Saturday, May 29, 2010

19 months

Lexi is now 19 months old. It seems she is too old now to keep track of it by months. She is such a delight. She still loves to talk on the phone and I've included a picture of her using her hand as her phone. Her conversations usually consist of the words Hello, Hi, Oh, some gibber, and then Bye. She loves her daddy and gets so excited when I tell her he's coming home. She runs to the door the minute she hears the garage opening. The first thing she usually says to him is ball because she knows he plays ball with her. The words Dada and ball always go together. She takes after Cole a lot. She is quite inquisitive about how things work. She takes apart anything she can. She loves to take batteries out and the other day she disassembled a flashlight. She also has his food preferences and loves meat although she does have a little of my sweet tooth.

She loves to be outside doing anything. One of her favorite outdoor activities are bubbles. She likes to go to the park but doesn't really like swings or going down slides. She prefers climbing things while we are there and going up and down the stairs. She loves to read stories. She loves babies. She's also become quite creative with coming up with things to use as stools. She will use toilet paper, tuberware, anything she can get her hands on to help her get a little higher. She also likes to use them as chairs. She has started to like to watch "shows" and her favorites include Curious George, Barney, and Caillou. She's a lot of company and entertains us. I am so grateful for my cute little Lexi Jane.









































This is my latest craft. It was an experiment and turned out pretty good.

Sunday, May 16, 2010

Nothing too exciting

We haven't been up to much lately but Lexi is keeping us smiling. She is trying to say all sorts of new things and can say Cole and Shell. She's still at that stage where a lot of her words sound a alike and I'm trying to get better at interpreting what she is trying to say. She is really into playing kitchen right now. If I hand her a dish and a spoon she is entertained for hours. She is very generous and always brings me a sample of what she is making. I love hearing her say "mmm" while she puts the spoon up to her mouth to pretend she's eating. Here are some
pictures from the last few weeks:
Lexi playing with a new toy from Daddy



























Lexi playing kitchen






































My visiting teacher offered to watch Lexi while we did a session at the Snowflake temple. It was so nice and Lexi did well with her. I really felt blessed to have such a kind visiting teacher. We have a really hard time making it to the temple and it meant a lot that she would help us out.


















Where's Lexi?








There she is!





































When I walk in the mornings it is cold so Lexi wears a hat. She's really become a fan of hats. When I told her that her headband was a hat she got excited and kept it on for a while. It was weird to see her in one now that her hair is so long.

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Priceless

This will keep me going for a long time...

In honor of Mother's Day I've been having Cole take over my responsibilities with Lexi. He's done everything. He usually helps out a lot but he's done even more this weekend. Well, Lexi has decided to be extra needy this weekend and has given him a run for his money. This afternoon Cole looked at me, sighed, and said, "I can't wait for this weekend to be over!" I've been smiling from ear to ear since. It's nice to know he understands what my life is like a little more now. Don't get me wrong, I love being a Mom and Lexi is the best, but it is also nice to know he will appreciate the parts of my job that are not so fun. Thanks Cole. I love you.

Saturday, May 1, 2010

Cole's latest "craft"

Cole's been working hard to complete our latest project. We've been updating our kitchen. Here are the before pictures:


After....so much better! Cole did several things:
-upgraded all of our applinaces to stainless steel
-moved the cabinets above the oven up
-put molding on above the cabinets
-added hardware to the cabinets

























Lexi has loved the remodel. She loves looking at herself in the new appliances and leaves her fingerprints everywhere:) She also got some fun new toys out of it...the boxes! Cole cut her a window and played with her in them. She did, however, get very frustrated when she tried to put her magnets on the fridge and they wouldn't stick anymore. It has been a longer process than we thought it would be but we couldn't be happier with the results.