Monday, October 24

Firsts

My baby girls are 7 months old and getting cuter by the day.
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They are so much fun right now! I know I've said it before but it is so fun to watch them discover new things. 
We have had quite a few firsts around here lately. Some good and some not so good.
A few weeks ago Wrigley decided she was a big girl now and started pulling herself up on things. The first time she did it I was shocked! She wasn't even 7 months old...she's not supposed to be doing this yet! 
She's a very observant little thing and I think she thinks she can do whatever she sees everyone else doing. She definitely thinks she's bigger than she is. :) At first, she would fall every time because she wasn't sturdy enough to stay standing and I don't think she understood she was supposed to keep herself standing. But she is catching on. She keeps herself up pretty good now and is pretty good at catching herself if she is going to fall. She also walks along the couch. She has also let go of the couch a few times and turned like she was just going to up and walk away, but of course fell on her face.There's no stopping this girl. I don't know if it's because she's doing this or what, but she seems so grown up to me lately...more like a little girl than a baby. I sure do love my crazy, active little Wrigley. She keeps us on our toes and we never know what she is going to try next.
Morley has been watching Wrigley and in the last week is pulling herself up on things also. She's not real sturdy yet though. I'm afraid they are both going to be walking pretty early. 

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Another first we've had recently is a first tooth! Last week Morley's first tooth popped through. I could see it underneath her gums Wednesday night before we went to bed. We had an extremely rough night and in the morning, we had a tooth! So sometime during the night it came through...which explains the crazy, sleepless night. It is the bottom, left, front tooth. She doesn't like to let anyone see it. The few times I've seen it is when she is crying and she moves her tongue out of the way. It is so cute and I can't wait until I can get a picture of it! :)

The girls took their first trip to DISNEYLAND two weeks ago!! Oh it was a blast! There will be a whole post dedicated to that very soon. 

We have an official crawler now! Wrigley actually crawls on her hands and knees. She isn't very quick yet and it's kind of funny to watch but she's figuring it out. :) Morley still army crawls. She's experimented on her hands and knees but seems to prefer army crawling. It's much quicker! ;)


We've had a lot of firsts when it comes to baby food. Trying new things all the time. They both love eating baby food and have liked pretty much everything we have given them. There has only been one thing that Wrigley didn't like...green beans. They made her gag, but she kept opening her mouth for me to give her more. :) Morley liked them. She likes everything we have tried. 

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Jeff fed them baby food for the first time last week. It was very messy! :) 

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Morley kept trying to get to me. She's still such a Momma's girl and seemed very confused why daddy was feeding them. :)


The not so good first....
Morley got her first big ouchy yesterday. :(  It still makes me so sad.
I was in the kitchen getting some bottles ready and Jeff was in the living room with the girls. I heard a crash and figured one of them had pulled themselves up on something and fallen...it happens quite often...but then I heard Morley start screaming. So I ran in there right as Jeff was picking her up. He lifted her up and there was blood pouring down her face. I ran to the bathroom to get some tissues and Jeff brought her in there. I put pressure on her head where the blood was coming from until it stopped bleeding. I had no idea what had happened or how bad it was. I asked Jeff what happened and he told me the cord from my pump was hanging down off the couch and she had pulled it and the plug (one of those big, heavy, black, square ones) had fallen and landed (prongs down) on her head. When it stopped bleeding, we could see the 2 marks where the prongs landed and one had split open her head. I felt so horrible. I left the cord hanging off the couch. They don't usually get over to that side of the couch and so I never even thought about putting it up. I felt so stupid and like a horrible mom. It's my fault that my baby got hurt and I hate that. :( 
I was so worried that it could have done some damage because it's so heavy and landed right on the top of her head. She cried for a little while and then started acting completely normal like her happy little self and that made me feel a lot better. 


These pictures are from last night. You can see in the bottom one where it's starting to bruise on the top of her head. Today it is pretty bruised but doesn't seem to be bothering her unless she accidentally bumps it on something while she's crawling around. Poor little thing. I still feel so horrible. :(


I really can't believe how fast my babies are growing up. It has been such a fun & crazy journey. I look forward to every day with them. They make life so amazing!
I love you my Wrigs and Morley girl!

Jeff is 30!

My husband is an old man! ;)
We were out of town on Jeff's birthday so we didn't celebrate until the next Sunday.
We got together with Mike, Nate & Caitlin at my parents house to open presents and have cake. 
I made Jeff's favorite cake! 


Bridger wanted to help Jeff open his presents. It was so funny because I think he got confused a few times whose presents they were. :) When Jeff opened his McDonald's gift card Bridger said, "Oh! Maybe we better go to McDonald's!" He kept us all laughing!


Jeff isn't a big fan of people buying him presents or celebrating his birthday, but he got some fun gifts that I think he liked. I really hope he had a good day!


We love you Jeffy!

