SIX MONTHS?!

Can you believe Cara is already six months old? It seems like I was never an only child. It feels like she has always been here. A few things about her. Let's see

She can sit up all by herself. She's really steady too.
She says "Momma" only about Momma.
She loves to play with toys and works really hard to get them when they are out of her reach.
She sucks her thumb.
She LOVES people food. (Pretzels, bread, chips, suckers, anything Mommy will put to her lips.)
She thinks I'm the best big sister and that any thing I do is worth laughing at.
She likes to watch the doggies through the window.
She's finally out of the newborn baby stage and is a fun "look at me and play with me" baby.
Oh and she is still as bald as bald can be. She wears head bands to make sure every one knows she's a pretty baby.

Kids are cute...right?

This is a guest post from Mommy. It's been a rough week for us. Not one night of uninterrupted sleep. I know I have a six month old and so that shouldn't surprise me, but it's been bad this week. So bad that my dad found me out on the couch barely decent in my robe, half asleep, with Cara draped over me. Both girls have been sick with major congestion and coughing fits that make you hold your breath until they start breathing again. Gratefully the coughing fits are few and far between, but the congestion and the constantly runny nose is not only gross but quite sad. When your nursing baby can't eat because of her nose, you just want to cry! Unfortunately the girls would take turns being unbearable during the night. Pete looks like he could use a nap...real bad. Plus I started working this week. I only worked about 10 hours but enough that I felt guilty. Luckily, the girls love their Grandma. (Plus Benadryl for drippy noses makes for easy baby sitting.)

Aside from night time though the girls have been so delightfully cute. Here are a couple of videos. The first one is of Cara shrieking at Beanie at the door. The second one is of Siena in heaven at Costco in display playhouse. She loves it so much that I decided that if I get the house of my dreams, she can have this one.




We also had a surprise visit from Oma and Apa on Sunday evening. It was very nice to see them. Siena even remembered who they were. Which on a side note, Romney and Chase you should know that I have to be careful about telling Siena her last name or "chasing" her because she asks to get in the car and go visit you. She even talks about you Aunt Rachel! Sorry Uncle Troy we're still working on who you are. I am waiting until it's at least warm enough to go to the zoo and then we'll be up!

Daddy is amazing...

Well Daddy did it again! He ran another half marathon. This time it was the St. George Half Marathon and unfortunately the weather was not as nice as his first. It was pretty cold and dreary. It didn't actually rain but the ground was SOAKED. An unusual situation here in Southern Utah. (Almost a week straight of rainy days...unheard of.) Anyway, that didn't stop our Daddy! He was remarkable. He beat his last time with an unofficial time of 1:45 and change. That's according to Daddy's watch. We'll have to check the results later on tonight.

In fact, he did so well that Mommy, Cara and I didn't make it to the finish line in time to watch him come in. We really tried, but Mommy lets time get away from her these days. She promises to be better. Luckily, the beginning of the race ran down by Grandma's house and we were able to cheer him on between miles three and four. (Thus the picture of him running up top.) No pictures crossing that finish line though. Sigh. Regardless, we are super proud of him and think he "KICKS ASPHALT" as another little boy's sign said for his daddy.

And a quick shout out to Uncle Adam...HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

A Typical Evening at Home

It really is great that Mommy has many people to help entertain me. The biggest problem of course is that my new favorite toy is the Photo Booth on the Mac!

Quick shout out to Aunt Whitley....HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

A Belated post

Mommy and I were looking through Grandma and Grandpa's pictures on their computer when Mommy realized that she never posted about our second Christmas! When we arrived here, we had a party on New Year's Day! I got even MORE presents. This time I actually acted like I cared a little bit. We took a picture of all of us to send to Uncle Marty.

And here I am pretending to sleep on my new Tinker Bell pillow. That was the first thing I did with it. Put it on the floor where it goes and then put it to good use!

I also got a cool magnetic dress up doll.

Mommy and Daddy seemed to like their presents a lot though. They got the Wii Fit Plus and Super Mario Brothers for the Wii. They are ALWAYS in the Xbox room now. We'll have to start calling it the Wii room! (Seriously though...Mommy wants me to say just how much fun both games are and that they are totally worth it.)

And here we attempted to get a picture with Grandpa and his little girls. Cara is at least sort of smiling as opposed to my all out attempts to get away! We actually had a really fun lunch with ALL of Dad's girls. All three daughters and us little girls. He was severely outnumbered but I think he loved it.

High levels of cute ahead

Cara is just too cute. She's stealing all my attention. Look at this beautiful babe eat pretzels!



And here she is starting to talk...she says her first word. It really is too. She only says it when she gets upset and only calms down when "Momma" walks in the room.

Check out my digs!

This post is for Uncle Marty aka Elder McFly....look at what I've done to your room! You wouldn't recognize it. Poor Mommy and Daddy feel like they're on the "Dick Van Dyke Show". All four of us are sleeping in the same room which is great for me because it means I normally just end up in bed with Daddy. You can see my little bed tucked under Mommy's bed. We pull it out each night and I pretend that I'm going to sleep there. As you can imagine, Mommy makes the beds every day otherwise we can't even change a diaper in there! But we love it and are grateful to Grandma and Grandpa. If anything it will help us keep our promise of living with them for only three months this time. (Of course last time it was only supposed to be four months and it turned in to seven or so...oops!)