Our Valentine's Day

Ahhh! Relaxation! That is all I can say. Mark and I had a really fun Valentine's day this year, a few days early because that is when we could get a babysitter. I booked us a couple's massage and it was really good. I have never felt so good before. I just might have to make this a regular occurance. We went out to dinner afterwards. It was such a good night of relaxation and lots of good conversation. And being away from the kids didn't hurt. I love you honey!

The boys had tons of fun at their Valentine's parties. And I think their little Valentine's boxes are so dang cute. I don't know how people come up with such cute ideas.

No Snow 5k

Last weekend Mark and I did a 5k at UVU, although it ended up not really being a 5k it was a little short. We think it was really almost 2 miles. It was pretty fun though, we got to run crazy through the halls of UVU! Mark ran it in 14:something and I was at 17:something. I can't remember exactly. I have never really been into running but I have fun doing it. I hope that I will get faster as I run more! (Sorry the picture is so small, we took it with Mark's phone)

My Boys

I have to admit that I have some of the cutest little boys ever. Here are a few things that have happened lately.

Here is Ryder posing for the camera. He is really moving now and almost crawling. He gets up on his hands and knees and will do one or two little crawls, but then resorts back to his army crawl.


And here is Conner doing almost the same pose, when he was Ryder's age. This is not the best picture, but he is so cute in it! I really see a lot of Conner in Ryder.

Mark took this picture while I was working the other day. He thought it was really cute that Paxton put his arm around Ryder.

Mark tends the boys while I work a couple nights each week during tax season. I thought I would give doing taxes a try this year. We'll see how it goes. But I have to say, Mark has been so good with the boys. He has lots of fun playing with them when I am not around, at least I think he does! And he even cleans the house. I don't know how he does it. I think maybe he is trying to show me that I should be able to multitask and clean the house and take care of the boys at the same time.

January Updates

This year is already flying by for us. When will time slow down?

Both Conner and Paxton had their check up the end of this month. Conner weighed 43 lbs (50% I think) and was 47 inches tall (97%) Paxton weigh 26 lbs (25%) and 33 1/2 inches tall (75%) on the Down syndrome chart. I have to go back in and have Paxton's yearly CBC and also a series of x-rays done on his neck to check for instability.

Ryder has learned that it is fun to move around. He has started to army crawl all over the place. The beginning of last week he started rocking back and forth on his hands and knees and really trying to move, and just a few days later he really started going. It is fun to watch him and his determination to get to what he wants. Sometimes his little legs push him too much and he does a face plant but he just keeps going. I guess I am really going to have to start watching him now!

On Saturday Mark was watching the boys, while I was at work, and they were watching Survivorman. Well the guy was on a island and was eating coconuts, lizards and grasshoppers. Conner thought that it was WAY COOL! So they made "Lizard and Grasshopper Noodles" for dinner. Then on Monday for Family Home Evening this week we had a coconut for our treat.

My boys also helped Grandma make cookies and this is the result of Paxton with chocolate frosting.

Paxton is completely "graduated" from Kids Who Count. We have had so much fun with them, at playgroup and having the therapists come into our home. Here are some of Pax's favorite people!

Mary, our OT, she has been coming since Paxton got home from the hospital, he was 5 weeks old.

Melanie did our playgroup and also came to our house to work with Paxton on lots of different stuff.

Donna, Speech

Kim, PT