Soccer Star and Dance Diva

Our sweet little girl decided to try her hand at soccer this spring.  She was really excited and was ready for the season to start.  Her first game of the season though was a little bit of a let down, it was so cold and so rainy and my poor mom had to tough it out with the kids because Craig and I were gone.  Her second game she was just getting over her nasty stomach bug, so there were a lot of tears throughout that game and a very frustrated mom (both Craig and I are very competitive and we will have to learn how to be parents to a non-competitive kid).  Finally the third game was a success with good weather and the bribe of donuts after the game.  The next game was a bribe of Panda Express and then after that no bribes were needed.  It wasn't a matter of her not liking soccer, but more so the chaos that is 5 year olds playing soccer.  She loves order and knowing exactly she is supposed to do.  She is also very timid and was not a big fan of the few very aggressive kids that liked to push their way through everyone.  By the end of the season she was talking about wanting to play again next year.  She was pretty disappointed that she never scored a goal, even though she was very close a couple of times.  I hope that she will continue to want to play because I feel like you can learn so much from playing team sports, but I do have a feeling she might be more of an individual sport type of girl.

Brooklyn also loved ballet this year and she just recently had another recital.  For this recital her class were ferrets as part of the Carnival of the Animals.  Luckily their costume didn't really resemble a ferret much at all, but they sure looked adorable.  She really does enjoy dance and I do feel like I am becoming a little bit better of a dance mom and I do feel like there will be a lot of dance in our future.  She was so excited that both set of grandparents were able to make it to her recital and that her Daddy got her flowers again.  Our cute little ferret was sad that dance had to end and can't wait for it to start again in the fall.  She loved her teacher and all the girls in her class and was so excited when they got to wear whatever they wanted to their last class.

21 Months

May 15, 2018
Size 3 diapers
12-18 month clothes
16 teeth

Well this kids personality just continues to bloom.  He is constantly keeping us on our toes, he is either crazy happy and fun or throwing a huge tantrum.  Luckily the fun times outweigh the tantrums.  He is becoming a little bit more of a picky eater, but still eats fairly well for the most part, it is just a little bit more work on our part.  He refuses to sit in a high chair or booster seat anymore at meal time.  He has fallen off the chair a few times, but not near as often as I thought he would.  He also insists on feeding himself all the time, no matter what the food is, which was fine when he was sitting in a high chair, but now most of his food ends up on the floor.   He loves to be outside and when he is cranky we try to get outside as quickly as possible and luckily he loves to help pick weeds.   He has a few new words this month like ouch, no (actually saying it not just shaking his head), he will occasionally say up and down.  He still loves to say please and will say that anytime I ask him to say something that he doesn't want to say.  Everything is still pink, hopefully soon we can throw another color in there.  He continues to get friendlier and more outgoing.  He loves to show people things and try to tell them things with his grunts and hand motions.  He will even occasionally let other people pick him up.  He has been kind of obsessed with necklaces ever since Brooklyn made him one.  He wore it every where for a good week.  He is slowly getting less attached to his binky, don't get me wrong he still loves it, but he can now go without it sometimes.  He now will leave it in the car when we go in somewhere like the gym, church or the park.  He loves to hide his binky which makes it difficult at bedtime when he is crying for it, luckily we have a stash of them for this very reason.  He loves to play basketball on his little hoop and where his basketball shoes (he has a pair of Jordan's).   He really can be a stinker sometimes, but he is the cutest stinker I have ever seen.  I love that goof ball so much and he truly does make this family whole.

The both insisted on wearing their Christmas jammies 

He found a worm in grandma's garden

He loves to put clothes on by himself and will put on anything that is left on the ground, including sisters undies

