Time Flies...

Joye is 8 months today. It seems like yesterday that I had her. Time flies when you're having fun! She is getting so big. I can't keep enough food in the house for her, it's like feeding a teenage boy. And she is just like her father and eats so fast. But I don't know where all of her food goes, she's not chubby by any means (I wish I had that problem) She has been pulling herself up to stuff, the other day Jaxon was sitting on the little chair and she pulled herself up and was trying to climb onto his lap. Jaxon is such a good brother, he just sits there and lets her do it. He could play with her all day.

She is exploring more and trying to get into trouble. She will see something on top of our entertainment center that she wants and she will try with everything she has to get it. She's not quite to the point that she can pull herself up to big things yet, but we'll have our hands full she she starts. She likes to tease and play with everyone. She gets to wake Daddy up every morning, I'll lay her on the bed and she'll pull herself up to him and start hitting him, and she'll yell at him and babble, til he wakes up to pay attention to her. She has found a great way to tease me. Since I am OCD about my movie's they have to be in alphabetical order, she goes over to them and pulls them all out, which wouldn't be bad I'd just put them back in, but she will put some back in and then they are all out of order. Stupid I know, but then I'm sitting in front of the entertainment center til all of them are put back. She doesn't know what she is doing, but I bet when she gets bigger and figures out that it bothers me she'll do it just to bug me. Braden does that every once in a while, just to see how long it takes me to notice and to go a fix it.

Our Little Reader

Well for a little history on this post. I drug Braden to see Twilight with me the other night, and he loved it and it made him want to read the books. I wasn't done reading the third or the fourth. So the next day he started reading the first and I started reading the third. Our kids saw us reading a lot, and Alek didn't want to be left out so we told him to go get one of his books, but that wasn't good enough. He wanted one like mom and dad. He loves to read it. He gets on the chair and the book is always upside down and he stares intently at the pages and every once in a while he will whisper what he is reading. When he starts to whisper I'll look at him and smile, he'll look up and get this weird look on his face and says "What? What are you looking at? I'm just reading right now." Then he'll get back to his book.

More Crazy Sleeping

Well a few posts ago I told what crazy sleeping kids we have. I caught our third the other night, getting in on that action. Every night before I go to bed I check on the kids and make sure they are okay and covered up. When I check on Joye, she usually is on her belly (She is just like her Father), but the other night when I checked on her; she was on her belly, with her arms tucked under her (also like her Father), up on her knees, and sideways in her crib. When she gets into a big bed, she is definitely going to need a rail.

Messy Joye

Well Jaxon and Alek haven't learned that anything you leave on the floor Joye gets. Today I was in the other room and I heard the boys yelling and pouting, so I came into the living room and I found Joye on the floor eating the boys' Reese's Buttercups. She must be like her mom because I took the chocolate away and she threw a fit.

Funny Alek

Jaxon and Alek love oranges. We got some the other day and they have been eating them like they're going out of style. Braden and I are tired of peeling them so we have told the boys to try themselves. Jaxon takes control and has seen people bite them open, so he tries to bite it. Alek throws a fit every time. "No you can't do that! Only Grandpa Anderson can!" So anybody else has to use their fingers, because biting them is Grandpa Anderson's trick.

New Year...New Look

So I've been wanting to change my hair for a long time, but I've been scared to cut it short. Well I finally got up enough courage, and Braden gave me the okay. So I went and cut it all off. It's so weird, I have never had short hair. It's going to take awhile to get used to it. So see what you think.

Before

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After