New Words

Johnny has a few new words and sayings he's picked up lately. He can say "Grandpa", "Icky" (aka Emily), and "Stephen". "Paul", "GG" (that's grandma Graves), "noodles", "broom", "mop", "zoo", "pumpkin", "kitty", "Jason" (a kid I babysit twice a week), and "Santa"! We've been trying to teach him all the names of our family members, but there are a lot so it will take a while. It's so cute to hear him saying things in his small little voice, it's especially cute when he knows what he's talking about.

Birthday at Nana's

On Sunday we went to visit my family so they could see Johnny for his birthday too. He spent most of the time there following "Nana" around and telling her dogs what to do. He loves telling them "don't" and to "sit". I think he thinks he's the boss of them. Before heading home Sunday we sang to Johnny and he opened presents.

He at least tried to blow out the candle this time, but not enough to get the job done.

He also did a little better unwrapping gifts, but he wanted to play with each thing instead of opening the next gift.

Emily gave him a really cute mop and broom set since he's always trying to use mine, it's so cute, he's been cleaning my kitchen nonstop since we got home.

Happy First Birthday!!!

Johnny turned one on Sunday, November 2. It's so crazy that a whole year has already gone by, it seems like just yesterday I was coming home from the hospital, or he was trying to roll over. Some of Johnny's big accomplishments this last year are and have been: rolling, crawling, sitting up, saying ma ma and da da, walking, talking, obeying his parents, learning to eat solid foods, helping clean the kitchen, and most recently bossing nana's dogs around. Here's a picture of him from each month up til now.

This was taken in the hospital a few hours after he was born.

A couple days after coming home.

1 Month

2 Months

3 Months

4 Months

5 Months

6 Months

7 Months

8 Months

9 Months

10 Months

11 Months

12 Months, this morning with banana all over his face.... We're so happy that we have Johnny, our lives have been so much better since he was born, it's so fun being a mom and seeing your kid learn something new every day.

Happy Halloween!!!

Johnny didn't quite understand Halloween this year, but he looked so cute in his costume and he got to do a lot of fun stuff. The day before Halloween, Davie's work had an indoor Trick or Treating party for the kids. Johnny loves going to see his Daddy at work so he was way excited about that, and he liked looking at all the other kids costumes. He had a pumpkin trick or treat bucket, which he loves, he thinks it's a toy.

Johnny wouldn't sit still for any pictures, so they're a little blurry and he's walking away in this one. But you get the idea, he looked so cute in his costume.

On Halloween Davie got off work early and we went down to Salt Lake to spend time with his family and to have a birthday party for Johnny. Jefrilyn made us a really good dinner and planned a fun party for Johnny. We all went Trick or Treating together and then went back to her place to sing Happu Birthday and open presents. Johnny had no idea what to do with the candle, it was cute, so we blew it out for him. And when it was time for presents it took a while to convince him to tear the paper off. He really likes all his gifts though and liked it when everyone sang to him.

Lazy...

I have been really lazy about blogging lately, so I'll try to catch everything up in a couple posts. Things have been good, but very busy lately. We've been trying to find a house before the end of the year, and it's a lot harder than you would think, we've found a couple maybe's, but we'd either have to have a smaller kitchen than we'd like, or live 15 min outside of town in the boonies. We're going to pray about it and see what seems the best for us.

Like everyone one else in Logan we went to the Pumpkin Walk last week. Johnny thought it was really cool and wanted to touch all the pumkins. He really liked the Noah's Ark display, he loves animals right now.

With everything going on with the election lately I thought that these two displays were funny. Their heads are really made out of pumpkins, so they did a good job.

On another political note.....I usually try to stay out of it, but for those who haven't heard, the democratic party released an ad this morning bashing mormons, particularly missionaries. It shows to mormon missionaries going into someones home who happens to be a lesbian and tying her up and saying " we're from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and we're here to take your rights away". Please take this into consideration when voting today, even if the the person you're voting for didn't make this ad, remember, their party may have and they haven't said anything to distance themselves from it or to speak out against it.