December 31, 2010
For New Year's Eve we went out to eat at Sadie's.
The lady at the table next to us wouldn't stop talking to us about our girls.
She kept telling us who beautiful they are. We're used to this happening a lot.
After dinner we went home and just let the kids play.
They ended up going to bed just before 10pm Mountain Standard Time,
which is nearly 12pm East Coast Time. So they almost had an East Coast New Years.
Us parents went to bed a little after 10.
We kind of have a tradition in our family of going to bed before midnight.
December 25, 2010
Lexi decided to wake up at 7 (an hour earlier than normal) and as soon as I told her it was Christmas
she popped out of bed and ran into the living room straight to her stocking.
She was so excited to find that Santa had left her Smarties and not candy canes.
Lexi LOVED opening all the presents for us.
Lexi was so excited to get some slippers just like I did.
Lexi was also excited to wear her Princess shoes and PJ's.
Princesses are officially her new thing.
We got Lexi this kitchen/tea set. We knew she would love it.
Lexi was SOOO excited to have a tea set like on Beauty and the Beast.
Now she can have tea parties.
December 24, 2010
Lexi excited for it to finally be Christmas Eve.
Lexi was so excited to eat the pie that she and I made together.
We sang Christmas songs together.
As we read the Christmas story from the New Testament, Lexi layed out the characters.
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We dressed up like the nativity scene.
This was really fun for Lexi to do and I think will become a new tradition for our family.
December 2010
Last weekend, we had our first visitors since we moved to Albuquerque, my aunt Lisa and her family. They came for the New Mexico Bowl.
Lisa wanted to get lots of pictures with my girls to make my mom jealous.
I think Lexi's favorite part about the weekend was when we went swimming at the hotel pool.
Friday afternoon, there was a pep rally put on by the by bowl.
It wasn't very well publicized and is was so cold that weekend so there wasn't a great turn out.
So we were dancing trying to keep ourselves warm while we waited for the pep rally to start.
Lexi was having a great time dancing and watching the cheerleaders until Cosmo, the BYU mascot.
He TERRIFIED her! Seriously, she wouldn't stop screaming!
For New Year's Eve we went out to eat at Sadie's.
The lady at the table next to us wouldn't stop talking to us about our girls.
She kept telling us who beautiful they are. We're used to this happening a lot.
After dinner we went home and just let the kids play.
They ended up going to bed just before 10pm Mountain Standard Time,
which is nearly 12pm East Coast Time. So they almost had an East Coast New Years.
Us parents went to bed a little after 10.
We kind of have a tradition in our family of going to bed before midnight.
December 25, 2010
Lexi decided to wake up at 7 (an hour earlier than normal) and as soon as I told her it was Christmas
she popped out of bed and ran into the living room straight to her stocking.
She was so excited to find that Santa had left her Smarties and not candy canes.
Lexi LOVED opening all the presents for us.
Lexi was so excited to get some slippers just like I did.
Lexi was also excited to wear her Princess shoes and PJ's.
Princesses are officially her new thing.
We got Lexi this kitchen/tea set. We knew she would love it.
Lexi was SOOO excited to have a tea set like on Beauty and the Beast.
Now she can have tea parties.
December 24, 2010
Lexi excited for it to finally be Christmas Eve.
Lexi was so excited to eat the pie that she and I made together.
We sang Christmas songs together.
As we read the Christmas story from the New Testament, Lexi layed out the characters.
...
We dressed up like the nativity scene.
This was really fun for Lexi to do and I think will become a new tradition for our family.
December 2010
Last weekend, we had our first visitors since we moved to Albuquerque, my aunt Lisa and her family. They came for the New Mexico Bowl.
Lisa wanted to get lots of pictures with my girls to make my mom jealous.
I think Lexi's favorite part about the weekend was when we went swimming at the hotel pool.
Friday afternoon, there was a pep rally put on by the by bowl.
It wasn't very well publicized and is was so cold that weekend so there wasn't a great turn out.
So we were dancing trying to keep ourselves warm while we waited for the pep rally to start.
Lexi was having a great time dancing and watching the cheerleaders until Cosmo, the BYU mascot.
He TERRIFIED her! Seriously, she wouldn't stop screaming!
...
We went to the River of Lights at the Bio Park in downtown Albuquerque.
Lexi loved it! Lexi just wanted to run around and touch every single light.
It was such a fun night (Lexi keeps talking about it) and it is definitely a new family tradition for us.
...
I took the girls to the mall to meet Santa.
I was expecting Lexi to be shy and to refuse to sit on his lap and Avery to just cry.
But my girls surprised me and there were no tears or fighting.
Lexi was a little shy but it helped her to see other kids sit on Santa's lap too.
Also the fact that Santa looks like her grandpa helped.
Also, Santa gave each girl a coloring book aka Lexi got two coloring books. So she was really excited.