Brooklyn wanted to dress up, so of course McKay needed to dress up as well

Brooklyn wanted a picture of her dinosaur tower (she has been watching a lot of Land Before Time) that she buil,t so of course McKay needed a picture of his tower  as well and these are the faces he gave me:

playing grandpa's harmonica and he actually does a pretty good job

20 Months

April 15, 2018
Size 3 diapers
12-18 Month clothes

I feel like this month was full of changes, but really not that many.  He didn't get any more teeth, his sleeping is the same, but yet his personality seemed to blossom even more.  He has the funniest, cheesiest smile and it makes me crack up every time.  He refuses to say any other colors besides pink, everything is pink. He has a few new words this month like "beam" when he wants me to sing Jesus Wants me for a Sunbeam, "wing" for swing when he wants to go to the park, and his hand motions just keep getting better.  I feel like I am just playing charades all day everyday with him and we have gotten pretty good at it.  I feel like he communicates really well for how few words he says.  Whenever I ask him to say something like up, down, out, etc he always just "pease" (please) and gives me a super cute smile.  Brooklyn didn't start saying very much until she turned two and then all of the sudden she just started talking like crazy, so hopefully that is what will happen with him.  He absolutely loves going to the gym and to nursery.  He especially loves coloring and showing me what he has colored when I pick him up. He is still napping pretty well, but usually wakes up pretty grumpy.  I have found that he is typically happier if I can get him outside as quickly as possible.  This kid eat ALL THE TIME,  it is nuts.  He snacks all day long, but still eats his meals well, hopefully that means that he is creeping up on the growth charts a little bit more.  He has figured out how to scream/yell and he does it all the time, I really hope he doesn't end up being a screamer.  He loves to show you things, like when he builds a block tower, draws a picture, etc.  He takes his shoes and socks off almost every single time we get in the car, which I find pretty obnoxious, but he is always so proud of himself.  He has started to really like to wrestle with his sister and Brooklyn eggs him on all the time. He finally lets me sing to him again before bed, but he only likes songs with actions like popcorn popping, Book of Mormon stories, itsy-bitsy-spider.  He is so dang cute and such a happy boy and we are so lucky that he is ours.

At the end of the month a crazy stomach bug went through the whole family.  Brooklyn got it the worse by far.  It started with McKay throwing up at my parents house and then Brooklyn threw up like 3 times all throughout the night.  We then woke up to McKay in the morning, who had actually slept really well and didn't make a peep all night, with puke all over himself and the bed.  McKay threw up a few more times that day, but then seemed to be doing ok after that for the most part.  Poor Brooklyn continued to throw-up for 4 more days, she couldn't keep anything down, not even water.  She felt so awful and I felt terrible not being able to help her.  Of course during all of this I caught the bug and couldn't move off the couch.  One morning when Craig (who wasn't feeling fantastic either, but luckily not as bad as the rest of us) left for work, Brooklyn was laying on our bed looking more than half dead, I was laying on the floor curled in a ball crying and McKay was just trying to get anybody to pay attention to him.  It was quite a sight I'm sure.  That day I finally took Brooklyn into the doctor, she hadn't kept anything down for over 4 days and you could tell she was losing weight.  She had lost 5 pounds, which is a lot when you only weigh 34 lbs to begin with.  The doctor then prescribed both of us some anti-nausea medicine, but told me if in a few hours she still wasn't keeping anything down then we were going to have to take her into the hospital to get IV fluids, because she was getting to dehydrated.  Luckily she was finally able to keep some fluids down and a few crackers that evening and then slowly was just able to start eating more.  It took  a good week to get all of her energy back.  It was not a fun week that is for sure and I am glad that is behind us.

whenever he gets tired he puts his hands behind his head, no matter ig he is sitting or laying down.

Happy Easter

We had a a wonderful Easter week.  The kids got to spend a lot of time with cousins and loved every minute of it.  They started off the week with an Easter Egg hunt with the Moss cousins on Monday at the Big House.  It was a little chilly but the kids had a lot of fun and we got to eat some yummy dessert. During the week Brooklyn and I colored eggs.  We used cool whip and food coloring and they turned out great.  On Saturday I took the kids to the Easter Egg hunt put on by the Star Chamber of Commerce at Blake Haven Park.   Craig ended up picking McKay up on his way home from work so that he could nap and I hung with Brooklyn until the hunt finally started.  McKay freaked out a little bit when I tried to get a picture of him with the Easter Bunny, but Brooklyn was more than happy to jump in for a quick picture.  There were so many eggs but Brooklyn was so concerned about making sure the littler kids got eggs that she only got about 10 herself.  She had a lot of fun and the weather was beautiful, so no complaints.  On Easter Sunday we went to my parents house for dinner and another hunt.  It was a great day with all of the family.  I wasn't sure how McKay would do with the egg hunts, but he went all out and was super excited to grab as many eggs as he could and he was pretty disappointed when they were all gone and kept asking for more.  The kids had a lot of fun, the weather was beautiful and we had just had the opportunity to listen general conference.  It really was such a great week and it was fun to teach Brooklyn about the real meaning of Easter and to have her be able to start to understand the significance of what our Savior did for us.

