Five Little Monkeys

Sorry, forgot the link so you could watch the video if you get this via email.  Here it is.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEsP1m9LyoM&feature=youtu.be

Five Little Monkeys

For clarification, Vidalia says her instead of his, broke instead of bonked/bumped, and Vidalia instead of Mama.  I think she's adorable!

Moving Rocks

Moving rocks has been a fairly consistent activity at our house lately.  Our home has two gravel driveways.  City ordinances tell us we can only have one, which is fine by me.  I find it a little unsightly.  Whenever we're outside, someone moves rocks.  Vidalia loves to help with this more than lots of things.  I think she actually makes a contribution too.  She wanes between moving rocks and playing on a little slide we have.  Both are fine with me.  I'll be happy when the rocks are moved and we get onto tilling and planting some grass.

U and W

One thing I've been really impressed with Vidalia about is she learns to speak is her use of pronouns.  I can't remember her messing them up like I expected.  It's never been "hold you" or anything like that.  In fact, she usually says, "Mama, will you hold me?"  I told her once to repeat what I was saying and say to my sister, "Your clothes are cute!"  She looked at her clothes and repeated to my sister while showing her the clothes she was wearing, "My clothes are cute!"  That being said, I recently got Apples A to Z from the library.  It's really nothing special.  Just an ABC book that I think is cute.  Today I showed it to Vidalia.  She wouldn't let me actually read it to her, but she liked when I pointed to the main letter for the page and had her repeat it and then show me where they all are.  I let her choose which pages we were looking at, so we didn't do all the letters, but we did do both U and W.  I pointed to the U and said, "U."  She matter-of-factly repeated, "Me."  I laughed and she got mad.  And each time pointed to the U and said me.  When we got to W she did the same thing.  I said W she repeated double me.  Funny girl!

I want that baby!

Yesterday a girl in our ward sat in front of us with her 11 month old.  Vidalia could NOT contain her excitement.  She immediately jumped off the bench and pointed at the baby insistently and said about a dozen times, "I want that baby!"

Walking with Bekah

We went on a walk with Bekah and played at lots of parks.  It was a lot of fun.

City Creek

One day last week, my mother, my sister (Emma), two of my nephews (Kei and Sei), Vidalia, and I decided we would go to the zoo.  When we got there, there was no parking and the lines looked crazy.  We opted instead to do something else.  We finally decided on Temple Square and City Creek.  We had fun.  We also played at Kei and Sei's house.  They're moving to Japan in a month, so we were glad to get to see a little of them.

March Pictures

Easter

We spent Easter in North Ogden.  We took Vidalia to North Ogden Park for the Kiwanas Easter Egg Hunt.  That hunt lasts all of 5 seconds and then you spend 10 minutes in line waiting for candy.  Vidalia loved it just the same.  It's the same hunt I used to go to growing up and it wasn't all that different either.

On Sunday we had an egg hunt at my grandparent's house.  Vidalia liked that hunt even better because she got to find about a million (20 or so) eggs.  She thought finding eggs was such a fun thing.

We enjoyed being with family and otherwise having a low key holiday.  I like Easter for being more low key than Christmas.  It makes me think that I want most holidays to be less artificial and less superficial and more meaningful.  I especially want Christmas to be more that way.  Holidays have WAY too much hype and WAY too much candy.  So this Easter I decided I want to keep holidays simple.

Gross

Ryan was growing out some of his facial hair in order to become Alex Trebek for some sort of training video at work.  I don't know if they've even filmed said video yet.  I don't think so.  Ryan got tired of his facial hair and shaved.  I'm so glad.

And in case you're wondering about these weird proportioned pictures.  V must have known how to do that when she touched the camera.  I had no idea all the pictures were weird until I uploaded them.

First Braids

February Pictures