Thanksgiving Week 2010
We went to Payson, Arizona.
Our last day we woke up to snow. The kids had fun playing in it.
Devin taught Lexi to eat the snow, which she loved until her hands were freezing.
October 31, 2010
Avery is the team mascot and Lexi is the team cheerleader.
Lexi got really good at saying, "Go team, go!"
Last week, "we" carved pumpkins. Lexi refused to touch the pumpkin guts just like last year.
Lexi like stirring the seeds in a bowl though.
Sean did a good job. He did Sesame Street's Elmo and Bert.
October 29, 1010
Today was Avery's 6 month check-up. Lexi decided to wear her scrubs to the appointment
and help the staff out. She helped check Avery's temperature and blood pressure
and listened to her heart with her toy doctor tools.
...
We went to our ward Halloween party tonight.
Lexi got her face painted for the first time.
Sean took Lexi Trunk-or-Treating to all the other trunks.
Lexi is so shy in public. Sean told me that in the beginning she would quietly say, "Trick-or-Treat" but stopped because she realized people wearing handing out candy anyway.
Lexi stayed up hours passed her bedtime on a sugar high.
She was so excited to get lots of candy!
October 2010
Lexi cracks me up daily.
Her journal is always close by now so I jot down all the funny stuff that comes out of her mouth.
-Last week, I told Lexi that she had five more minutes until nap time.
She looked at me and said, "I'm checking my email."
-We have music channels with our cable package. We were listening to the toddler music channel
and the song "High-Ho" from Snow White (Lexi isn't familiar with the movie) came on.
Lexi looked at me and said, "I no like this noise."
-This morning Lexi put one of her baby dolls into a doll car seat and said, "Baby go to hospital."
I didn't think she even knew what a hospital was! So I told her that when mommies are pregnant (when there is a baby inside their belly) they go to the hospital and then babies are born (the come outside of their mommy's tummy). Lexi thought about that for a minute and then she put her Lion up her shirt and then pulled him out and said, "Lion born."
-Today she came up to me while I was in the bathroom getting ready and said, "I need nursing cover for my boobs cause I'm a Mommy." When I was done I gave her one of my nursing covers and she pretended to nurse. While she was nursing she kept saying, "I'm a Mommy." Then she told me, "I need nursing pads for my boobs." So I gave her some and she put them up her shirt and has been wearing them since! It's been over an hour. It's so funny to see a two year old with a stuffed shirt.
...
We recently went with my friend Tiffany and her kids down to the UNM campus to go see,
Click Clack Moo. It was a short musical based on the childrens' book.
I have never taken Lexi to the movie or any sort of play.
I wasn't sure how my girls would do but they both did great!
We had to ride a shuttle from the parking lot to the theater and Lexi was SOOO excited to ride the bus.
We went to the River of Lights at the Bio Park in downtown Albuquerque.
Lexi loved it! Lexi just wanted to run around and touch every single light.
It was such a fun night (Lexi keeps talking about it) and it is definitely a new family tradition for us.
...
I took the girls to the mall to meet Santa.
I was expecting Lexi to be shy and to refuse to sit on his lap and Avery to just cry.
But my girls surprised me and there were no tears or fighting.
Lexi was a little shy but it helped her to see other kids sit on Santa's lap too.
Also the fact that Santa looks like her grandpa helped.
Also, Santa gave each girl a coloring book aka Lexi got two coloring books. So she was really excited.
Thanksgiving Week 2010
We went to Payson, Arizona.
Our last day we woke up to snow. The kids had fun playing in it.
Devin taught Lexi to eat the snow, which she loved until her hands were freezing.
October 31, 2010
Avery is the team mascot and Lexi is the team cheerleader.
Lexi got really good at saying, "Go team, go!"
Last week, "we" carved pumpkins. Lexi refused to touch the pumpkin guts just like last year.
Lexi like stirring the seeds in a bowl though.
Sean did a good job. He did Sesame Street's Elmo and Bert.
October 29, 1010
Today was Avery's 6 month check-up. Lexi decided to wear her scrubs to the appointment
and help the staff out. She helped check Avery's temperature and blood pressure
and listened to her heart with her toy doctor tools.
...
We went to our ward Halloween party tonight.
Lexi got her face painted for the first time.
Sean took Lexi Trunk-or-Treating to all the other trunks.
Lexi is so shy in public. Sean told me that in the beginning she would quietly say, "Trick-or-Treat" but stopped because she realized people wearing handing out candy anyway.
Lexi stayed up hours passed her bedtime on a sugar high.
She was so excited to get lots of candy!
October 2010
Lexi cracks me up daily.
Her journal is always close by now so I jot down all the funny stuff that comes out of her mouth.
-Last week, I told Lexi that she had five more minutes until nap time.
She looked at me and said, "I'm checking my email."
