100 Day Christmas PAR-TAY!

Yes, it's that time of year...100 days until Christmas! Very exciting! For the big PAR-TAY, we listened to Christmas music (which was exciting because before the party, I went like 2 months without any Christmas music), drew some Christmasy pictures... ...wore silly Christmas hats....

..and made our traditional 100 chain countdown to Christmas!

As I have stated before, Ems continues to be a little social butterfly. I have a hard time getting through a store. She’ll just sit there in the shopping cart or in my moby-wrap and smile real big at everyone passing by (and she often tries to talk to everyone to get their attention if they aren’t looking at her). It takes me more time to go grocery shopping, but she’s sure cute.

On September 22, 2011 - she started crawling! She has two ways of crawling. The army crawl. And she goes up on all fours and pushes herself forward – she can’t get anywhere fast yet crawling, but she is doing it! She’s sooooo cute! I love watching her crawl!!

She can say Dada, Mama, and Baba…but mostly just opens her mouth and lets all the sounds she can out as loud as she can.

She started clapping (well, started trying to clap – sometimes those little hands don’t quite hit each other) a few days ago. She LOVES “If you’re happy and you know it” – her favorite song!

She loves eating solid foods and takes her bottle like a pro. She is in the 50% for weight and height and 90% for head size (same trend as the other girlies).

Carolyn and Angela continue to be the best at getting her to laugh. She is very ticklish. If I tickle her tummy or by her neck, she gets laughing pretty good. She also loves soft tickles. She sits there in heaven if you softly tickle her face, legs, tummy, back, etc. This is how daddy gets Emily to sleep…he’ll softly give her tickles and she’ll go to sleep. So sweet.






These picture are my attempt at showing Em’s Happy Hands. Whenever she is happy or excited – her hands start going in circles like CRAZY! We call her “Happy Hands” quite a lot. I love how when I go get her in her crib after nap or in the morning, when she first sees me – her hands start going like CrAzY and I get the biggest smiles and laughs along with it!! I love her happy hands! Her sisters get happy hands all the time when they go up to her – she LOVES her sisters.

Ang-Ba-Nang

We love our Angela! She loves being a girl. She can’t wait to get up in the morning to pick a dress. She is obsessed with lip-gloss, Mommy putting mommy’s makeup on her, nail polish, dress-ups, shoes, etc. What a cutie. Angela also LOVES to draw. And I love her drawings. I displayed some at the bottom of this post. Her favorite thing to draw is people. She spends a good portion of her day drawing and coloring.

Our Angela also LOVES the swings at the park. She mastered pumping her legs about 4 months ago and amazes me at how high that little body can pump! Definitely one of her favorite things is to go to the park and swing, swing, swing.

Ang continues to be our snuggle-bug. You’ll be her best friend if you let her lay on your lap and give her soft tickles. I have learned that Angela really NEEDS this time with me every day. It honestly makes all the difference in the world in Angela’s day if I am sure to give Angela her snuggle time/tickle time every morning. I love this time with Angela and she is a happy camper if she starts her day with some good snuggles. She is very sweet and will give me tickles on my arms, too.

She is a WONDERFUL helper. She loves running little errands for me (getting stuff out of the fridge, putting stuff away for me, etc.) She’s so good at cleaning up after herself. I love how after she eats, she’ll wrap up the food she didn’t finish and put it in the fridge and then put her plate/cup in the sink. I laugh often at the things I find wrapped up in the fridge for her to eat later (like an inch of crust on a sandwhich). I am very proud of this girl who doesn’t waste any food and cleans up after herself!

Angela loves to read. She likes when I read to her alright, but what she really likes is for me to sit next to her and listen to HER read.

She loves her dance class and I can’t tell you how adorable she is in her class! Oh my goodness- what a little sweety! The pictures don’t do justice, but below is a little glimpse of how adorable this girl is in her dance class. She is doing so well in it :)

Angela is definitely a daddy’s girl. She talks about Andrew ALL day long, non-stop. She draws pictures for him and does so much for her daddy. In fact, a lot of the time, she doesn’t let me look at her pictures she draws/colors because it’s for daddy. I never get any of her nursery pictures (she never will show them to me) …because she colored it for DADDY! She loves that Andrew and I can’t blame the girl.

