It Only Gets Better!

After yesterday I wasn't sure I could handle Phia today. She just continued whining and not napping and when she did nap waking up 10 minutes later. Luckily Shane came home early yesterday so I had some relief and better yet she was in bed and asleep by 8:45! YIPEE! We had the most delicious dinner last night. Check these out....

Garlic Toasted Open Faced Lasagne Ciabattas at www.pickypalate.blogspot.com YUMMY!

We also got Phias stuff packed for camping and most of our stuff. We will have to take some of our stuff to Shanes family's on Saturday because it won't all fit in our car. I am excited to go and just get away.

Delphia has been much better today. A little bit of Ambesol goes a long way, as I think her teeth are bothering her. She has 2 breaking through up top as we speak. She took a 2 hour nap this morning and is napping as we speak. At lunchtime I feed her lasagne with meat sauce and a fruit by Gerber. Let's just say she is not a lasagne with meat sauce fan. She loved my garlic bread and leftovers from last night.

We took these this afternoon and this morning as you can tell by the latter and its perfect hair compared to the after naptime hair in the first one.

This will be her late 10 month picture for her scrapbook.

This morning when she woke up from her nap she didn't want to get out of her crib. I had stood her up to the rail and tried to lift her out and she grabbed back onto the crib. I just sat in the chair and let her play before we had lunch.

I had promised her an otter pop yesterday if she ate her vegetables with gusto even though they weren't her favorite. She did and so we rewarded her when Shane got home while I was getting dinner going. She actually had 2 otter pops, one blue and one purple. She likes them cut onto her tray so that they don't keep pushing back into the wrapper. We had tried pj's on her for camping and so all she had on was a diaper. Less mess to clean up when it doesn't get on the clothes. She really enjoyed them!

Her is a picture of her teeth coming in up on the top. The tooth next to her big tooth that is already in is coming in also now.

Exersaucer pics....

Finally, two videos for Ruby.....however one is just sound. She makes this gurgling sound which we had titled the Scuttle sound from Little Mermaid. She laid on the bed one night and did it for 30+ minutes and when I decided I needed to record it she wouldn't do it for the camera, so I had to point the camera into the bed. It cracks me up! She was doing it when she was youger but has now perfected it!

This next one is from this afternoon. She was rocking herself on her chair and playing with the phone.

Tonight I have an appointment with a counselor in the bishopric and I am highly curious what kind of calling I will be getting. You always have callings you would love to have, but they are the ones you just don't seem to get! I have learned to enjoy every calling I have held though. Well, off to relax before Delphi wakes up!

Terrible Two's Already?

Terrible Twos Already?

Phia has just been kinda ornery today and it is driving me nuts. She reminds me of a two year old! I can't seem to do anything right. It doesn't matter if I give her toys, hold her, feed her, etc. She goes from happy to sad to ornery and back again faster than I can count! Maybe it's her teeth, maybe she didn't sleep well.....all I know is tomorrow has to be better!

On a happier note I have cute pictures and videos.

This is from Saturday when we had a little pool party for the girls. This is Emma, Chloe, Ruby and Phia from right to left. I was sure Phia would love swimming as she loves the tub and treats it like she is in a pool! Little did I know she wouldn't even want to stand in the water or close to the pool for that matter. I guess splashing that wasn't her own was too much for her. Emma and Ruby loved it and Chloe seemed to feel the same as Phia. We will have to try it again this summer when they are happy and have had some good sleep! They all looked so cute in their swimsuits though!

On TuesdayI went to my mom's and Ashley and the girls were over. My mom went to lay down so we went out to the hammock. Ruby was fussing all around so Ashley pulled her out and then Em's was squirming so she got taken out which just left Phi by herself. She had a ball in it!

That same day Ruby had brought her yellow ball over and they were playing roll the ball. Delphi loves the ball and would squeal everytime she got it! I just had to tape it. That night we ran to Harmons for cereal that was $1.00 a box and ended up picking Delphia up a pink ball.

This next video was taken on Saturday at Grandma Anitas. They got a little kitten and we got there before everyone and Delphia had fun watching and trying to hold it. It was also the closest I have seen her come to crawling.

On Monday we noticed that Delphia had another tooth that had popped through! She now has her bottom right tooth and her top left tooth. No sign of the other bottom tooth, but it looks like she has 3 more that will be in soon up top!

On Tuesday we layed her on the floor for tummy time and to try to convince her to crawl and she actually got up on her hands and knees and pushed backwards which made her upset because she was getting farther away from the object of interest. She is pushing backwards consistently now so I am think it won't be long before she will be crawling! Busy days here we come!

Well, guess I better go, the Phia-Fussy is fussin'. She is tired, but no way am I putting her down for a nap at 6:15! That would just be asking for trouble!

Changing Favorites

It's amazing how much a little girl can change over the course of a week or so. I am constantly trying to figure out what will make Phia happy and what it is that is making her upset.

She used to love just sitting in the laundry basket, but that won't fit the bill anymore. Now she has to be unfolding the clothes I just folded, pulling her self up to the laundry basket or tossing things over the edge. She loves to ride in the laundry basket and go on rides with daddy down the stairs in the basket.

On Wednesday we ran to Target and I ended picking up this shape sorter for her. It is her new favorite toy and she doesn't even play with it the way it is supposed to be played with. She does end up strewing the pieces all over out of her reach and then cries because she wants to play.

She has been flipping to her belly during the night and during napime. When you go in to get her she will lift her head and look at you and then lay down, lift head, lay down. She is pretty funny! I got a picture of her doing it after her nap today.

Ice Cream & BBQ

Ice Cream and BBQ!

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

We went and picked out a swimming suit for Phia. She actually chose it and her swim diapers. She chose green and white stripes over pink with flowers and she chose Little Nemo/Pooh over Dora.

Parade Baby

Last week was Pony Express Days in our city and they had a parade on Saturday. Shane had the day off so we decided to go and we decided that we are going to plan on going every year! It was a lot of fun and just the perfect parade for little kids. There were 128 entries and it lasted 90 minutes. There were quite a few people even though the day started out cold with some rain. It was so nice to park 300' away from where we sat, show up 45 minutes before the parade, sit right on the curb with no one in front of you and get TONS of candy! It was right during Phias nap time but she was very good and really enjoyed it, especially when we sat on the curb! Here are some highlights:

The Transformer costume was made entirely out of cardboard and the kids were all running into the street to meet him! The bird is from the Orem baseball team.

Phia, Mommy and Daddy at the parade!

Horses....

Eagle Mountain royalty...

Bank of American Fork float....

Phia was very entertained by this Cinnamon Bear that she got....

South Jordan royalty....

Unicycle.....he fell off and got back on by himself!

This is Phia trying to keep her eyes open to watch the parade....

Spanish Fork Royalty....

This was one set of bag pipes. There were a ton of different bag pipes groups! It was fun to hear them play!

This is Phia favorite new toy. We bought it before she was born and she is really starting to enjoy it! She can sit and play with it for hours. Her favorite part of the set is the ark. She loves to pick it up and put it down and take the animals in and out.

Last Thursday Ashley and I got together and we ended up going shopping for JJ's for Phia. We found some at Old Navy and so we had a little fashion show one night.

Can't resist the sunglasses and hat...

Just plain old JJ's.

Strawberry Shortcake hat and more sunglasses...

Yet another hat....

Shane was giving her a shoulder ride the other day....

On Saturday I was getting ready to put my shoes on and we decided to try them on Phia. The things that Mommy and Daddy come up with!

This is her newest trick in her jumper.....

She the proceeds to hop on one leg. Sometimes she will even lift both legs off the floor and just hang there!