BIG Girl!

I've been scared to post this for fear of jinxing it but...Lyddie is wearing PANTIES!!! She is doing so great with it. I am very proud of her! It just seems so weird when I'm doing laundry and I come across these sweet little panties. I know very soon it will just be laundry but right now I get so excited when I see them in there :). Goofy, I know! One story that I don't want to forget...Jared heard her up the other morning and went to get her out of bed. He said that she was standing there in tears trying not to pee in her diaper (I won't be brave enough to do panties at night for AWHILE-not matter how well she is doing!). I heard him talking to her so I walked up. He had about five pairs of panties laid out and he was asking her which pair she wanted to wear. So sweet! She is such a sweetie right now! I told Jared that she's my little cheerleader :). I was ironing a shirt the other day and when I finished she said, "Yay Mommy! Mommy all done?" Sometimes she'll ask, "Mommy happy?" I tell her that I am very happy and she asks, "I hug you?" Her new thing right now (which I am not so fond of) is "Stop it Mommy." I tell her not to be hateful and she'll say, "Stop it please Mommy." We have to learn that you can't always add please and make it nice :). She's growing up too fast. Maybe it's because she is (probably-never say never) our last baby. Here's an attempt to record what she's doing right now. I'm drawing a blank since I didn't plan to list things but at least it'll help me to remember SOME of it (I haven't even opened her baby book in a year!):

-Wearing panties!!

-Talking in complete sentences. She has quite a vocabulary!

-Knows her shapes and colors.

-Knows her letters and letter sounds.

-Can count to around 14 (11-14 aren't always really clear).

-Has to pray before going to bed and loves to sing Jesus Loves Me! The other day we were talking about something (I think it was snow) and she said "Jesus made it."

-LOVES raw veggies (like her brothers). We went to eat lunch with Harrison and he was sharing his broccoli and cauliflower with her. The dad sitting across from us asked HOW I got them to do that. It was funny! I have to give her carrots and ranch last or she won't eat anything else. She likes the bad stuff, too. She'll shut herself in the pantry and get the chips out!

This is random but this is what I saw when I was walking upstairs to wake Zane up this morning.Isn't it pretty?! I love mornings after I've been up for about 10 minutes :).

January 2010

January has been fun but BUSY. I think (and hope) that's the way it's going to be for a long time so I may have to do these random catch up posts :). Both of the boys are playing basketball so that keeps us running. I realize that there are NO pictures of Zane in this post! I feel terrible but I just didn't have any :(. He was at a friend's house on these rare occassions when I had my camera.

After dinner one night, Harrison had an Art Party. He set it up in his room and we came in and did projects. We had SO much fun!! Jared reading up on how to make the best sock puppet :). Our pool froze over during that really cold period. It was frozen enough for a cat to walk on and three crazy adults to stand on (Jared, Matt, and Lynn!!!!). They were "careful" and stood right at the edge :). Mary Poppins??This was Harrison's FIRST EVER basketball game. He was very serious about it. Jared was giving him some pointers before he went in. This will probably be the ONLY year that he will let Lydia come and give him a hug while he's sitting on the bench with his friends. She saw him and started crying and saying, "My Bubba. I hug him!!" She cried hard. They just love each other. I know I say this all the time but both of the boys are so great with her. Her and Harrison butt heads a little but not bad. She walked in with a new dress on yesterday and he jumped out of his chair and hugged her and said, "Lydia, you look SO beautiful!" Several of Harrison's friends are on his team. He loves that!My nephew, Carter, turned 2 this month and they had his party at Gymboree in Bentonville. Lydia LOVED it. If we lived closer we would definitely be going to some classes. I didn't get any great ones of the birthday boy. That's my mom and dad. They are SO great. They have NINE grandkids and manage to make it to everything (AND love doing it). They looked like they were having so much fun doing the parachute. I thought it was a cute pic :). My dad is the biggest kid at heart. I wouldn't trade them for anything in the world. I love that they bought a new house and immediately turned the extra rooms into play rooms for the kids. They have a playroom with a ping pong and pool table AND a separate WII room :). That's one of the only pictures that I had of Carter!