Summary of February

Ellie still loves to do puzzles. She's one of the princesses. She just recently watched Mulan for the first time and she kept saying her name wrong, so I was helping her pronounce it. I told her "it's moo, like a cow". So now she says, "Moo. (long pause)Lan."

Eating some chicken nuggets with ketchup. I don't know how she got the ketchup placed perfectly on her nose like that. She's that talented.

Reagan got into some yogurt the Ellie left out on her little table.

I made a car seat canopy for my new niece Annalyse. I'm really liking how it turned out!

Congratulations Betsie on the new cute babe! And thanks to Jessie (once again) for the tutelage.


Reagan doesn't say many actual words, but she sure is a talker! She jibber jabbers the cutest little sounds all the time, and she acts like she's really telling you something important. I'll have to post some video of it soon.

Reagan is now 14months old. She really loves to do everything Ellie does. And this girl loves to DANCE!! It is super cute - she gets way into it. She even learned part of Ellie's ballet routine and performs with the music. She loves to go to Ellie's ballet class and pretend she's a big kid.

Ellie and I tried an experiment using milk, food coloring, and a magic wand- found here. Ellie loved it so much and immediately asked to do another experiment. She said, "just like on Sid the Science Kid!" (on PBS kids).

Ellie and Reagan got a mailbox for Valentine's Day with some goodies in it and a new Clifford movie which she loves and quotes from now.

Ellie keeps getting my camera and taking photos. This is one of hers that is a perfect representation of what my life has been like for the last 6 months ish. Reagan wants to be held all day - especially when I am in the kitchen. She has to squeeze between me and the cupboards, holding my legs and crying for me to hold her. Of course in the kitchen, I am usually doing tasks that require 2 hands. I really try to cook dinner while she is in her afternoon nap so I can avoid her screaming. I started a co-op preschool with a few friends and it has been a blast! There are just 4 kids in the group and we meet twice a week for one and a half hours. Each time they meet we go to a different child's house and that mom is the teacher for the day (so I only teach once every 2 weeks). My sister suggested this website that has all the curriculum set out for you. Easy Breezy. It has been fun for me to teach kids again. In this pic we were learning about our eyes...obviously.

This cute girl cries a lot.

Really.

A lot.

She has already learned to throw tantrums on the floor, kicking and screaming when she doesn't get what she wants. She has learned to carefully lay herself down during a tantrum when she's on the hardwood floor though. It's hard not to laugh to see her have control, but losing it at the same time.

We also have an appointment to see about her getting tubes in her ears. She has had 4 ear infections in a year - basically every time she gets a runny nose, it goes to her ears too.

Poor thing.

Here she is with her 3 comforts - thumb, blanket, mama.

I planted a garden! I just have space enough for tomatoes, bell peppers, strawberries, and some herbs.

Hopefully it will turn out better than these babies.

These are the results of my attempt 2 years ago. Those are sun-ripened-on-the-vine tomatoes, and strawberries. Our garden has only turned out nice once, and that happened to be when I was pregnant with Ellie and didn't want anything to do with tomatoes throughout my whole pregnancy. I didn't even try to plant a garden last year.

But I recently read an article in the Ensign that inspired me to try again. It basically talks about how you can grow a garden anywhere in the world...

yes.

Even in Las Vegas.

We'll see.

Any advice??

I've also convinced Mike's grandma and dad to plant a garden and told them I'd help out. I really do love to work in the garden and see the plants grow. Hopefully it will work out!