That's what big brothers are for...

Caden was watching SpongeBob and eating a popsicle in the front room. He decided to be a big helper and give his sister a sucker. I wasn't paying attention to what was going on (because I was on the computer). When I looked over this what I saw: Alexandra was sitting right next to Caden watching SpongeBob. Alexandra happily sucking on her sucker and Caden happily sucking on his popsicle. It was really cute. When I pulled out the camera, Alexandra saw it and walked over to me. Here is her sticky face. and clothes. and hands. She had a bath soon afterwards.

Another Ultrasound

I had to have another ultrasound today. At the last one, the tech was unable to get a clear picture of all 4 chambers of the heart (because of the way the baby was laying inside of me). Everything is fine with the baby and I got to see her one more time. (Yes, it is still a girl. I am getting rid of all my baby boy stuff that I have been saving over the last 8 years.) This is a good profile picture of our little one.

A conversation with Caden

One Sunday dinner while Grandpa Doll was over, Caden wouldn't eat his funeral potatoes that I had made with dinner.

Caden: I don't like potatoes, I only eat MAN Food!
Grandpa Doll (trying not to laugh): Oh really, what is man food?
Caden: Like Cereal, waffles, salad, chicken and meat.
Grandpa Doll: Why do you eat man food?
Caden: Man food makes me hit the ball father and makes me run faster.

Saturday at the baseball fields

Saturday morning, Caden got to play in Miles' game because they were short one player. That means he was playing in the Valley league with 7 & 8 year old boys. I have to say Caden played better than half of Miles' team. Needless to say, Miles' team isn't very good this year so I think they should be happy with any help they can get. Miles was not very happy about having his little brother playing in his game. Miles also pitched very well on Saturday; giving up 0 runs during the 2 innings that he pitched during the game.

Caden fouling the ball off during the Valley game:

Here are great action shots of Miles' pitching:

We have a new niece/girl cousin

Melinda had a baby girl on Tuesday April 22, 2008. Alyssa Paige Doll weighed in at 7 lbs. 9 oz., was 21 inches long, and has a head entirely covered with short brunette hair. Melinda's water was broken at 8:30 am and she was born around 11:30 am. (I don't have any pictures to show off.)

It's a Girl!!

Last Wednesday I had the "big ultrasound." We found out that it was another little girl. I was excited to make our family even with 2 boys and 2 girls. (and we are done.) Alexandra will have a little playmate and I get to use the cute girl clothes one more time! Right now the baby's name is Peyton Abigale. (Which is still being negotiated.)

Matching shiners

Friday we were at playgroup and Alexandra tired to pick up Carter's soccer ball. She slipped and fell on the gravel. She scraped up her LEFT eye and forehead. (see below) Then today, Caden was playing catch with his team before his game started. I'm not quite sure how it happened but, a kid threw the ball and hit Caden in the LEFT eye.

Then tonight, Miles and Caden were playing basketball in their room and Miles got hit in the left eye courtesy of Caden's elbow. (I don't have a picture.) So he now have a small shiner under his LEFT eye.

Yes, Caden's eye is the worst; but it is ironic that all 3 of my kids have gotten black eyes within the last 2 days AND it was the same eye.

Happy *31st* Brithday Tim!

Happy Birthday. We Love you!!

Bragging Rights

For the second year in a row I have successfully picked the NCAA champion. This year I picked Kansas over Memphis by a score of 75-66. (The real score was 75-68). Unfortunately, when I filled out this bracket through espn.com I didn't enter it into any of the groups that I was competing against. My total overall was 1330 points and a 99.1% against all those who filled out a bracket on espn. Go ME!!
p.s. This is the second year that I have beaten Tim.

First birthday pictures

I took Alexandra on her birthday to get her pictures taken at JcPenney. This time I hardly had to wait and had a good experience. I thought her pictures turned out great and she was in such a good mood. Enjoy!

She's walking even better ...

Happy Easter?!

So we started off the morning with the boys fighting over finding the hidden Easter eggs. After an hour of being the "ref" .. I had had enough I went back to bed hoping when I would wake up the day would be a little more peaceful. I think next year the Easter Bunny isn't going to hide any eggs. Can the Easter Bunny put coal in a basket, like Santa can in a stocking?

For dinner we had tri-tip, funeral potatoes, rolls, with strawberry shortcake to finish off the meal. When I pulled the tri-tip out of the oven Miles asked me if we were going to be "eating the Easter Bunny!" What a funny kid.


Thursday, Caden's preschool class had a Easter party. They had an Easter egg hunt, sang "Spring" songs and had a potluck.
Caden and his "Bunny Ears." (aka Alexandra's tights.)
Friday was the start of Spring Break for Miles. We went to McDonald's and treated ourselves to the $1 menu. We went to the park and had an Easter Egg Hunt with our friends. (A big thank you to Jeremy who came and hid all the eggs for us moms.) Alexandra enjoyed carrying Sophie's Easter basket around her neck and on her head.

Just woke up from her Sunday afternoon nap.

