Banana Monster

Ever since Lydia could eat solid foods, she has loved bananas. The funny thing is that she doesn't like them cut up and put on her tray, she wants 1/3 of the banana so she can hold it and eat it all on her own. This tends to get a little messy as you could imagine, but she loves it so we let her do it. This morning she ate almost an entire banana by herself and was happy as a clam the entire time.

Weekend Happenings

For our anniversary on Sat we took the baby to my mom's house and had them babysit while kelvin and I went out for a nice lunch. After about 2 hours we got the baby and went home. After a long month and a half of little sleep we were pretty tired so we canceled our babysitter for that night (sorry Adrian) and decided to stay home. We put the baby to bed about 6:30 and then we opened a celebratory mini cake that Kelvin had brought home the day before. We got in bed turned on Harry Potter ate a little of the cake then fell asleep at about 8pm!! You can laugh all you want (I sure keep laughing about it) but it felt really good. We both agreed that that was the best way to celebrate our anniversary. Lydia even went right back to bed after eating at 5am and slept until 7:45am. It was her little gift to us.

Sunday morning we had a great time being a little lazy. Kelvin got out his remote controlled helicopter he got from his dad for his birthday. He was flying it around the living and Lydia was quite transfixed. She has seen it before but it always scared her a little. If I was holding her and it was flying around she was usually ok for the most part. On Sunday she was just fine and loved watching it. Kelvin decided to fly it closer to her and see what she would do.

Curious...


I want that dad!


It crash landed right next to her.


Then she got it and Kelvin had to make a dive to get it before she broke anything off. She got pretty brave about it after she was able to touch it.


That is until she touched it while it was moving. Poor little thing tried to grab it and the propellers caught her fingers. She was not very happy after that.


That night we went to my parents house for dinner and Uncle Dave did a new trick with her. She wasn't sure what to think at first but she really liked it later.


And finally this morning I was on my laptop while Lydia was playing on the ground when i found a sight for Sesame Street videos online. I started to wonder if she would be interested in something like that. So I pulled up the video on the computer and sat her down to watch. This was her response.

Completely amazed!!!


She just stared at the screen and wouldn't look away.


Then she started to get excited and would clap and talk and sing along.


"Are you seeing this mom?"

HAPPY ANNIVERSAY!!

Today marks the third year of marrying the most wonderful man alive! Happy Anniversary my love! You are the perfect man for me and I thank my Heavenly Father every night that I have you in my life.

More Pictures

As promised here as more pictures of what this little independent baby can do.

She sits up like a champ now!


She can hold her own bottle (when she wants too).


First introduction to a sippy cup. "What's this mom?"


Starting to get the hang of it.


Smiling pretty for the camera.


And finally, she is eating finger foods. She loves being independent and so when she can do things on her own, like feed herself, she is very happy. So far Cheerios and banana's have been a hit.

My Hunter

On Thursday Kelvin went hunting with Aaron and his dad. He was really excited!! Kelvin had been talking for a while about learning how to hunt and I have encouraged it because I think it's a skill you need to know. You never know when you will need to use it, especially these days. So he got up at 4am and got all ready to leave at 4:30. They had a great time and he learned a lot and was grateful he was able to go. Lydia and I spent the day at my mom's house and had a great time there. My mom was really happy to have Lydia there and spend time with us.

Aaron all ready to go!


Boyd, Aaron's dad.


One of the places they went. Isn't it beautiful? I am REALLY going to miss the beauty here when we leave Utah.


Let's go hunt some dear!


Lamb Stew anyone?


It took a little while for the sheep to move out of the road. There were hundreds of them.


When the weather got to this point they decided it was time to go home. They didn't get home until 10pm. It was fun to hear all the stories when he got home.

Growing Up So Fast

So Lydia has a few new tricks that she has figured out. One is clapping which she now tends to do all the time and the other is supported walking. Yes, my 6 1/2 month old baby is walking with us holding her hands. She is getting really good at it even though she still doesn't have great balance yet and wants to walk every where in the apartment. I will be happy when she can walk or crawl so I don't have to be right next to her every second of the day! It's so fun to watch how much she is growing and learning every day. I promise I will get more pictures of her doing these things soon but I wanted to post what we had.

She likes to walk on daddy's feet too!


She's growing up so fast! While this video only shows her walking for a little bit, she loves to walk everywhere in the house now.

Birthday Celebrations

Happy Birthday to the most wonderful husband ever!!! Kelvin turned 26 on Tuesday and we had a great day. Lydia was kind enough to go back to bed right after she ate and slept until 7 so he got to sleep in. After a yummy breakfast of pancakes we got ready and headed up to the University of Utah where the career fair was going on. He went around talking with different companies and they all told him that he was VERY impressive and had a great resume. LOTS of places were interested in him and in fact he had an interview with one company the very next day before they left to go back to Seattle. He came away from the career fair feeling pretty good, especially now that we had a few options regarding employment and where we want to be.

Kelvin's friends wanted to go out to lunch for his birthday so we loaded everyone up in the van after the fair and went to pick up Aaron. This is where a van comes in handy! We fit 6 people plus Lydia in the van and headed out together to have lunch at a small hamburger joint close to the school. We had a lot of fun with everyone and seeing old friends was quite nice. After lunch Kelvin and Aaron played Star Craft for like 3 hours until Adrian got off work and joined us. We ate dinner and watched a movie and had a great time.

Kelvin got a lot of presents and was quite excited about how good of a day he had. Sorry there are no pictures. We have been really bad with the camera things lately. But just know that he had a great big smile on his face all day!!