Its 1:00 pm

Right before Dave went back to work, Ana climbed up on his lap. She snuggled into him pretty close. He told her he had to go back to work and she said, "come right back, daddy." It was very tender. Jack had been sitting on my lap and kept looking at Dave and smiling. Dave is such a great dad! Anyway, he did have to leave, so Ana climbed up on my lap instead, and Dave left for work.

A few minutes later, Ana climbed down onto the floor and I went into their room to change Jack's diaper. When I came back:

Now, Jack is asleep too. As tired as I am, I can't bring myself to lay down for a nap. I love quiet time, and I need to clean house. But I'll enjoy the peace and quiet, nonetheless.

Its 6:30 a.m.

Ana woke up at 4:30 this morning and needed to go potty. Usually, if she wakes up in the night, I just lay next to her in bed for 30 minutes or so and she's back asleep. Well, at 5:30 Dave's alarm clock went off and she said, "what's that?" and then started crying really hard. That, of course, woke Jack up, who had peed through his pjs, so I had to change his clothes. So, we were up. She is now watching "Little Einsteins" and I think a nap will be in order today.

Ice cream comments

We were eating ice cream tonight after family home evening. Ana suddenly stopped eating, put down her spoon, and said, "Daddy is AWESOME!!" It was really cute an unprovoked. I had never even heard her say awesome before.

Weekly Photo

The exposure and depth of field isn't exactly like I would have wanted it but it did motivate me to learn a couple new things on my camera which is what this is all about anyway.

5 months

Jack is 5 months old. I can hardly believe its going by so fast. One things is for sure: He loves his sister! The other day I went to put him in the bath with her and he was kicking and squealing and smiling because he was so excited. Ana loves to make him laugh. She was hopping and splashing in the tub and he couldn't stop laughing. I had a hard time keeping a hold of him.

Whenever she does something silly, he just laughs and laughs. She was jumping on the bed the other day and this was his reaction:
This morning she really wanted to hold him, which she did for a while, but it ended up like this for probably about 10 minutes. (It would have been longer, but then she needed to go potty.)

Dave and I are trying to get our kids on an earlier schedule, so we've been waking Ana up at 7:30 this week. (She usually wakes up at 9:30, which means she doesn't go to bed until 10.) So, now I have 2 extra hours to fill with just me and Ana. Not much keeps her attention for very long, accept the Little Einsteins, so its been a challenge. Yesterday, she ate breakfast, played with playdough, colored with markers, made a mess, cleaned up a mess, took a bath, fixed hair, and ate a snack - all before lunchtime! She fell asleep on the floor at 3:00, but I didn't want her to nap so she'd go to bed early, so I woke her up. But then the rest of the evening she was wild! And she still didn't go to sleep until 9. whew! But I did make her this little instrument, which we turned into a guitar this morning. Dave was home until noon this morning, so they were playing and dancing around. It was so cute!


Any more ideas of how to keep a 2 year old happy would be great!

Yeah, that's my shirt

It was a good time.

Ana's artwork

Ana drew this today:I asked her what it was and she said, "a guy" which is what I figured. I thought it was pretty darn good for a 2 year old. It makes up for the fact that I spent 20 minutes scrubbing liquid foundation out of the carpet this morning. (It did all come out, thank goodness.)

Quick Holiday Thought

It goes straight from Halloween to Christmas in all the stores. Sometimes they actually have both seasons out at the same time. What happened to Thanksgiving? Is it weird to anyone else that the Thanksgiving season is completely overshadowed by the gimmegimme candy time and then Christmas decorations?

Happy Halloween

We had a really fun Halloween. I fixed Ana's hair really cute, but didn't get a good picture of the little princess. She had a lot of fun though. She even said "Trick or Treat" really well. Jack was a superhero. This is a funny picture of him. We went to the ward trunk or treat and then we went to a few houses, including Grandma's. I'm so glad I convinced Dave to dress up. I always love dressing up and so I'm glad we all got into it.




And this is Ana twirling in her costume. This was just before coming home, so her hair was a little messy and her shirt was a mess, but she loves her new princess skirt.