9 Months OLD!

That's right everyone! Can you believe it? I'm still alive!!!
Hahaha!

This last month Mommy and Daddy said I hit a few milestones, whatever that means. I don't remember hitting anything besides the occasional bumping my head. I do have good news though. I finally got my very first tooth on February 11th. I am so much happier since it popped through my gums. So is Mommy & Daddy! It is as much, if not more of a relief to them as it is to me! I can actually bite off a piece of graham cracker now! WHOO HOO! I'm so cool!

Yesterday, I went to the doctor's office. They said I was doing good. I weighed 17 lbs and from what Mommy says, I'm in the 18 percentile. She doesn't believe them though. She thinks I'm more average. The nurse must have misread her tape thingy because I'm only about 28 inches tall and they said I was 180 cm (or in other words over 40 inches!) and in the 100 percentile. I don't get it, but my Mommy finds that VERY hard to believe. I have to agree with Mommy on that one because she's ALWAYS right! :D

Here are a few pictures my mommy took of me on my nine month b-day. She wanted to share a few of them.....again.

As you can tell, I wasn't too happy at first, but then Mommy gave me some lunch and I was much better.

See? Much better! Look out world! Here I come!

Mommy even gave me toys to play with.

Ahhh. I'm tuckered out. I guess its time for my nap.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Today, Brian and I finally finished our Valentine boxes. They were fun to make even if we don't do anything with them. Here is how they turned out. I would have taken a picture of Tali with hers but she would have just pulled everything off of it or tried to suck on it anyway. I actually like how I did hers much better than my own. Oh well.

As we were beginning to decorate our boxes, Brian had to get his creative juices flowing:



He claims he was suffering from a "scrapbooking headache."

See?
Step back ladies! He's mine for eternity!
In all honesty, I love his sense of humor!

I guess he just got so frustrated that he tried killing his box. STEP AWAY FROM THE SCISSORS!!!

Last night, Brian and I went to our Stake Valentine's dance. It was fun, but some of the music they were playing was kind of lame. Some of it I couldn't even figure out how to dance to. Anyway, here are some of the pictures from last nights festivities. Two couples we were hanging out with had already left before we broke out our own camera, but here are the pictures anyway.

These are some friends from our ward. Yes, the guy on the bottom right is wearing a wig.

My hubby just sweeps me off my feet.....literally!

See what I mean?

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

NO NAP!!!!

I had put Talitha down for her mid-morning nap and thought everything was fine. Then, I heard some almost like banging noises. I run into her room thinking maybe she had fallen out of her crib and there she was just fine sitting in her crib trying to grab her nose plunger. GROSS! She was on the opposite end of the crib and my guess is her feet kept kicking the board that's connected to her changing table. I then said "no no Tali. It's naptime." I laid her back down, put her blankets back over her, turned her mobile on, kissed her forehead and left the room. She must have disagreed with me about it being "naptime" because not five minutes later I hear the same noise I heard before, only this time it was followed by a cry. So again, I run into her room and she is just sitting in the same place as before trying to grab her "nose sucker." I then take away the "nose sucker" and put it up again. Then as I reach for her, she looks up with those big eyes and SMILES at me! Can you believe it?!? She was TOTALLY playing me! She can be as stubborn as a mule someimes! She must get that from her daddy! Hahaha!

Oh well. I guess that just means it's time to eliminate another nap.

Valentines 911

Okay so we have just about a week for Valentine's Day. I am still so stumped on what to do for my cute baby girl and my hot hubby for this joyous holiday. I want it to be memorable but at the same time fun and INEXPENSIVE. I do not have a creative bone in my body so I am resorting to asking everyone for ideas.

What are some things you do for your loved ones, spouses etc.? Any ideas are helpful.

Tomorrow, we get to make valentine mailboxes and possibly valentine heart shaped cookies! I will post the pictures to show how they turned out. So exciting!

Night crawler

Tonight I was brushing my teeth in our bathroom, when I noticed something. Tali was moving a little differently. She was actually crawling! That's right! My little princess is now a crawler! I took this video after the fact so I could mainly show Brian.......and everyone else.

Looks like it's time to finish baby proofing!

Born to shop

Today Brian's mom, Tali & I went out for a day of shopping. First we went to Carter's to look for some 9-12 month clothes for Tali. They had some really good deals, but I didn't buy anything because I couldn't decide on just one or two outfits. I had to practice a lot of restraint. Although, Brian's mom couldn't help but get this cute outfit that says "I'll always be Grandma's sweetie."

We then went over to Target to see what we could find. I found some really cute clothes there. Here are the cute ones I found there.

This pink outfit has cute little hearts all over it. I think it might actually be a dress, but I think it looks much cuter with the pink pants. The black and white one says "My heart belongs to Mommy." It came with a pink skirt, but I thought it looked much better with just the black pants. I loved this outfit so much, I had to get it!

Brian's mom yet again could not help herself and bought this really cute outfit for Tali.


It was such a nice day, Tali ended up really enjoying herself and walking around in the stroller. She was so funny. She kept trying to pick out her own clothes too. What a little cutie!

Temple, party and....human cheese???

Yesterday, Brian and I had the opportunity to attend the temple. It was awesome! It was just what we needed! We.....I made the decision that we were going to attend the temple at least once a month. Since yesterday was the last day of the month, we went. I just felt closer to Brian and it was amazing how much better our day went. After the temple, we decided to stop by Brian's parent's for a visit. We even got candy (chocolate covered jelly rings and chocolate covered cinnamon bears) from Brian's parents......Thanks Ma! They were scrumptious!

Last night we decided to have a triple date night. We were trying to set up a friend and a sister of a friend. We had some yummy spaghetti, garlic bread and salad and a really yummy drink. For dessert, my friend made some really yummy peanut butter chocolate bars and then some ice cream! After dinner we decided to play some games. That's when the night turned interesting!

We started to play Loaded Questions. For those of you who've never played it, I HIGHLY recommend it! It was a huge icebreaker. I helped us get to know each other much better than....well probably better than we would have liked. It was SO hilarious! Some were just coming up with some really funny answers. I ended up laughing so hard I was in tears as well as talking jibberish.......honestly, I don't know where it came from! I was just hyper. Brian and I had a lot of fun. While playing this super fun game, some anonymous person suggested that it would be interesting to create human cheese from human breast milk. That was enough to have us cracking up the rest of the night.....well, at least me anyway. The thought just had me rolling! Normally, I would think that was pretty gross, but for some reason I just could not stop laughing! Oh how I enjoy such good times! We had such an awesome night!