May 2016 Kid Cuteness to Remember

Lucy said to me out of the blue while I was putting on my makeup, "Mom, I am so happy that you are my mom."  I gave her a hug and said, "Why are you so happy?" She responded,"Because you do the dishes and help people."  That is the best Mother's Day present I could ask for.
Today is mother's day and my kids are the cutest.  Lincoln woke up like usual and gave me a huge smile.  Mark and Lucy surprised me with a cute paper they had filled out together.  Mark asked Lucy questions about me and Mark wrote them down. Landon surprised me after nursery with a paper with swirly lines on it he had drawn for me.  He also had a card that said Happy Mother's Day on it in his other hand.  I asked him if the card was for me and he got an angry look on his face and said, "No, that's mine". Haha

Lincoln grabs his feet and tries to suck on them and rolls around.  He is starting to get around on his tummy.  He is the cutest little guy in the whole world and is always ready to give a smile to anyone who wants one.  I love how he holds my finger while he sleeps if I give it to him.  He has the most dramatic cry.  Sometimes it sounds like he is in pain or really furious if he wants to be picked up.  He has a high pitched scream and does it out of joy and sadness. I sometimes don't know if he is sad or playing. He entertained all the ladies at our Relief Society Presidency meeting because of his jibber jabber and happy screams and kicking his feet happily.   He has the fluffiest little hair that sticks straight up no matter how I comb it. Risa said it was just like a "little baby chick".
Landon says after Lincoln gives a good burp, "Good one inken!"
He calls Lucy "oodie" and himself "Dandon".
He likes to be the same as other people.  He sometimes says, "Just, like, mommy" then "Just, like, oodie" then "Just, like, Da--he", then Just, like, "Dandon" and then "Just, Like, Inken".  He says it slow like that, with the pauses included, the t and k in just and like very clear, and points to each person.
He likes to cuddle his "guys" when he goes to sleep on his pillow next to him swaddled in blankets. These "guys" consist of one chosen toy or a stuffed animal.  For example a car, a book, or his elephant.
He frequently says "Look Mama!" and "Is that cool?" and "Is that silly?" smiling really big with his squinty eyes.  For example he said "I say roar! (makes a lion sound) Is that seawy?" He apparently thinks its a great thing to be silly and also thinks it's a funny thing if he toots.  He also frequently says, "I toot Mama".
He loves to be chased and loves to be tickled.
He has the cutest giggle.
He still thinks life is a joke.  When I try to put him in time out, he could care less. Many times when he is being naughty he tells me, "go time out".
He has a great vocabulary and says pretty much anything.I wish I could record everything he says because he says it so cute.
He also loves his tricycle and can peddle now.
When he is happy, sometimes he is does this bobble head thing where he nods his head about 5 times in a row quickly.  He did it over and over when he made a good shot playing bowling with Mark.
He makes the funniest faces when he is concentrating.  Sometimes he tucks his upper lip under his lower lip and holds it while he is thinking.
He is a great jumper.   It is the cutest when he hops around.
He is a playaholic and especially loves the sandbox. He loves going to church so he can play in nursery. He cries if we start walking out if he can't go for some reason.  He also loves going to Costco and asks during the week, "I aunt to go Cosco" or "I aunt to go church".
He loves to give kisses, especially to Lincoln. It is the cutest when we make him tell Lucy he is sorry, say I love you, and give her a kiss and a hug.
Lincoln and Lucy both talk so adorable to Lincoln.  We were coming home from dropping Lucy off from preschool and Lincoln was crying.  Usually Landon tells Lincoln, "It's too loud" in a worried voice and covers his ears.  This time he said, "I know. I know Inken. I know." In a sweet voice. (Something I must have said to Lincoln while driving.)

Lucy said something so sweet after swimming.  We were trying to lure Landon in the car from the playground so I was fake driving away.  Lucy was worried we would leave him behind.  She said, "No Mom, Landon is my favorite friend."  She is right.  She would rather play with Landon any day than anybody else.  She frequently asks if Landon can come with her where she is going and Landon frequently demands that he get to come where she is. He asks where she is many times while she is at preschool.  They are the best of friends.

Lucy still tells me things in the cutest way possible.  She is very expressive. She is so exuberant about things and shows her excitement in her body language.  If she is really excited, she can't help bouncing around while she is talking. If she is trying to show me how to do something she talks with her arms out and drops them down again when she says things like this, "You just go like this.  She has such enthusiasm for life.
She had a nightmare last night about statues that were trying to get her.  She was crying because I wasn't there to save her in her dream.  I loved holding her to calm her down but I was sad I couldn't be there to save her in her nightmare. 
Lucy is very interested in flying. She really wants to fly.  She said, "Mom, would you ever have a flying suit you could climb me up to the sky...you could just put me in it and fly me up to the sky?"  I was telling her about how in the scriptures it talks about the resurrection and how we get our bodies back and  they are perfect and everything works and we won't get sick again and she says, "and...while be able to fly??"
I am so proud of the little person she already is.  She is sweet, tries to be a good friend, is obedient, wants to help me, is daring about tricks, loves to swim with goggles in the bathtub, loves to cuddle and be hugged, tries to be friendly and kind with her cousins and preschool friends, hates scary things, is a great artist, loves to color, gets frustrated when others are naughty, and gets so excited about fun things coming up.  She asks me daily when her birthday is coming up. We count down with a chain we made for our upcoming Disney trip so she can understand how much longer the wait is.  It is so fun to tell her about upcoming fun events because she gets SO excited. I am amazed at how beautiful she is, how handsome Landon is, and how adorable Lincoln is.  They are beautiful little people inside and out.

