16 months old

Lexi is now 16 months old. I have really learned to enjoy this stage and have so much fun with her. After she turned 15 months old (and I told the doctor that she wasn't a picky eater) she started spitting out everything we would give her. She only has about 6 foods she will eat right now so any tips would be greatly appreciated. I got a new calling and am now it Young Womens. This has been really good for me and also very challenging It has made me realize how rare this time I have with Lexi is right now and has helped me find a lot more joy in it. It has also made me fearful for the teenage years:) I was reading in Nephi about the tree of life and how Lehi saw two of his sons stray from the iron rod. It made me cry because now that I am a mother I can see how painful it must be when you have wayward children. I really hope Lexi can gain a testimony and make good choices. I love Lexi so much and am so grateful for her. I love being a Mom and have a lot of fun doing it. Lexi has a few new tricks:

-She signs more and can say more

-She tries to do the actions to the songs we sing

-She tries to jump and thinks she's so cool when she does it

-She knows when you say pray or amen she should fold her arms and loves it when we pray

-She likes to walk independently in stores and looks at all the other babies in the carts to brag.

-She loves shoes! She loves to put them on and gets really frustrated if she can't get them on. We went through some hand me downs I have for her and she would try on each pair and walk around the house to try them out. She loved it.

-She can walk around our entire block and loves it.

Visitors and Our House

A few weeks ago Cole's Grandparents came to visit us on their way to Mexico. It was so fun to have them stay with us. Lexi really warmed up to Grandma Bingham and giggled with her a lot.
The whole gang. Sorry it's blury

Since the house was nice and clean for our visitors I thought it would be a good time to take pictures of it.

Lexi's room

Upstairs Bathroom

Guest room/craft room

Downstairs bathroom

Kitchen/living room

Our bedroom (I didn't get a picture of our bathroom)

So that's it. Hopefully more of you will come visit so you can see it in person. We love visitors!

Poor Girl!

She fell off our bed this morning...
She chocked this afternoon...
She fell off the couch this evening...

She's had a rough day! I'm glad it's almost bedtime.

Visitor/ Petal party

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Cole's brother Neal stopped by on his way to Phoenix this weekend. It was really fun to see him. We love visitors. Even Lexi warmed up to him and enjoyed it!

I am participating in a petal party (bow/flower exchange) this week with some ladies in my ward. This is my contribution. I have to make 17 of them. My model wasn't in the mood to cooperate for the picture but it is cute on her.

Valentine's

We had a nice Valentine's Day. I got the surprise of a lifetime from Cole. He got me a cricut! I have wanted one for a while but wasn't planning on getting one until Christmas. I was really surprised when Lexi walked out with her hippo and it had the cricut on it. He said it was from her. It was really unexpected and fun. We then got to go to Outback by ourselves while a neighbor stayed with Lexi. It was so nice to get out alone. We never do it and enjoyed it so much!

Photo shoot

Lexi was in a photogenic mood the other day so we had a lot of fun taking pictures. She started doing this face when I'd say cheese.

I can't believe she still sleeps like this. It looks so uncomfortable.

Lexi loves to sit on things. She often sits on her ball and luckily she's only tipped over on it a few times.

She really got into the photo shoot we did after I did her hair.

Cheese!

That was as long as the bows lasted.

Garage

Cole has dominion in the garage aka as his "shop". The only thing I've requested is that we make sure we can park our cars in the garage. The other day Cole told me to go look in the garage. He was really excited. This is what I found:

He was so proud because he'd figured out a way to fit everything he needed in his "shop" and still park the cars by building this shelving system. I was upset at first but had to just laugh because it is really funny. He kept his end of the deal...the cars are still parked in the garage.