Big Month 4 Bonnie

This month she started saying "mamamama", crawling across the floor, standing on her own for a few seconds, and walking along the furniture. She likes to tear up books, and magazines, playing with toys that make noise and daddy throwing her up in the air. She is even eating a lot more as long as it's table food and nothing mushy, she hates mashed potatoes, but she loves spaghetti, rice, peas, raisins, cheerios and especially pears!!! Working on that thumb and pointer finger action.

She has become a little shy with strangers and tucks her face into my shoulder when people talk to her, but she comes back up smiling because she still likes the attention. The other day I gave her a little doll to hold and she held it up to her shoulder and gave it a hug. She also gave a little bear a kiss. It was so cute! Can't believe she's doing those things already! She also found the tupperware cupboard. She likes to find things in that special drawer and pulls things out whenever the door is open.

Still no teeth yet which means healthier baby teeth when they do show up. Maybe she will beat Jacob and wait until after her first birthday to get her first tooth. Guess we'll have to wait and see.

*Update: Bonnie weighs 16lbs and is 27.5 inches long.

Check Lists

I've always been one for lists. I like to see what I've accomplished. I've been working on a very large list these past couple weeks.

clean carpets upstairs
move love seat downstairs
get rid of old couch
put away Christmas stuff
sort junk drawers
shred old papers
file 2010 papers
organize toy room
upload 2009 picture
print pictures
exchange portraits
hang forsythia vines
plan garden boxes
start seeds
clip forsythia branches
start bulbs

I also have some home decorating projects to get going on. Right now I'm working on the girls bathroom. They have decided that they want butterflies with blue, purple and pink colors. We have some couches coming hopefully this week and Dennis found some really good cupboards for the laundry room and garage that he is going to start installing. It seams never ending, but it's great to see the work finally done. We really need to work on a budget thought or this is going to get out of control. Either that or hoping for a very quick spring. Then I'll find myself working more outside and that is always less expensive than these home improvement projects. It's all about getting through the winter though.

Special Girl

Night Out

My mom came up to stay with our kids while Dennis and I spent the night in Salt Lake City this weekend. Dennis had to attend a MPA introduction class from BYU so we thought that we would make a big night out of it. We ended up staying at the new hotel downtown called the Hyatt. It was nice. I did a little big of scrap booking while Dennis was at his meeting, then we went out to dinner at a place in the Gateway called Z'Tejas. Yuuuummmmy! We had shrimp and pork dumplings, then I had the three mushroom enchilada and I tried out the mango lemonaide! Oh my!! Of course then there was the chocolate store across the street so Dennis insisted that we stop there. What could I say to my man. I just want to make him happy! It really was fun. There was the moment in the middle of the night where there was the drunk couple were fighting outside our window, but other than than, fabuloso! We stopped at Tai Pan Trading on the way home and I saw this simple, yet cute little table. Dennis looked at it and said "I could make that". So the next stop on the way home was Home Depo where he picked up the supplies for the table, he brought it home and started working on it for me. He is so good to me!
For some reason this year he has been dragging out Valentines day during the past couple weeks. I've already had chocolates, roses, the night out and a card (which I promised to save until the actual day.) Of course he's setting a pretty high standard for valentines to come, but hey, I'm not the one to complain.

11 Years Old

Jacob is turning 11 today! Happy Birthday boy!! I'm so glad he was my first. He is a very sensitive boy and is a great friend. He always wants to do the right thing. He loves playing sports, he has great speed. Right now he is playing basketball. He collects pok-e-mon cards, loves playing the piano and is really good at it. The past couple months he has just started started to excel. Jacob loves to read books. Right now he's reading the Ranger's Apprentice books. He also loves playing video games and riding his bike or rip stick. This year he got an MP3 player. He loves it. Now if I can just keep up with the kind of music kids like these days. They actually like listening to the good stuff from the late 80's early 90's. (I'm feeling a little old.)

St. George

This past weekend we spent in sunny St. George. It was a sort of Christmas present from my parents. They rented a nice place there and the whole family stayed together. It was so much fun! We went to the animal museum and a nice hike around the mountains where we stayed but mostly it was lots of video games, Foosball tournaments, late nights playing games or watching movies. The kids were able to enjoy a little time in the hot tub which was really not that hot, but fun anyway. Before we came home we walked to a little park to see the ducks. I just can't get over how warm it was down there! The time went by so quickly and it was a little difficult to come back home to the bleakness and freezing temperatures and snow.

8 Months Old

I actually had to count this one out on my fingers to make sure it was right. It's just going by so quickly. Bonnie has started doing some amazing things this month. She is getting really good at picking things up with her fingers and we've officially started the vacuum stage. She's become a vacuum and sooooo, we've had to use the vacuum more. Every little thing goes into the mouth. We give her little finger foods and she loves that. She now goes from her belly to a sitting position and even pulls herself up to stand next to things. She has no desire to crawl. She even got mad at Dennis when she tried to let go while she was standing up and he was holding onto her. She's working on waving now too. She has the cutest little laugh and her favorite game is peek-a-boo.