Paisley's 2 1/2 Year Update

Paisley is now 2 and 1/2 years or 30 months or 120 weeks or 840 days or 20,160 hours old (whichever way you want to look at it). :) She is at such a fun age. She is such a happy little girl. Here are some things about Paisley at 2 and 1/2...

1. She has long brown naturally curly hair and blue eyes (sometimes her eyes turn green depending on what she wears just like her mom).
2. She can and does say pretty much everything.
3. She is not a picky eater, but currently has an obsession with cheese.
4. She is getting used to nursery. Except for last Sunday when it was time to go to nursery, she started crying and said to Ryan "I just want to go home". It was so funny and sad at the same time.
5. She likes to get into the fridge and cupboards and bring us whatever she finds in there.
6. Her favorite movies are Cars, Toy Story, Madagascar, Chicken Little and Tangled.
7. She loves to sing. Her favorite songs to sing are "I am a child of God", "Twinkle twinkle little star", "The wheels on the bus", "I love to see the temple", "Jesus wants me for a sunbeam", "You've got a friend in me", "If your happy and you know it", "I'm a little teapot" and "ABC's". She also sings the songs from my phone ringtones whenever my phone goes off. :)
8. She loves to got the park.
9. She likes to go to the library. She will say "go to the library and get books?". Thankfully Cars came out with a series of books, so every other week we go check out a new Cars book.
10. Her newest phrase is "How about we...". So she will say "How about we go to the park?" or "How about we watch Cars 2?".
11. She loves to give Austin hugs and kisses.
12. She does not love to share with Austin though. Shocking right?
13. She is quick to announce "Austins crying" whenever she hears him cry.
14. She loves to play with her kitchen.
15. She is ALWAYS bringing us a play cup or bowl and asking us to put water in them so she can pour them in to other cups and bowls.
16. She likes to put stickers on everything (including Austin). :)
17. She no longer takes naps.
18. She loves to talk to people on the phone.
19. When we say "I love you Paisley", she responds "I love you too".
20. She is the happiest little girl.

Paisley has been a special blessing from day 1. I don't know what we did to be so lucky to have her in our lives. I am so grateful to have the opportunity to be her mom.

Austin's 8 month Update...

Let me just start out this post by saying "I am a very bad mom". :) When we had Paisley, there were updates every 3 months. With Austin...not so much. So Austin is now 8 months old! I can not believe how fast he is growing up. We are loving every minute of it. At his 6 month check up, he weighed 14 lbs. He has gained weight since then, but he is still just a little guy. :) Here are some things about him at 8 months...

1. He has taken a few steps on his own. He wants to walk so bad!!
2. Doesn't want to crawl (refer to #1 as to why), but if he does, he goes backwards.
3. Loves bananas. Is ok with squash, carrots, beans and peas.
4. Has the most contagious smile and laugh.
5. Paisley likes to make him laugh by going up to him and saying "tickle tickle tickle" while tickling his tummy.
6. Is still NOT sleeping through the night :(
7. Is still a blue eyed toehead. :)
8. Used to suck on 2 of his fingers until they were red and swollen, but has finally quit that nasty habit. :)
9. Loves playing with a foofa (sp?) in the bath.
10. Loves to people watch (he got this from his mama). :)

We are so lucky and blessed to have Austin in our lives.

Christmas Midway Style

Ok, so I finally had an extra few minutes in between dinner, a bath, stories, cleaning, and preparing my lessons for tomorrow to update the blog. So we have had a busy last couple of months. I guess I will start with Christmas. For Christmas this year, we went up to Midway Utah to spend the holiday with my parents. It was a lot of fun. As soon as we got there, Paisley saw the snow and immediately went to go play in it (no pics ofcourse). My dad set up his big train set and Paisley and Austin had so much fun watching the train go round and round.

We got to see the temple lights at the beautiful Salt Lake Temple.

We did the traditional Alexander Christmas Eve:
Yummy Buffet: check (no pics)
Nativity: check (no pics)
Pass Around: check
Paisley really caught on to how the pass around game works.

On Christmas, we all got to sleep in a bit. Thank goodness, Paisley hasn't figured out that this is the day she is actually allowed to get up super early. Santa surprisd Paisley with a Buzz Lightyear car!!

We are still working on her driving skills. Right now it is VERY funny to her to run into people and things. :) She also got a cash register that she really loved playing with. Austin was just happy looking at the pretty christmas lights on the tree and watching Paisley run into things.

This is my most favorite picture of the whole weekend. Papa playing "Jingle Bells" while Paisley sang "I am a Child of God".