "naughty" things, he hasn't ever been hurt! Oh, and yes, I did contact the church to let them know what happened:).

Also, as an update on his walking for my own records, he's been taking a lot more steps recently. He's been doing about 10-15 max for what feels like awhile and then just in the past couple of days it seems like he walks about half of the time. Although it's always varied a lot by the day--when he was sick a couple of weeks ago he barely walked at all. He now can do I'd guess more like 20 steps at a time before falling (or arriving at something since our house isn't very big:D) and has gotten better at standing still without holding onto anything (otherwise he didn't really do that--I still have only seen him stand up without pulling up on anything once and that was a few weeks ago). Maybe one of these days he'll drop the crawling!

Madison's First Birthday Party

Saturday we celebrated Madison's first birthday with a Minnie Mouse themed party. And all our friends could make it! Lindsey (and Darrell I guess too:D) threw a very nice Minnie party for Maddy and Maddy seemed to enjoy her party:).

Enjoying her cake...

Lindsey's cute Minnie cake and cupcakes she made!

Singing to Madison...while we sang, Maddy's grandparents watched vie Skype. Skyping was a new experience for Layla so she basically stood infront of the computer the whole time:). Hopefully she wasn't blocking their view of Maddy too badly:).

Trying to get a group shot of 10 kids 4 and under (all but one are under 3--and Kali, Mason's older sister was at a friend's house) is not an easy task! I consider it success if you can at least see all their faces:). Gibs never would have sat still for the picture if Layla wasn't holding onto him!

From L to R: Rex, Alden, Kipton, Ella, Maddy, Mason, Gibson, Layla, Jonathan and Caleb in the front row:).

Mason did not appreciate Gibs picking on him by pulling his hair! Naughty Gibs!

Maddy's birthday is actually tomorrow, Happy Birthday Madison!!

1 Year Pics

A few weeks back we had Gibson's one year pictures taken by Marc Photography. Gibson did TERRIBLE! Seriously, I don' t think he could have been any crabbier! But despite his hatred for the studio they got a few pics of him smiling and that's enough for me! :) Here's a link to his pics...

http://photos.marc-photography.net/p989614456