Random shots of the boys

Easter weekend we went to
the park after getting some
yard work done. I walked as
did Jonah and Jeremy rode his
bike, Andrew his scooter. It
was an overcast day so the
weather was just right.











The boys had crazy dress up
day at school a couple of weeks
ago. Andrew decided he was
going to dress up as a girl. I
didn't think he would really do
it but sure enough he borrowed
one of my skirts and then proceeded
to put pants on his head. He didn't
make it all day. Jonah and Jeremy
didn't either with their bulges, but
they had a lot of fun putting them
together and going to school that

way.

Here are the boys one

morning that we

worked out in the yard.

We were cleaning out

all the dead stuff from

the year before. We

tend to procrastinate this

until it gets too cold to do.

Jeremy was very happy to be

out doing yard work, because

I told the boys I would do their

chores if they worked in the

yard. It can be challenging to

get out there with Lilly. He was

also happy because he had earned

MP3 time.

I recruited Andrew and Jonah, who

recruited the next door neighbors

to help crush soda cans so we could

recycle them. Jonah really had a

blast doing it.

Some of Lilly's new tricks

These are some of Lilly's new tricks. I was surprised

that she cooperated with me as she doens't usually

do on demand. This does not contain her giving me five

nor clapping (as this occured after this video). I really

don't like hearing my own voice so you will just have to

hang on through that part. I must have been pretty

shaky too, so sorry if you get motion sickness! ;)

Catching up on Lilly

Lilly has been growing by
leaps and bounds. I can't
hardly keep up with it all.
About a month and a half
ago I was laying in bed
trying to ignore Lilly's
chatter because I wasn't
quite ready to get up yet and
I look over to see her standing
in her crib. If I remember right
this was the second time we
caught her standing up. It took
her a month before she felt
comfortable doing it out in the
living room as we have the
wood laminate and she's
smacked her head many times
already. The second pic took
forever to capture because every time Lilly would carry
something in her mouth I would get the camera out and she
would quit doing it. I just think it's really cute to see her being
a little puppy.

This was taken during Easter
weekend. The boys and I got
quite a few weeds pulled that
morning so I told them we could
walk to the park that afternoon.
It was overcast so the lighting
wasn't so great as you can see in
this pic, but she just has her
adorable scrunched up face and
huge smile that I find so endearing. Had to share it.

This one you have to look at
closely, but I had just gotten her
up from a nap to see hand prints
on her face. One on her cheek and
she managed to get a second one
up above her ear. She is definately
like her brothers when they sleep
in that she sleeps all over the bed.
Lilly also is like her Dad and Andrew
in talking in her sleep. No one has ever told me I do so I don't
believe she gets it from me. Lilly has so many new tricks of late.
She's learned to wave, she apes me in laughing and coughing,
her standing up, she puts toys up over the handle of her car seat
and drops them, she recognizes object
permanence, she crawls all over the place (army crawling on our floor
& regular crawling on carpet) and this last week she picked up
clapping. Also, one time I was singing a little ditty with do-do-do's
and at the end of she said "do-do-do". Too cute!
At her last dr. appt, 9 mo, everything was good. Although she is on
the shorter side at this point. She only grew an inch in 3 mo. and is
in the 35 percentile. I'm not too worried yet, though.
I have been blessed with such a happy well behaved baby. After
watching my niece I've really come to recognize this. She's content
to play, crawl around and get into stuff 95% of the time. She
generally only gets fussy when she's pretty hungry or ready for a nap.
So far with teething she'll have a couple of rough days where she is
more clingy and then she's as good as new. I've been blessed so
completely!

Ain't she so cute?

Lilly was so tired when I was feeding her, but she was

laughing at everything so I had to record her.

Screaming Lilly

Here is a video with a little of my screaming Lilly.

Sadly she gets much louder. She even taught my

niece, that I babysit, to scream as well and my

nephew was not too happy when she woke him up

one morning. I can't blame him. It makes it tough

for a body to sleep in. Mundy is often good to come

get her, when I call him to come get her in the

mornings so I can sleep in, and a lot of time I'm not

able to because she is so loud. So mornings

like this one where I'm exhausted from getting up

nearly every hour with her I had to sleep in with a

pillow over my head. My dear Jonah enjoys yelling

and he's gotten into a bit of trouble over doing it in the

house. Now he says, "but Lilly does it". So I've had to

explain that he understands what no means and she

does not. Fun times!

New crib

I can't believe
how much my girl is
growing up. At the
beginning of this year
we had to switch her out
of the bassinett. As you
can see she is nearly head
to toe in it in this photo.


