Little Swimmer

Aaron and I both love our Lucy. She loves the water. Our neighbors have a pool and have invited us over anytime to go swimming. Lucy has such a fun time playing with daddy. She is a die hard swimmer. She will jump in the water no matter the temperature of the water and with or without someone there to catch her (which is a little worrisome). We bought her an inflated pool tonight and she just couldn't wait to get in. She just climbed in and out of it while we pumped it up.

Lucy's newest phrases are: "ousy air r u..." translated: Mousy where are you? Every night we play that game. She loves it. "Oh, ma..." translated: Oh, man! She is so funny!

Aaron is off for 3 weeks before he starts his clinical in Cedar City. So he is playing Mr. Mom. He does a great job with Lucy and Henry. I love his willingness to serve our little family. I came home from work today and Lucy ran up to me saying.. Mommy, mommy and hugged my legs. I loved it.

Aaron has always loved watching TV or Movies especially when we can watch them together. Our latest TV show is America's Got Talent. It is something we both enjoy doing with each other.

Lucy is a fun little singer. We sing I am a Child Of God every night together. She knows the tune very well and all the words (at least in her language she does). I think Aaron and Lucy should sing a duet in Sacrament one of these days.

Ben visited us last night. He was one of Aaron's roommates at BYU. I liked him because he talked to me like I was a good friend of his. None of his other roomies took the time. He is stylish, intelligent, and is a world traveler. I love listening to his stories. We had a delightful visit, I must say.

I listen to this on my drive to Prison:
It's amazing how well my day goes. It is as if the Universe knows who I am and what I want and things flow to me in such a timely way. It is as if I'm dancing with the universe. Emergencies are non existant in my physical experience. The people that come to me are benefiting by their exposure to me. It is as if I have a secretary in the sky that is taking care of everything and just feeding it to me with such ease and grace and comfort that my day unfold so magnificently.
When I wake up in the morning, I am infused with the energy of well being. I am just glad to be alive. I can hardly wait to exercise my body and I am thankful for my children. When they awaken my children and spouse are joyful and happy to be alive. We have such fun interacting with one another. This is some of the most precious time of our day interacting with one another.
As I am making my way to different events of my day, it is always such a lovely time. I am so appreciative of all the wonderful people I have in my life. I am grateful for the spiritual support and the angelic help that is taking care of the details and making sure that this day is going to unfold in a magical way. I love seeing their attention to detail and I love seeing them eagerly finding more ways to make everything go comfortable. I love recognizing that they are helping me bring my life into balance.
I love being a wife. I love being a mom. I love getting into a space wherein I realize that I can deal with anything. I love connecting with the infinite power and knowledge of my life. I love knowing the benefit I offer to others. Most of all I love the joy of the unfolding. I love new surprises that come, my ability to move with them, and the inspiration that comes effortlessly. I love knowing that I can participate in anything I want to participate in. I love knowing I have infinite choices.

Teething already?? Precocious Henry.

Henry is 3 months old and his lower incisors are erupting all ready! Lucy was 5.5 months old when she got hers and I thought that was early. He is so so happy through all the construction going on in his little mouth.
Lucy decided to join in the fun. She is getting her second molars. They both have elevated temperatures. Peppermint oil on their feet works well to reduce the temps.

Homecoming

New Harmony for the weekend for Van Wagoner's homecoming. David and Carol's love for the gospel is refreshing. So much excitement and enthusiasm.

18 months and 3 months

Aaron and I spoke in Sacrament last week. My talk was on Character and Aaron's was on Gratitude. Geneva watched our kids during Sacrament. She did a better job than us! We might let her watch our kids all the time or learn what she did with them because it worked!

David and Carol returned home from their honorable mission in Romania yesterday! They were gone a short 18 months. What great examples they are to us. We love them and are so glad they are home. I made sure that we had flowers planted in the front yard before everyone arrived. I am grateful we did because David commented on them when he walked in.

My sweet dear Henry is 3 months old today! Aaron has found a giggle spot on his back ribs. It will bring a laugh to anyone who hears it. Tomorrow is Fast Sunday. We are blessing Henry at 9 am.

Mommy, Mommy, Mommy

Lucy loves to say Mommy, Mommy, Mommy all around the house. She mostly just wants me to look at her. She actually found her shoes the other day after Daddy said to find your shoes. She went right to where her shoes were and brought them to daddy. She gets so excited when Daddy comes home - she sometimes runs to the door just waiting to start the tickling session.

She officially threw away her binky herself about a week ago. She told us she was done with her binky by her actions. Every time we would give her the binky she would through it out of the crib.

Whenever things are quiet, I know Lucy must be into something. I found her in our bathroom shower sitting against the glass door with a pair of scissors and a poopy diaper. I took the scissors out of her hands and she scampered out of our bedroom.

I rocked her to sleep this afternoon. I was stroking her forehead when she reached out to grab my wrist with one hand and gently touched the palm of her other hand to to my palm. She held my hand with both of her hands until she fell asleep. I looked at her sleeping beautiful face and thought I am the luckiest woman alive.

Henry wakes up every morning so happy. His wings flap with the biggest grin imaginable. I can't help but have a big smile myself.

Aaron's finals are almost done. He has been so busy this past month with studying, massage labs, etc... I am looking forward to this semester ending!

Floss snatcher

Our sweet Lucy snatches our floss when we are not looking, runs away, and hides. We find her wrapped in floss and eating it.
Today at church we were asked if Lucy hits Henry at home because she is hitting all the kids in nursery. How do we have an FHE to teach her not to hit? We are going to ask the expert... Jamie!

Ox is in the Myer, Teething and more

My sweet husband got a call from his best friends wife today. She was on the verge of tears. No one was around to help her with a plumbing problem at their rental. Aaron was going to study all day for finals next week, but ended up helping them out. I love that he loves to serve.

Lucy is getting her upper right molar; specifically #A! How exciting! I felt one of the erupting cusps after brushing her teeth tonight. She has had a slight fever and stuffy nose over the past few days. Lightbulb. I wondered why she was a little more cuddly than usual. She would get angry at Henry if he was in my arms. She wants to sit on our laps while we eat.

We watched Tangled tonight on the big screen we just got from Costco. (We love Costco!) Lucy sings along when the lantern song is on. She is very much into character when she sings. She is absolutely adorable. She loves to spin around and around, and to walk around the house on her tippy toes. She also loves the Wonder Pets and Blues Clues because she can sing the songs.

For approx. 1.5 years, Lucy has had two favorite animals, mousey and moosey. She bites, chews, plays with, and sleeps with them. They have a foul odor to them. We have tried to introduce new ones but she won't have anything to do with them.

Henry is the easiest baby to take care of! I am so glad I read the Baby Whisperer. He falls asleep so well and is happy when he is awake. Aaron tells me what a wonderful job I am doing with our little boy.