If Walls Could Talk

Just so I don't lose these if I ever changed my layout:

Xander (to Daddy): What if Heavenly Father wanted me to do naughty things? That would be good for me, but bad for you.
_________________
Daddy (to Xander): Are you for real?
Xander: Of course there is such thing as me!
_________________
I had some girls over for a girls night and we were talking a little loud, so Xander came out and asked my friends this...
Xander: Would you mind keeping it down a little, cause I'm trying to get some sleep.
(Then on his way back into his room, he mumbled "Hmmph, now maybe I can get some rest!")
_________________
While flushing his poo...
Xander: Everyone get to the boats!
_________________
singing "Follow the Prophet" (Adam was a prophet, first one that we know, in a place called Eden, he helped things to grow)
Xander: Who's Eden? Who is he?
Daddy: What?
Xander: Eden. He helped things to grow.
_______________
Daddy: Do you know what Lil's trying to do? She's trying to sleep.
Xander: No. She's trying to wake up. Aaaaannnhhh! Look at my big muscles! (muscle-man pose)
________________
Daddy: Xander, are you going to be a good boy today?
Xander: Nope. Not today.
Daddy: Well, when are you going to start being a good boy?
Xander: Ummm, peter.
Daddy: Peter?
Xander: Yeah, peter.
________________
While driving around the city for an hour, looking for a place to park, to go watch the fireworks...
Xander: These fireworks are too far away. Let's just go home.
________________
Brian had just left the house and came back in...
Xander: Why are you back home?
Daddy: I forgot my address. (to the place he was going)
Xander:(to mommy) Oh. He forgot his dress.
________________
We were singing "She waded in the water and she got her feet all wet..."
Xander: What is she waiting for in the water?
________________
When I put Xander to bed tonight...
Xander: There are fishies swimming in my room, and they are scaring me.
Mommy: There are no fishies in here, and besides, fishies are not scary.
Xander: Well, there is a shark in here, and it will bite me.
Mommy: There isn't even any water in here. There are no fishies and no sharks. Now, goodnight.
_______________
Xander: I want some Cheez-icks
Mommy: They aren't Cheez-icks. They are Cheez-its.
Xander: I want some Cheez-picks.... some Cheez-picks-your-nose.
________________
Xander had two ear infections, and a stomach-ache. But he really wanted to come with me to a party at Hailey's house.
Xander: I don't have any ear infections or any belly-fections anymore. So we can go to the party.
________________
Brian told Xander that we were going to rent the movie "Philadelphia" to watch tonight after the kids went to bed.
Xander:(Later that night, while he was getting ready for bed) After I go to bed, you and Daddy are going to watch "Logan".
________________
Xander: Are we going to the Aquarium?
Mommy: Yes, we are going to the Aquarium.
(Above conversation takes place 20 times.)
Mommy: Xander, please do NOT ask me again if we are going to the Aquarium.
Xander: Oh, ok.
What a good boy. I did hear him later, however, whispering the question to himself.
________________
Xander: When I go to preschool, I am going to learn how to fix teeth, and how to read.
________________
Putting his rubber snake in his shirt...
Xander: He's nursing.
________________
Xander: Daddy is your husband.
Mommy: Yes he is.
Xander: I like your husband.
Mommy: I like my husband too.

Lil's Spill

Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later with this little monkey...

We're still not sure exactly what happened. She was playing in her room, when we heard crying. It seems she fell off something she had turned into a stool, and bit right thru her cheek.

She cried and cried and cried, until she finally fell asleep in my arms.

Luckily we had two soon-to-be dentists in the house at the time. They rounded up some supplies and a soon-to-be ENT specialist. Considering it was a Sunday night, we thought they could do a better job than the nearest ER. Brian numbed up her cheek. She didn't like that too much (I think because it hurt a little, tasted yucky and made her bleed more), so she wouldn't let our ENT friend anywhere near her to stitch her up. Luckily, they have an app for that :) It's called Netflix. We turned on Backyardigans on my IPhone and held it so she could see it, and she sat perfectly still the rest of the time. She got two stitches on the outside and two stitches on the inside. She was such a trooper!

I like money

Lil: Grammy, do you have any money? I like money.
Grammy: You know money is the root of all evil.
Lil: WHAT?!?
Grammy: Money is the root of all evil.
Lil: My dolly doesn't like evil. She is scared of it.

for shawn :]

I'm still drinking Diet Coke like it's my job, but here is a new post for you (with pictures as promised)!

(my sassy girl)

(Xander's quizzical look)

(Lil's saggy diaper-butt!)

goodies from grammy

A couple months back, Buddy came to visit, and he brought with him:

apron-bibs that grammy made (my dad's grammy's pattern... my dad, my sisters, and I all wore them as kids!)

and candy

and

pjs made by grammy too!

(notice the mittens. it wasn't cold. they just wanted to wear mittens... or socks, Xander wore socks on his hands)

gymnastics... just like her mom

Otay

Lil's new favorite word is ok... pronounced O-tay. She has become very obedient over the last few days, since she is looking for any reason to use this word.

Update: Lil climbed into Xander's bed tonight and I told them they could sleep together if they were quiet and went to sleep... well, Xander ended up kicking her out of his bed because she kept saying "Otay" over and over again, and it was driving him crazy. Brian went in to tell her she had to get back in her crib... she said "Otay" and went willingly. :)

Lillian @ 18 months

(for journaling purposes)

She just had her 18 month appt. 4% for weight (20 lbs 8 oz) and 57% for height. I was a little worried because the paper they gave me said that she should be stringing words together, and she wasn't. Of course, the next day she started doing it.

