March Festivities

So, here it is March 31st and I've realized I haven't taken very many pictures this month, much less posted very much. So, here are the pictures that I did take and the fun things that we did do this month. Coming up at the end of April the Kansas City Temple will be doing a Temple Run. Nick and I are going to be running it, but so are a lot of our family and friends, so we will need to be running with our kids. I had to start somewhere to get Rex acclamated to running the jogger, so here is a pic of the kids before the first run of the season with them in the jogger. Let's just say it wasn't a long run...only a mile and Rex cried pretty much the whole time, but we made it. Since then I've ran the full 5K distance by myself quite a bit, but only once more with the jogger, only the single jogger and Rex. He still cried and I was still slow, but it's progress. I'm one up on Nick though as he hasn't run at all for the race, much less with any of the kids! But I am really looking forward to the race as we've been trying to get all the YW to do the race and most all of the leaders are doing it! I'm excited! Then our friend Kaelyn turned 5 this month! I can't believe our kids are getting so old! She had a Tangled party and the girls had a blast! Cora was so excited for the face painting and as you can see it was quite the face painting! Kayley doesn't like that kind of thing so she didn't get anything. But she loved playing with Kaelyn's new Tangled toys. Rex enjoyed playing with Anderson's toys. They are only 2 months apart and it's been so fun to get together with them every now and then and have our kids play!

A couple of days after the party the kids all got sick. Kaelyn was actually sick at the party and no one knew it so almost everyone there got sick. The kids had fevers and nasty coughs and a little bit of throw up all week. Nick and I even got it, but it was luckily a small bug and only Nick and Kayley threw up.

This picture below is from the same night after Kaelyn's party. We met Michelle & Kendall at Rib Crib for dinner. Rex was ready to eat him some ribs! Well, he didn't actually eat the ribs, but he did get to eat baked beans, which he LOVES now! It was cute!

This is a picture of him falling asleep for his nap. I never get to get a picture of his sweet face after he falls asleep, so I had to snap it. Luckily he didn't wake up! But I just love this sweet little boy and I can't believe he is already 9 months old!

Here is Rex playing with Einstein. He loves his Einstein! It's cute because he makes all this effort to crawl towards Einstein and then he reaches out to pet him and Einstein will let him for a little bit but then move away and Rex starts moving towards him all over again.

Then earlier last week Randy got to come into town from Utah for Brady's blessing. I sadly didn't get any pictures of the weekend but it was fun with all the cousins. On the way home from picking up Randy from the airport we stopped by the temple site. They had just put Moroni on top that day so we took a picture of Kayley in front of the temple (she's in the lower right corner)...it's not the best picture as it's from my phone. But when Kayley saw the temple with Moroni on top, she told me all that was left was for them to put in the grass and then it will be finished! I wish it was that soon Kayley, but it's getting closer for sure and we are so excited!! I'm sure the girls will miss our St. Louis trips though!

Other than this we haven't been up to much. I had my birthday last week which was fun! Nick got me breakfast in bed before work (well, he brought me my spoon and napkin to my yogurt that I had for breakfast...he leaves for work really early so he didn't want my yogurt to get warm!) Then the girls woke me up with my presents of a running shirt and some yummy snacks from Sams club. Then they wanted me to go downstairs to see my big present, but I waited till Nick got home, which he was able to get home for a half day that day. I got a new bedspread, but it was actually not the color I originally wanted (which Nick knew beforehand, but they were out of the color I wanted)...so instead we went shopping that night for some more workout clothes and then went to eat at 54th street. It was yummy and great just spending time with my little family!

Then yesterday Rex went to his 9 month appointment. He weighed in at 19lbs. 8oz...only putting him at the 33rd percentile. Is it just me, or does that seem wrong? If my girls were that weight at this age, they would have been at the 50-75th percentile...I guess boys are just that much bigger!!? Crazy! He is still growing like a weed. He's now crawling on his knees instead of his beached whale crawl where he would get up on his hands, move forward and then fall flat on his stomach to get forward. It was cute and I got it on video just in time before he stopped doing it. He also says "mama" and "dada" a little bit and he plays peek-a-boo. He still refuses to eat baby food so we are venturing in to eating table food now and he's doing fairly well, it's just hard to find him things he can eat well. We sure love our Rex though!

My Kids are growing up

Cora still likes to try to hold Rex just like he is a newborn baby. Sometimes he's ok with it and other times not. The times he is ok with it is very limited and short-lived as shown in this picture. It probably has to do with the fact that the boy is about the same size as her!
I wanted to get an updated picture of the three kids together. The girls love to be on the floor with Rex now that he is crawling, well army crawling. This picture shows their relationship almost perfectly right now. Kayley can't get enough of Rex and always crowds him. Cora loves him and he naturally flocks to her probably because he knows she doesn't get into his space as much as Kayley does. However frustrated he gets with Kayley getting in his space, he still loves her to death and loves to be around her and Cora as much as possible.

