If you eat all your dinner...

you can have fill in the blank. Lately, it's been: some of your Easter candy.

I find myself saying this nearly every day. Besides Daisy, who will eat anything, EVERYTHING, my girls are picky...especially Maddy. It's not so much that they don't eat well, they just don't like what I cook. They get plenty of fruit and veggies, they just don't like dinner. So I find myself bribing them to eat.

After dinner yesterday, the girls got some fresh from the oven brownies.

Maddy had a clever idea after finishing her brownie.
Maddy: Can I have taffy taffy?
Me: No you can't have taffy taffy.
Maddy: But I ate all my brownie.

San Salvador Temple

My cousin recently finished a piece that will sit behind the recommend desk at the entrance of the San Salvador Temple. There are no words...it's simply amazing. Christ in America.

Peace

on rare occassions, naptime is a huge success!



too bad Daisy only naps for 20 minutes.

Cruisin' on to 10 months

Our attempt at Easter Pics. There are over 50 shots, I give up.




She loves to eat




A Daisy in the Tulips




Daisy's best friend




Crawling ...




... with pigtails!




She likes to help with the laundry




Daisy is 10 months old!!

And I've decided that things don't get easier.

They just. simply. change.

Some people get a plate of food and take a bite by filling a bit of evrything onto their fork. Some eat veggies or the meat first, saving their favorite for last. Others take one bite of one item and go back and forth. That's how Daisy likes to nurse. Nighttime is horrible. I'm getting even less sleep. She realized that there is not one but TWO boobs and nursing on one just isn't enough. So she goes back and forth taking a sip at a time, nursing no longer than 10 seconds on each boob. It's exhausting. If I don't cooperate, she just grabs the other boob and pulls it towards her. Yes, it's as annoying, exhausting, and painful and it sounds. She also decided that nursing is better while standing and doing all sorts of tricks.

She found her temper. Through the example of her sisters she has learned the fine art of throwing major tantrums. However, in her defense, she has two ear infections, so I'll let these fits slide ... for now.

She's cruisin' all over the place. Will she walk before she's 1? I'm thinking, yes!

Her teeth are coming in too funny. She has 4 on the bottom and her 2 left incisors.

Not much else is new. She did finally start crawling. She loves to run while someone is holding her under her arms. She resembles one of those lizards. I've been trying to get it on video, but she gets camera shy...so here's a lizard.

The old man

What I don't miss about the city is people and their opinions. The other day, some old man told me, "You need a boy." I'm not sure what need he was referring to, kindly, I tried to chuckle it off, but in my head I was screaming. ...
"Need? NEED? NO, what I NEED is a bigger house, a new car because Kaity and Abby are still in boosters for the next few years and 3 car seats and 2 boosters won't fit in our mountaineer, $several Million because there's no way El is leaving this house with another baby, a chef and a maid. Are you willing to provide all that? And a whole new wardrobe and college fund? If not, then NO, I don't NEED a boy!!!!"