Tessa nine months + other stuff

Miss Tessa is now nine months old. She is 15 pounds that is 3% percentile and she is 27 inches which is 38 %. She is a very very very good baby!! She hardly cries...really..she has had 2 bouts of double ear infections and I had no idea until I took her to the Dr for unrelated visits! She eats tons of cheerios and food. She crawls all over. She sucks her thumb with her blankie! She is starting to pull herself up and walk around furniture and just yesterday she stood up all on her own for at least 10 seconds! We love her personality and Owen and Ella couldn't be better siblings to her.

Alyson and I (my friend) were talking about how cool it would be to have a lemonade stand..a cool one..and next thing we know her dad whips one up..awesome! We put it out last Friday and despite the cooler weather it was a hit (thanks to Alyson texting everyone she knows to come by:))

This sweet girl was our very first customer and you know what..she bought one lemonade and gave us 5 dollars and said keep the change..how awesome is she!

Hazel and Owen getting ready to sell sell sell!

This is Owen on Circus day..his last day of preschool.

I can honestly say Ella is my clown. She came down from her room wearing this. I love her. On a side note she completely potty trained herself which is quite amazing!

Mothers Day 2011

While I would love to post a great picture of my kids and I on Mothers day with all three children cooperating perfectly...it's just not going to happen! Mothers day started off rough for me. Blake is out of town in Taiwan and I was trying to get all kids fed and dressed and fed again before out the door to church. Well I'm certainly not perfect and I ended up losing my patience way too much and then on the way to church tears started to flow! SIGH! But the day ended wonderfully and as I got a moment to reflect I realize I am so blessed to have three beautiful, healthy, and fun-loving children. Owen is my fire cracker, dare devil, monster truck loving, dinosaur studying boy! Ella is my singing, dancing, lotion wearing, funny, funny, funny girl! Tessa is my mild mannered, smiley, giggling, starting to stand up on he own baby! So I have to say that motherhood is the greatest blessing I have been given! My children make me HAPPY!

Pleasant Grove

Thanks to my good friend Katie, we got to go to her family's little tree farm and take some pictures! It was a fast little trip but it was great and we both decided living somewhere like this would be so much fun for kids!!

This is Katie's boy Lance. Owen and Lance attend preschool together and Katie would agree that they couldn't be more opposite in personality!

Owen was beyond mad that I made him be in this picture so he is taking it out on the tree branch in his mouth!

I love how she is posing in this picture. I did not tell her to stand like that. She did it all on her own!

ZOO

We went to the zoo today with a great friend. She is moving. All my friends move. Don't get me started. I am however very grateful to have gotten to know her and love her very much! We started a tradition a while ago that we always try to go to the zoo on our kids birthdays and then we eat lunch at Red Robin. It's great fun and it was Chase's birthday. It has just slowly gotten a little more difficult since we keep adding more children to the mix!

Owen is obsessed with spiders lately and this little idea in his head that we are getting him a tarantula for a pet. Well folks that just ain't happening!

This is Kristin and Chase!

This owl is full grown..so cute!

Spring Tease

We had couple of warm days here and then snow! But we sure took advantage of the warmth while it lasted.

They are going to be the best of friends!

I use to LOVE these merry-go-rounds. Now you never see them anymore!

My little cheeser!

PIGEONS

We have this man in our ward who raises pigeons and Blake asked if we could go over to his house and see them. Owen and Ella were beside themselves!! Owen even got to hold an egg but we would not let him hold a baby. He also had a falcon. It was pretty awesome!

This baby was born that day..so small!

TESSA'S SEVEN MONTHS

Where does the time go...SERIOUSLY!! I can't believe my baby is now seven months old. Well she is now:

*starting to grab cherrios

*eating lots of baby food

*smiles constantly

*sits up, army crawls, and is now getting up on all fours and rocking

*talking a lot

*starting to get separation anxiety..just a bit

*loves loves loves bath time..jabbers the WHOLE time

*loves to look at herself in the mirror

*one bottom tooth just poked through

She is constantly up on all fours or in downward dog position for those who know yoga!!

Loves the mirror!