Special Days--August 2014

August was one of the most special months of the year because of all the special events that happened during it.  It began with Hallie's baptism. Look at these cute cousins! 

A couple of weeks after Hallie got baptized, Ang got married!  It was such a fun and special couple of days.  Besides watching Ang and Ben get sealed together, going through the temple with Ang was one of my top moments.  Having my parents, sisters, and brother in laws there felt like a little piece of heaven.  I got to sit by Ang and I loved it. 

That night Ang and Ben's wedding dinner was at Log Haven up Millcreek Canyon.  It was a beautiful place.  The night included a musical number by Ang on her viola, a wedding video, fancy food, speeches about Ang's good qualities by us sisters, and speeches by Ben's family, the parents, and by Ben and Ang.  Mark and I sat with Julie and Cory and Mike and Gayla.  We had a good time and it was a very special night.   

The reception that night was in Ben's parents beautiful backyard.  Julie did most the decorating and it turned out to be so cute!  I was blown away at her talent.  These were some of the cute things at the reception. 

I was thrilled the whole time that Ang had found such a good person to marry, one who made her very happy, and that all of us sisters were married!  It was a very special time for our family to have the last one get married. 

The August festivities kept right on going after Ang got married.  The next week Landon turned one!  We went to Roy's Pizza to celebrate and then on to the splash pad.  One of Landon's favorite things to do is play in water. 

Afterwards, Landon was pretty wiped out from all the fun and it was bedtime. He tiredly ate a little cake and opened presents and it was off to bed. 

When he turned one, Landon's favorite thing to do was flush the toilet.  He also loved to dance and point to things. His first word was Mama.  It was hard to believe that only a year before, I saw Landon for the first time. It seemed like that year had gone sooo fast but it also felt like he had been a part of our family from the beginning.  Adding him to our family made our family even happier.  I am so glad we got to celebrate such a special person.  Landon is such a sweet, happy, stubborn, tender, funny, and smart little boy. 

Less than a week later, Lucy turned 4!  Yes, I said 4!  I couldn't believe it!.  Those years sped by.  We celebrated her birthday by going to the children's museum with her friend Gwen. 

Later that night, we went as a family to do what Lucy loved more than anything at the time.  We went to Jumpin' Jack's bounce house!

Lucy wanted a cake with all different colors so we went home and had a homemade confetti cake. 

Landon also got a second chance at trying some birthday cake.

Her presents included her very own kickboard (she was learning to swim at the time), new sunglasses, and a princess tent. The kickboard turned out to be a great hit with Lucy.  She took it EVERYWHERE including when she took showers. 

Lucy is also one that changed our family for the better when she came.  She makes us so happy because we get to enjoy her sweetness, cute little voice, her cuddles, mannerisms, and cute things she says that come out of her cute little brain.  These are some of the things that I loved during the month.  All proof of why she makes me so happy! 

She discovered that pot lids make great shoes...

that Landon's changing mat makes a comfy bed...

and did all of these adorable things that I wrote down for the month:

Yesterday she gave me a hug, squeezed me really tight, patted my head, and said, "Mama, I am patting your head because that means that I love you."

The other day, she let me lay in her bed while she went potty. She came back, tucked me in, put her soft blanket my my face,  patted my head, and rubbed my face.

Lucy calls the Faucet "the Flosset" and the character Buster from Arthur "Busterd".

She just said, "Mom! I see a bubblebee!"

She said very worriedly, "I need a monicer.  I still have a fever. "

We played Chutes and Ladders for Family Home Evening.  When I rolled 15 she exclaimed excitedly,"15! 15!"  Then wrapped her arms around me in a hug and said, "I'm so proud of you. You got 15!"

At the end when she won.  I said, "Lucy you're the winner!"  She hugged me again and said, "You are the best!"

She frequently comes up to me and pats my back, or my leg and tells me she loves me or she's proud of me.  One day she came up to me while I was sitting indian style and patted my knee and sweetly said, "Mom.  You're such an idiot." and smiled. I was shocked until I realized that I said this the day before, "I'm such an idiot!"  when I had forgotten something.

Lucy's always referring to Landon as "my baby" and "your baby" like "My baby laughed at me!" or "Your baby laughed at me!"

Shooting the breeze with Lucy:  "He's (Landon) all stuffy!  Like Landon could go to the bounce house.  He could grow big a couple days but maybe we can hurry cause the bounce will win...so....hmm...but yeah."

She was sitting on the kitchen chair eating her scrambled eggs all lady-like with her legs crossed like a little adult and said, "This brasco (tabasco) is soooo good!"

Lucy got in the shower after I got out.  She lifted her leg up on the glass door and took a plastic baby spoon and moved it up and down her leg and said, "Look Mommy!  I'm just like you!"  (shaving her legs)

On top of all those special events, we also had special August days at storytime, on the carosel, 

at the splashpad...

 and at the swimming pool. Landon was so cute during this time because he walked really well in the swimming pool while wearing his floaty. He would have a great time getting his walking practice in on the shallow end. 

Lots of Special Events+Lots of Special People=One Special Month!