5 Months Old!

My baby is five months old today! She's still not sleeping through the night, but she makes up for it with her cute little face. She loves all the baby foods so far. And she's always the happiest watching her sibling run around. She has discovered the headbands on her head and she is always reaching up and pulling them into her eyes. Sophie also grabs straight for peoples mouths when they are talking. The drool is unstoppable but no teeth yet.

She's even reading! ;)-

Mr. Mom

Monday night I got the flu.-not fun. I threw up all night long, had a fever, and bad body aches. Andy was nice enough to get up with Sophie all night. And then he went and got me some sprite and Popsicles. Then Andy took over my day so I could rest.
-He got Maddie dressed and made her lunch
-He took her to school
-Then he went on the field trip with her to the Green River Nursery and Expedition Park. (he even took pictures for me).
-In the afternoon he let me take a nap.
-Then he took Maddie to swimming lessons and played with Garen in the giant blocks.
-Then he played some basketball with Maddie and Garen.
-Later he took Garen to his swimming lessons and had a great time swimming and sitting in the hot tub with him.

I'm so grateful Andy was able to be home to help me with the kids and that Andy made it so we didn't have to miss out on all the days plans. Even though according to Andy, I put him way outside his comfort box.

Here's the pictures he got on the field trip and at the Rec. center-
Maddie and her friend Alyx-

There were so many kids trying to go down the same slide, to funny-

Maddie making a basket-

Mother's Day

I had a wonderful Mother's day thanks to my great husband and kids. It started out a little bit rough with Sophie throwing up all night long. Andy took Sophie at about 6AM and I went back to bed. When I came down stairs Andy had french toast with strawberries and whip cream waiting for me.

Maddie came in my room first thing and gave me lost of hugs and kisses and "happy mother's day." She aslo made me some great pictures and a key chain from school.

Andy and Maddie went to Sacrament meeting then I went to the last two hours and brought Maddie and Garen. We got wonderful Cd's at church and Garen made me candy flowers in nursery (one of them had a bite taken out of it :)) and Maddie gave me a bag of goodies with a cute poem from primary.

When the kids and I got home Andy had lunch sitting on the table and some presents on my chair! He got me some new running shoes which I love!

In the afternoon we watched movies and I even got a nap!We put the kids to bed at 8 and we ate some yummy ham with cheese potatoes that Andy made.

It was a fabulous Mother's Day! I wish there was a Mother's Day every month!

Hogle Zoo

Maddie's Girls Scout troop went to Hogle Zoo. Instead of letting my 5 year old ride 3 hours with a group of girls and leaders I don't know that well, we went to Sara's hose Friday night. And Sara was nice enough to watch Sophie and Garen on Saturday while I took Maddie and Abby to the zoo.

It was crazy busy there; I was so glad to have the two older girls and no stroller, no baby, no run away 2 year old and no diaper bag!

I had so much fun with the girls! We had lunch, saw all the animals, rode the train, played at the park. Then after the rest of the troop left I took the girls to the bird show, which they loved!!! Then I let them ride the carousel.
It's funny how opposite these cousins are. When Maddie saw something she wanted to see she just ran ahead to see it, Abby made sure to always stay close. At the bird show they asked everyone to please stay seated and not to reach out to any of the birds. So first thing Maddie does is stand up as the birds fly over, and you hear Abby say, "Maddie they said don't stand up!"
On our way back to Sara's we stopped for ice cream.

We didn't get back to Sara's till 5PM so we had to leave right away to get home before it got to dark. The time in Salt Lake was wonderful, but the drives were not!

Sophie screamed on the way to Sara's house, we had to stop several times. Then we stopped at Zurchers party store to grab some stuff for the upcoming birthdays. And my little car sick boy threw up as soon as we got in there. I caught most of it in Sophie's blanket and all over my shirt. So I was trying to clean up Garen, Sophie was crying and Maddie was saying "oh please can I have these candles and this princess crown.." What a mess.
Then on our way home I gave Garen two different doses of medicine. You could tell he didn't feel well, but he didn't throw up. But Sophie screamed and then spit up the whole bottle she was drinking on herself. I was just glad to finally walk in the door at 9PM and pass some of the kids over to Andy.

Daisy Flag Ceremony

Maddie's girl scout troop got to present the flag last Monday. I guess not other Daisy troop has ever done that. It taught her a lot about respect and honor. They will be putting it in the news paper (I'd clip it but we don't get the paper). Good Job Maddie!

Bowling With the Girl Scouts

Maddie got to go bowling with her Girl Scout troop tonight to earn their bowling badge. She had a great time. She got the highest score out of all the girls with a 103!

Fishing with dad

This morning when Garen woke up he got a brand new Transformers fishing pole. Then he got to go with his dad out to Fontenelle Reservoir and go fishing for the first time. Garen loved playing with his fishing pole and throwing rocks in the water. He didn't want much to do with the fish that Andy caught. After awhile, Garen got tired of catching fish, and told Andy to try and catch the pelicans instead.

Garen is so good he can catch a fish out of a bowl of fruit loops!

Garen didn't think Andy was serious when he said he was going to catch a fish bigger than him!


Why do they call it a brown trout, it's not even brown?


Here pelican, pelican, pelican...(a wonderful bird is a pelican...ha).


Isn't Garen's face the best! He fell asleep on the way home and was a bit grumpy, plus he didn't want the fish by him-

Swimming Lessons

Maddie and Garen started swimming lessons this week. Maddie is the only girl in her class but she loves swimming and loves her teacher! She's doing really well!

The kids here have to be 4 to start level one on their own, so Garen an I are doing the mom and tot class. I worried about Garen because sometimes he freaks out-but he loved it!!! He has the same teacher as Maddie. It was so fun to have that one on one time with Garen-we had a blast. After swimming lessons we warmed up in the hot tub and then Garen thought it was pretty cool to dry off with the hand dryer. He was cracking me up! I don't have any pictures of Garen in the pool since I was in there with him. Maybe Andy will get to come one time and he can get some pictures for me.

Garen drying off-