22 and 7!

(When I took this picture Hailey was reading and she refused to look up, "no mommy, I reading.")
Hailey's 22 months! Yikes! Time flies. In the past two months she has learned all of her colors, the basic shapes, about a dozen songs that she can sing completely on her own, (and about 20 more she'll sing along with) and she can id some of her letters. She talks a mile a min and is getting really good at complete sentence and asking complete questions. She has the craziest memory, she remembers little things that happened months ago and she remember people really well. I think that is why she has learned so many things so quickly. She has started to make up her own games and makes us play them with her constantly. She loves to sing, dance, go for walks, go to nursery, help mommy "making cookies," (or any other cooking I will let her help me with) and go out to do things. The biggest miracle of the past month is she has finally started eating meat! She's not going to be a vegetarian after all.

I'm 7 months now, and the baby never stops moving. He's a crazy kid. We can't wait to meet him. I'll post a belly picture on Tuesday which happens to be Alex's and my third anniversary. :D

*Also as a side note, I plan on trying to start updating once a week so Grandma Y can see what's going on. I figure if I tell you this, I'm more likely to actually do it.

Decemberish

Team Y has had a crazy busy couple of months. I'll catch you up on some and then I will try to do better in the future.
Hailey hit 21 months.

I took my annual birthday Disneyland Trip.

Steven and Amanda got married.

I got a new camera for my birthday and have been taking lots of pictures of Alex and Hailey.

Pajama Party!

Hailey took her first walk in the snow.

We got to visit Alex's family in Utah.

We went to Disney on Ice.

Hailey got her big girl "princess bed."

And I got to have a "reunion" with some high school friends.

Lots of other stuff has happened but those are the highlights. We were so blessed last year and are looking forward to an exciting 2010.

A Preview

We don't have the actual pictures yet, so I stole a couple from facebook. Interestingly enough it snowed on their wedding day, only for a few mins but it snowed. Even more interesting is the last time it snowed around here:

It's now a family tradition. They had a great photographer, so the pics are amazing even though it was pouring rain. I'll post them soon, along with some other interesting stuff.

On Saturday...

These two crazy kids are getting married.

Which means life around our house has been crazy. Today Hailey hits 21 months but for the sake of keeping it short, that post will have to wait until after the wedding. I'm so excited for Steven and Amanda though! Saturday will be awesome!

Book of Mormon Stories

She normally gets really into the hand motions, but today this was as good as it got.

Look What I Made!

With a little help and a LOT of patience from my cousin Rachel. I've never successfully sewn anything in my life, so I'm pretty pleased. I've always wanted a cute apron, and it turned out awesome. Thank you again Rach! (ignore the messy hair,I'm 5 1/2 month pregnant, I'm allowed to look sloppy.)

20 months and 5 months!

The tiny girl hit 20 months today. She's a little genius. Steven got some AWEsome video of her on Saturday and I plan on posting them as soon as I can steal the files off of his computer. If you are his friend on Facebook, he has posted them there. She can sing a few songs all the way through now. She loves (and hates) all the same things as last month. She has a great memory. She gets excited when we talk about baby brother and loves to kiss my belly, she tells me about him a lot even though I don't think she is really sure what all this baby brother talk means. She chatters ALL the time, non-stop. Most of what she says is pretty understandable. She loves to make sound effects. I think it's because Alex and I make them a lot. But lots of actions have very specific sound effects attached to them when she does them. She loves to visit friends and often will say someone's name followed by, "see them," when she wants to visit someone. She remember names VERY well, she's already better with names then I am. :) She is very gentle with other kids and loves to share. I feel very blessed for that. She also loves to help mommy cook. She runs in the kitchen and says, "cute baby help mommy." We're not exactly sure why she started calling herself the cute baby, but it's hard to say no to the "cute baby," so we know why she continues to say it. She says her last name now and it's SO cute, that will never be posted on here though. I like to keep the delusion that all of the strangers who read don't know who we are. She has also started to say her own prayers without any prompting. They go something like this, "Father grateful today AMEN!" This is getting very long, so I guess I should stop the bragging for now. ;)

I hit 5 months in the pregnancy on the 12. This pregnancy has been so different than Hailey's. I am seriously amazed by the differences. I've been sick with colds and flu's the entire time. Once I get over one thing, I have about a day before the next one hits. It's been really hard. With Hailey I never got sick. I've also had lots of body aches that I didn't have with Hailey. This baby is also way more active than Hailey was. Which is funny because the doctor said Hailey was way more active than a normal baby, I guess Alex and I just have hyper active babies. I have also have the worst sweet tooth. With Hailey I ate fairly healthy and really craved healthy food. Baby boy just wants desert, seriously that's all I want. I'm still pretty small though, and hope to stay that way until Steven's wedding in a month. We'll see how that goes with sweet tooth baby. Here's a picture for those of you who have asked.