finally, libby's birthday

it's been over three weeks since libby's birthday, but finally her are the pictures to prove she made it two whole years! she had a very good birthday.

she got a dollhouse for her birthday.

it came with two little dolls, perfect for her little hands.

brother and sister love to play with it too.

she was very pleased to have her very own dollhouse.

she loved her birthday cake.

and ice cream.

when we first set the cake in front of her she said, "oooh, yummy-tastey!"

when i ask her how old she is she rarely says "two". usually it's "ten" or "fibe" or something else.

libby

yup, libby turned two over a week ago. i am not ready to post her birthday pictures - been feeling lazy lately. but i don't want you to feel too left out so here are some libby pics to get you by.

cheeeese

i was taking pictures of lincoln this afternoon. it started out just fine. got a couple of good pictures:

take one:

take two:

and then lincoln started doing this cheesey grin thing.

take three:

it looks like he's crying but he's just cheesing out.

when my camera comes into focus a little light turns on. every time the light came on he was ready for his close-up . . .

take four:

with that cheesey grin and his eyes tight.

take five:

take six:

and he'd do it every time.

take seven:

what a funny kid. he was cracking us up, or as maria would say, "all the way open". i would've thought nine months was a little young to start the cheesey pictures and yet it was unmistakable. he was purposefully making these faces.

man, i love this kid.

linkies - 9 months old

i can't believe my little linkies is 9 months old. it's fun to see all the changes he's been going through. although, it does makes me a little sad to see him growing up. i wish they didn't have to grow so fast.

he's been making me laugh a lot lately doing all these funny baby things. all i have to do is say "hi" and he starts waving in this cute little baby way - sometimes hitting his own face with his own waving hand.

he's been crawling around like a pro for quite a while now, and ethan and i even saw him get up on one step of the stairs the other night (how do they figure these things out so quickly?). he's already working on his sixth tooth which is very unusual for my kids. my other kids had one, maybe two teeth by this time.

he's pretty much always in good humor. even when he is upset he tries to be happy and he ends up doing this cry/laugh thing. he is very patient and forgiving.

he's very vocal and i had to keep him out of the chapel through the entire sacrament meeting on sunday. he was never upset, just too loud making happy noises, most of them a growling kind of noise.

lincoln is a lot of fun and is such a joy to all of us. we are so glad to have him in our family.

he is proof to me that Heavenly Father knows exactly what he's doing. before he was born i thought things were going to be completely crazy and out of control with four little kids. truth is, it isn't as bad as i was expecting it to be and, as it turns out, lincoln is exactly what i need right now.

felt food

for those that have been wondering, here is a link to see the felt food tutorials i have been using from craftiness is not optional. i think her food is the cutest of all the different ones i've seen.

here is a picture of something she has done:

isn't that too cute?

sorry it took me so long to post this. all of my bookmarks mysteriously disappeared from my web browser one day. and i mean ALL. if you are someone who has a lot of bookmarks, like i am, and uses them often, like i do, then you have learned a good lesson: keep a hard copy of your bookmarks so that when they magically disappear some day you will still be able to find your favorite websites.

homeschool funnies

while practicing the date i asked the kids to say, "today is monday."

maria and hudson replied, "today is monday" and libby replied, "munnyday."


we always sing a song before school. today we sang "i am a child of God." hudson apparently was harnessing his inner melville as he sang:

"lead me, guide me, walk beside me. help me find the whale."

funny things kids say

thought i'd post a few funny things the kids have said before i forget about them.

i've been trying to teach libby to say, "it's so fluffy i'm gonna die!" or "it's so FLUFFY!" . . . you recognize these things if you've seen "despicable me". i just thought it'd be really cute to hear her say it in her cute little libby voice. but instead of saying "fluffy" she always says "puppy" so when she says it it sound like this: "the puppy's gonna die!"

yesterday hudson said, "this soda make me sizzle."

hudson also said yesterday, "i like to watch word world. it's on plee.b.s kids." of course he means p.b.s kids.

the kids like to pretend to throw snowballs at each other and each time they throw a snowball they say, "snowball! snowball!" this morning libby was throwing her felt food at ethan but she was a little confused. instead of yelling, "snowball!" she yelled "snowman! snowman!"