little baby Christopher. He was born 6.6lbs and 18 inches long. Well when we brought him h
ome Gabriella aka Lela couldn't say his name so she started calling him Cree Cree and it has stuck. Cree Cree had a rough first few months of life. He has thrush 3 times, had what we believed to
be RSV and then he officially had RSV again and
ended up in the hospital. Both girls also had the same thing twice. Due to all of Cree Cree's sickness he quit nursing at 3 months old and went completely to bottles. After many blessings and prayers the sickness passed by us. He is now 8 months old and is army crawling all around the floor. He smiles more than any of our other children did as baby's. He is such a
joy and always a good baby!! He had a horrible afternoon about 3 weeks back. I walked into the room to find him and his crib covered in poop. It was all in his mouth and all over everywhere! I was GROSS!!!! I took him into the tub and bathed him off and fished out all the poop. I wrapped him in a towel and set him on the couch to put his diaper on. While I was attempting to put a diaper on he pulled the camera down off the table next to the couch and put a deep gash in his head. I immediately ran to the bathroom to fix his head and forgot that I hadn't put a diaper on him yet and he pee's all over the both of us! Boy what a day!
Here is a picture of him that I just love! He fell asleep with his face against the side of the crib just a day after his accident.
Now onto our little Lela girls life. Well she turned two this year in June. Her and Nahaeva decorated her cake this year. It was nicknamed the monster cake. She loves to do anything that her big sister Nahaeva does. For instance one day I saw them come out of the bathroom with band-aids all over themselves. I was kinda bugged so I asked them why in the heck they had band-aids all over themselves. Nahaeva answered so matter-of-factly and said, "Mom the alligator under out bed bit us so we had to put band-aids on our owies!!" Right now she calls me "Mudder" which I love and I will be sad when it goes. One thing that has already gone was her broken up speach. She used to talk like this; "Mudder................Cree Cree...............sitting................up!!" I loved it! But alas it is gone already. It just reminds me to cherish it while it lasts!! She loves her little brother (almost to death sometimes) ;) She loves to swim and is very independent.
Well on to our little Haeva girl. Man on man the older she gets the more afraid I am of when she will be a teenager!! She just has so much attitude that little one does! We are currently working on trying to get her to understand that she is not the mom. Oh boy, it kinda scares me because I can remember my mom saying that same thing to me all the time when I was little! But I can't complain she is a huge sweetheart when she wants to be ;) She loves taking care of her
two younger siblings! Her and Lela are the best of buds!! She became a Sunbeam this year, and loves
her new primary teacher! That little girl loves to sing and dance. She will just walk around making up songs. Here is one she made up not too long ago. "I am the voice in my whispers. I heard the voice say that Jesus will come. I whispered in my love, I know I will do the things I love. I know that Jesus will come. My voice will keep saying in my love when I love my love!" Sometimes I wonder where this kid came from!! :D She is such a wonderful kid. She also loves
to dance, you put on musi
c and instantly she brings out her moves. She also has such an imagination. She currently has a few invisible friends that she takes with her everywhere! The other day I told her to go take a nap and I heard her in the bathroom talking so I went close and listened in, only to find out that she was telling on me t
o her barbie. "Barbie, mom is making me go to bed and I'm n
ot very happy about it!!" Ha ha ha! We just love that kid!!
Well as far as life for Michael and I it has been pretty busy. Michael is in school full time and is working to pay for school so we don't get to see much of him. We do take advantage of the time we do have with him.
He is an awesome dad! He loves teaching them new things! They went to their first daddy daughter camp out this year! He is enjoying having a boy in the family, "a few less
hormones" is what he says. He has been biking
everywhere this past year, until his bike was stolen from school. But he intends to get another one and continue biking everywhere all over again! He claims he is trying to burn off all that "baby fat" he gained while I was pregnant. He is currently the Cub Master for our church. He can't wait to be done with school. He is amazing at all that he does to take care of his little family and we are grateful for him and love him so very much!!
As for me I am learning what it's like to be the mother of 3 little ones under the age of 4 right now. They are a blessing and a joy to have in my life. I am serving on our Relief Society committee in our ward. We have received so many wonderful blessings from being in this amazing ward. We haven't had to buy any clothes for any of our kids since we have moved to this ward, people have so generously donated their children's clothes to our family in our time of need.This ward has been an awesome example to me and my family of what it means to be "Christ Like". We are blessed!!
As you all know I love to take pictures!! I was able to take some engagment pictures for my brother-in-law and his fiance who recently got married. It was
totally fun! They are such a cute couple! They were married on August 12, the same day as my amazingly wonderful parents!!
Well I think this is enough for one post. If I think of anything else that was big and happened this past year I'll let you know, but for now I am done!!
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