Playing Pat-A-Cake: Roll it:

Mark it with an "A":

And throw it in the oven!! (her favorite part)

Saturday was the start of the baseball games for the season. The boys' first 3 games are all at the same day/time. So I was back and forth watching both games. Luckily the fields are close to each other. Miles hit a triple and got a few outs at first. Caden hit a home run and caught a fly ball and turned it into a double play! It's fun to watch when your boys play well.

Also, I got a new camera for my birthday a few weeks ago. I have had fun taking pictures of Alexandra with it. I haven't figured out all the features of it, yet. I love the 10x zoom and how clear the pictures turn out. Hence, many pictures in the post.

Other good news, is that we heard today that the seller accepted the offer that we put on a house. Now, the offer goes to the bank which can take 2 to 3 weeks to hear back from them. Then if the bank accepts the offer then we go in to the regular 30 day escrow. What a long process.

My Little Pony

When I was 4 and 5 years old one of my favorite things to play with was the My Little Ponies. There is even a story of me entering a contest to win a free My Little Pony on TV. My mom helped me enter the contest. On the contest day, I watched the TV intently hoping that my name would be called. They never called my name and afterwards I cried and cried because I didn't win. My mom cried with me. Recently, My Little Ponies have made a comeback into the toy world. Excited that I would be having my first girl last year, my mom made a My Little Pony blanket for Alexandra. She also gave Alexandra her first My Little Pony last week for her birthday. How fun to have something in common with my daughter.

Then the other day there was a commerical on Nickelodeon and I saw this logo:
2008 is the 25 year celebration of My Little Pony. At that moment, I felt old.
How can I be old enough to celebrate a 25 year anniversary of anything?

Happy Brithday Alexandra!

We celebrated Alexandra's first birthday yesterday. It was a busy and somewhat stressful day for me, but we survived and had a good time. After running around town getting decorations, cake and ice cream and getting her pictures taken at JCPenney. We had her birthday party. Grandma & Grandpa Doll came over, along with Great-Grandma Duncan and Aunt Denise. We ate Skipolini's pizza and salad for dinner. We followed with opening presents. Alexandra got a ton of cute clothes in the 12 to 18 month size range. She liked all her clothes, and tried putting them on her head. Then we followed with chocolate cake with raspberry filling and vanilla ice cream.

Time for dinner birthday girl!
"Leave me alone, Caden, it's my birthday!"
She liked her balloon.

She really liked her new swimsuit.
The cake.
"I'm not sure how I feel about this whole blowing out the candles business?!"
"I do know that I like chocolate cake!"
"I really, really like it!"
Taking a bath to clean up the chocolate.

Showing off her walking skills

An Alexandra update

(Standing!!)
(Waving at Tim.)
(Pushing in her shopping cart the Raggedy Ann doll

that was mine when I was one!)
She found a chocolate kiss on the floor yesterday

and thoroughly enjoyed it.

I have the same question as Tammy ... when are the first steps?? She has taken steps, 5 consecutively, but most of the time she still falls on her butt.
(Thank goodness for padded diapers.)

I can't believe we will be celebrating her first birthday tomorrow.

More pictures of #4

I went to the Dr. Friday for my first "official" well baby check up. After waiting in stirrups for about 10 minutes so she could locate an ultrasound machine, I got to see the baby again. #4 was quite active. You can see its' leg in the first picture and its' hand in the second one. It still amazes me every time I see a child growing inside of me. I'm about 13 weeks now.

Update: The packages have been located

Hooray! The packages were found. FedEx delivered them to the wrong house, 5 houses down the street. The guy who lives there called me this morning saying he had 3 packages at his house and wanted to know if he could drop them off. (Or have FedEx come pick them up and try to re-deliver them again.) He dropped them off around noon. So, they have been sitting at his house since Tuesday morning and I got them today! At least it was a happy ending (and I got alot of cool stuff for free).

Suprise treat for Sherman

Yesterday was Tim's dad's 54th birthday. Tim's mom was in Utah helping out Suzi. So we decided we would surprise Sherman with a treat to celebrate his birthday. He had a stake meeting that night, so we drove out the the Martinez Chapel and showed up singing Happy Birthday. (We got permission from President Shuck before we showed up.) We treated the whole Stake Presidency to brownies and ice cream. Happy Birthday!!

Where are my packages?

I had a Pampered Chef party last month. The order was placed and 3 large packages were shipped. Yesterday they were supposed to arrive according to the FedEx tracking site. I was looking forward to getting the packages so I checked the status of the tracking on the website and it said "Delivered. Left at front door. 10:18 a.m." So I ran to door and opened it. (This was about 11:00 a.m.) No packages. What the ..... So I started walking around the house. No packages anywhere. Where are they?? So I called my consultant and asked her if she had put in the right address. She checked and it was correct. She also called FedEx for me. They told her the same thing that was on the website. They also were going to try and contact the driver who supposedly delivered the packages and ask where the packages were left. It's been almost 24 hours and I haven't seen the packages or heard from FedEx. HMMM..