Here she is her crib. This
is actually the boys' old crib.
I had to clean some major
milk off the thing and let me
tell you that is a pain in the
rear! The crib is sportin' new
bumper pad, sheets and



blanket (thanks to Jen). She
really likes it and seems at home.
Today I had to pull down the
Christmas gifts (green photo frame
and white paper drawing) because
she had tore one of them down.
She really is into everything these
days! We decided since she is still
not sleeping through the night to set up the crib in our room for
now. If she has not figured out the sleeping through the night
thing by summer she will be learning the hard way. The lack of
sleep is really affecting my immunity and brain working abilities!
I want to wait to do it until the boys won't wake up when she is
screaming because I'm ignoring her. I'm not looking forward to it
because I still won't be able to sleep but will have to ignore her
and that will not be easy for me. If anyone has any advice I would
appreciate it!

Lilly with Andrew pulling her

Here is Andrew playing with Lilly. I have to admit

I'm a little embarrassed that you will see how messy

our desk is not to mention Lilly's stuff everywhere,

but I've learned I will just drive myself crazy worrying

about it and while she is so demanding of time I'm going

to have to deal with it. You will notice a chair in the hallway.

That is to keep her away from the cord and plug for

our wireless router. I have no idea what I'm going to do

when she gets bigger and get around it. She is into

everything these days. And sounds and noises she makes

on the video are normal everyday sounds for her. The only

one not made is where she screams, I still need to get a good

example of this. She is now nearing 8mo. She has 3 teeth and

I believe her other top one is coming in. She still wakes up

several times a night. Sometimes twice, sometimes (like

last night) she is up every hr to hr and a half. I don't like

those nights because they make me grumpy all the way

around. I believe these nights are making me prone to colds

as well as I only seem to go through a week or so without one

before another one hits. I have to apologize for not doing more

posts. Our lives have seemed very hectic of late and I've not

gotten many photo's of the kids. I will work harder on this.

Love you all!

Finally! Christmas 2009

Please note this is first of about five posts!!!!

This Christmas we decided
to do an old fashioned type
Christmas. On our tree we
had two exceptions. One
we had a fake tree (cheaper
then buying a real one) and
two I wanted lights on there
for Lilly's sake. All the
decorations this year were
hand made from Great
Grandma Jones to each of the
boys and some from their

past years. This picture
shows to of Jonah's. He
made pieces of snow
flakes as well as a tree
out of construction paper.





This is one that Jeremy
made.








And Andrew came up
with this one. He never
ceases to amaze me...




Here we are at mom and
dad Kitchel's house. Mundy
mostly got pictures of the
back of the heads of
everybody so here are a
few side views of faces.





For those of you who
will be wondering the
guy next to Amanda is
Jamey (I can't remember
how he said it was spelled)
He and Amanda have been
dating for a little while now.












We also made each other's gifts this year. I will
have to do pictures of that later as I've not taken
them yet. We were trying to focus more on the
real reason instead of all the presents. I'm not
sure we succeeded, but there is always next year!
And now I am caught up on my posts for the year! Yeah
for me!

More Lilly!

Okay so I had to
do what nearly
every other parent
does and had to get
a bath tub picture.
She did the perfect
pose to!


Here is the first time
she tried broccoli. I
love that face especially
now that there are so
many new foods. Although
she didn't pull it with
potatoes or sweet
potatoes.


Here she is with Aunt
Kristi. Eventually I will
have a picture of her
with everybody!






Here she is hanging
out with dad. She's been
such a momma's girl
that daddy wasn't starting
to feel bad so I've been
trying to get her to stay
with him more.

We are so happy to have her in our family. It's
amazing to me how much the boys have changed
their tune. Andrew is her biggest fan always holding
her, playing with her, kissing her, etc. Jeremy
always says how much he loves having her as a
part of the family. He too will play with her and
kiss her and wants to hold her although I'm more
comfortable with it if I'm right there. Jonah is the
same way too. I do have to be with him because
he is so full of energy he doesn't sit very still and
doesn't understand how soft you have to be with
a baby. I have to say she has brought much love
and joy into our family and it's been wonderful!
I can't believe that she is now almost 6mo!
Where, oh where, does all the time go?

Snow in St. George

A couple of weeks before Christmas we woke up

to snow. I let the boys (Jonah was at a Grandpa

Kitchel's for a sleep over) take the sleds that were

left by Uncle Joe out to the field behind the house

and they went down the slopes. After doing this

video I went down with them a couple of times.

The boys had a blast but froze. They were not

happy with how cold their hands are. I remember

when I was little and had to walk home from school

(and yes it was a mile, we've measured!) My hands

would be so cold and frozen I would sob as I tried

to warm them up. The boys are so lucky to either

walk across the field or get a ride to school from

their mom.