My Little Princesses

We just had our annual spring dance recital. Both Lizzy and Nellie were in it and it was a crazy weekend. I dread it every year because it seems to take up the entire weekend. Plus it is a lot of doing hair and makeup and running around and all that jazz plus you have to sit through a ton of other performances just to see your own kids. But it of course was worth it because the girls loved it. Nellie was Sleeping Beauty and danced to the sleeping Beauty song. We don't really think that Nellie really likes dance that much because she never really wants to go and when she does she just stands around a lot. We figure it might be a little too structured for her and she might enjoy something like soccer better, so we will have to see.

I watched her for the dress rehearsal and she could see me so she stood there the whole time and smiled at me without doing a single dance move. Well Lizzy who is very into dance was extremely disturbed by this so the day of the performance she said "Now Nellie you need to make sure you don't just stand up there but you need to do your dance okay?" in her very bossy voice, it really was quite hilarious. Well since Nellie couldn't actually see us she did decide to do her dance and she did a great job, for her. I really don't think she will want to stick with it though, and that is just fine by me. I really want my kids to do what they want to do, when it comes to stuff like that. Here she is just standing there smiling while the rest of her class dances.


I asked Lizzy to let me take a picture of her and she of course posed, I don't think she knows how to take a picture without posing. She is so cute as Belle and she did such a great job dancing. She really LOVES to dance and is very concerned about the right steps and doing it correctly. She came here with so much personality and it is so funny because she is a girl through and through. She is all about Princesses and jewelry and makeup and anything girly. The funny thing is that I did not promote this whatsoever, it is just the way she came.

My girlies are just too cute, I did have a lot of fun getting them all dolled up, and they were so thrilled that they got to wear makeup. They ask me to wear makeup all the time and I say no so they were so happy when I got out my makeup, and put it on them.

Outside

This is a pretty common sight at our house. If the big girls are playing outside, which lately they do all the time, then Janie thinks she needs to be out there too. She LOVES to be outside, of course most little kids do. Whenever the girls head outside, Janie brings me her shoes and starts whining. She is so funny because if I say "Do you want to go outside?" She just starts shrieking. It is funny. I do feel bad because she is just too little to go out there without me, so when I am busy she just stands at the door and whines, while she watches the girls. I can't believe how big she is, I know I keep saying it but really, where has the time gone?

Dresses

Since we didn't dress up for conference Sunday, this past Sunday was the first day the girls wore their Easter dresses. Nellie of course picked out her green fabric and Lizzy picked out pink of the same fabric. I already had some picked out for Janie, but I decided she needed to be the same as her sisters so I found the blue. I thought they looked so cute, the same but different. Of course though when it came time to take pictures Janie was not going to have any of it. This was the picture we got of all three. Janie walking away showing us her diaper. Lately she has been lifting up her shirts and showing off her belly, and that is what she did the whole time she wore this dress.

Eventually we just decided to take a picture of Lizzy and Nellie and it turned out really cute. They looked so cute with their hair all curly. I still haven't mastered the foam curlers so i spend quite a bit of time in the morning re curling it and fixing it. So we only do it this way on very special occasions.

I just really get a kick out of this picture. We were trying again after church to get a picture of Jane and Grammie and Papi's dog Chloe was running around and Janie was chasing her.

Hey, we did get one without her lifting up her dress. She is just such a cute little monkey.

We wanted a family picture but of course Janie didn't want to cooperate. Everyone else looks good though, except me, I have been growing my hair out a little and I have been liking it, but after seeing this picture I may have to rethink it. I feel like I look like I didn't even do my hair. I don't know if it is just the picture or if it really doesn't look that good and I just don't realize it. I have very little patience with things like this anyway. Usually my hair starts to grow out a tiny bit and I am going crazy and chop it off. So we will just have to see if I keep growing it out or not, I think I really need a color (Kristi!) and maybe it would look better. Enough about my stupid hair!

