18 Months

At 18 Months Eden is constantly on the go. She has started running, not just walking. She loves to color, and would stay outside all day every day if she could. As soon as we open the garage she goes and picks up her bucket of sand toys and starts walking to the "bark" (park). She loves to slide down the slide, spin on the spinny chair, and play in the sand. She loves to play with balls and cars, read books, and wear everyone's shoes around the house. Eden also likes to do puzzles, buckle anything that has one, and have Britain chase her around the house after baths every night. She LOVES bubbles and runs around trying to pop them when we go outside to blow some. She still likes to watch Sesame Street (although Mommy is getting pretty tired of the six we have taped!), but has added Word World onto the list of preferred entertainment while Mommy showers. Eden has loved exploring the new house. She loves to play upstairs, even though there's no toys up there, and she can't wait for the chance to get in our shower and open and close the door!

Eden loves to sing songs, and has learned the actions to a few including "Popcorn Popping" and "Once there was a Snowman." She knows where her hair, eyes, ears, nose, mouth, hands, toes, knees, and elbows are and wants to point everyone's out when we ask her about them. She can count to three, but it goes "two, two, two." Her countdown at the top of the slide goes "two, two, go!"

She has also expanded her vocabulary quite a bit. She says ball, book, nose, mouth, eyes, go, "bark"(park), Britain, button, buckle, Dad, Mom, dout (a combo of down and out), bye, yes, no, ni-night, rock, and duck among others I can't think of right now. She also knows the sounds of a duck, cow, monkey, and lion.

Eden also is always blowing kisses or giving kisses and hugs (especially to Britain). She loves her little sister a lot (sometimes too much) and is always trying to give her a bottle or cover her up with a blanket.

Eden has gone to nursery for three weeks now, and overall it seems to be going well. She had a really hard time the second week, but did great last week! It's nice to only have to wrestle her for one hour instead of three while at church.









After the photo shoot we got to play at the park, and it's super fun when Stomp gets to go down the slide too!

Easter

Easter was a little hectic around here since it was the day after we moved into our new house, but luckily I had thought ahead enough to keep the Easter stuff out and bring it in the car. However, the Easter bunny was too tired to come the night before, but luckily he snuck in while the girls played in the morning and hid eggs and baskets! He even brought some treats from Grandma!

We had to show Eden the first couple eggs, but then she was off up the stairs to find more! She loved that when she shook them they made noise, and it got even better when she shook one hard enough that it opened and she realized there was candy kisses inside!

Britain wasn't that into things, but she has enjoyed her new toys and books even though she had no idea what Easter was about.

The first egg.

An ELMO egg!!!!

Trying to hold all the eggs at once.

Britain found a couple eggs with Daddy's help.

She also found a nice load from the bunny.

There's kisses in the eggs!

Ready for church in their new dresses.

Some sisterly love.

Five Months

At five months this little girl is a chatterbox! Britain is constantly babbling or squealing. She loves attention from anyone, but especially Eden. She smiles so big whenever anyone says hi to her. Little Britain has perfected rolling from front to back, and never stays on her tummy too long. She has started figuring out how to scoot across the floor on her back by kicking her feet. She knows when it's bath time and starts fussing until you give her one, then she's a happy camper! She likes to sit up, but not in the bumbo. She much prefers sitting on mommy or daddy. Britain has gotten much more interested in toys and loves her crinkly book and rattles. She also likes to lay by Eden and watch Sesame Street. Britain loves Daddy just as much as Eden does and tries to fight for his attention when he is home. She is a very happy girl and just goes with the flow most of the time. She likes to sing songs and eat everything in sight, but hasn't gotten any teeth quite yet.

Discovery Museum

About a month ago Aunt Sissy came to visit us and we went to the Children's Discovery Museum in Salt Lake while she was here. I thought Eden might be a little too young still, but she LOVED it. She had so much fun just running from activity to activity. Of course, her favorite was the balls!

Playing the xylophone.

Riding a car.

Eating the bread at the store. She didn't even pay for it first! I kept putting the bread back and she would go right back and get the bread.

Riding on the horsey.

Driving the fire truck. I wanted to get her to wear a fire fighter coat and hat, but some boys took them right before I got to them.

Playing with the water....another favorite activity.

They had these HUGE waffle blocks, like 10 times bigger than the ones I had growing up.

Ball plinko!