May 2011 (part 1)

The first half of May was busy with Mother's day and my birthday. I posted a Mother's Day post earlier if you missed it. For my birthday we had our good friends the McClures come up from Katy (about an hour away) and spend the day with us. We had some friends come over for dessert later on too. It was really relaxing and fun.

Sarah's 27th birthday.

BAILEY

Bailey always sleeps like this. It can't be comfortable.

This was one of my old outfits :)

Unicorn.

Smiles!

I want to remember these moments forever.

Bailey watching the Sharks. :)
BAILEY AND ANDREW


Andrew still loves to hold Bailey. Her expression in this photo is just funny to me.

Play time.

Bed time. (Andrew is sharing his most loved animal, "Saussy" and his special BYU blanket with Bailey. He loves laying with her and sharing with her)

Monkey see monkey do.

Andrew

One afternoon I heard this banging in Andrew's room while he was supposed to be taking a nap. I opened the door to see Andrew sitting inside a plastic bin that he had somehow pulled into his crib. It was pretty funny.

Andrew fell asleep on our way home from the store, but he had a tight grip on his chicken nuggets.

We go to "the fountains" a lot when it's warm outside. He loves to play in the water and we don't have to worry about drowning or anything.

Andrew was standing on our rocking chair and was trying to jump to the couch (which we've told him not to do multiple times). He didn't make it and somehow landed on his side on the tile. He cried for half an hour (which is very unlike him) so we knew something was wrong. We didn't see any swelling, bruising, redness or anything. Once we got him to calm down we asked him where he hurt. He said his arm so we thought he broke his arm. But we were able to touch his arm without him screaming, so then we weren't sure. Of course this happens on a Friday night so I couldn't call the doctors. I called my sister and my friend who both work in the medical field. They helped me know what to look for and to reassure me that I was doing everything right. We said we'd wait till morning to see how it's going. By morning there was no bruising, swelling or anything that indicated that he broke his bone. So I thought he just really smacked it. It was still a little sensitive to the touch, but he didn't cry when we touched it. He would, however, hold his arm tight across his body and wouldn't use it. He cradled it and protected it so we knew it was still bothering him. So Monday we scheduled and appointment first thing and went to get x-rays taken. Andrew was so good when they took the x-rays.

We went back to meet with the doctor and he did in fact have a break. He had a buckle fracture in his elbow. It wasn't very bad, so the doctor said he could wear a sling or get a cast.

(At the doctors. He was happy because he had a sucker)
We decided to go with a sling for now and if we wanted we could always but a cast on later.

He didn't like it too much. We let him put stickers on his sling, hoping that it would make it more fun to wear. Well, the stickers didn't stick more than a day, so I think that idea backfired.

The next problem was that he would still use him arm and the sling would just slowly slide up his arm and make it pointless. So I used a (pregnancy) wrap to try to get his arm to sick by his side. He didn't like this either. Now he couldn't catch himself when he fell, which made it more likely that he could injure his other arm by falling full force on on it.

So then I safety pinned the sling so it couldn't slide up. That seemed to help a little. We ended up getting an adult elbow brace which actually fit him because it was velcro. That seemed to be the best thing for him because he could still extend his elbow, but if he fell with his arm bent, his elbow was protected. He even liked wearing it.

After two weeks of the brace, we went back for another x-ray and found out his elbow had healed and he just had to take it easy for a few weeks (no jungle gym or climbing on stuff).

He was a happy camper.

These are a few of my favorites.

FAVORITE!!!!

Andrew

A lot of my friends record (silly or cute) things that their kids say and post them on their blog. Since I spent the morning catching up on my friends blogs I read some pretty cute things. I have also started to write down things that Andrew says, or little updates about him. Since this blog is our family journal, I thought it appropriate to add them. Hopefully I can add a few each month.