19 Months Old

3/15/2018
Size 3 diapers
Size 12-18 Month clothing
16 teeth

I can't believe how much more my baby seems like a toddler than a baby now.  He does such a great job going into nursery at church and the child watch at the gym (even though he got kicked out once for hitting 4 different kids. Hopefully that will be a one time thing).  He has gotten better about pulling Brooklyn's hair, but will throw a fit if someone takes the toy he is playing with.  He loves to make animal sounds.  He finally has a horse down and his kitty cat is the most adorable sound.  He will finally "smile" for pictures, even though it is not much of an acutal smile, but at least he looks at the camera.  He gets so excited when Brooklyn wakes up in the morning and he will run up to her and give her a big hug.  He has to give Craig about 10 kisses every morning when he leaves for work.  He loves to watch Resuce Bots with Brooklyn and anytimes someone turns on the T.V. he says "bots bots".  He has really enjoyed watching March Madness, he makes a shooting motion with his hand when we say we are going to watch basketball.   His sleeping is about the same.  He has more good nights than bad, but he is definitely an early riser.  His naps are usually good, but will occasionally throw in a short one.  He is typically pretty grumpy when he wakes up in the afternoon for an hour or so.  He loves to be outside and that is typically when he is the happiest.  He is still obsessed with his blocks and he can build some pretty good towers.  He loves to read books before nap and bed, but still refuses to let us sing him any songs.  He still doesn't have a whole lot of words he says, but his sounds are pretty awesome and he can make a killer fishy face.  He is for the most part a very happy and sweet boy and Brooklyn has decided that we should keep him, even when he throws a ginormous fit in the grocery store (big enough that the checker wished me luck as we walked out).  We love him dearly and love watching his personality grow.

He loves to wear his hat but hates to wear sunglasses

his big "smile"

using Grandpa's walker as his own personal jungle gym

Helping Daddy get his socks and shoes on for work

Our Big Girl Turns 5!

February 22, 2018
35 lb 8 oz (20th percentile)
42 in. (38th percentile)


I can't believe our sweet little girl is 5 years old already.  She is such a fun, kind, thoughtful, smart, giving, silly girl and we love her so much!  She loves preschool and can't wait to start kindergarten at Galileo next fall.  She is so excited to be starting to learn to read. She loves ballet class and is excited to start soccer in a few weeks.  She is such a great big sister to McKay and is super patient with him (most of the time).  She is not a big fan of the drive to McCall but loves to be at the cabin and play in the snow.  She hates squishy (cooked ) tomatoes and squash.   She loves to play Eye Spy while we drive in the car and princess memory matching game.  She hates to hear her brother cry and will leave the room if he cries too loud.  She loves to run and jump and cartwheel all over the place and just be outside in general. She is such a happy girl and we love her so much.  She makes it seem like we are actually decent parents.

Brooklyn's Favorites (according to her):
color: pink, purple, silver
food: spaghetti, grapes, chicken, frosting, brownies, broccoli
song: Thunder by Imagine Dragons and Jesus Wants Me For A Sunbeam
sport: soccer

For her birthday we didn't do a big party (neither Craig or I are big party people), but did a lot of little celebrations.  On Wednesday she took cupcakes in to preschool.  Thursday, her actual birthday, She had a waffle with whipped cream and sprinkles for breakfast and then we took cupcakes to dance class and then met up with some family at McDonald s for lunch.  She insisted we go there for lunch because in her mind you only go there for your birthday.  That evening we ate dinner as a family and then opened her presents.  Of all the things she got, her favorite was the $8 stuffed unicorn.  She loved all the presents, but the unicorn is pretty much by her side whenever she is at home.  Friday evening we got together with family for texas sheet cake, chocolate chip cookies and ice cream.  Finally on Sunday my Mom had a birthday dinner.  She is so lucky to be surround by such wonderful supportive people.  She is such a wonderful girl and we are so lucky to have her as part of our family.