Adam! Adam! Adam!

Whenever Adam is crying in the car - we start chanting his name and he immediately stops. It's so funny! Anyhoo, we were out on a walk today and Adam was looking so cute on his little scooter that he loves to ride - so I was able to grab some cute pictures!

Love this boy!

Love this girl!

Love these kids and love being a mommy!

Happy Bday Aunt Mamy!!!

Livy just said, "I want to blog this (video) to Amy."

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

When Grandma Shewwie Comes to Town!

Livy LOVES when Grandma Shewwie comes over! I mean we all do - but Livy talks about it for days coming up to her visit and then days after she leaves. She has so much fun with Grandma!

Here she is pretending to love Adam so that Grandma will take a picture of her :)

Here she is with all of her Utah cousins!

Here were are all at a sweet bounce house with Grandma and the Donjamin family. She was LOVING it. Also - 2 and under were free. Awesome!

Then we got to have a girls' night and enjoy some DISNEY ON ICE! Thank you, Sherrie! It was SO COOL! We were literally on like the 2nd row.

Livy was such a little girl! She was so excited to see all of her favorite peeps.

This was of course her favorite character of the night. (???) She's so random.

Peter Pan totally flew! So fun!

8 (and a half) months old!!!

I totally meant to post about this cute bugger when he turned 8 months - so I'm only a tad bit late. But his world (and ours) has been changing like crazy!!! All of a sudden he's this massive almost toddler kid who is honestly - the cutest little boy EVER. People go crazy when they see him - they love his ginormous blue eyes and think he's the sweetest thing ever - which is true - most of the time.

Funny little things about Adam:

*He loves his food more than anything else EVER. He eats just as much as Livy - if not more and gets the most intense look on his face that consumes his whole body when he sees a bite about to be eaten. He will race over to anyone he sees eating and climb up to their leg and beg for food like a puppy.
*He loves his sister more than anyone else EVER. She can get him to laugh harder than anyone else. He loves rolling on the floor with her and trying to catch up with her.
*He can speedily climb up our stairs - but not down unfortunately.
*He always has at least two bruises on his forehead - sometimes goose eggs
*He is the lightest sleeper and will wake up if you even turn the knob to enter into his room
*He knows how to turn on the light switch with his thumb right next to his crib - it's so cute
*He can stand holding onto the couch and then push off and grab onto something else nearby - walking is getting closer and closer - it's crazy!
*He can stand for like 5 seconds
*He sleeps through the night from 8 to 8!
*He's started taking longer naps instead of just cat napping all day
*He can crawl SO FAST!
*He's a strong little bugger - don't ever try to take away a sucker
*He can suck a sucker all the way until it's gone!
*He can sign more and milk
*He still only says dada - but I've heard mama once! Traitor.
*He can hold his own and will fight if you try to mess with him.
*He is Uncle Kyler's TWIN
*He's not happy just sitting and watching - he wants to be in the action! I thought second kids were suppose to be chill!?!?
*He hates hats or anything touching his head
*He's obsessed with the computer and charger and loves getting electrocuted.
*He loves the dishwasher!
*He has this hilarious little chuckle that he does - I need to catch it on camera

Uncle Ky's twin

Poop Face

Who needs a broom when you have this one?

Puppy begging for food. Livy obliged and shared her yogurt.

I love Livy!

Livy is so freaking hilarious lately. I know I say that a lot, but she is constantly changing and getting smarter and it's really fun to watch! Lately she's been the rule enforcer/bad words police. It's been... fun?

Last night during her bath, Matt squirted her with a squirt gun and she yelled, "No, Dad! We don't shoot people! We only shoot animals!"

While she was going potty the other day, she told Matt: "Daddy we don't drink poop, it's yucky! And we don't eat pee!" So random, but I'm glad she knows it. :)

We were going to this bounce place the other night and she yelled, "Mom, I'm so... EXCITED!!!" It was so cute to hear her express excitement.

There are three events that this little girl is super excited about:
1. Going to school when she's big

2. Getting baptized - she always changes what age she'll get baptized. Yesterday it was three, sometimes it's eight or nine. But she sure is excited.

