The Latest Haps

Landon:
Landon is officially 8 months old and a wild ball of energy. I swear it happened over night, but he is awesome at sitting up now, one day he couldn't hold his body up and the next he just sat there for ever and never fell over. His other trick is doing the inch worm, army crawl. He gets around pretty good pulling himself all over with just his arms, just today he pulled himself across the family room, down the hall and into the kitchen where I was making dinner. He is my only child to do this and it makes me laugh every time I see it. In the last week he has started getting up on his hand and knees and rocking back and forth, so the crawling will be soon. With his new found mobility comes his freedom, he is pretty content just to crawl around and pull things over, push things around and of course bug his big sister Ashlyn. He has already made her cry multiple times by grabbing a barbie, pulling her hair, knocking over her blocks, etc. And the worst part is that he gives a little chuckle every time he makes her squeal. He is already determining the pecking order and he is only 8 months old, I can't wait to see what happens in the future. He has a mouth full of teeth, he has his two bottom teeth and just within the last two weeks, all four upper teeth have broken through. He loves to grind them all together and use them to chomp on anything he can get in his mouth. He has started forming mama and dada sounds, but still won't say them on demand. He loves to give big open mouthed slobbery kisses. He is my big chubby ball of goo and I love my little baby to death.

Ashlyn:

My little princess Ashy is 2 1/2 going on 16. She has so much attitude that she doesn't even know what to do with. She loves to be a big girl and do things on her own but at the same time she loves to act like a baby, crawl around making baby noises and wants to constantly be sucking on one of Landon's pacifiers. She is my little outdoorsy child, she wants to be outside every second of the day and she could care less if it is pouring rain or freezing cold she still wants to be outside. She is my drama queen and it is only getting worse as she gets older. She can cop an attitude within a blink, her latest is if she wants something her way she will say it and then fold her arm and say a little umph! cracks me up every time. She is so into dress-ups lately, we only have one princess dress so it gets a lot of use (every day, all day long), she even had to sleep in it the other night. Her new found love is also Barbies, the Easter bunny brought her one and she "just loves her." She is her mommy's girl and LOVES chocolate, especially chocolate chips. 9 out of 10 days she wakes up and the first thing she asks for is some "chocate chips." A few other cute things about Ashlyn: Her favorite store is Target, she wants to go there every day; she hates wearing pants I have to fight her every day to put them on just to go outside and as soon as she walks in the door off go her pants; she throws l's into most words like "blankely," "binkly" etc.; every bird in the sky is an eagle.

Coleman:

I am so happy every day that Coleman is my oldest child, he is so helpful and cheerful to be around. When I told his teacher and the principle that we are pulling him out of school early to move they were both flipping out telling me that I can't do it because he is their favorite and how much they will miss him. He is his teachers little pet, but not brought on by himself. She always tells me how much of a leader he is and that all the other kids just flock to him and they all want to sit by him and stand by him in line, and how obedient he is (it was a proud mom moment hearing all that). He is really starting to think deep and asks questions that I don't even know answers to like how do telephone wires work, how does the water come out of the pipes, etc, etc. He is just like his BaPa and loves learning about outer space, planets, etc. He can ramble off all the planets and information about them like Saturn's rings, Jupiter's moons, etc. His new thing is memorizing the Articles of Faith, I think now he has about 5 of them memorized. The kid loves to dance and sing (much to Jeremy's dismay) and he is pretty good, the kid has rhythm, he must have gotten it from his mom. He loves riding his new 2 wheeled scooter that he got for Easter and can get going pretty fast on it. The latest saying is "for real life." If he is really serious about something then will say "mom for real life" and if he wants to know if something is true he will ask "for real life?" He and Jeremy always play the dead man game where Jeremy falls over and acts like he is dead. Coleman will put his ear to Jeremy's chest and say, "you are not dead, your heart is beeping." A few weeks ago we were at church and he asked if he could have 2 waters during the sacrament because he was SO thirsty. Then the next week after taking the bread, he turned to me with a big grin and said "mom I got one with no skin on it." He is a big helper with Landon and will do pretty much anything I ask of him, he is my easy going, obedient, big hearted little boy.