Abigail's 10 months and summer fun

Happy to be 10 months!!!

Yum, tasty

Well, hello

La-la-laaaa!

Yes, Abby is 10 months old now.  She's trying to walk, doing a little bit of cruising along furniture.   She's even standing for longer periods of time,  she'll go for about 30 seconds and we can see her chubby little legs just shaking with concentration to not sit down,it's cute.  Her favorite sound to make is "da-da-da-da" which makes Farris really happy, of course. Although she's not doing too much that is new-new, but she's doing everything harder and better and longer.  The other day she discovered our little toy walker and she spent a lot of time zooming up and down the hallway downstairs. (I'm trying to load the video...having problems with the new blogger, if any of you know how to do it, let me know!)

For our playgroup the other day we had a parade!  The kids could dress up in costumes and decorate bikes or wagons, and then there was the noise! The noise, NOISE, NOISE, NOISE, NOISE! (heh.  anybody recognize where that quote comes from?  hint: it's a Dr. Seuss book :)  The kids had a lot of fun with some noise makers, actually had a lot of fun.  We went up and down the street from our church and we made a few smiles from people passing by in cars.  We also invited Brother Wharton to join us as our Grand Marshall, but he declined. 

Felicity reprised her Cowgirl costume from Halloween, including tying her stick horse onto her bike.  Caleb was a soccer player but I didn't get a picture of his soccer field he decorated his bike with (he was moving too fast!) and Joseph couldn't decide what to dress up as, so he just smiled his charming little smile and enjoyed the parade.

Seth was a noisy dinosaur!

And Abigail was a sweet little princess.  Who didn't like her hat and spent most of the time trying to eat it. 

We went to our city's splash pad one day. Their favorite thing to do is sit on the fountains, giggle, giggle, giggle.



Seth spent the whole time running back and forth, getting wet, drying off, getting wet, and drying off.  Such a cutie.

 

Caleb loves it.

Felicity loved packing Abby around through the fountains.  Abby wasn't too sure, she liked to get her hands wet, but then it would hit her face and she'd look stunned.  I can't wait to try her out in the pool later this summer. 

Father's Day is always fun, the kids love looking for gifts for Dad.  This year we made a special card (umm, yes, the idea from Pinterest) where we traced all the kids right foot and then Farris' right foot and then glued them in a stack with the words "Following in Daddy's Footsteps."  It turned out really cute, although Felicity was disappointed because Caleb's foot was exactly the same size.  I had to pull her foot up a little higher so we could see it at all.  Joseph's foot is only a size or two bigger than Seths.  Yup, I can already tell who is going to be the tall ones in our family. 

And now I have to tell a Joseph Quote.

Joseph came running into the kitchen this morning.  "Mom!  Can I have a monkey?"

I was a little alarmed "What? You want a monkey?"

He turned red. "I mean, can I have a banana?" 

It made me laugh.  Because I can totally see him asking me for a monkey. 

Caleb's Baptism

Caleb turned 8 years old on May 29th!  He was so excited, not just for his birthday, but also that he was going to be baptized in just a few days.  He wanted a Lego cake, so I decided to try fondant for the first time.  I got a recipe off of Allrecipes.com that was called butter cream fondant, it said that it tasted better than regular fondant....but it kind of melted so I had to shlop (that might not be a word, but it's what it felt like) it on and pat it in place.  Anyone have a recipe that works better? 

He still liked it (even all shloppy), and the kids loved the marshmallow nubs on the top. 

We gave him a Lego City police boat set, he loved that it actually could float and after it was all together we had to try it out in the kitchen sink.

We managed to catch the perfect expression with this present from grandma Child--a light saber.  Now he can give up on using sticks or forks or...socks...and actually have something respectable.  He also got a Moon Phase light from G-ma and G-pa Newey which he has really been excited about.  He knows he wants to be a scientist, he just keeps bouncing from space or marine or insect, I think he just likes learning about things. 

 On June 2nd, he was baptized.  What a blessing!  We had much of our family there (we missed those of you who couldn't come!) Caleb really enjoyed having so much support and love.  After all the preparation the actual baptism happens so fast, but the Spirit was strong and Caleb has been writing about it in his journal so I hope that moment is what he will remember the most.

 This is all the Newey cousins (minus Tanner who is still on his mission), I love this shot because of Rachel doing some kind of crazy Chicken Dance.  SHE IS HILARIOUS!  Of course, Seth wasn't being an angel at the moment either, as you can see he's in take off mode.  And Blake wasn't really sure why we handed the baby to him. 

 The picture with the adults was a little more sedate.  I think we threatened them with something, but I can't remember what it was...we're just missing my brother Robert and Tanner, of course.

 And here's the Child family, we're missing Geri and Cody and family, Desi and Nick and family, and Sam and Kolleen and (I guess we can count Audi the dog) family.  We have another baptism on this side coming up soon, so I hope we'll get to see them there. 

 For our traditional Baptism Present, we give the kids their own set of hardback scriptures and a journal with their names engraved on it.  He's been asking for a set, and a bigger scripture bag (which is in the works) for awhile so he was pretty happy with it.

And I don't have any pictures, but we've been enjoying summer break.  We've stuck to the schedule of chores, reading time, then free time so far.  Hmmm, I hope we make it all summer! It's been a hot summer so our garden is kind of fried, but my sis brought a new plant for us to try.  It's called Stivia (I'm not sure I'm spelling it right) but it's sort of a sugar plant.  The leaves can be steeped or ground and then put in whatever you want sweetened, so there is less processing than with white sugar, sooo it's supposed to be better for you and since it is sweeter than white sugar you use less of it.  It should be an adventure, anyway, and I'm excited!  Also growing at our house now is an ivy plant my aunt brought to us.  It's an ivy plant with history!  It's from a start from the ivy we had at our wedding receptions.  I'm not the best at keeping house plants alive (yeah, my degree is for OUTSIDE plants.  Heh) and managed to kill off the two we kept, so it's sweet to have a little bit of our history back.  But if anyone managed to keep one of those goldfish alive that we had a the receptions, that's ok, you can keep it.  I am very sure a fish wouldn't last too long in this curious household.

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And now I just have to share some cute pictures...

 

I'm still trying to get a "stinky face" picture.  She just doesn't want it captured for posterity, I think.  We'll try to sneak it out of her.