8 months

~Big Baby Blues~

Babysitting

Growing up!

Willow Park

Okay so I know these pictures look cold, but it really was a pretty nice day out. We got together with Kelli and Radley for a outing to our world famous Willow Park Zoo!! (I guess the pictures of the Elephants and Panda's and things didn't turn out, but we got a nice one of Mykell feeding the ducks!!). Mykell had fun running around and feeding the ducks, and then making some new friends on the play ground. Porter looked bored most of the time, and Radley seemed more interested in Porter than anything else. I had a great time talking to someone older than 3 and getting outside! Thanks Kelli, can't wait to do more!!

New things!!

So "little" Porter has recently found his tongue, it is so funny. He has it out A LOT! Especially when he just wakes up and is in a pretty good mood! He likes to have it out when he is in his jumper. He just bounces up and down with his tongue wiggling--pretty funny! So he has officially got teeth!! It started the first of the week. Our poor little guy has handled it worse then RSV. He has had a fever most of the week, and been pretty grumpy (screaming for hours on end at times!). I think he has a cold on top (and I'm worried about another ear infection). Mykell and I have both had a cold so I'm pretty sure that's part of his problem. It is sad to seem him be so sad, he has NEVER been like this before. His bottom right tooth poked through on Tuesday evening, and this bottom left is working on it currently (hopefully he will cut it soon and will feel better!!). Who knew teething could be so bad!

Disney on Ice

Me and my friend Emily took our little princesses to Disney on Ice last Friday. It was SOO much fun (besides the temper tantrums on the way down fighting over who got to wear the Cinderella shoes!). They both got Cinderella dresses for their birthdays (which are 5 days apart). The had a BLAST. Mykell was so into it. During the Little Mermaid part they had a big balloon Ursula come out and Mykell was screaming "watch out Aerial"!! She danced during the music. Pointed at things and told the people behind, in front and to the side of us about what was going on (I don't think we were their favorite!!). Halle and Mykell got Cinderella dolls at the show (conveniently bought before hand by their mom's at a fraction the price!!). The whole way home their were talking about it, giggling and dancing in their car seats. We stopped in Layton and ate at Cafe Rio where Halle and Mykell stood on their chairs (I know bad mom) and danced and got got laughs from everyone around. Those little girls are so cute. On the way home Mykell had to call her grandma's and her dad to tell them all about it. The next morning when I went to get her up she had dresses herself in her dress again and told me she was ready to see Micky Mouse! We will have to go again!

Mykell's Cute Quotes!

So I have been wanting to write this for a while to remember some of Mykell's funny sayings. Today I'm TRYING really hard to stay awake so I felt like no time better than now! As a little girl she says the FUNNIEST things all the time. She has come up with many ways to tell me no such as: "Um, of course I not," "It is NOT a possibility", " "NO", "Why" "Probably I won't" "Not yet anymore", and "In a minute (I think she got this one from me!)" She phrases a lot of things in questions some of my favorites: "Did you make a mess?" (meaning she made a mess) "Did you break mom's things?" (you can figure that one out yourself!) . She LOVES her little brother, she calls him her buddy, her palo, she kisses him gives him hugs, and says "your so cute", "hey palo are you my friend?", "I love you buddy" she is a great sister until she says "Port don't pull my hair", "Port don't hit me", and "Port don't touch me". She has been so fun, she is coming up with new things all the time. When we drive down the road she looks at the store signs and says "Mom do you see all the ABCD's". I love her so much, and my favorite saying "Mom I love you, you are my best friend!!" Love you to Mykell!

Swings and Slides again

One of Mykell's FAVORITE things last year was playing at the park.  Saturday we took her and she played and played and played.  One of the slides is rather fast and she would come hurling out and land on her back on the ground.  She would look stunned and then start laughing and get up and keep on playing.  Porter really likes the swing and giggled when we would go up! We had so much fun, it wasn't too fun to wake up Monday morning to this...(okay so I couldn't make the snow picture go where I wanted to but you get the idea!!)

I asked Mykell if she wanted to play in the snow, she said no she wanted to play on the grass, me too!

AWWWW

We had been LOVING the warm weather, and had been going out on tons of fun walks.  This is what we found when we got home one day! (Notice how their heads are about the same size!!!)

Chocolate anyone??

I have been a little behind in updating my blog.  Nothing great has happened but I needed to catch up on a few things.  I recently published by blog from last year and I love it.  I decided that I'm going to be better at updating so I have a more accurate book.  ANYWAYS, my parents have a chocolate fountain and every once and a while we get together and go to town!  They had a dessert night a couple weeks ago (of course I had to work) and Elliot and the kids went!  I heard they had a blast, don't tell the pediatrician but I heard even little Porter enjoyed some!!  Mykell told me all about it the next day! Later apparently Mykell moved the kitchen chairs around and assigned everyone a seat, lucky them (and what good sports too!!)

6 years!!!

Today is out 6th wedding anniversary! Wow, I can't believe it's been that long. It's amazing to think back on all that we have done, and been through. For sure the favorite thing is our two beautiful kids. We LOVE them. Yesterday we were able to spend the day in Salt Lake, shopping, watching a movie, and eating. Usually we spend the night (or 2) but we kind of figured little Porter is still to young for us to leave over night, but we had a blast just being together.