videos

I've been meaning to share these videos for a while - since they were taken 2 months ago.

Rylee got a book for Easter that plays music and I sing along to it.  The words are "Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so"  She LOVES it and asks for it often, she then started to sing it to herself.  She requests many of the nursery songs and will sing words in church now too.  The song she knows best is Twinkle, twinkle little star. Its very sweet.

Then the first video of Kelsey rolling over. She's a rolling both ways now, close to sitting up and it looks like she may do the army crawl first like her sister.  Time will tell.

Father's Day

Happy Father's Day Daddy!

We have a 2 year old in the house.  This means no one is allowed to open their own presents.  We went to the craft store on Saturday and they were offering free make and take frames for fathers day - Rylee decorated a foam frame with stickers and we put a picture of the girls in it to give to Michael. She was so excited to open the present and see her face.  (she loves looking at the pictures on our phones and camera and enjoys naming the faces she sees - or mostly asking "who dat?".) She was just as excited to see said picture and frame proudly dispayed in Daddy's office.

Here's some of the pictures we had taken:

Father's Day Pics

You've had a Birthday, Shout Hooray!!

Michael's birthday was this week.

It likely didn't make the list of "best birthday ever" but he knows he's loved.

This is his 'busy time' at work and we don't get to see him much, but he came home early Thursday and we had dinner together and he opened presents.

The next day Rylee didn't stop talking about "Daddy's Special Day"!! (its really been fun to hear her talking more and more . . . . .even if she lies about what we do every day)

 He got his requested Strawberry Pie {Sorry, no candles}

Happy Birthday Sweetheart.  We're so glad you were born and so happy to have you in our lives.

dog-sitting and growing

So a couple weeks ago we (I) reluctantly agreed to dog-sit a friends dog while they were out of town.  See, I don't claim to be a dog person mostly because I never had a dog but you-know.  However, I did tell Michael that I do think we could get a dog "someday".  So we decided a week would be a good 'trial-run'.

Well, I do think we took this dog in under false pretenses.  That being he is house trained. If that were the case I don't think I should be getting up in the night with a dog (when my baby has no problem sleeping 10 solid hours).  And dog crap REALLY stinks.

The bottom line is I'm not sure if this experience brought be closer or further from getting our own dog.  I will say Rylee was pretty funny.  She was quite skeptical when the dog first came in.  Michael sat on the ground with her reassuring her it was ok.  Kelsey was in the bumbo and he sniffed around and then got a little bit in Kelsey's face to smell her as well at this point Rylee screamed "KELSEY!!!" As if saying "Daddy, save her!!"  very sweet to protect her sister, but from a distance.

She loved being able to call him "cody. come 'ere, where's cody? come 'ere, Cody"  Then when he actually obeyed her call she'd freak. saying "scared".  There were a couple times she wouldn't leave or pass by a room that she knew he was in but all in all it worked out.  He's a little older of a dog and was pretty mellow.  Our neighbors dogs didn't particularly like the fact that we had a furry one on our side of the fence - but all is back to normal now.

 Not much makes me happier than seeing my girls play together.  Nobody can get Kelsey laughing like Rylee can, and Rylee gets the biggest kick out of her power as well.  If Kelsey is sad Rylee loves to run up in her face and dance around her then run away to see if Kelsey will cry again (which she does) so Rylee can run back in to be the hero.

Kelsey is really growing.  It kindof makes me a bit sad.  A girl in the ward the other day saw me with her and said "Is that YOUR baby?" (she had a baby herself only a couple weeks after Rylee was born). She is particularly tall.

rolling forward and backward all over the living room.

giggling and grasping for toys.

 She has been loving to play with her toes lately too (something Rylee never did). I think its adorable.

We'll probably start her on solids once we get back from our trip.  That and potty training.  I'm not particularly looking forward to either.