Blog Catch Up

Colette told me that I needed to help out with keeping the blog up to date. Thus far, whenever I have posted, she has felt compelled (OCD style) to "revise" my posts. If you care to comment on how long you think it will take before she edits this one, feel free. As Bill Cosby would say "Fathers are the geniuses of the house because only a person as intelligent as we could fake such stupidity. Think about your father: He doesn't know where anything is. You ask him to do something, he messes it up and your mother sends you: 'Go down and see what your father's doing before he blows up the house.' He's a genius at work because he doesn't want to do it, and he knows someone will be coming soon to stop him."

Colette insists that I must post pictures when I am blogging. I was just going to make all y'all use yer imaginations. "If I must, I must." -- Mary Poppins

Annie has reached an important developmental milestone: she can suck on her toes!

Annie has also achieved another important milestone: mobility. This little girl can roll and roll and roll. She can also army scoot and rotate herself. In the picture below Annie started out at the head of the blanket, by the frogs.
We can't leave Annie unattended anymore. The little stinker usually does most of her rolling after you leave the room :) She'll do a token roll or two while you're around to entertain her, but once she decides she's on her own, she takes off rolling.

Colette left Annie on our bedroom floor to brush her teeth, do her make up and whatever. When she was done Annie had rolled as far South as she could, got stopped by the wall and fell asleep.
Rachel noticed Annie sleeping there and decided Annie needed a stuffed animal to help her sleep better (Rachel sleeps with 2-12 stuffed animals when she goes to bed at night). Rachel put the rabbit with the broken leg (known as "Femur") on top of Annie to help her sleep.

Rachel is very self motivated. Here she is making her own peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Mommy was not in the kitchen when this adventure in food preparation began, but she allowed it to continue when she discovered it.

Here are some cute pictures of Annie "peeking" out from behind different objects.



One night when Colette was putting Annie to bed, she started reading a story to her and Rachel decided to join in the fun. I discovered the three of them and I had to take a picture of the lovely ladies in my life. Looking at this picture makes me smile. Aren't they beautiful? I'm one lucky guy!

This weekend was General Conference. We spent some time with Colette's parents. Between sessions, Grandma showed Rachel a new toy for keeping cool. It's a sprinkler fountain of sorts that will spit out little balls and balance them on a steady stream of water. Rachel was enthralled.
Kudos to Colette for the cool action shot. Conference was a spiritual feast (as always). It always feels like a vacation weekend to me, because we spend so much time with family.

Tonight, I was singing a song from the movie Mary Poppins: "I Love to Laugh". Rachel asked what I was singing, so I looked for a clip of it on the web. Rachel and I watched it together.
Rachel is wearing a crocheted hat that actually belongs to Annie, but Annie was asleep at this point in the evening and so she wasn't around to take it back.