Catching up...

First things first...if you are a faithful follower of my blog, sorry I've been such a slacker lately!! I really haven't had a whole lot to post about (either that, or I'm just to lazy to!!)

I'll first tell you all about Zaylee's new conquests and then we'll move on to the Easter pictures.

Zaylee loves to play dress up. Unfortunately, we don't have any clothes for her to really play dress up in so she takes off the ones she is wearing and raids her dresser. This is a DAILY occurrence!

All alone:



With Daddy's help!:


Other things she's up to:
*taking off her diaper and running around the house naked (we've only had one accident up to this point--*sarcastic* "yippee!!")
*sitting on the potty with her toilet seat--she can even climb up by herself! (no success of anything but sitting but at least we've gotten that far!)
*scooting chairs up to the counters, climbing and getting into trouble!
*stuffing wads of paper up her nose
*learning how to take her own movies out and starting a new one when I tell her "no more shows!"
*asking "why?" over and over when I tell her to "get down from there!!"

*and of course, being her cute little self and making us laugh all the time! =)

Recommendation

If you are looking for a GREAT book to read, here it is:


Kasey gave us this book for Christmas and I LOVED it. Alex always says that when I am passionate about something I think everyone else should be too and it's true! I think that EVERYONE should read this book. And I'm not the only one who likes it...read the reviews at Goodreads.com

If you live in the Salt Lake area, they have a bunch of copies on hand at the library or you can buy it for $6 at the Deseret Book Outlet store or...you can borrow mine. =)

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?!"

Those are the infamous words of Alex last night as I cut his hair. Here, let me give you a preview (Alex's family...this may look familiar):




Yep, you guessed it! I skunked him! So usually he uses his clippers and does his own and then I go over it one more time to make sure he got it all and then trim his sideburns and neckline. Well, last night I just figured that the guard was on and started at the back of his neck and went straight up to his crown. I didn't even realize that I had done it until he was freaking out. So, he took the 1/8 inch guard and tried to fix it but this is the end result:

Random Pictures

Howdy all! Just wanted to show off some new snapshots of Zaylee.

Zaylee is trying to figure out how to comb her own hair. Although I admit that I don't do much better, I figure it's still enough that I will keep doing it myself for awhile!


Speaking of hair, she finally has enough that I can do pigtails and we love it!


I tried to get her to stand still so I could get a front view of the pigtails, but she is just way too busy to sit still for a camera shot but I found this picture quite funny. Notice the difference in her personality from the picture on the sidebar.....from sweet little smiling girl, to "check out my new attitude!" dirty looks and all! (Yes, we have cut her bangs since then so they don't hang in her eyes).



One morning after Zaylee's bath she took off running away from me. I decided to just let her be while I cleaned up and this is how I found her. Enjoying my book, in my couch spot, with my cozy blanket. (Do you think I'm in this position too much if she knows how to copycat it that well???) (P.S. The book was "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society". Weird name, good book...if you want a good read, I enjoyed it!) And yes, you did see right...that is the "Poppins" video cassette in the back ground....we are back to enjoying it now!


Okay, now that last picture was a safe day. Typically when Zaylee runs off and is being quiet for more than oh...say...2 seconds this is what we find! Along with crayon on the stove, kleenex box emptied, diaper wipes pulled completely out, dental floss strung throughout the bathroom, open pjs with deodrant smeared all over the belly or some other wonder to be found...and she's not even 2 yet!!!


And finally after all of that, who could resist this little girl! Ya, I know the picture of me is not fabulous (I absolutely hate pictures), but look at her little grin and the way she has cozied right in on my lap. How could you not just love her!?

Birthday Cookies

Happy Birthday Alex!! Alex's birthday was actually yesterday but we were having too much fun to take the time to blog about it. We really didn't do much but just had a great day as a family. Alex got Fable II for his birthday last week so he said I couldn't spend more than a couple of dollars for a present for him on his actual birthday. So he ended up with Chocodiles and Oreos. The funny thing is I think that he was about as excited for those as he was for the game! We did end up getting him Seafarers of Catan as well, but that's just cause I like to spoil him and we got it for a good deal. =) So the day was spent playing Catan and then we all went out to the Chinese Gourmet for dinner. It was a fun day! We love having Daddy around all day!!!

As you can see, Zaylee is just like her daddy when it comes to cookies. As soon as we sang Happy Birthday and gave him the cookies she was begging for a try. We left the room for a minute and came back to find her with two cookies smashed together and the face of a cookie monster! So although Alex wouldn't let me take pictures of him, I did get Zaylee enjoying his presents.

Shrek Obsessed

Well, I just noticed that it's been awhile since I have posted so I decided to go through my pictures to see if there is anything to post about. Shrek seems to be the reoccuring theme so here are a bunch of Zaylee new favorite toys!

Zaylee with Shrek the first day we got him--we had had the little ones for quite awhile but the big one was a gift from her adopted grandma--our primary president that was just released.


For Zaylee's naptimes the first few weeks after getting her new Shrek she had to have her naps with ALL of her Shrek toys (Don't ya just love her chubby little face!!) =)


Mom and Zaylee coloring time--it actually ended up being Mom and Shrek cast coloring time. Zaylee made sure each character had their own crayon and if I tried to borrow it from them she freaked out at me!



On a side note, I was just given new primary counselor duties. Now I am over 8-10 year old Cub Scouts and am absolutely clueless! SO all you primary wonder women out there any clues you could give me on how to fulfill my calling would be GREATLY appreciated! =) Thanks!!! (No, really, I am serious I want you to leave me messages or call me or email me or anything...I really need your help!!!)

Playing

PEEK-A-BOO!!

Setting the table

The other morning Zaylee was helping make breakfast and I decided to see what she would do if I gave her everything to set the table. I think she did a pretty great job! (Don't mind all of the boxes and stuff...she didn't do that part-that's just my messy table.)

18 Months Plus a little

I'm a little slow posting about Zaylee turning 18 months, but we just had her doctors appointment yesterday so that's a good reason for posting almost 3 weeks late, right? The doctor said that she is doing really good and is right where she needs to be. She weighed 23.9 pounds and was 32 3/4 inch tall. If I remember right she was in the 30 something percentile on weight and 46th on height. She did so good with him. He's impressed about her stranger anxiety...she really doesn't have it too much!

Last week was her first week at nursery all by herself since she had cold her first week and then we were out of town. She did SO good!!! I took her in and she immediately ran to where the toys were (it's helped that we've taken her in a little here and there prior to her actually being 18 months). When I left she didn't even care and stayed the whole two hours without any incidents! I was SO happy!! When we got home I was asking her questions about it and she just couldn't stop jibber-jabbering! I didn't understand a word of it but she was sure excited!

Anyway, she would not pose for a picture for me, so after chasing her around the house trying to get her to settle for just a second this was the best I got! I can't believe how big she is getting!!

Dancing Video

FYI: The song is from "Mary Poppins" with a little added Alex flare. =)