Annley Says...

Tyler talking to Annley about her birthday.

"Annley, did you know your birthday is in a few weeks?"
"Yes."
"How old will you be?"
"2?"
"No, 3."
"And then I can get married."
"You have to be at least 21 before you can get married."

"When I'm 3 Hadley (her cousin) will be 2."
"Well, Hadley will still be 3."
"You can both be 3 at the same time."

"Annley, what do you want for your birthday?"
"A cake and a green dress. How about a party? 3 parties. And a Minnie like Hadley and then she can wear a white dress."


Singing while eating breakfast,

"Old McPrincess Jasmine had a farm,
With a blue jammie dress,
And on that farm she had a duck E-I-E-I-O,
With a quack quack here and a quack quack there,
Old McPrincess Jasmine had a farm E-I-E-I-O."


I showed Annley one of the pictures from my ultrasound and went on to explain that there is a baby growing in my tummy.

"Mommy, is the baby sleeping in your tummy?"
"Yes."
"The baby is sleeping in your tummy so the big mean dog can't get the baby."


- Posted from my iPad

Too Much at One Time

In one blog that is.

The last five months have been very stressful.

We have been living with Tyler's parents for awhile now. Living with them has been a huge blessing, but it has also had it's stresses. It's probably just me but living in someone else's house makes me paranoid about what my kids are doing and how much stress we are putting on those we are living with.

Tyler's sister came to stay with us few weeks as well. It was great getting to know her and her kids so much better. I think we did pretty well considering we had 11 people under one roof. Did I mention my in-laws are awesome for allowing all of us to stay and never complaining?

Tyler has been out of work for the last 5 months. He sent out applications to about 40 job opportunities nationwide and got two responses. A position for a job in Greenville SC and one in Seattle WA. We both felt good about the Washington job immediately but decided to interview for both jobs.

Tyler was offered the job in Seattle and will be leaving at the end of March. Unfortunately, the kids and I will be staying behind for a few months.
We will miss him terribly but are so grateful that he has been offered this job.

Did I mention that during this time we discovered that baby #3 is on it's way?

The last 5 months have been very stressful.


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A Child's Prayer

Annley's bedtime routine goes like this: We read a story then scriptures,family prayer and her prayers.

This was tonight's prayer

"Heavenly Father,
I'm thankful for this day.
I'm thankful for Mommy and Daddy and Jesus.
I'm thankful for watching movies.
I'm thankful for Captain Moroni for fighting.
Please bless Annley that I will sleep all night.
Bless Mommy and Daddy that they can sleep in their bed all night and that we can live happily ever after.
Amen.

Yay! And now Jesus is happy!!!"


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9 Months

The other day I realized there hardly any blogs dedicated to Parker. I pretty sure there is only one blog about him and that's the blog announcing his birth so this is long overdue.

A few words to describe Parker; mischievous, bulldozer, happy-go-lucky, climber, ambitious, clown, cuddly, friendly, determined, master of the stairs, chatter box, amateur electrician.

He has six teeth, four on top and two on bottom.

At nine months he is inches long and weighs pounds.

Parker loves being in the middle of everything that is going on. Like his sister, his favorite games are tag and the tickle game.

He is now sleeping through the night. Thank Goodness!

We are pretty sure Parker can sense electrical current anywhere within a 10 foot radius. He may have super powers but it's too early to know for sure.



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Sweet Pea

Tyler & I took this picture tonight while posing for the picture he looked at me and said,

"You smell like another woman."

"Really? That's weird."

A few minutes later while we were cuddling on the couch I saw him inconspicuously sniffing the air. I was worried my breath was offending him then he said again that I smelled like another woman.

That's when I remembered I was wearing a new lotion his mom had given me for Christmas.

I held up my arm and made him sniff my wrist.

"Yep. That's it."

"Well, do you like it? I used to wear it all the time before I met you."

"I don't know."

"What do you mean you don't know?"

"It smells good but I used to know someone else who used to wear it. I don't know who but you smell like another woman."






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Annley Says...

Right now Annley says some pretty funny things.

"What goes beep in the night?"
"I don't know. What?"
"The baby mommytor."
Our previous baby monitor used to beep whenever someone touched it & sometimes just randomly.


Last month we were walking through the grocery store. Annley was walking backwards.
"Annley, please turn around and walk forward so we can go faster."
"No, mommy. I just want to walk with my bum behind me."


Tanner's cat, Beej, died while we were out of town for Christmas. One morning at breakfast Annley mentioned her.
"Beej is hungry."
"Oh, Honey, Beej died. She lives with Heavenly Father now."
"And she is telling her family all about me."


Tyler was talking to Annley.
"Annley, you're so awesome."
"I know."


Last Monday it snowed about 6 inches in South Carolina.
We told Annley that when she woke up on Monday there would be snow.
She jumped up and down happily and started making plans.
"I'm going to make a snowman and throw snowballs, and then we can build an igloo."


Monday morning, we saw 3 deer walking into the woods from the kitchen window.
"LOOK!!! IT'S RUDOLPH! He is going to into the forest. I'm going to build my snowman and then go in the forest to find Rudolph."


On Monday, when it snowed, Annley and Tyler built a snowman. As Annley and Tyler worked on their snowman, Annley gave specific instructions.
"Give him eyes."
"Give him a nose."
"He needs a scarf and a hat."
"Give him a mouth."
"Now you need to give him feet."
"Now I will hug him and he will talk and play with me!"
We're going to have to reduce the viewings of the movie The Snowman to a minimum, I think.


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Echo

By Tyler

Annley had her arms around my neck.

"What's wrong with your ear, daddy?"

"Nothing."

"But it's BLEEDING!"

"No, it's not."

"But there's a HOLE in it!"

"Annley, that hole is for sound to get in so I can hear."

(Leaning in close to 'the hole') "ECHO!"