Easter

We did the annual coloring Easter eggs. I don't think you can go a year without coloring eggs. The girls loved doing it and Nellie even did some that weren't green! Jane on the other hand was not happy that she didn't get to help and so I put her on my lap forgetting that there was a color tablet right there on the table. She put it in her mouth and managed to get green everywhere. I noticed and knocked over one of the cups of color when I got up and got pink dye all over our white carpet. Just so everyone knows it doesn't come out of carpet, even when you immediately remove it. We had a carpet cleaner here so that was good, but it still didn't do anything, I ended up putting bleach on the carpet and that did the trick. It mostly came out. Of course I would be the one to spill, not the kids.

I was planning on using the eggs the next day for deviled eggs, but Lizzy and Nellie were not thrilled about it. They wanted to keep them to look at, but not eat, silly girls.

The next morning we heard the kids going through their Easter baskets. And Janie talking in her crib so we went and got Janie up and the Easter bunny had left her these cute bunny ears. She doesn't like having things on her head but she likes these. She will put them on herself and then go and look in the mirror at herself and laugh.

We bought Janie this Easter basket because the girls got their cute fuzzy ones a couple of years ago and Janie didn't have one. She loves it and carries it around everywhere. She will hug it and say Aww.

I really don't know what the Easter bunny was thinking bringing the girls all this candy when they were going to Grammie and Papi's for an egg hunt later that day. Especially with Nellie and her craziness over candy lately. She is totally addicted and it is so hard to get her to eat because all she wants is candy. I think the Easter bunny experienced a moment of insanity and wasn't thinking. Do you like how Lizzy already was dressed for the day. We had gotten her a bunch of new spring clothes the day before and she was so excited to wear them she got dressed before came upstairs in the morning.

All the kids minus Braysen, waiting for the egg hunt to start. They all look so cute!

Nellie had a lot f fun in the egg hunt and was completely overlooked by the older kids, so she made out like a bandit, I think she ended up with the most eggs.

Janie just had fun walking around carrying her basket, she did think it was really cool to pick up the eggs and put them in her basket, but then she started picking lots of grass and putting it in too.

There is our poser. Lizzy loves to pose when I take her picture.

After the egg hunt we went in and watched Conference at Kevy's parents and Jane just loved this little chair. She kept going and hanging out in it. We had such a great Easter, and hope everyone else did too!

Egg Hunt

Evey Easter there is an egg hunt here in town. We look forward to it every year because it is so fun. They have a tons of eggs and lots of games and things for the kids to do. The last couple of years it has been so cold that we didn't stay around for the games, so it was kind of nice this year that it was pouring rain so they held it at the Elementary school and just gave us a bag of eggs and then the kids got to go and play games without being cold. Kelli and Lance and their kids and Grammie and Papi came up too so it made it even more fun! I got to open Janie's candy that she is so nice to share with me. :) She just loved sitting on my lap and grabbing at the eggs.

I just love Lizzy's smile. She is almost always smiling.

Nellie looks drunk in her pictures half the time. It is hard to get good pictures of her.

Nellie doing the bean bag toss. I was glad she made it on the last try, you wouldn't want to see Nellie not get the prize that everyone else did, that would have been ugly.

Going Fishing!

They had these cute tunnels that the kids could crawl through. This picture of the girls turned out really cute. I didn't get a picture but Nellie got to hold a little chick and she just loved it. I kept asking her if she was ready to put it down and she kept telling me no. Nellie really loves animals. It is funny how opposite two kids can be, Lizzy was NOT interested in touching the chicks.

The last few months

I am going to try and recap the last few months, I don't know what has happened since the first of this year but blogging has been a struggle for me, but since it is the journal I do for my kids, I really want to be better. We decided to go over to Grammie and Papi's house for the Superbowl and stay the night for a sleepover . The girls of course were thrilled because they think sleeping over anywhere is the most exciting thing ever. And they especially love Grammie and Papi's. I made some chocolate fondue that the kids sort of enjoyed. Nellie just wanted to dip stuff, but she wouldn't eat an of it.

The girlies got to take a bath at Grammies and use her towels, which they think is really cool. Nellie wanted the green frog, big surprise. I thought she would maybe move on to a different obsession like most kids do but not Nellie, it is still Diego, jaguars and green for Nellie.

