Randomness

in no particular order...

*lexi wanted to stay home to "help" us on monday. in texting our seminary carpool buddy, laura about our arrangement, she offered to come help lex cook something, and lexi agreed. alexis needed 3 more hours to complete her 10 hour cooking project for her ywie award. so laura came over and they chose a recipe, went shopping at laura's for ingredients we didn't have on hand, and cooked all day. they made a delicous baked ziti and yummy pampered chef cookie concoction. then they were going to stay for dinner, but at the last minute they got a better offer and headed over to heather's for dinner. ;) i totally understand.

(addie showing off for laura, while wearing her glasses and a lovely dress-up dress.)

*in the middle of the picking recipe mayhem, mindy texted and asked if she could brind izzy by to meet miss d. i said of course, and it was a party! mind's brought mcd's and we all visited and laughed. then we had to talk about some gross childbirth stuff just so lexi doesn't think all i do all day is visit with friends and eat fast food! ;) i don't know if she's convinced.  

*laura took this pic. this is how a lot of my days have been going. i'm feeding delaney, and suddenly i'm everyone's favorite person! and notice frankie's cinderella dress and addie's "icandressmyself!" outfit. lovely.

*i.love.baby.faces.

*addie learned how to write her name. this isn't her best effort, and it's hard to read becasue she chose yellow, but she wanted to show the world, so here it is. also, we've hit the "i want my picture taken and i will be making a goofy face for it," stage. love it!

*addie also learned how to use the mouse sometime that i don't recall. last week she asked for her letter game and before i sat down to help her, she was off doing it on her own! she and frankie will sit down and play for a long time, which is so nice. it's so sweet to hear them interact too! addie will say "do you want to do that again, franks?" and frankie will say "uh-huh!" and that conversation will repeat however many times addie feels like doing the same letter. then addie will say "okay frankie, should we move on?" and sweet frankie will say "uh-huh!" it is seriously the cutest. :)

*we figured we better get a picture of delaney wearing this newborn outfit that is for newborns from 5-8 lbs. d-money says "haven't you ever heard of a 10 lb. one week old???"

*i love nap hair. and cuddly one-year-olds.

*and newborn smiles.

*christian has basketball practice on friday nights. then he played a game on saturday. he has really improved a lot, and scored several times. he also got fouled, which never happens, so here he is making his free throw. nothing but net! matt went to our neighborhood b-ball court to play with the boys one day and came home saying how much fun it was to play with them now that they (c, mike, david, the usual crew) have gotten so much better. yay!

ps - the rockets won.

*on friday matt took the little girls to the jumpyard and then chick'fil'a to play. thankfully he took them out to do something fun every day last week. hopefully that will tide them over so they don't get too bad of cabin fever this week.

(addie loves taking pictures. i have about 50 of this exact face on my phone.)

*matt stopped by the thrift store and picked up this cheer outfit and poms. then addie and frankie played "lexi" all day. and fought over the poms. they love their sissy!

*speaking of lexi, she still lives here, even though there's no photographic proof of that. she loves going out to eat and spends most of her money doing that. yesterday i picked her up from cheer and took her straight to salsa's for a date with heidi, hannah, and tatum. she's been so good lately that i'm trying to give her some extra freedoms. and she is 15, so i guess...

(not sure why she looks so forlorn, pretty sure she asked for this to be taken!)

*have i mentioned my love of goofy newborn faces?

*i am doing pretty good. i'm tired, but that's to be expected. i had a headache yesterday and most of today, and then late this morning i smelled sulfer. i called matt, and just to be on the safe side he came home to check things out. all was well, and i managed to squeeze a nap in while the girls napped and woke up sans headache, so yay! i do not have cabin fever, even though i've only left the house for about 2 hours since last sunday. a true testament to my home body-ness. :)

*it's been so fun to see the big kids interact with laney. they are so sweet with her, actually ask to hold her, kiss her, and show her off. there's not much that's cuter than a rough and tough teenager showing off his baby sister to his rough and tough friends. or alexis telling robin "oh, did you wash your hands?" before she holds her, even though lex just grabs her up without a thought of hand washing. it's been very sweet.

*these two have been all over little miss too. frankie will either say "some?" (i don't know why?!) or "i hold her?" and addie will say "can i hold your baby delaney?" and if you will stop to listen, addie will also tell you "this is my baby delaney. she came out of my mom's body."

ps - i didn' realize delaney's fingers were so precariously in frankie's mouth until i started blogging this. and no baby fingers were harmed, thankfully!

*sarah's sweet ellie is having surgery tomorrow. i just can't believe it and i feel so helpless. we've all been praying for her, and the ward did a special fast on sunday. alexis and christian, who hate fasting (but what teen doesn't), fasted all day until after church without a grumble. we are praying for her speedy recovery so she can reacquaint herself with her bff over here.

*on sunday we quietly celebrated watching the superbowl. we've had people over to watch with us the last few years, but with delaney being only a week old, we didn't think we should this year, even though i really wanted to! we had traditional subs and chips and soda, and then addie and chris helped me make valentine cookies. we enjoyed the game and all the commercials, but i especially just enjoyed being together. okay, and the cookies. ;)