Bananas Yummy

I have never been into the whole rice cereal thing, in fact I never got the point of it. I just skipped that whole step with Dominic and now with Riah as well. So we went straight to bananas for the first time a couple weeks ago. She has shown more interest in food then Dominic ever did (she must take after her mother), so as you can see she loved it so much that she wouldn't give me the spoon back. I just feel not ready for the whole food thing yet, cause Dominic didn't eat any foods until 12 months, but you can tell she is much quicker than Dominic in a lot of ways and she is definitely ready. My babies are growing up :(

The things that two year olds come up with....

We have been getting these nice fall days here in St. Louis. The leaves are turning all these beautiful fall colors and its been pretty brisk outside, but I just love this weather. So yesterday for church I thought I would wear these tights that have a neat design on them with my skirt, a long sleeve shirt, and a scarf. When I came out of the room dressed in my Sunday best, Dominic came up to me, rubbed his hand up and down my leg and said, "WOW MOMMA!!!" with a real emphasis on the "wow" part. It was just too funny, wish I could have gotten that on film. It was so funny that he even noticed what I wore let alone made a comment like that. Sometimes those cute little comments just make up for his rascally self that he can be most of the time.

Then tonight when JJ asked him if he wanted to get in the shower with daddy, which he usually loves, he said, "No, I wonna playee withh sisterr" then he went over to Riah and tried to play ball with her. It was so precious, I hope they continue to be good friends.

What a little dare devil

On Wednesday was field day at Logan where school is cancelled, so that the students can participate in different sports if they want to. Well I told JJ that he might break an arm, or a leg, or his head for that matter and it just isn't worth it for a stupid game, plus with no money we would have to tie a branch and an old nylon around his arm if he broke it, so that too made it just not worth it. So YAY! field day became family day. So instead of field day we went to Faust park where our son almost broke his arm, his leg, or his head for that matter while climbing a rock..

He was a little hesitant at first and then he didnt want to stop. Yeah, I know, I was freaked out too the whole time but he couldn't get enough.

I am pleased to report that there were no broken bones, just a fun filled or should I say scare filled day having Daddy home from school.

Allll da pop pops

A Must See

This movie is a must see if :

you and your hubby are due for a hot date
you are a cryer like me and you want to have make-up running down your face the whole movie
love a good romance movie, but dont want your hubby too bored
like movies that are spiritually uplifting
like feel-good movies
want to feel inspired and walk away wanting to have a better marriage.

I think that every couple in the world should go and see this movie. JJ said while coming out of the theatre, "Now why cant our church make movies like that, " Well I dont know, but from our church or not, this movie has some great principles to live by for anyone.

My Mormon Bubble

I am encircled about by a very comfortable, cozy, safe, constant thing that I will call my mormon bubble. I live by some of the most amazing, loving families that share our same beliefs, and because of this, I never had to go out and search for friends because with sharing the same beliefs, comes automatic connections and friendships. It is an amazing phenominon and one of the biggest blessings, but one of the things that I love most about our faith, is that even far far away from family, you will always have a family, a church family. But besides just a church family, I live around LDS couples that are around our same ages, going through the same situations with raising young families and having husbands gone all hours of the day for this profession that will allow them to one day be called doctors. For this blessing, I am very grateful and can probably owe most of my sanity these days to these good friends, but due to this phenominon I have never had to streach myself, get out of my comfort zone, and find friends. I guess I can say it has been pretty nice in that way.

My eyes were opened as we went to a party yesterday put on by the Christian Chiro Club from JJ's school. I was a little hesitant to go to this party because everyone in this club knows that JJ is mormon and they have given him anti-mormon literature before. So I was preparing myself early for what they could possibly have in store for us. It was at a member's home who happens to be the leader of the club and I was surprised automatically to find no alcohol of any sort in their home. The decor of the home seemed as though I could have been walking into a home from a member of my church with cute signs that read "God abides in this home" and I could feel a peacefulness in their home. The meal was blessed with a beautiful opening prayer and the conversation was clean, pure, and uplifting. All the people at this party go to different Christian churches with similar but yet different beliefs from one another, and I was surprised that as religion got brought up, there was absolutely no contention. I could tell right away that these people LIVE their religion by truly implementing the teachings of Christ in their lives, not just going to church on Sundays.

I guess this whole experience made me get out of my bubble for a sec and just realize that there are so many good people in this world outside of all of our religions that are truly trying to do whats right and live their lives as God would want them to and that these people are not just in the Mormon church. I am grateful for that simple reminder, but yet more grateful to have the knowledge that I have of the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ. This experience has made me want to be a better Christian and bridge those gaps and barriers between my faith and the "Christian World."

My, how they grow up way too fast

At first you didn't lift your head; You didn't know to smile.
The time before you knew my voice
Seemed such a long, long while.
I couldn't wait for you to roll,
And then to sit and clap.
And now you're off and crawling,
Not helpless in my lap.Why didn't someone tell me
How fast a baby grows,
That every little baby stage
Soon comes, but sooner goes.
So I'll enjoy the fleeting time
Before you learn to walk.
And treasure every tiny noise
Before you learn to talk.For soon you'll learn to walk,
Then run,
And talk and sing a song,
And never be my babe again.
The babe's forever gone.
Little baby, take your time,
For while you're tiny, you are mine.

Our little Rye bread crawled for the first time on Saturday and now there is no slowing her down. This video was taken a few days before the first crawl but you can see that she was definitely movin'. We are not used to this little baby girl progression because Dominic was barely holding his head up at five months. It seems like just yesterday I was in the worst pain of my life giving birth to her, and now, she's just not a little baby anymore....(tear). I am sad that my little baby is growing up, I guess this means we need to have another one....