Cousins or Best Buds?

On one of my monthly trips to Rexburg to the doctor, I also had a clogging competition in Pocatello. We went to Pocatello to stay the night with Cory's sister Angie and her family. It was really fun and she volunteered to watch my girls while I clogged in the competition (which we took first place by the way. Abbie is just about four months younger than Lexi and makes an excellent playmate for her. Sadie was the other "Mommy" for the two little ones and they played well together. It was as lot of fun and thanks to Angie and Jason for letting us stay with them for the weekend!

Below: Abbie and Lexi getting into my bag, namely the cell phone and my camera case. It takes two!

Below: Eating breakfast of banana Choc.-chip muffins and you can bet who is making a mess! Check out the naked kids and all the beautiful brown "paint" on them.

Reading the Staples of Life

Cory is teaching our children to read the staples in life and here is a picture of Lexi and Cory doing just that. The Western Horseman is the first magazine she reaches for to look at and loves to make all the animal sounds as she looks at the pages.

Snow Days

Here it is the 5th of March and we have had barely snow covering the ground and all of a sudden, it dumped on us. So the kids finally got to go outside and play in the snow. We built a snow fort and a snowman. They were outside for two days about until the snow melted again but had a great time in the snow. Isn't it amazing what the weather can do for you! It had been too cold to go outside with temperatures getting to 12 below in the mornings and then we get tons of snow and warmer weather that definatley came in the nick of time. I was going stir crazy so I know my kids were too!

Below: Here is Lexi eating the biggest icicle Sadie could find outside to break.

Below: Sadie, Lexi and Grandpa Bird showing off the icicles they found outside.

Below: Sadie and Lexi riding on the sled behind the four-wheeler

driven by Cory around our yard.

Below: Sadie standing in what is left of our fort after our dog, Tuff, decided to jump on it.

The Secret's Out

I decided to go ahead and publicly announce that we are going to have another baby due to arrive on August 16th of 2009. I was keeping it a secret for a while just in case any early complications came up but it seems that all is well and we are very excited. Sadie wants to have a brother because mommies have sisters and brothers and she already has a sister. I hope she doesn't have her heart too set yet. I can't decide what I want other than a healthy baby. We find out what we are having on April 10th so look for my post! I really was sick with this one and it was a struggle to keep myself going for the sake of my husband and kids. Lexi cried every time she found me hoovering over the toilet and she has a really hard time understanding all of this. Sadie was great help and knew if I hollered her name as I ran to the bathroom, she automatically shut my bedroom door and entertained Lexi for me until I came out. I made it through the first trimester now though and other than feeling tired, I am doing great. Cory is as wonderful as ever trying to pick up the slack around the house for me when I am just tuckered out. I really can't imagine what I will do trying to nurse a third kid and at the same time trying to chase down my not quite two year old down the hall. It will be an advenutre for sure.

Some Hair Now

As many of you know my children are bald as a babies bottom when they are born and don't seem to get much after that either. So it is an occasion to us when I can put two piggies in Lexi's hair! Yea! She was so funny about it, she loves to get "pretties" in her hair now. Another funny thing about Lexi is that every since she was about five months old, she started to cross her legs whenever she sat down and I have never taken a picture of it or written it down so here she is with her crossed legs and two piggies in her hair.