About the kids.

I thought I'd write down some funny things about the kids we want to remember.

First, Annicka. She is one funny little girl. Her favorite thing to do right now is to find the most inopportune time to say she loves you. Don't get me wrong...I love it when she does this, but it is always when she should be eating her dinner, or going to bed, or when you are in the bathroom. Almost every night we hear the door creek open and we hear Annie say, "I love you, Mommy and Daddy!" Then she won't close the door until she hears both of us say it back. Annicka is not a good eater and will find any opportunity to get out of her chair to find something to distract herself. Half of the time she'll come up and give one of us a hug, "I love you!" "I love you, too, Annicka. Now go and eat your dinner." She is also the quintessential four year old girl and cries at the drop of a hat. Literally, all it takes is someone to drop their hat and she bursts into tears. "He dropped his haaaaaaat!" Well, maybe it's not that bad, but she does cry about everything. "Mom, Sam looked at me funny!"

Park on the other hand is our little tough guy. If he really gets hurt he'll cry, but it never lasts longer than it needs to and he always does what he can not to. Just tonight he dropped a John Deer tractor toy on his foot. This tractor is not small, either. It weighs a good half pound. I would cry if it dropped on my foot. I watched him drop it and I heard him say, "OW!" but that was it. I said, "ouch! Are you okay?" He looked up at me with watery eyes and said, "Yeah." Then he leaned down and rubbed it. "Are you sure you're okay?" "Yeah, I okay." Then later when it was time for bed I found a sliver in his foot. It was red and swollen and so it must have been in all day, maybe longer. So I got the needle and tweezers out and had to dig it out. He screamed, but did his best to hold still. Once I got it out the tears immediately stopped. The thing was a good half inch long and had gone straight in. It wasn't angled at all. His favorite thing to say right now when you are playing with him is, "One more time?" which sounds more like, "wu moh tie?" He also has a lot of Scott's personality. He seems pretty serious when you first meet him. He doesn't say much and just observes. Then once you get to know him he becomes a little prankster and thinks he is hilarious. He already picks on Annicka and does what he can to drive her crazy.

They do get along well, though, most of the time. They love to play together on the trampoline and with the cars. Annicka is really good at letting him play with her and showing him how to do things. Park loves to watch her play games on the computer. And all in all, we really can't complain. We love them to death!

Ross and Emily's Wedding

Annicka got to be the flower girl. Can you say POSER?
Right after the ceremonyPark and Aunt Maureen...classic lookPark at the candy buffet table.First danceCutting the cake
I could have sworn there wasn't any alcohol at the wedding...did someone spike Emily's toasting bottle?
Ross with Gideon and Matt, some old Texas friends.Mommy and IndiePark playing with Matt (one of Ross's friends), he was a hoot!Grandma with her twin brother, Ralph.Uncles Jeff and Doug.
Grandma Great enjoying her cake!
Park found the olives on the buffet table while everyone else was dancing and he went to town!
Mommy got caught dancing with the groom!
Indie and Park hanging out on the couch with all of the cousins over last night.

Yesterday....

Well, we had a busy day. Scott took the day off and we went down to BYU so I could take my final for my dumb English class that I have been working on since August. I can't leave Indie for long enough to leave him at a sitters, so all the kids came down with Scott, I fed him right before I went in. I AM FINISHED! Can I tell you what a relief it is? My class has been REALLY hard, especially since I was watching that little girl Samantha and then I had Indie. So devoting hours and hours to writing papers was not easy...especially since I'm not much of a writer anyway. I also got my final paper back today, it was the big one and I pulled a B. I am very excited about that. The kids got to play at Mcdonald's while I took my test. Then we were lucky enough to be able to go to the Draper Temple openhouse. Annicka loved it. I think she might have liked the bus ride from the church parking lot to the temple better than the temple itself, but it was a good experience. We got to talk with her about doing baptisms for the dead and we talked about getting married in the temple when we got to the sealing room. We also talked about how good she felt while we were there. It was great. We are so lucky to live so close to the temple and to have this gospel in our lives to help guide and direct us in raising our kids.

2 months

Well, today we had Indie's 2 month check up. It's gone by so quickly and so to commemorate I thought it might be fun to put up pictures of all the kids when they were two months, just for comparison.
Indie
Park
Annicka

Grandma's House & Indie (of course)

Blessing Day

We blessed Indie on Sunday. This is a picture we took at Scott's mom's house afterward. Scott did a great job on his blessing, too. I am so lucky to have a husband who is able to hold the priesthood and who exercises it worthily! Some of the things he was blessed with:
Experience health throughout his infancy.
He will grow to be a happy young boy by the time he reaches primary.
With a desire to teach others of the gospel that makes him happy.
With a desire to be baptized.
As he follows the teachings of Jesus Christ he will gain a testimony of Him.
When he reaches the age to hold the priesthood he will be a willing participant and will gain a desire to bless others with it.
Find someone to take to the temple.
With a desire to serve a mission.
With an understanding of the talents Heavenly Father has blessed him with and how to multiply them.
Will know the gospel is true by following its teachings.
Be a good example to his brothers and sisters and to his own children.

Smiles and Three Kids

I've been asked by a lot of people how it is adjusting to three kids. I had heard before that it is the hardest adjustment. I am going to agree. I think what makes it so difficult is that I can no longer take a nap when I want to. With the first you can sleep whenever the baby does. With the second Annie was still taking naps in the afternoon and with this one, even Park is refusing to take a nap in the afternoon. It doesn't help much that Park has hit his terrible twos and throws tantrums about anything and everything. Annicka has been a great helper, but even she is emotional a lot and cries at the drop of a hat. It probably doesn't help to be post-pardumy (is that a word?) either. I find myself getting irritated a little too quickly with the kids. We are adjusting, though. I am feeling a lot better and I think the kids are finally getting used to the change.Indie has just started smiling. The picture above is what he normally looks like. He always seems to be scowling, that is until he smiles. It's adorable!
This picture was taken a few weeks ago...I thought I'd throw it in for comparison. They change so quickly. His head is growing so fast that his hair can't keep up and now he has his dad's receeding hairline.
This is Indie with his great-grandma Adams.
This is the result of Park's refusal to take naps. He still needs them sometimes, but if I put him in his room he just plays instead of sleeping. So, he ends up falling asleep in some interesting places. This is the chair infront of the computer.