Just to start off, in the last post for my b-day, it was my idea for Jared to put the picture of the old lady. I mean, this is how I feel most days!! When I saw the picture, I thought it looked like my Great-Grandma Minnie, and when Parker and Jase saw it, they both said, "It's our cowboy Grandma" which is what they call GG Minnie. It cracked me up!
Speaking of Minnie, her actual name was Armeda, but when she was a baby, one of her siblings couldn't pronounce the name, so she became "Minnie". That brings me to Doneen. That is what Lizzie calls Dalila. I don't know why. She can say "Lila", and she can even say, "Dalila", sort of! But she insists on calling her Doneen. It may be a blend of Dalila Jean, but who knows?
Lizzie also calls herself, "Izzie". So now I call her Izzie. Izzie and Doneen. Not names that I picked out, and they probably won't stick like Minnie did. But still cute!
Lizzie really likes to "help" with Lila. She REALLY wants to feed her baby food, and is constantly getting out baby carrots, baby peas, baby bananas, you name it, and getting a spoon and bib and trying to force feed Lila. I try and get Lizzie to feed her babies, but no go.
This morning Lizzie was pulling on Lila trying to get her to crawl, and I told her to stop. A few minutes later, Parker asked if Lizzie could come out of time-out. I looked over, and Lizzie was standing with her nose in the corner, where we make the kids go for time-out. I told her she could come out, and she walked over to Lila and said, "I'm sorry, Doneen". So cute, but obviously not her first time-out!!
Lila is getting so mobile! She rolls all over the place, and she also scoots forward. She really wants to crawl, and she is getting close. It won't be long now and she'll be running!
Okay, so this just happened this afternoon, after I published this post, so I guess this is a P.S.:
We have been trying to get Lizzie to use the potty. Not seriously "potty training" her, but just getting her used to going in the potty sometimes. (I am determined that when we actually attempt to "potty train" it will be a matter of days, maybe weeks, not months or more than a YEAR like it was with the boys. I cannot do the tantrums and tears (on my part;)!) any more, so this time will be better!). Well, I was telling her that when she is all potty trained, we will buy her a new toy. I asked her if she would want a new doll, or maybe a slide, because she loves slides, but we don't have one. She thought about it for a minute, and then said, "Playhouse. " What? She wants a
playhouse? I guess she's not one to go for the inexpensive toys. Jase was easy. He just wanted a light saber. Arrgh! Then, she actually went number 2!! Yea!!!She was very excited, and so was I, but now I think she is expecting a new playhouse today! She kept asking me the whole time I was trying to get her to take a nap. Hopefully she will forget about the playhouse while she is sleeping....
For those of you who might not know, that is Liz on the box! Jared thought the lady who was on the box looked like his mom, so he put her picture on it (after a lot of work!!). I thought it turned out funny!
Hope you enjoy!!
I CAN take all 4 kids to a movie and actually enjoy the movie! We saw "Monsters vs. Aliens" and I really kind of liked it! (I think the kids liked it, too!)
Jase's new thing is to say, "And Guess What?" all of the time. For example, when I picked him up from preschool the other day, they had just finished an Easter Egg Hunt. He was so excited! He said, "Mom, I found a purple Easter Egg. And Guess What? Then I found a BLUE Easter Egg! And Guess What? There was money inside the blue Easter Egg! And Guess What? Then I found a green Easter Egg!! And Guess What? Green is my favorite color! And Guess What?...." You get the point. It cracks me up! When I was pointing this out to Jared, Jase said it hurt his feelings that I thought it was cute that he says "And Guess What" all of the time. But I still think it's cute!
Lizzie is little miss BUSY all of the time! She is really enjoying her Easter CANDY. In fact, I think she may have eaten all of it already (Good, I'll be glad to get rid of it!). My favorite thing she does is say, "Huuuuhhh?" It is so funny. She will be playing with a toy, and then maybe lose it. She'll look all over for it saying, "Huuuuhhh?" with this funny tone in her voice. So cute!
Lila's new thing is to stick her tongue out constantly. It is so funny. She got her two bottom teeth in at 8 months (the earliest of any of my kids), and I think she is teething, so she always has her tongue out, probably to make her little gums feel better. She is also crawling all over the place. She started army crawling about 2 months ago, and she can crawl on her hands and knees, but she much prefers the tummy crawl. It's much faster and more effective to get her where she wants to go.
The kids all had a great Easter--candy, candy, and more CANDY!! A guy from our ward volunteered to take some pictures of the kids in their Easter outfits. It was windy, and everyone wanted to just go home, but I think the pictures turned out great. They really show my kids personalities! (Lizzie does smile all the time, just never in pictures where we want her to!) Enjoy!!!
She hasn't changed a bit since the day we met... But seriously, she is terrific and here is a little photo recap of the year for her (NOTE: Holly would like me to remind everyone that she did HAVE A BABY this year, and that it may have impacted the way she looks in some of the photos):
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