Callie's Dance Recital

Callie had her dance recital this last weekend. I was so proud of her. As shy as she can be sometimes she does great up on stage.She was dressed up as a little Minnie Mouse so cute! I'm very grateful for her supportive Grandmothers who made time to come. I even forced them to get a couple pictures with Callie (sorry Joyce but you are too photogenic!) I know it meant a lot to have them there for her. I don't think that we will do dance again. I'm thinking gymnastics is more up her thing. I plan on enrolling her in a gymnastics class pretty soon. She asks me almost every day when she gets to start gymnastics so we are pretty excited.

April is walking!

May 17th April FINALLY started walking! I feel like it has been a long time coming. She discovered the taste of crunchy cheetos and we got her to walk for them. It was pretty cute. A couple weeks later when I got home from girls camp she had completely done away with crawling. so sad. On the up side I'm happy she no longer has dirty knees. Now if I could only get her to wear  and keep on her shoes...

Fabulous Saturday

It's been FOREVER since we didn't have something scheduled on a Saturday. i.e. basketball games, me working, church meetings, baptisms', scout camp outs... etc. So when I realized today was the day of not much going on I wanted to take advantage of family time! I decided late Friday night that we were going to hike the wind caves. I invited my mom and I'm so glad she came! I told Ron to go to basketball (something he hasn't enjoyed in months) and off we went! Wind Cave Trail is located in North Mesa and is about 3 miles round trip. It's rated and considered a difficult hike. But if according to Callie "This is a really easy hike! It's not hard at all!"

April of course was amazing! She slept on the way up and back down. She also LOVED the squirrels wandering and begging for food at the top.

It's been a while since I've taken my kids on something like this and I didn't know how it would play out. Last time I did this hike Callie was about 2 and on my back. Halfway back down the mountain 4 year old Noah needed me to carry him so I did. Callie on my back and Noah in the front. It was a little painful. I'm happy to report Callie did not request that. She handled this hike like a champ! Although, I'm not going to lie after hiking with April on my back today I'm really nervous about hiking Havasupai with Ron this summer. I'm so glad my mom came to help today and as always it was nice to have her company.

Saturday night Ron took me out on a date. We ate yummy food, did some shopping and ended at the jacuzzi. Perfect day and perfect way to end the week.

April started giving kisses tonight!

This is huge! This girl as perfect as she is... will NEVER give kisses. That all changed tonight and we are all obsessed with Aprils kisses.

 Nothing like a big open mouth kiss!!!

Noah's Music/Callie's Mother's Day Program

Noah's Let's play music recital was this last week. This darn kid won't smile on stage to save his life! I even bribed him with ice cream... no luck. In primary he likes getting called up to the front to help with music (like every other kid in primary) but also refuses to smile. I am not sure what it means. I really don't think he has stage fright or anything like that. He's super confident and participates. I think he is just stubborn and doesn't want to. He did fabulous and memorized his recital pieces. This year really has been really nice with him in music. He practices with out being asked. I don't EVER help him with his music theory homework (I check it and he always does it right).I love how self motivated this kid is. His primary teachers told me this week when they asked him what his favorite things was that he did during the week his reply was "homework."... crazy kid.

Callie had her Mother's Day Program at pre-school this week. This is my favorite tradition. I remember when Mason participated in this it was so fun! I loved seeing her at school with her friends performing and singing to ME! She was so sweet and super excited. She picked her outfit out and everything.

 "Skidamarinki dinky-dink... I LOVE you!"

 "You are my Sunshine!"

I really like that she loves me more than bugs.

April is 1

I don't know where the time has gone. I can't believe she is already 1 year old. She is an absolute delight. The happiest sweetest baby ever. I love everything about her and everyone in the house adores her. She's not walking yet but I know it will happen when she wants it. For now she is super fast crawling.

weighs: 19 lbs. 4 oz. - 20th percentile

length: 29 inches  - average

Things she LOVES:
The "time out" chair It's HER SPOT
the toilet
taking baths (she excitedly kicks her feet every time you walk in the bathroom with her)
being outside (she stands at the back door practically all day begging and pounding on the door to be let out)
Goofy (poor dog. she hasn't learned to be soft yet)

She emphatically waves hi and bye on command and has been giving high fives foreever.
Things she is saying:
Uh-Oh
Daddy
Hiiiiiiiii
Ma-Ma

Loves to smile and wave at ANYONE who makes eye contact with her and talks to her. I think she is a lot like Mason. Very friendly and will probably be yet another child I have to worry about getting into the ice cream truck with a stranger.

We of course did the traditional cake crawl and she was pretty boring. Just drew lines in the frosting tasted a little and was pretty much done. Mason was my photographer during the cake crawl and I think he did a pretty good job capturing some good pics.

My kids have been on a roll lately!

I love the funny things kids say. Mason asked me yesterday "Mom. When you're old can I have Goofy?" I explained to him that Goofy probably wouldn't be around when I was old and his rebuttal was "Grandma and Grandpa still have Rosco!" LOL
Noah was mad at Ron the other evening for not turning the baseball game off the TV and putting on something a little more kid friendly. He was pouting on the floor and announced "I'm not going to take care of you when you're old" Ron asked him Why. His reply "Because you're so MEAN!" (With emphasis on the word mean)

April started saying "Uh-Oh!" this week! She will drop something from her high chair (more like throw it) and proclaim "Uh Oh!!!!!!" It's one of my favorite faces that she makes.

Callie has grown up overnight. She had a birthday last month and I don't understand where my little sassy independent toddler went! She's sassy, lots of attitude, drama, basically a miniature teenager. She came home from preschool yesterday all starry eyed and giggly telling me all about this boy at preschool who is in LOVE with her. So cute. I tried not to make a big deal out of it, my friend Lindsey had given me a heads up about the preschool events that day but I wanted to scream "TELL ME EVERYTHING Callie!!!" It took most of the afternoon and part of the evening for her to tell me the whole story. At one point Callie was getting frustrated with me because I didn't understand exactly what she was explaining so I told her to "paint me a picture" so I could understand. Well... Callie doesn't understand figurative speech. So she drew me a picture. From a 5 year old perspective and a couple texts from Lindsey (her Preschool teacher) this is how I picture Callie's day at preschool: (The boys' name is Kodiak, he goes by Kodi)
During Calendar time Kodi blurts out "I have a crush on Callie OKAY!!" Callie's face turned red and she looked at him and said "Don't say that!"
Then later during Centers time Callie yelled "why did you do that?!?!" Another kid said that Kodi had kissed Callie (on the cheeks 2 times). He told her he likes her a lot. Callie told her friend Capri about the kisses (sadly I guess Capri likes Kodi too but Callie informed me that Kodi told her he likes her better). Lindsey told Kodiak he wasn't allowed to kiss at preschool.
Callie has admitted to liking Kodi a couple random times but she informed all of us at the dinner table (referring to the kiss) "That is not going to happen ever again. That's just stupid!"
I agree! While I think this is innocent, sweet, and a pretty funny; I'm not ready for my Callie to grow up.

Callie's depiction of preschool that day

(This is a 2 part picture)