Thursday, October 20

25 on the 25th

I had such a fun birthday weekend this year! 
Mckay gave Jeff and I his tickets to the BYU game that Friday night because one of his friend's was getting married so he wasn't going to be able to go to the game.
My parents watched the girls for us and it was a super fun date night! It was a gorgeous night! Perfect night for a football game! 
And BYU won!! Wooo!!


Saturday was a busy day. I had two baby showers to go to that were at the exact same time. They were both from 1-3. How does that even happen? I took Wrigley with me and made it to both of them for a little bit while Jeff took Morley with him to run some errands. It's amazing how much easier it is to go places with just one baby! 
After I was done at the showers we met Mike, Jeff, Morley, Marsh & Melinda at Tucano's for a birthday dinner! :)

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We gave the girls each a roll to chew on which they were totally thrilled about!



My grandparents sent me some Baskin Robbins gift certificates for my birthday so later that night Jeff, the girls & I went to get some ice cream. We took it home to eat it because they girls were ready for bed. I ate about 4 or 5 bites of mine and realized how full I still was from Tucano's, so I saved the rest for another night. :)

Sunday was my actual birthday and a party at my parents house. 
My mom bought the girls these toys to be kept at her house for them to play with when we are over. It's so fun to see how excited they get over toys they have never seen before. Their eyes get real big and they can't seem to get to the toy fast enough. It's cute.

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I got lots of fun gifts and my cute little Wrigs was such a big helper opening my presents/eating the wrapping paper and bows. :)


Thanks everyone for all the birthday wishes via text message, Facebook, phone calls and cards. 
I felt very loved and had a great birthday!

Baby Wrestlers

The twins have taken up wrestling!







At least Morley is learning to fight back! ;)

Wednesday, October 19

Here We Go Again

Marshall was able to go back to Oregon yesterday to finish out his mission. 
We went to my parents house on Monday night to be there when he got set apart.


While the Stake President was setting him apart I was sitting on the couch and Wrigley was standing on the floor in front of me. Towards the end of the prayer she looked over at Marsh and laughed. Who knows why....everyone had their eyes closed. It was dang funny, though. That girl cracks me up.
In the above picture, she was too interested in Grandma's hair to look at the camera. She kept pulling it. :)

Marshall's plane was leaving at 11:00 on Tuesday morning. The kids all had school so they said their goodbyes before school. Mckay, the twins and I went with my parents to take him to the airport. 


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I'm so so sad that this picture is blurry. :(
The hardest part for me was when he said goodbye to the girls. They are going to be so big when he gets back.

I will be posting updates and his emails on his missionary blog again if anyone wants to check it out.

Saturday, October 15

Burger King

Is it weird that I'm dedicating a whole post to Burger King??
I kind of think it is....Oh well.
We stopped at Burger King on the way home from one of Jeff's softball games a few weeks ago.
It was the first time I had put the girls in a high chair so it must be documented! :)
These chairs were nasty! I scrubbed them down with like 10 wipes before I let the girls near them....yes, I am that mom.

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Oh my, aren't they cute?!
It just hurts my heart a little when I think about how fast they are growing up.

Thursday, October 6

Dalton's Birthday

At the beginning of September we were invited to Dalton's first birthday party.
It was at the park by their house and the girls loved being outside and playing on the grass.

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Little Dalton wasn't a big fan of his cupcake. 

But he was a fan of the babies! And the babies love him! :) I think they will be great friends!
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Cute Dalton sat on my lap while I ate and shared my watermelon. :)

Aren't these the cutest cupcakes that Caitlin made?!
 Thanks for inviting us to your party, Dalton!



This has nothing to do with the party, but I wanted to post about it.
When Morley woke up the morning after the party, I noticed a red mark on her arm. I thought it was just from sleeping on it but it didn't go away. 
Throughout the day I noticed more and more red spots and they started looking like hives.
They kept spreading up her legs and arms and on her face.

I had given them bananas for the first time that morning and I wondered if she was allergic to them.
It was a Saturday so I called the urgent care at our Doctor's office just to see what they thought I should do. They asked me some questions and told me to give her some children's Benadryl and take her in on Monday if it had gotten any worse.
Sunday morning she looked a lot worse so I kept her home from church. I felt so bad, but it didn't seem to bother her at all.

When she woke up Monday morning she looked better but throughout the day they started coming back. So I called the Doctor and they said to bring her in.
He looked at her and said it was a viral infection. He said he actually sees a lot of it in small kids this time of year. I told him about the bananas and that I thought she might be allergic to them and he said with food allergies the hives would appear mostly on the stomach and back. She had none on her stomach or back. Anyway he said it would just have to run its course and to let him know if it got any worse. 
The hives were completely gone the next day. And Wrigley never caught the virus, thank goodness.


This is also completely unrelated but that same day, Jeff put Wrigley's headband on her....
Doesn't it look attractive?! :)

Wednesday, October 5

Proof

That little Miss Wrigley can't keep her hands off of Morley.


 And poor little Morley always trying to get away! 



These two make me laugh all day long.