Ashlyn's Beauty Sleep

Ashlyn has always had a very low energy level and seems to need LOTS of sleep. More often than not when she is in the car she will nod off for a little nap. I actually became concerned awhile back. After visits to her pediatrician and cardiologist I was assured that she is in good health. I love sleeping kid pictures. Has she ever given me lots of photo ops for this category of photo! I have a fair amount of Gavin and almost none of Whitney. I don't expect to get many of Landon either. I just took this one the other day. The kitchen floor was a first. Anyways, it started me thinking about how many photos I have of her sleeping. I started looking back through my photo files and decided to do a post completely dedicated to our little Sleeping Beauty. These shots were all taken over the past 9 months.

This little pink chair is a fairly popular spot.

Grandpa's lap is probably her favorite napping spot but a luxury she does not often get to indulge in.

This one reminds me of the story of the Princess and the Pea. One might consider this to be evidence to her claims of being a princess. If only I also did not have a shot of her sleeping on the hard tile in the kitchen. Looks like she tried to resist but lost the fight.

I like her hand in this one.

Sleeping on the stair landing?!? I'm just glad she didn't roll on down the stairs.

Here she is snuggling her security object/baby blanket. It is featured in many of the sleeping shots. She calls it rinas because it has ballerinas printed on the fabric. Whitney helped my Mom make it for her while I was pregnant with her. After almost 5 years of repeated washings and constant use it is falling apart. For the longest time she refused to use any other blanket. She now occasionally makes an exception to this rule. I tracked down a piece of the exact same fabric (which is no longer being produced) on eBay. We made a new one but she only wants the original.

Love the way she is curled up in this shot.

Belated Birthday Outing

On September 4, 2010 Chris took Gavin on a belated birthday outing. He scored 4 free tickets to an Arizona Diamondbacks baseball game off of his new favorite website, http://www.vettix.org/. They decided to invite two of their favorite people, Quinn & Chris Neely to go with them. Quinn and Gavin are in the same class this year at school. They were both pretty excited when they found out that piece of news! They are also in our ward. They got to sit in the camouflage themed Home Run Porch Suite. They were featured on the jumbo tron screen and were treated to unlimited free food. Their seats stuck out right over the edge of the field.

Quinn and his Dad Chris.

The boys got these free bobble heads of Miguel Montero the Diamondbacks catcher.

Look at all that food! They took full advantage of the freebies. Chris added it up and it was around $175.00 worth of food! Quinn's Dad said he'd never seen him eat so much.

Landon 15 3/4 Months Old

Landon is closing in on the 16 month mark. He is one busy, strong willed and active little guy!!! These are all great traits in adulthood but a little trying in the here and now for Mom. He now has a whopping 4 teeth! I was trying to get a photo of his teeth. That is his blurry finger on my camera lens. It is pretty hard to get a close up picture of this one for two reasons:

1.) He cannot hold still.

2.) He is wild to get his hands of my camera!!! He has repeatedly tried to rip in away from me.

This shot was the best I could do. You can see the two newest top teeth. That is neglected little Ashlyn in the background trying to get into the shot.

He has started climbing everything. We are worried about brain damage with all the knocks to the noggin he has accumulated. There is a love seat on the other side of this half wall and he his standing on the back. He is just helping himself to a bottle. I am embarrassed to admit that he still takes a bottle. We are down to 2 sometimes 3 a day. We have had a hard time weaning him. He reaches a point where he falls apart and nothing else will do but that he have a bottle. I rationalize to myself that since he only has 4 teeth and is a little on the thin side that he needs those calories. His current favorite food is red grapes. Followed by peaches and watermelon.


He has learned that chairs are his best friends and will help him into all kinds of trouble. We cannot keep him off the table! I tried placing the chairs on the table but then he just tries to pull the chairs off. He is also very mischievous. Telling him no just eggs him on and makes him laugh uncontrollably. He thinks it is great game for us to play. He climbs up I take him off. On and on the game goes! He is always laughing. Sometimes I cannot figure out what is amusing him. He finds the vast majority of things funny though. Awhile back we were at the dollar store and he snagged himself a plastic T-Rex dinosaur. He would look at it and start cracking up, he was laughing so hard he was crying. I bought it for him and he still sometimes picks it up and just laughs and laughs. (Again Ashlyn had to get in on the photo op.)


Landon poos in blue! He just begged for Huggies new designer diapers. You might be wondering why he is never dressed or only partially dressed? Getting him dressed along with diaper changes are full on wrestling matches. This little boy is STRONG!!! Sometimes it takes all of my strength to contain him and I am far from a delicate flower.

For some reason I just love him in nothing but these argyle socks and dress shirt.

He loves his Fisher Price Farm. It is his favorite toy along with small cars and balls. He will spend long periods of time putting the animals in and out. (Side note: right now he is beating Ashlyn with a cat toy and laughing hysterically.) Reminds me of Wit. She loved her farm too.

Brace Face

On September 2nd Whitney got braces. Eventually she will have braces on her bottom teeth also. The doctor said she will wear them for about 2 years. Gavin said, "Now she just needs a pony tail to complete the dork look."

We had a little good bye party for some of her favorite foods that she will not be able to eat for the next two years. Such as:

popcorn

sour watermelon candies

Starburst

Airheads

Nacho cheese Doritos

I feel bad for her that she won't be able to eat so many of her favorites. It will be worth it in the end though.