The end of January!

Daddy stuck a tattoo on Ava's tummy, now she'll be flashing it off to everyone. Mya is 5 months today, and the chunky thighs are starting to form. Too bad she is covering them up though.

This past Saturday we headed over to Multnomah Falls for some good hiking. I haven't hiked up to the top in forever. It's over a mile up and all switchbacks...it gets you breathing! I thought Ava would do fine with all her energy, but she kept saying her legs were tired too. So we swithed off carrying her and did alot of sloooowww walking. But we made it!

At the top, Ava had a blast throwing rocks in the water. Another family came by us and she started playing with there little boy. We found out he was also 3 and also very tall for his age (glad there are others). Then we found out they were from UT and are LDS. We got there number and will be calling them up to have the kids play one of these days.

This is the view looking down the huge waterfall. Beautiful!

Mya crashed on the way down, love those chubby little cheeks!

Mya @ 5 months:

-Just started veggies on the 28th, not sure about the peas, but ate what I gave her.

-Starting to scream/squeal quite loudly, and it's all because she's happy, not sad. Just a minute ago she was getting really loud and Ava was trying to watch Toy Story. So Ava went and got Mya's binkie and plugged it in!

-Not back to sleeping through the night yet, poor Mom. :( Though she did once last week. Not sure what to do there, since I don't want her to wake Ava as well, so I just go in and re-plug binkie and she's back to sleep.

-Still no rolling over, then again we need to do more tummy time.

-I think in the last 2 weeks she's had a crazy growth spurt, she just seems so much bigger all of a sudden and her 3-6 month clothes aren't so big anymore.

-She's got some hair growing in her bald spot in the back, she may be another blondie with blue eyes. And she's just plain adorable!

And I have some news to report: I last a whole month with no MT DEW!!! That was my 1st of many goals/resolutions for 2011. I want to cut out soda all together, but Mt Dew is really my weakness. I even got Jeremy to go the month without as well, though he wants some for Super Bowl. I did have an orange soda last week, bad me. I'm still deciding what February's goal will be...I'm thinking of cutting out eating after 8 pm and also exercising at least 3 times a week to start. It's all about slow and steady changes to become a healthier me!

Bring on the food! (and some crafts)

Jeremy has been so excited to try solid foods with Mya, not sure why, I'm not too anxious for her to grow up or to have to feed her 3 seperate meals and breastfed with it! I came home from getting my haircut to find this little monster smacking on oatmeal. The faces she made where awesome and she kept gagging on it too. Got some good video!

Why oatmeal Daddy? The next day she seemed to take to the rice a little better.

Pure torture!

So I have this jewelry box where I just put my necklaces in, but then they end up all tangled together in one giant clump. My sister looked online for some ideas and I realized how easy it would be just to make something cut to hang them on. I made each of the girls one for their pretty bracelets (thanks to Aunt Shanda) and play jewelry.


They turned out pretty cute. And my nice hubby cute some wood for me and even made the edges look all good, then even sanded them for me after I gave him a look that said "that's part of your job honey." I sooo miss crafting, something I haven't been able to juggle much with having two little kiddos and no room to do it. Fun stuff.

The letter "A" and some good tummy time.

Check out those awesome "A's." She stuck on it though,

refuses to try any other letter yet, even though the "v" is so easy.

But she is quite proud of her "A".

Did a whole page just to show her Daddy.

I'm not the greatest Mom when it comes to do tummy time,

but thankfully I think my daycare lady does it.

But I put her down the other day and instead of burying her head in the blanket,

she raised it up and looked around for a good few minutes before getting all pissed off.

It's amazing the amount of spit-up that comes out of this baby,

mine and her shirts are always wet!

All beautiful for her 2nd Sunday in Primary.

Of course my poor girl is over a head taller than all the other 3 year old.

And for that matter,

quite a few of the 4 and 5 year olds!

So far she is loving it, it'll be fun to hear her sing all the new songs she learns.

Mya @ 4 months old!

Dang, she is so cute!
And so very smiley.

But likes to kick back too.

Miss Mya turned 4 months on the 31st and today was her check-up appt.

The stats: 15lb 78%

25 1/4 inches 83%

16 1/2 inch head 74%

Above average child, but not the beast that Ava was, who was sitting at 20lb @ 4 months old. It's so nice to have a "smaller" child, that way clothes will last longer!

Mya is such a sweet baby, she is so happy to just lay on the floor and watch the world around her. She is quite vocal with all her gibberish and squealing. It appears she'll also be a blue-eyed girl like her sister. Not sure about the hair yet, it's thinning out but not yet growing back in. She smiles easily when we talk to her and the minute she gets fussy, we know it's naptime. Her nap schedule is all over the place, but we get a few good ones in there. Since she was 2 months old she "normally" has been sleeping through the night. But of course the nights I need good sleep for work the next day is when she decides to wake a few times. Daddy got her to giggle for the first time the week before Christmas. He was munching on chips and she thought it was a funny noise or something. LOVE her giggles. She finally shared some with me the other night also. We are just so dang thankful she came to our family, it was about this time last year that we found out we were pregnant and oh what a shock that was! We love our beautiful girls.