A blog about Kyle and Rebecca's family
Chloe is actually walking! Sunday evening, Kyle and I sat on the floor with our legs making a diamond and we had Chloe practice walking from the one to the other. But this morning she walked all the way down the hall (without holding onto the wall) to come to me! And throughout the rest of the day she has been walking all over the place. Sometimes she falls, and when she does she decides that she’s down so therefore she might as well crawl. But when she’s up she’s been walking!
I think most of our kids have gone straight from crawling, to climbing. You would think that they would walk first, and that would be your hint that climbing is around the corner, but most of our kids seem to have had that backwards.
This afternoon, I was in my room working on a project on my computer, when I heard Chloe start crying like she was freaked out, followed by Tyra running down the hall to tell me that Chloe was ON the table. Tyra did not say which table, so as I went out to go get Chloe OFF of the table, I was wondering HOW IN THE WORLD she got on the dining table. She was on the coffee table, not the dining table. 🙂 But when I saw her, she was standing there on the end of the table, holding onto the arm chair for support, and she was just crying like she was scared. I *thought* about going to get my camera, but I didn’t want to be mean and make her stand there and wait for me to take pictures. 😉
LATER I heard her crying like she was freaked out again. So I went to go get her thinking “Oh boy. Here we go again.” This time she was sitting on the other end of the table, and I decided, that since she had climbed up there a second time in the same day, despite her being freaked out, that I would get the camera! And what do you know? She stopped crying when she saw that I wasn’t freaking out.
Chloe is FINALLY cutting her first tooth! I say about time. I find it rather interesting that Ethan, Tyra, and Jeremy all started cutting teeth somewhere around 6 and 8 months old. They were the three that I breastfed exclusively. Dinah and Chloe are the ones that I was unable to breastfeed and they both started cutting teeth later, at about 10-11 months old! Is that normal for breastfed babies to get their teeth earlier than bottle fed babies? Or is it just a coincidence in our family?
Chloe has figured out how to pull herself up to a stand this past week, and would stand up once in a while. Today she has been pulling herself up to a stand all morning! She’s getting better at it and you can tell her legs are getting stronger, and she’s balancing a bit better. So exciting!
We had our big family Easter dinner yesterday. Laurel & Roine came out with their kids. Sandy & Robert and Grandma Shirley came from the hotel to spend some time with us. Debby and Jeff and their friend Lindsay came, and my parents, Tom & Jenny and their kids, Patsy, Wendy, David, Jonathan and Tiffany were already here (since they were staying at our house). So our house was packed but it was SO nice to have everyone here. We had conference on, and we had a really early dinner, it was more like a giant Easter lunch. I don’t have any pictures from having everyone over, but the food was great. After getting home from the wedding Friday night, Kyle and I just threw the roasts in the crock pot and got them started and we woke up to the smell of yummy food. We had a pot roast, and a lamb roast, a medley of broccoli, cauliflower, carrots and yellow carrots, fresh pineapple and strawberries, mashed potatoes and rolls (with lots of homemade jams of course). After dinner, Sandy, Robert, Grandma, Wendy, David, Jonathan, & Tiffany hit the road to head back home to California, since Robert was really adamant about leaving AT 3:00 that afternoon.
This morning we woke up pretty early due to excited kids who were anxious to search for Easter eggs. So we waited until everyone was awake and we gave them each a basket and said go find them. This year the Easter bunny changed things up and instead of hiding the hard boiled eggs, he hid plastic eggs with goodies in them.
Jeremy thought it was so funny that the Easter Bunny hid an egg in Daddy’s shoe. 🙂
Chloe was introduced to her first lolly pop, and she LOVED it! She had quite the sticky drool all over her front she was salivating so much over her lolly pop!
The girls received cute glasses in their Easter baskets:
I love this picture of Dinah and Annaleah playing with the whistles they found in the plastic eggs:
After the morning festivities, and breakfast (which consisted of turnovers and bacon mmmmm) our remaining visitors gathered up the rest of their stuff, and finished loading up their cars so they could head back home to California. But not without a little bit more fun. 😉 Our silly Californian visitors were so excited to see snow that they couldn’t leave without having snowball fights.
Mom and Dad went at it while they were brushing off their car. I LOVE that you can see the snowball Dad threw at Mom, mid-flight! And they were having such a good time.
Tommy and Tyra were having a great time throwing snowballs at Tom too.
We had a really nice Easter, and now our guests have gone, and it’s time to get the house back to normal! 😛