-We have music channels with our cable package. We were listening to the toddler music channel
and the song "High-Ho" from Snow White (Lexi isn't familiar with the movie) came on.
Lexi looked at me and said, "I no like this noise."
-This morning Lexi put one of her baby dolls into a doll car seat and said, "Baby go to hospital."
I didn't think she even knew what a hospital was! So I told her that when mommies are pregnant (when there is a baby inside their belly) they go to the hospital and then babies are born (the come outside of their mommy's tummy). Lexi thought about that for a minute and then she put her Lion up her shirt and then pulled him out and said, "Lion born."
-Today she came up to me while I was in the bathroom getting ready and said, "I need nursing cover for my boobs cause I'm a Mommy." When I was done I gave her one of my nursing covers and she pretended to nurse. While she was nursing she kept saying, "I'm a Mommy." Then she told me, "I need nursing pads for my boobs." So I gave her some and she put them up her shirt and has been wearing them since! It's been over an hour. It's so funny to see a two year old with a stuffed shirt.
...
We recently went with my friend Tiffany and her kids down to the UNM campus to go see,
Click Clack Moo. It was a short musical based on the childrens' book.
I have never taken Lexi to the movie or any sort of play.
I wasn't sure how my girls would do but they both did great!
We had to ride a shuttle from the parking lot to the theater and Lexi was SOOO excited to ride the bus.
It was her first time. I think it was a little old for Lexi but she like the music and dancing none the less.
October 9, 2010
Yesterday we went to McCall's Pumpkin Patch out in Moriarty, it was about an hour drive.
We thought Lexi would have a blast and we were so excited to go. Reality: Lexi was a pill!!!
She was excited about all the fun things we did there but never wanted to leave what she was doing to go try something new. She couldn't handle the transitions.
I'm not sure what her deal was, she is normally not such a beast.
The first thing we did was let Lexi ride this little Cow Train. And then she never wanted to leave it.
Last year we got great family pictures at a pumpkin patch and this year I had vision of all four of us smiling sitting on some hay with pumpkins all around us. It didn't happened.
That's life with a two year old.
October 2010
I've been trying to teach Lexi that Avery is her best friend. When I ask her who her best friend is she usually now says Avery but still says, "Daddy" or "Addie" sometimes.
October 5, 2010
We decided that we weren't ready for potty training. So we're taking a break from it.
Every time I asked Lexi if she needed to go potty, she got upset and said no.
She never actually used her potty, just had accidents on the floor.
She did however go through her entire nap without an accident in her under ware.
Anyway, it was too much stress plus I just bought her a huge pack of diapers from Costco.
So I'm not in a huge hurry right now.
October 2, 2010
Today was the official start of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta.
We didn't get up at 5 am so that we could make it to the park at 7 am.
We just got up at 7 am and went to a field a few miles from Balloon Fiesta Park. It was still a great show. We watched from the back of our van as 500 hot air balloons slowly filled the sky. An amazing site!
Lexi LOVES seeing hot air balloons in the sky all the time (one of the best parts about living in ABQ)
but seeing hundreds all at once was so exciting for her.
A balloon landed right in front of our van! And Lexi even got to touch it!
October 1, 2010
We keep talking about Halloween around here and Lexi is starting to get excited.
I decided to kick off the month with some Halloween art work (ghost).
The ghost artwork was following by ghost pancakes.
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Lexi is kinda obsessed with pancakes right now because of the book, If You Give A Pig A Pancake.
And every time she eats pancakes she says, " I'm sticky. I want need bath. Bubble bath."
You can guess where she go that idea from (the book).
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Lexi is finally able to sit down and let me read her a whole book now.
Before she would want to hold the book and just look at the pictures but now she loves listening to me read. It's so fun to read to her. I want to run out and buy a whole library!
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I decided to let Lexi run around in some Minnie Mouse under ware and a t-shirt today.
It's crash course potty training for us. We really don't know what we're doing.
So far Lexi hasn't actually used her little potty. She had one accident this morning in the dinning room.
I couldn't get to her fast enough because I was feeding Avery. Right now Lexi is napping.
She refused to use her potty before her nap and also refused to wear a diaper.
So we'll see what I find when I go wake her up.
September 2010
We got Lexi some new Fisher Price Little People sets. We got an amazing deal on Craig's List.
We got her a school bus, princess castle with a carriage and a ABC zoo.
Originally there were going to be her Christmas gifts but we didn't do a good enough job hiding them. Oh well. She loves them! And Avery loves watching her playing with them.
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Recently Lexi got sick. The poor thing lived off of Popsicles and Pedialite for days.
She laid on an air mattress watching Elmo.
March 12, 2010
We gave Lexi her first Oreo.
She doesn't eat chocolate very often (she is hyper enough without the sugar) so this was fun for her.
She loved the frosting.
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