Cabin fever!

For the past five or six months since I quit working part time I have LOVED it, but I will admit that January and a little bit of February are giving me some cabin fever! I just want the sun to come out so me and Sophie can go on walks and go out to the pool every single day!! I really cannot wait. But since we have been cooped up inside I have had to lean on my friends and some family to keep me sane!

Me and Sophie met up with my friend Brittany and her little boy Desmond. He was so funny and cute with her. He loves kisses and could not get enough of her! Sophie is pretty funny with little boys. At church she likes to find them and smile at them sitting around us. If any walk out to the bathroom or something she stares at them and smiles. Its so cute, but a little scary! I think we are going to have our hands full.

Sophie had fun playing with these other two babies at my friend Michelle's house. We wanted to get together and try out that Dance Central game and get out of the house! She is getting alot more mobile and likes to stand up now, but she still can't move forward and crawl. She looks like she is so close and then won't move her hands! We have decided to not push it anymore or worry about it so we have moved on to standing with her and letting her do her own thing. It's funny to watch her with other babies because she likes them alot until they get in her 'bubble.' She gets scared I think because they can crawl up to her and she can't move! Its pretty funny to watch.

Michelle and her little boy were so cute playing this boxing game. He was hilarious to watch play the Kinect. He was trying to play this racing one and he was just standing there and jumping up and down and waving his arms. He is so cute!

My poor little Soph has gotten a little cold and a cough mixed with teething off and on in the past week. The cough never seems very bad during the day but in the night its hard to hear her up coughing and not be able to do anything about it. It seems like its never going to go away! I have been trying not to take her out in the cold very much and I have been putting Baby Vicks Vaporub on her before she goes to bed but I dont think it really helps with her nose at all. This picture she looks a little bit sad and sick feeling.. :(

Here is a picture of all her teeth! She is nine months old and is growing in her 7th tooth! She has so many they are so cute. She has four on top and in the process of three on bottom. Its pretty funny though she can eat like saltine crackers and just hold them and bite them right off with her teeth.

Grandma Moore gave her this cute purple little lamb dress. She looks so cute in it I had to take a picture of her before church yesterday! It is SO hard to stay the whole three hours at church with her. Actually it is almost impossible because her nap time is at 10, and our church is at nine. Unfortunately she has passed the stage of falling asleep in her carseat at all. I dont know how people do it with a bunch of little kids! Right after sacrament is over she starts going crazy because she wants to be in bed. We usually end up trading off on who takes her home and who stays for the other two hours because if not one of us just sits in the hall fighting her. Yesterday was Tyler's day to bring her home and when I got home I found these two on our bed asleep watching Baby Einsteins. She almost NEVER falls asleep with us because she likes to be in her crib but apparently she was realllly tired and couldnt fight it.

Her little face looks so round and chunky in this pic. I love this! There is nothing Tyler loves more than cuddling with Soph. This weekend Sophie was so attached to Tyler for some reason. I think she just misses him so much during the week while hes gone. It's hard because he gets home at almost 7 and Sophie goes to bed at 8-8:30 usually so he only sees her for an hour in the evenings. She loves when he gets home, when she hears the garage opening she stares at the door to see if he's coming in. Its kind of sad but I can't really say the word "dada"during the day with her here because she gets excited and thinks he's home and then is let down. At church yesterday she wouldnt even sit with me! She would cry if I tried to take her from him, and when I was sitting in the hall with her he came out and she started screaming when he walked away! Normally I would've felt bad about it for myself, but I just thought it was cute. And its kinda nice to have a break. More and more I have started realizing why people would say its hard to have kids! I look around now and think how do they this with twins?! Or how do they have 4 kids under 4?! Being a Mom is really rewarding but also takes alot of patience!

I miss my bro!

Lately I have been starting to really wish that my brother Josh lived closer. He has missed out on so many things since he has been in Iraq and Afghanistan, and when he was here he lived clear in Texas! Living so far away from him makes me realize that I never ever want to move really far away from the rest of our family members because its too hard and expensive to see each other. He has never met Sophie and we never get to see his cute little kids either! I love them so much and have only seen them like 3 times. He is one of the funniest people I know and I just really wish we lived closer! It was his birthday recently so I have been thinking alot about him and all the fun times growing up together. It was so funny how hard he tried to annoy my parents. His one set job growing up was to water the trees in our yard, we had moved into a new house and the trees were all tiny at first and needed watering in the summer/fall. You would think this would be a fairly easy job but actually the trees outlined our whole huge yard and it was hard to drag that hose all the way around the house. I can still picture him out there trying to figure out ways to make the watering easier/faster while dressed in sweats and a hoodie in the summer time, and of course shorts and a tshirt in the colder fall weather. I am cracking up here thinking about how he dug and dug for hours out there trying to dig a canal to every tree so that if he watered in one spot it would magically drain through the canal to every tree in the yard. Sadly, that did not work!

I loved riding with him to school in the mornings. He has the worst road rage and in high school was super mean to people that got in our way. People that dont know him probably think this sounds really mean but since it was him it was so funny to watch how mad he got. My favorite year was the year we got to drop Ashley off at the Junior High. Ashley was always in the back seat with us and some reason he loved to pick on her on the way to school! Some mornings when we were rushed my mom would make us nutrimeal shakes to take with us and on our way to school Josh slammed on his brakes and Ashleys went flying all over her outfit. She wanted to go home but Josh wouldnt so we dropped her off at school with chocolate all over her outfit! Poor ASh had some bad experiences in that old white neon.

These are his cute kids! Olivia and Henry. She is a few years older than him but he weighs the same since she is the tiniest cutest little girl ever! I wish they could play with Sophie and she could get to know her first two cousins!

No one else better move away from me! It seems like so many of my friends and family members are leaving and I just want everyone to stay here!!