Barrett's First Purchase

The other day I had ordered something from Amazon and left the page open.  Bear saw this Easter toy on the screen and became completely fascinated with it.  He told me he wanted it and I told him he'd have to buy it with his own money. He said he still wanted it even after I suggested he look at other toys or think about saving it to go to Disneyland again or something like that.  

He was set on getting this toy and after his nap was still thinking about it and asking about it.  

So we opened up his piggy bank and counted out $10.99 so he could buy this toy.  His first purchase with his own money!

The package arrived on St. Patrick's Day and he was excited!

He seems pretty happy with his new toy and even better, he is happy to share it with Eden (since it's definitely geared toward her age anyways).

St. Patrick's Day

St. Patrick's Day was a pretty normal day with a little more green than usual.   I was making eggs like I usually do when I decided to add some green to them.  I called Bear over to come eat his breakfast and I recorded his reaction.  He was not pleased.  He did NOT ask for green eggs or spinach and he let me know it!  This is a screenshot from the video I took.  I made him eat one bite and then I got him some cereal.

He was okay with green milk though.  It was magic milk!  It came out of the carton white but turned green in his cup!

Our green attire.  Bear didn't want to wear green because he wanted to get pinched but wore what I got out for him anyways because he didn't want to go pick something else I guess.  I think he wore the same shirt last year, it's the only green thing he owns!

I forgot she had been given a bib!

I also attempted some magic pudding.  It's white in the bowl and then you add some of our magic milk to turn it green.  Bear thought it was disgusting.  Oh well.   This is as into it as I get, so...

9 Months

Eden has started doing an annoyed/frustrated grunt that I find funny.  And she will SCREAM if you're not doing what she wants you to!

She has learned the art of arching her back to avoid getting in the car seat or on the changing table.

She loves to try to reach down and get a hold of anything she can while I'm changing her diaper.  It's not my favorite thing she does.

Sometimes she sleeps on her tummy.

I call her bubby girl, tiny girl, or tiny angel.
She will point to things she wants or places she wants you to go.
She still nurses every 3-4 hours.
She's not too picky with what baby food I give her, she'll eat whatever I choose although she's not particularly fond of the chunky baby food yet, but she'll eat chunks of fruit or whatever.

It's really no wonder she's so small, she still sits up everything she eats/drinks.  You would not BELIEVE my laundry piles!

We tried out the jumper the other day.  It went from this

to this in about 5 seconds.

Right after we got home from Disneyland, I decided to wean her off her binky for the majority of the day (not totally sure why I did that to be honest).  She gets it now only at naps and bedtimes, but she did well with the transition.
Consequently, she talks a lot more now! She has the sweetest voice on the planet.

She scoots on her back or her bum or she'll roll around to get what/where she wants but she doesn't crawl yet.
She will often scoot around in pigeon pose- getting closer to being up on all fours. I'm not in any rush for that to happen though.

Yesterday she did get up on her knees for just a second, all by herself!~

Pops gave her a drink from a glass the other day and she did pretty well with that.

She likes to make a trumpet/elephant noise.

Kind of says "up" it's more like "puh"

Starting to dance.

Will sometimes give those precious open mouth baby kisses.

Her top two teeth are trying to come through.

She's getting good at eating finger foods. 

She waves.  Mostly she just sticks her arm in the air Nazi style when we tell her to wave bye bye, but it's a wave to her!

She was starting to do pretty well at night and only waking up once or twice.  Ever since we came back from Disneyland she's done very poorly sleeping at night and is up at least twice, but usually about every 2 hours!  It's rough!

Measuring at
26 inches (9th percentile)
14 lbs 9 oz (3rd percentile)
44 cm head (54th percentile)

She is small but growing; doc's not worried and neither am I!

Red Rocks Gymnastics

I got some free tickets to the University of Utah gymnastics meet against Georgia last Saturday.  Our seats were GA and we didn't get there very early, so they weren't the best, but it was still way fun!

We tried a new restaurant on our way down, Spitz on Broadway.  It was pretty good but I'm not dying to go back.  Fun to try new things though.  Eden was there somewhere too, probably in her carseat.  And that's my mom's hand holding the pita strip.

See, we were almost to the very top, but it was still so cool to watch.   The Utes have an incredible team!  My parents aren't in the picture because my mom was out giving my dad his ticket to get in, but they came with us. 

Tink's Broken Arm

Last week, Tink was out at recess when she tripped and broke her arm.  She went in to the teacher who told her to go call her mom, but because it was a substitute teacher, she didn't give her a hall or phone pass or whatever she needed so Tink didn't go down to the office.  (Obviously the office would've let her call even without any sort of pass but she didn't go anyway).  So she stayed the rest of the day at school (!!!) and then WALKED home!  Poor girl!

Jill got her to the doctor right away of course and she had broken both the radius and ulna BUT luckily did not need surgery.  

She got a hard cast on it on Friday when she saw the specialist.

That was just a funny coincidence that I happened to be wearing a grey stripe top and black bottoms again!

The Weeknd

Our weekend consisted of William's baptism.  I did not even get any pictures of William!  Actually, I really only took pictures of Eden...

And then happened to also have this snap at the house.

I took Barrett to Zootopia, we loved it.

It was Tink's and Reagan's birthday this week so we went for cake and ice cream at their house.

Eden got a balloon, she loves it.

 And it snowed again.

