Adah 18 Months

Adah is 18 months old

22.2 lbs 17%

33" tall 83%

I love this baby girl so much. She is so busy and very smart. She gets into everything, and I spend most of my days following her around and picking up her messes. She's still a very light sleeper but yet a good sleeper. She goes to bed at 8:00pm and sleeps until 8:00am. She wakes up about half the nights for a bottle and diaper change around 5-6am and goes back to sleep. She also takes a 2 hour nap around noon. She always wakes up happy and  ready to go! I love that about her. Her favorite foods are: bananas, peaches n cream oatmeal, toast, pears, pancakes with strawberry jam, cheese, tortilla and cheese, marshmallows, and gold fish crackers. She has 3 bottles a day about 8oz each time. She knows how to sign: please, drink, more, baby, and book. She can say the following words: mommy, daddy, doggie, cat, cow, ball, shoe, nose, please, thank you, uh-oh, bunny, pooh-bear, drink, cheese, baba, binky, baby, book, blanket. She knows where her ears, nose, feet, hands, bum, eyes, mouth, and hair are. Her and Emmett like to run around while I vacuum and they are playing really well together. She loves to look at books, push her baby in her stroller, and help mom with house chores. She loves to dance with her dad in the kitchen.  She has little to no interest in tv. She runs on her tippy toes and it's the cutest thing! She looks like she might tip over at any minute, but gets around pretty quick. She loves her blankets and binky. She always is asking for them and carrys a blanket everywhere she goes. She also loves stuffed animals!

I love to shop for Adah and dressing her is my hobby. You practice your whole kid life dressing your dolls and being a pretend mom, and she's my real doll. I love being a mom. My life revolves around my kids and I eat up everything they do.  Bret loves them as much as I do and we could talk about our kids for hours.

Dad & Adah Oct 2012

I was getting ready to put Adah down for a nap and Ememtt asked to hold her, which he never does and she would normally never let him do. He was watching a tv show and I got the two of them comfortable and he held her until she feel asleep. Adah still likes to rub her blanket on her nose, and then she'll rub her blanket on your nose. That's what she's trying to do to Emmett in this picture. I love seeing my kids play together.  

Adah had to get her ear tubes put in again. One fell out and I wanted to get them fixed before the end of the year since we'd already met our deductible for her. She has had 6 ear infections since Jan, poor baby. 4 of those were before she got tubes put in last April. I just love these pictures of her in her hospital gown. We had to wait about 2 hours before Dr. Parsons was ready for her 15 min surgery. We walked the halls most of the time and there wasn't one person that didn't walk past her and smile, or say how cute she looked. She was the cutest little patient.

St George Marathon & Halloween & Ear Tubes

I ran the Top of Utah marathon and the St George marathon this year. They were 3 weeks apart so I ran the TOU very slow and careful as I wanted to do good in St. George. They were both great races but I have a deep love for St George. Our family friend Kurt Evan was going to run St George with me and died in a car accident two weeks before the race. We're are all so heart broken about this. He's been a part of our family and we love him so much. My heart goes out to his kids and family. Kurt was a fantastic person and father. I called the race director and they let me run with Kurt's number. After the race I gave his bib and medal to his wife. Kurt ran his first marathon with me in 2009 and has run several since. While I was running people people behind me would yell, " go Kurt". It was really special for me to run for him. Bret's brother Blair also ran this first marathon this year. He did great and trained and worked really hard. He told Bret that it was the hardest thing he's ever done, physically or mentally. I was happy to have him tell Bret because then he hears it from somebody besides myself. Marathons are never easy, I'd quit doing them if they became easy. I finished St George at 4:01:00. Pretty average time. Larry and I had a great pace most of the race. We had a bathroom stop, band aid/blister stop, and talked to the family too long at snow canyon, which hurt our time a little but we ran well. I sure love running with Larry. He turned 60 on Nov 1st and still kicks my butt. He's in awesome shape.

Picking Pumpkins

Oct 2012

Halloween 2012

My little lady bug

Emmett insisted he was a bull not just a cow.

Adah had to get ear tubes put in again. One fell out and with the upcoming cold season and already meeting our insurance deductible we decided to have them put in again. She caused a big scene at the hospital anytime a nurse even looked at her. The doctor was running a little behind and we had to wait an extra 2 hours before her 15 min surgery. She had to fast and that made me really fussy. We walked the halls for about an hour and she looked so cute in her gown. She waved at almost everybody that walked past her and people couldn't

help but smile. She slept a lot that day, which was nice for me and she's been happy since.