Xander: It's mine.

Lil: No, it's mine.

Xander: No, it's mine.

Lil: No, it's mine.

(on and on this goes, all the day long)

Mommy: Who wants chocolate?

Lil: I do!

See, she strings words together.

__________

I found her sitting in the recliner today, holding the little Primary Children's Songbook... singing (well, Lil's version of singing). I don't think I've ever heard her sing before... She always just waved her hand around to lead the music instead.

__________

She is a climber. She started climbing out of her pack n play / crib over Christmas break. The other night, I woke up to her banging around in the bathroom in the dark at about 2am. She had climbed out of her crib (with a sleep-sack on no less), gone into the bathroom, took her sleep sack off, played in the toilet water (which I'm pretty sure had pee in it), tried to clean up the mess by sopping it up with the rest of the toilet paper from the roll, then was trying to get her stool into place to climb up into the sink to wash up.

I found her on the counter in the kitchen another day, with her hand in a box of chocolates on top of the fridge, and another chocolate in her mouth (with her little guilty face on, of course).

__________

Her hair is a crazy mess that hangs in front of her eyes. I tried to give her a haircut yesterday, but it just ended up being a shorter crazy mess.

__________

She wants to be just like her brother. When he is done eating his oatmeal, she is done (even if she only took two bites). She does everything he does... especially the naughty things.

Xander was telling me secrets ("Do you want to eat some stinky poop?"), then laughing and running away. Lil would come up to me, whisper some sounds, then laugh and run away.

__________

She loves to brush her teeth. Any chance she can get in the bathroom, she goes in there and stands at the sink, rubbing her finger across her teeth, saying "teef! teef!"

__________

She is a sweet, sweet girl. Except when she is being a "bully" (which I have been told by babysitters that she is). She doesn't take any crap from anyone. Try to take my toy... smack! You're on my ladder... shove! I think it's because she has an older brother who has recently decided that it is fun to plow over her or smack her for no reason.... we're working on that.

Things I've learned this morning...

This kid is smarter than me sometimes...

(I recently switched from Huggies to Target brand diapers, and I can never tell which size diaper is which because, unlike Huggies, there is no size number written on them anywhere. Well, when I asked Xander to get me his diaper out of the drawer, he pulled the tab (the one that keeps the diaper on) open and looked for the size number under the tab. I have no idea how he knew to look there. Sure enough, Target brand diapers have the size printed underneath their tabs.)

And this kid knows what she wants...

(After refusing to eat breakfast, she climbed on a stool to reach the snacks, opened the "Chocolate-covered Ritz Crackers" box, and managed to get a cracker out. Then walked around the house munching on a delicious treat. I've since started putting up a baby-gate to the kitchen so she isn't constantly in the snack bin.)

real crawling

She crawled on her hands and knees on Thursday. About 6 "steps" (or should I say "knees"?). So I know she knows how. But she still prefers to sweep my floors with her belly.

HAPPY EASTER!!!!!

So, Lil is in love with the Easter Bunny. He came to the childwatch at the YMCA tonight, and she sat on his lap the entire hour... bouncing up and down, waving her arms and laughing. Funny girl! He also gave Xander an Easter egg with candy in it. He was so excited because he has been asking me for a month when the Easter bunny is going to come and bring him some eggs with candy in them.

We colored eggs tonight for FHE. Xander thought I meant we were going to color on the deck with his egg shaped sidewalk chalk.

Lil Update

A lil' of what Lil is up to...

she has her two front bottom teeth

she army crawls, fast

she gives kisses

she waves

she stands when holding onto something (but she can't pull herself up yet)

she pulled an I-swear-she-just-said the other day when she seemed to copy Brian saying "Thank You Dada"

she can sign "I'm finished" when she is full

we're pretty sure she is left-handed (so much so, that sometimes I wonder if her right hand is working)... she waves, eats, reaches, etc all with her left hand

Teeth

Lil got her first tooth (bottom right) just before spring break! She's working on the next one (bottom left). So hopefully these sleepless-nurse-thru-the-night-or-cry-cry-cry nights will be over soon, and she will have a beautiful jack-o-lantern smile. Sorry, no pictures. It's hard to get a good one of a mini-tooth in a moving baby who just wants to eat the camera. They tend to just look like a shiny, pink blob in the picture.

CRAWLING... kinda

Just days before her 8 month birthday, Lil crawled! Well, kinda crawled. My kids prefer to just drag their bodies across my dirty floors, instead of lifting their little bellies up. I think it's because it gives them a better angle to see all the little crumbs and small toys on the floor for them to pick up and eat or choke on.

She really has been moving herself around the house nicely (by rolling and spinning on her belly) up until she learned how to pull herself forward. She almost "crawled" in NH for the first time... so I had to go shopping all day so she wouldn't have any floor time to figure it out (that would've been bad since Daddy was in UT and didn't want to miss it). I did find some good finds at Marden's though!

Bouncy Lil

My Favorite Outfit

I know it is kind of a silly outfit, but this is my favorite outfit of Lil's right now.  These were my overalls (if you can't tell by the 70s motif).  And I love her monkey shoes, and her button headband (thanks Andria), and her legwarmers (thanks Kim).

Roll Over

Well, she did it!  Lil rolled from her back to her stomach a few times today.  It's too bad she hates being on her stomach.  I have a feeling I'm going to be spending a lot of time rolling her back over for awhile.

Lil's hat

Brian didn't know why I thought this was so funny.  I couldn't stop laughing.

Super-Lil

Lil's New Trick: Folding Her Arms

She does this all the time now.