Costume Change

Bear's been playing in some costumes lately and it's been fun.  The Transformers pic was taken when the Chilton's were still here because he insisted on wearing it over to their house.  

Back to Life

Like I said, we're back to our everyday routines around here.  The most exciting thing lately is that the pizza dough exploded in the the fridge.  Just kidding, I have 2 young kids, there's always loads more excitement and surprises than that!

Bear can do these all by himself now.  I was really proud of him.  

Eden gets fresh fruits and veggies in her little mesh biter bag things now and she loves them!

I'll often be carrying Eden around in one of my carriers.  I think this one is a Mama Mermaid ring sling (how cute is that brand name!?) straight from Australia.  I think she's liking this carrier better than the Solly now that she's older because she can sit on my hip and look around better.  It's not as comfy as my Solly wrap, but it works for short time periods.  Can't wait for my Tula though!!

I love her tongue-out smile.

I enlisted Barrett's help to feed Eden the other day while I finished getting his lunch ready.  He was happy to help.  This first picture, they both look a little unsure of what's going on...

But they got the hang of it- even if half of it ended up on her bib!

I asked him to help again this morning and I had to try really hard not to laugh as Barrett was literally gagging at the site and smell of her oatmeal.  He could not deal with it.  I took over again just in time; I don't need to clean up anymore messes than I already do!

Neil and I had a fun date night with these babes and Bruce and Todd too.  We were celebrating Todd's birthday so we went out to eat at Sonora Grill in Ogden.

Disneyland

The Chilton's were flying back to Australia through LAX so we decided to make a trip to Disneyland together before they headed home. There's a lot of pictures and most of them won't be in order.
My friend Jamie has a Disney travel agency business, so I asked for her help with a few things.

We didn't tell Barrett ahead of time that we were going to Disneyland.  When he woke up Sunday morning, we were all packed and we told him then.  He wasn't overly excited right when we told him, but he got more and more excited as we got ready to leave.  My favorite comment about it was, "well, I usually play on the iPad when I wake up..."

He was thrilled to ride the shuttle bus!

We went to Disneyland the same day we flew in.  NO time to waste!  Also (a note to myself) I rented this awesome double stroller from City Stroller Rentals in California, we don't have one because Disneyland is basically the only place Barrett ever needs to sit in a stroller anymore.  It was a great, clean stroller, and the company was amazing- they dropped off and picked up the stroller to my hotel!

My mom came too, so of course that made it more fun!

They did have some storm troopers out walking around but they never stood still for Bear to get a picture with them.

Eden was a serious trooper! She was in the stroller or the Solly wrap all day every day and she was still as sweet as could be. I honestly felt like I was torturing her because she'd fall asleep in the stroller just as soon as we'd have to take her out to go on a ride.  And all the freaking rides are SO loud she'd wake up anytime she was sleeping in the wrap.  She was a very tired girl the whole trip.

My mom could get her to nap on her, but then they'd both get so sweaty.  It was hot when we were there- high 80s!

Bear got this Little Mermaid bubble blower that he really had fun with.

I loved watching him watch the parades.  I think this was the Pixar parade at California Adventure.

He got the whole bed to himself and never even fell out.  I was worried at one point when his head and hand were hanging into Eden's pack n play, but we moved him and he never got that close to the edge again.

Screamin with Rhys and Georgy!! Such a fun rollercoaster!  We went on this twice in a row because there was no line!

Bear went to Turtle Talk with Crush 3 times and 2 of the times he was the first kid Crush talked to!  Crush even talked to me- we were lucky!

Bear kept picking the bench on the Carousel.

Going to see World of Color.

She finally fell asleep after a long day.  I had to cover her ears during World of Color and the fireworks.

Last time we went, Bear was afraid of the characters so we didn't go out of our way to meet any this time, but he ran into Tigger and Pooh Bear and he was pretty happy about it.

Trying to catch the bubbles.

He adored Lara.

My mom had Eden and Bear on Buzz Lightyear so we could go on Hyperspace Mountain.

One of the dumb Bugs Life rides.  That whole area needs to be redone.

Bear picked a Kylo Ren light saber.  I'm afraid he's got too much dark side in him!

Watching Paint the Night parade.

Eden got her 1st Visit pin.

We'd been a few times in February before and it's never been this hot or this crowded.  The crowds were manageable though, nothing like the last 2 times we'd been. 

OMG this picture of Georgy, Rhys, and Howard KILLS me!!

Georgy sandwich.

Neil earned a pin for buying the first Dole Whip of the day!

Have you ever seen a sexier Dole Whip pic?

Bear was just a tiny bit too little to go on Cars last time, so even though I didn't think he'd like it, we took him on it this trip.  

It's unfortunate that you can't see his face because I was definitely right, he did not like it.  Way too fast, loud, scary, bumpy, etc. 

With Rhys' accent, the American baristas will often write Bruce on his coffee cup.  Grace was a new one.

Our last morning with the Chiltons.  I finally got a little cuddle from Lara, I wanted to just squeeze her!

13 years of friendship and 3 kids later.

One last group picture.

And sweet, tired Eden fell asleep on the shuttle bus to the airport until the loudest, most obnoxious kid got on and woke her up twice!!  I was seriously pissed.  

It was sad to have to leave Disneyland AND the Chiltons to come home to our boring everyday lives!  Counting down the days to our next holiday with them!