Janie in her jammies. She doesn't sleep well at all away from home and especially in the same room as us. She wakes up every couple of hours and just cries because she can see us in the room. It is so funny because she is the best sleeper at home and always sleeps a solid 12 hours at night and never ever wakes up. She is just such a homebody. Whenever we are gone for a while and get home she just smiles and laughs when we walk in the door.

For President's weekend we went down to Oklahoma to visit my brother Austin and to meet his fiance Jenny. But being the worlds worst picture taker, I never got a picture with Austin and Jenny. We had a lot of fun with them. The girls just love Uncle Austin, and it was a lot of fun to get to know Jenny.

At the hotel, the girlies hanging out. Can you tell that Lizzy loves Janie. She is just such a little mommy.

It was so nice one day when we were down there that we went to a local park and played and then my camera died so this was the only decent picture I got.

Kevy got a shamrock shake at McDonald's and Nelie just assumed it belonged to her because it was green and she ate pretty much all of it.

One of the VERY few nice days that we have had, I took Janie out back to play with her sisters in the sandbox. She has really started to follow them around and want to play with them. She enjoyed the sand and of course decided that she had to try eating it.

How I just love being a Mom to these lovely little ladies. Life doesn't get much better than this. Janie is such a different kid than the other two. They were both so busy and into everything. She is the opposite. Usually at this age she is at kids just want to get down and play, they don't want to be held. But not Jane, at church she wants to sit on my lap almost the whole time. I took the kids to the park and Jane just sat on my lap the whole time. She is very cautious and likes to be comfortable and if she doesn't know everyone very well she won't get down and explore at all. I do have to admit that I love the cuddles on the lap, it is just not something I am used to.

My Mom and my Aunt Judy came out to visit at the beginning of March and it was an awesome break from winter and the monotony of my life. The girls were soooo excited to have them come visit and we had so much fun together, but true to form I only got a few pictures while they were here and none with my Mom :( I will someday take more pictures! I swear I will!

We pretty much just hung out which I love. I don't need to be entertained. It was so nice to have so much help with meals and dishes and cleaning, it was such a nice break plus itwas just so nice to be with my mom, I miss her.

All of us went bolding (bowling) When we got there the door was locked and Nellie and Lizzy started bawling thinking we wouldn't be able to go but they just hadn't opened the door yet. We had so much fun, I always forget how much fun it is to go. We also went to the Orphan Train museum that they have here in town. I had never been and it was so interesting, and sad to hear about all of the different stories of the orphans.

Judy helping the girls bowl. They were pretty proud of themselves.

The next week Kevy's grandparents came to town and we went out to dinner. Lizzy, Nellie and Brinlee all wanted to ride in the back of Papi's car. Don't they look so cute!

Then we came back to our house and I had made a cake. Kevy bought me The Pioneer Woman cookbook and I have been loving trying all the recipes, there are tons of good ones in it.

Janie sure did enjoy the cake, don't you think?

Little Walker

It would have been nice to know that Kevy already posted this without me finishing it up. Oh well. We had the hardest time trying to upload any video onto here so we had to take what we could get. Anyway Janie is walking! She has actually been walking for a couple of weeks now, but I have been very unmotivated to blog.

She was showing very little interest in walking and since she didn't crawl until ten and a half months I thought she won't be walking until she is at least 15 months. Plus she was showing a bit of stubborness because every time Kevy and I would try and get her to walk she would lean back or lift her legs up, (little stinker.) So one day I was in the kitchen and Kevy was in the living room and he could see Jane in her room and he said she walked across the room to the door, like she had been walking for a while. After that she started walking a lot and got so excited everytime she did it and now she rarely crawls anymore.

Since she started walking she seems to think she is so big and while she used to play a lot by herself now she is always following the girls around. She thinks she is just as big as they are, and unfortunatly Nellie doesn't want her to play with them, so we are workng on that because it makes me sad. Janie just loves her sisters so much and is trying to keep up with them. She all of a sudden seems like a big girl now, it is crazy how walking ages kids so much. She decided to eat her oatmeal yesterday with a spoon and she actually did eat the whole bowl by herself using a spoon, it was way too cute. She is just growing up too fast. I guess it is time for another one.