Kayley has been losing her teeth almost left and right now. It all started with that front tooth lost on Christmas Day, which as you can see by the picture is already almost all the way in now. She has also lost both bottom teeth. The other top one is loose and right after this picture was taken, I believe a day or two afterward I got a call from Kayley's school saying that she had knocked this loose top tooth out during recess. She told me she was playing Mario Kart with the boys in her class and she ran into a boy's shoulder in her class. She said she cried but not that much. I was really proud of her for handling it so well as she has been really emotional about losing her other teeth. It reminded me of when I was in 2nd grade and I chipped my adult tooth on the monkey bars. I just hope this doesn't mean that she will be chipping her adult teeth or worse knocking them all the way out! So she is really not trying to look mean in this picture she is just trying to show me all of her missing teeth.

Conversation with Cora

Cora lately has had this emphatuation with Cops (probably due to myself getting my first ticket on New Year's Day! I'm still fuming about it!) Anyway, she will often ask what cops do and she refers to getting arrested as getting "copped." So earlier tonight she asked me a question:

Cora: What do you have to do to get copped?
Me: Well, when you do wrong things sometimes the police will come and "cop" you.
Cora: Well, I'm never going to get copped because I have my CTR ring and I will always Chose The Right because I'm never going to lose my CTR ring!

I think I'm going to have to save this conversation for later in her life when maybe things change! But until then, I'm going to bask in my sweet Cora!!

St. Louis Trip

So about two weeks ago, this is what our poor little Rex was working on. Three new teeth coming in at the same time. Poor guy! If you look at one of his teeth coming in, it's a bit bloody...but you actually wouldn't tell he was teething except for the nasty boogies he had in his nose all week as he still slept amazingly well (still an average 8-9 hours a night and then once he wakes up, I nurse him and he goes back to sleep for another 2-3 hours) He is such a happy baby with everything, I just love it and love him!!
Also this last week we got to go to St. Louis for a little mini trip. It kind of got planned last minute as Nick was trying to get someone to cover his call for him and it wasn't covered until the day before we left, but either way it was fun. We went to the Temple before it closed for cleaning for a few weeks, which was nice and then got a hotel for the night to have a little party. The girls were SO excited for the pool. I think we seriously spent 1 1/2 to 2 hours in the pool/hot tub. Kayley and Cora actually got in the hot tub with me and Kayley decided that she now loves hot tubs! This was Rex's first time in his little floaty device and he seemed like he had a blast watching the girls play! He did splash a little bit in the water, but he was really tired!

As you can see from this picture as he's about to fall asleep sitting up...poor guy! But he stayed awake the whole time while the girls played and then slept great at the hotel! Then the next morning Nick was very sweet and got up and went to go get us McDonald's breakfast and brought it back for us to eat in the hotel room (the hotel sadly didn't have breakfast, which is one of my favorite things to do in a hotel, don't know why, but it is!) So I was REALLY appreciative that Nick went out and did that for us!

Then we went to a few stores in St. Louis and made our way home, but on the way we stopped in Columbia to see our newest nephew/cousin Brady. Cora was so excited to hold him. Kayley was excited to see him, but for some reason didn't want to hold him.

He's already very expressive!!

And he's SO tiny compared to chunky cousin, Rex! Quentin about broke his back picking him up! Rex just loved playing with Butters...he absolutely loves dogs! Butters was very cooperative letting Rex play with him too.

Then we started to head home, but decided to stop at Pizza Hut (because my husband loves me so much again!) as this is one of my favorite places to eat! (Don't worry, he got one of his favorite meals the night before with Chick-fil-a!) Kayley the night before got her tooth knocked looser a bit from Daddy once again! He was playing with them, holding them up and dancing, etc and I guess she hit her mouth on Daddy's leg, knocking one of her already loose teeth a bit looser. So as she's complaining/tired at Pizza Hut about not wanting to eat pizza for lunch, she says to me with a disgusted look on her face, "This pizza has peanuts in it!" Then tries to pull the 'peanut' out of her mouth only to find it's her tooth. She was again a bit upset as she doesn't like losing her teeth as it hinders her eating, etc (I can relate as I remember feeling this way as a kid), but the tooth fairy did come and give her $2, so she was excited to put that money away to save up for a toy!

Another funny thing Kayley said yesterday about Rex, "Mom he got cute from the cute factory in your belly!" She will also say things like, "Mom he's so cute I want to die!" And then she'll ask me, "Mom, when you look at him, doesn't it make you want to go to Heaven?" (spin off of her previous favorite thing to say about Rex making her want to die.)