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!