growing up

Paige got her first tooth we are so excited! It is on the top left side and it is the side one not the front tooth crazy huh! so hopefully she will get her front teeth in soon so she doesn't look too funny for very long! we just noticed it today! It's just barely popping through right now though so it will be a little while longer before it's visible without really trying hard to look! She has also been saying quite a few words she says mama and dada and alex and hi! It is very exciting to hear her starting to talk and to grow up and do new things! She also figured out how to wave hi and goodbye! It's so cute because she waves with her hand facing her like she's waving to herself! we love watching her grow! she also to a few steps the other day! she doesn't really try on her own to walk but when some one stands her up she'll try so i think that we still have a least a few more weeks! Alex walked at 10 1/2 months so hopefully she'll wait at least until then! I think that i could wait until she turns one but i don't really get to much choice in the mater kids just kind of do this kind of stuff on there own time which my kids have decided that the earlier the better! i guess! It's really fun to see them do these new things, i just wish that they would give me time to enjoy them just being little instead of having to worry about what there doing at such an early age! I am glad that they aren't late though i think that would worry me more! Maybe next time our baby will be a baby for longer!

9 months

Well today we went to the doctor for paige's 9 month check-up! She is 27inches long which is about average for her height! she is only 14.7 lbs which is really small for her age but the doctor wasn't too concerned because alex was the same way and she has been eating just fine! He said to just make sure she doesn't lose her apetite and as long as she is still gaining even just a little and growing in height then at her 12 month appointment then it's probably just genetic! I don't think her apetite is going anywhere! she eats all the time! We also asked the doctor about how to get her to take a bottle and he said that it was fine if she never even had a bottle and that she could just go straight to a sippy cup! We have been able to get her to drink out of a sippy cup but we have just been giving her the soft tip ones and all she does is bite them but stuff comes out when she does and she drinks what she gets out of it, and so he said if she's drinking out of that then that would be the best direction to go even though she's just biting it! She bite's on the bottle too but she usually just spits out what ever gets in! He also gave us some other kind of formula! We tried two different brands of formula and she threw them both up! So he gave up a kind that is supposed to be good for babies who spit up a lot! it's not soy it's just supposed to be more gentle on their stomachs! So we will try it and see how this all goes! He said that it will be a slow process so i guess i have to learn patience! He said that if we really need to wean her right away it could be done quicker but it would be harder on both of us so i guess this is the eaisier way to go it's just longer! Everything else went really well at the appointment! Everyone in the waiting room thought she was adoreable! Oh i forgot she also got a shot which she didn't like one bit but she didn't cry very long after! She was a little bit fussy later but i think that she did really well!

primary update

Well we made it! Alex went to his first day of primary yesterday and things went better than anyone could have imagined! We didn't have a problem dropping him off but i wasn't really worried about that as he never had a problem when we would drop him off to nursery! So then we went to class and after priesthood meeting Brett saw his class standing in the hall waiting to go into the primary room! He said that Alex was standing right by the teacher folding his arms! He was the only one in his whole class that was folding his arms and he has a big class! their is 17 total in his class, I'm not sure how many come regularly but if they all came they would have 17! Plus there is another sunbeam class! (they are splitting our ward next week!) so i was so glad to hear that he was being so reverent! I almost cried when Brett told me but i tried really hard not to because we were in Sunday school! The other thing i was worried about was him getting out of primary and running around the whole building! well Sunday school got out before primary which is a rare thing in our ward! so we were able to get to the primary room before he got out and we even had to wait a while for him to come out! when he saw us he came straight to us! It was a very good day! Sacrament was the same as it usually is with him and we ended up way back in the gym which makes him think that he can run around! It is a lot easier when we are sitting in the benches! Some how we have managed that he hasn't ran up to the pulpit! :o)

primary

well thing have been going pretty well for us we had a wonderful christmas we got the kids church clothes for christmas! they look so cute we took pictures of them on sunday! Yesterday was Alex's last day in nursery next sunday he will be going to primary! I can't believe he is all ready that old! i have been very nervous about how he will act in primary i am worried that he will run off! everyone tells me he will be fine but that doesn't really make me feel better! i don't think that the nervousness will go away until after i see how he does! The nursery has been taking all the kids his age in to primary at the end so they can sing and i guess to make it a little bit easier! i mostly worry about in between when they are going from class to the primary room, and between primary and sacrament meeting i just don't want him to be running around the whole church and church this next year will be at 9:00 so there will be other wards in the building for him to disturb! Yesterday after sacrament (our sacrament is last) he ran out and ran in and out of the rooms! they were empty but i worry that he will do that with other wards in them! But if there are people in the rooms or the doors are closed maybe he won't go in them! I don't really know what i can do except see what happens and try to teach him that's not what you do in church! We have already been trying to teach him reverence in the church building and in sacrament, i just don't think he has quite caught on just yet, i know he will eventually learn i just hope that it's sooner than later! I know things will work out i just hope that i don't have to deal with these kind of problems with him going to primary! i will if i have to i just hope i don't have to! i don't remember being this nervous about alex going to nursery and he did really well in nursery he didn't ever even cry once when we left he made it so easy! i just hope that primary go just as easy! I don't think that paige will be as easy as alex was she has such a differnt personality and she is a little bit of a mama's girl maybe she won't be to bad if Brett takes her to nursery! i don't think alex will have a hard time changing teachers though i think i would be really shocked if that was the problem! the thing that brett is most worried about is that there will be someone just like him and they will encourage each other to be wild! I am a little bit worried about that but not to much i'm not really sure why but i guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens! His nursery teachers think he's an angel! So maybe he will be an angel in primary too!

Make a Smilebox greeting

i thought this was a really cute video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbk980jV7Ao

i finally got this done i know its really late but we had some camera issues and the pictures were stuck in the camera for a while :P

our family in the canyon

brett and paige at hollies halloween party!