This is Angela at a back-to- school night celebration at Carolyn's school. She looks pretty cute in fireman gear.
Here is a picture of me in a yellow dress...since I took these pictures, Angela has added more details to her pictures (like ears and eyelashes). I really love Ang's people.
This one makes me laugh...we were in church and I look over and Angela and she is sitting there giggling...she told me she drew a picture of her and Emily - an upside-down Emily- how silly.
Here is for wishful thinking...Ang drawing mom with a baby in her tummy.
It's very easy to tell the difference between the boys and girls she draws...obviously, this one is daddy cause he's got the short, spikey hair. Daddy is sad in this picture.

Miss Carolyn

Miss Carolyn Kim. She continues to LOVE kindergarten. Almost every day that she comes home from school, we play school together. She is the teacher (and a very STRICT teacher…today Andrew called me “during class” and I answered the phone. BIG MISTAKE. I got put on a yellow light!) – I LOVE that we play this just about every day. I see everything she learns (she goes through just about the entire day of school)…I see how her teacher disciplines and how things are run in the classroom (I’ve been impressed…her teacher seems sweet yet pretty strict)…and Carolyn reviews everything she learned in class. Carolyn wants to be a Gym teacher (and a fireman) when she grows up.

Carolyn continues to love her gymnastics and soccer involvement. Her favorite part of gymnastics is the pit (a big pit full of foam) and running (they run laps at the beginning of gymnastics). She also loves riding her bike, reading, any pretend play (playing “house,” “teacher,” “church” (where she is the teacher/music leader at church), barbies, etc), playing with friends, crafts/coloring/drawing, etc. Her favorite subjects at school are gym and art class.

Carolyn is a sweety. Just as an example, there was one day last week when she was in line about to get on the bus when she realized that she had given everyone in the family a hug and kiss goodbye except for Angela (because Ang was busy playing)…when she came to this realization, it was pretty dramatic . Luckily, she was able to locate Ang at the park (by the bus stop) and say goodbye and still made the bus. That’s just one example. Carolyn is so sweet in every way. She’s also amazing at trying her best to make good choices. She has such a sweet and good spirit – she wants to do good in this life and make good choices.

I've been pretty impressed with Carolyn's drawings. Here is a bike she drew today...I didn't give her any direction or anything - she did it all on her own...it's fun seeing what she draws and her improve. I was really impressed with a Santa Clause she drew at our Christmas party.

Family Picture

My Half Marathon and Labor Day Weekend

Labor Day weekend was so much fun. Mostly, it was just amazing to have so much Andrew Time! On Friday, we headed to the mountains for camping with some of Andrew's BYU co-workers. We love camping so that part was lovely as always, but it was also fun with Andrew's co-workers. He does have ugly hours at times with his company, but we love so many things about the company - like the people Andrew works with. Andrew and his girls :) ...hiking the mountains

We love bringing sports equipment for outside and plenty of games, puzzles, books, etc. for fun in the tent. Here Ang and Em are doing puzzles together. Angela is such a great little helper.
On Saturday, we picked A LOT of corn. I think we went a little overboard. The church has a corn farm where every year they let members pick left-over corn. We filled our entire trunk full of corn on the cob. It was insane the amount we brought home and had to husk, blanch, cut, and bag. One of the girls and my favorite snacks is frozen veggies so we wanted a lot of corn to freeze. It was a lot of work to prep and freeze all the corn, but we are excited for our year (or more) supply of corn :) After picking corn, we hung out at Chris' for the big BYU game. So happy the cougs pulled it off, but we wished it were a prettier game.

On Monday, I ran my half-marathon in Boulder. It felt really, really great. I can't wait to run my next half-marathon!!!

And I know we are all just dying to see some sweaty pictures of me so here we go...I love that Andrew and the girls made me signs for when I was done! What an amazing and supportive family I have!



Andrew said that Emily grabbed the sign all on her own while sitting here...so he had to take a picture. What a little cutie.