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My Sweet Baby Jane is ONE!

I just can't believe that time could be going so fast. This past year has been the fastest of my life. My baby Janie is one, I can't believe it. Sometimes you get excited for a baby to get older, but not my Janie, I don't want her to grow up. She has been the best baby ever. She has such a clam nature and is so easy going. She has made me want to have 5 more babies, she has been so good, although I think I will still just stick with two more.

I can still so vividly remember every single thing about the moment that she was placed in my arms. She was born with all this cute curly dark hair, which I was surprised about, I thought she would be a tow head. She had these darling chipmunk cheeks that I still just can't get over. And of course she had her daddy's crazy long toes just like her sisters.

We brought her home and after about two weeks everything was just great. She was such a good baby and she just fit in so well, that it wasn't a very difficult adjustment. Lizzy absolutely adored her and wanted to suffocate her with her hugs and love. Nellie loved her too, but more from a distance. Janie was and still is a great sleeper, she was sleeping until 4 am pretty much from the beginning, and was sleeping a solid 12-13 hours at night from about 5 months on.
What a blessing she has been to our family, who would have known we would have had three little girls, and how amazing they all are. I cannot imagine having a boy instead of our amazing beautiful Jane.

I took Janie to her one year appointment and she was 17lbs. 6 oz. hovering just about at the 4th percentile. I love having petite little girls though. You would never guess that she is that small though because she eats so much. There is not one thing that this little babe won't eat, she eats everything, I love it!

Jane is such a little water bug. She has always loved her baths so much, she will just play forever, and she never ever cries when water gets in her eyes. She is my little water baby.

If she sees me coming to get her, or she thinks I am bringing her something like her bottle or a treat, she lifts up her head and gets this huge silly grin on her face, with her eyes all squinted it is really cute. She is really busy right now and one of her favorite things to do is to go over to the bookcase and pull every book she possible can off the shelf, she just loves to do that, and I am putting books back on the shelf about 20 times a day because I can't handle the mess. She loves to follow me into the kitchen and be just right under my feet playing, I have stepped on her too many times, so finally we got a gate to keep her out of the kitchen, and when she sees me pull it out she starts whining, it is funny. When Jane gets really excited she starts flapping her arms a lot, it looks like she is trying to fly away. She is just the most peaceful happy baby, she just hangs out and doesn't make much commotion. If I have been in the kitchen and I haven't heard from her in a bit I will go and find her and she will be in her room playing with toys or something. We got her a little stuffed rocking horse and she will go over to in and just hug it and say aww.

Janie is a total mama's girl right now, which of course I love. She loves to give me kisses and hugs and when she gives hugs she always says, Awww when she does it. I just want to eat her up. We just love her little cheekies, they are so cute and chubby still.

I could just go on and on about my Janie. She is so special and I just adore her so much. I am so grateful that Heavenly Father knows better than we do or else I wouldn't have this amazing little girl that my life wouldn't be complete without. I love you my little baby lady.

Janie the day she was born, such a little beauty.

I just can't get over her cheeks, I love them!


Her blessing day, she looked like such a little angel.

Janie big eyes, her eyes have always been so bright.

I love the little hand up by her face.

In her pretty pink dress that Kevy's grandma made her.

Kevy and Janie sleeping, both are very talented in this department.

There are those big eyes again.

She would get so tired after we would go swimming, she loved it though and would chill in her floaty forever.

The three little monkeys in the tub, she loved when she got to start bathing with her sisters

Pancakes and blueberries, two of her favorites. She really knows how to make a mess when she eats, I have to be careful and watch her because when she decides she is done she will start painting her hair with food and then I have to bathe her, I think she does it on purpose for that very reason.

I just love that little face.

Look at those cute bunny cakes, as the girlies call them.

We think she looks just like her Grammie, Kevy's mom, just with blue eyes

What a joy this little baby is. We love her so much!