Back up to April. Here are some things about Andrew:

* "Skippures" = scriptures. We read out of our "Skippers" every night and Andrew repeats what we read back to us. It's pretty entertaining to see how he pronounces words. (like Jerusalem, "jawooosam"

* Andrew has his own little set of scriptures and he will open them up, mumble some things, and say "In the name of Jesus Christ, amen"

* He knows Bailey can't eat or drink anything other than milk. We still try to trick him by offering her food or asking if he will share with her. He always says, "No!! Just milk!" I think he gets annoyed that we keep trying to trick him. (We always praise him for reminding us)

* "friends" can be anybody coming over "my friends are coming over today" or his stuffed animals that he sleeps with.

* Any male is a daddy, and any female is a mommy. If there are a bunch of people together (adults or kids), they are "kids". "What dose kids doing over dere?"

* Andrew does not like to have dirty hands. If he is eating and he has crumbs or something on his hands, he will ask for them to be washed before he will pick up his cup.

* Will give kisses on demand. When I put him to bed for his nap, I say "Night night, love you, kiss kiss" and he'll blow kisses to me. Now he'll just randomly say, "kiss kiss" and make the kissy noises. :)

* When my mom and Ryan's mom left after their visit (after Bailey was born), he told me that "Nana and Tutu had go to work."

* After my mom left I was really sad. Andrew would say, "Mommy miss Nanna" or "Mommy miss Daddy" and give me big hug and kiss.

* Started calling Bailey "Princess" because that's what we call her.

* Calls me or Ryan "bubba" or "sweetie" or another nickname that we use for him.

* "bops" are grapes. I don't know how that started, but I think it's so cute that I rarely correct him.

* He describes his feelings by saying, "happy face" or "sad face". "Andrew sad face"

* Sometimes he just says words funny. He said, "something in my toooooooooooooooooooooes"

* "foofall" = football

* "hock hock" = hot dog

* "episode" = upside down (he's better now)

* He can say the ABC's forwards and BACKWARDS! I can't do that.

* He knows all his letters, uppercase and lowercase and can say all the sounds, "A says ah!"

Mothers Day 2011

On May 8, 2011 we celebrated Mother's Day (and Lesley's birthday - shout out!). First, my sweet baby girl decided to sleep a full 8 hours, which meant that I slept for 8 hours too! What a great way to start the day! Then Ryan made me homemade blueberry waffles. Delicious! We played a bit around the house, then went to church. I can't remember exactly what we talked about at church, but it was wonderful! We came home, called our Mommies, and then took some family photos.

We took some family photos 2 years ago on Mother's Day, when Andrew was only 8(ish) months old. We loved the photo and blew it up and it hangs in our family room. We decided that we needed a new family photo with little Bailey Boo in it. Last time we had our friend take them (thanks Rosie) but this year we tried out our handy dandy remote control to our camera. We set up the tripod and Andrew tested a few out for us...


Andrew didn't want to give up the remote. While he was off somewhere pouting, we thought we'd take some photos with Bailey.
Andrew calmed down enough to take some more. (Where did Bailey go?)

Mad again about the remote. I love this photo. He makes this face a lot and it's so hard for me not to crack up!

Now he's happy again because I let him hold the remote. I wish the remote wasn't in front of his face. I love this photo of us.

I had some photoshop fun.
Sarah and Bailey. (Yes I dressed her to match me)
Words can't describe how much I absolutely LOVE this photo.
Our new family photo. (That's the best we could do with Andrew. Sigh)


We all had a wonderful Mother's Day. Well, almost all of us.

Happy (very belated) Mother's day to all the mom's and mom's to be out there! We wouldn't be here with out you. Literally.

April Videos

Let's finish April with some videos. I'm still having trouble uploading the videos to blogger so I have to go through YouTube. You'll have to go through the links to see them. I ask that you please don't share these links outside the family and friends group. (I don't like the idea of videos of my kids online to begin with. I have these videos on an "unlisted" setting so you can only access them through these links.)

Let me know if you have any trouble. Thanks!

Click the following links to see some videos of the kids. Enjoy!


Big Brother Andrew helps take care of Bailey when she's sad.


Bailey talks and smiles


Bailey's first smiles (6 weeks old)

That last video isn't that exciting to watch, but those were some of her first smiles so I thought I'd share anyway. Those are just a few videos from April. I will have May updates soon! (hopefully)