Easter

We headed down to California this year with some friends for spring break. Spring Break just happened to be at the same time as Easter. Yay! Two Easters in a row in California. We had an Easter Egg Hunt the day before and it was wonderful watching conference all weekend. It was a great Easter. Here are some pictures.

A Conversation

So this morning Addison says to me, "Mom, I want another baby sister."

Mom: Oh really? How come?

Addison: (looking at Hannah) I just really like them.

Mom: Well what about a baby brother? Don't you want a baby brother?

Addison: No, I want a baby sister.

Mom: Why don't you want a baby brother?

Addison: I just don't like them. Except for daddies.

I'm still not sure what to think about this conversation.

And just to keep any rumors from flying around, I am not even thinking about getting pregnant at the moment. I really have no idea where this topic came from.

10 Months

Heavens, my baby is 10 months...well, almost 11 now. How does time go by so fast?!? I think I've said something like that before. ;o)

Here are some pictures of my cute little girl:
The big milestone this month: crawling. Crawling crawling crawling. My peace is SOOOOOOO over! It was actually really cool. I was on the phone with my sister Amy who was calling from the airport on her way to Taiwan for her mission and Hannah started crawling!!! While I was talking to her!!! It was like she was there to share the moment. :o) As was the rest of my family (we were on a conference call.) So that was pretty cool.

It's really funny, she'll climb up on our treadmill and look at me like, "Are you going to come and get me mom?" And when I start coming toward her she crawls as fast as she can up the treadmill toward the front. She tries desperately to get to the front and crawl up off the edge. Silly little girl. I know she'll fall down and hurt herself, but she just keeps trying. Sigh, such is the life of a crawler.

She also got her two upper teeth...well, at least one of them...I can't remember if the other came before or after she turned 10 months, but it was somewhere around there.

She also started doing a lot of this:

This has actually caused me more headaches than the crawling lately...especially today. She can pick herself up on just about anything, but she's not very good at getting down. That means lots of falling and bumps on head and crying. It's a pain.

Wow, that sounds kind of cold and heartless doesn't it. I wasn't cold and heartless at the beginning of the day. But man! After a day of constant climbing and falling and crying...especially on things that she's climbed, falled, and cried on before...one's empathy is stretched a bit. Don't worry, I always still picked her up and comforted her and made sure she was okay, but man, I was happy when bedtime finally came around.

Even with all the trying days, I love my little girl.

Day 8 - Easter Sunday

Christ the Lord is risen today. Richele has posted about it here.

Addison is Praying by Herself!!!

So it's been a very long & exhausting day that has only been exacerbated by Bart still not being home because he has class tonight. As a result (much to my chagrin) I forgot to say prayers with Addison before she went to bed.

The reason I even remembered that I forgot to say prayers with her is because I just heard her over the monitor saying prayers. She thanked Heavenly Father for her day and her family, and asked him to help her not have any bad dreams.

My baby has learned that she can pray all by herself! YAY!!! To bad it was on a day that I didn't pray with her before bed that I came to this realization. Or maybe that's a good thing. Even if mommy forgets, she will still remember. Now I just need to work on mommy not forgetting anymore. :o)