3. Getting her pink gun. Thanks, Daddy...

Loves dancing and having dance parties with Uncle Drew

Livy's duty as the bad words police: She will yell at anyone who says "oh my gosh" and "shut up." She doesn't care who it is. But then she tries to get away with saying them by first saying, "Mom, we don't say oh my gosh and shut up. We don't say that." She thinks she's so sneaky! So we told her that we don't say the words EVER - we just say, "We don't say bad words."

I'm amazed at how often I say Oh my gosh. I'm also amazed at how much attention she pays to everything I say so that she can hopefully catch me saying a naughty word! Ha! One time we told her we were going to wash her mouth out with soap if she says bad words and she laughed at us and said, "No that's yucky! Soap goes in your hand!" We just started laughing and then explained that it's suppose to be gross so you don't say it!

She fell asleep on our couch and I kid you not, in her sleep she started saying, "Don't say bad words!"

Loves feeding Adam - and he 100% accepts every time

While we were in CO, Nana did a lot of cool hairstyles on Livy. But by the end of the week, once she saw Nana coming at her with a pick (which she called fork) Livy would start yelling - "No, Nana! I just wear it down! It's pretty!" Haha - so hilarious.

Also, Nana was loving having Liv at home, not just to play dress up and do her hair every day, but to give her a voice lesson every day. Livy was LOVING IT!!! My mom showed her off to all of her students. It was so cute! Livy totally loved singing for anyone she could!

Funny little story:

Livy spilled these teeny beads one day and before I could get up to clean it - I looked over and she was sweeping them up and then put it in the garbage. I finished up with the big broom and she continued to help with her little green one. After she was completely done cleaning up she put her little broom next to where I keep mine so she'll have it there for the next spill :)

Changes! Ch-ch-changes!

Even though Adam is only 8 months - he is so massive! So we decided that a big change needed to happen to the carseat situation! Instead of get another carseat for Adam, we got those weird booster things for Liv which are SO MUCH EASIER! And lighter! Love it!

Liv was excited for the big change.
Adam, not so much.

Here they are both in the van. Once we actually started driving - Adam was ALL SMILES. He just kept looking at me and Matt and getting so excited that he could see us! Love that boy! Livy started saying she wanted to be a baby again and take back her old carseat, but it only lasted a second and then she embraced being a big girl!

We had another random change in our house. We scored this desk off KSL for $7 and we decided we would fix it up.

Here's the process of making it awesome.

And here is the awesomeness!

It's crazy what a can of spray paint can do :)

Single Mom Parenting with some Pumpkin Carving

While we were in CO, Matt was there for the beginning and end - but I stayed with the kids by myself for the majority of the week. So I decided to take on pumpkin carving with just the two kiddlies while everyone else was apparently busy doing something... The pictures are pretty hilarious.

Here we are all smiles and excited for our adventure!

Then Livy found out what pumpkin guts were and became quite disgusted and Adam, on the other hand, was upset that he could touch them.

So I did what I had to do to get them to calm down long enough for me to carve this puppy (without a little carving knife) I stuffed their faces with food - mainly sugary treats.

Finished product:

My dad could NOT figure out what it was. He asked me of it was something - I can't remember exactly what he said - but it was old and nerdy whatever it was. Oh 50-year-old old people!

He can fly! He can fly! He can fly!

This little boy went on his first plane ride ever!

After Drewbee's wedding in UT, the next night they had their second reception in CO so I flew with my mom and the kids while Matt had to drive back with my dad and brother. It was pretty intense - we had to leave for the airport at like 5 in the morning. It was awful. I was so scared of how I would make it through the airport with the kids and how they would be on the plane - but it was ridiculously easy! Yay for awesome kids!

This stroller made it super easy to get through security, luckily. As did my mom's help, of course. I'm terrified to ever fly alone with two little ones.

I'm so happy that it's 5:45 in the morning! I obviously did not share the enthusiasm hence the lack of picture.

Adam was a saint on his first flight!

And when he wasn't being perfectly content - he was sleeping! Best kid ever award!

Livy kept herself busy putting the tray up and down. I'm sure the person sitting in front of her was loving it.