Birthday Post #2

I wanted to put some pictures up from Lucas' birthday (even though I already did on Facebook)

Happy 1st Birthday Lucas!

Lucas turns 1 today! He is such a funny little guy and we love him to pieces!

He is so mobile (has yet to walk) and he never wants to stay still. It's very hard to change his diaper or change his clothes. He gets into everything, giving us a run for our money. He loves his big brother Aidan and wants to be everywhere that he is.

He loves to crawl between your legs whether you are standing or sitting, never goes around you. He is so adventurous and has to try things out the hard way. Here are some of my favorite pictures from his first year: (in no particular order)

coming home from the hospital

first time being held by big brother

this was heading out to Temple Square for ward family night

he loves getting his picture taken

he always has been so strong.....holding his head up by himself at maybe a month old

Aidan wanted to share his dinosaur hat with Lucas

he has the funniest facial expressions!

loves squishing his face against things

finishing Aidan's apple

big brother holding him again

he learned to go up the stairs really quickly!

\playing outside

4th of July fun

This is what Aidan did on the 4th of July.........and didn't want to stop doing after he tried it out once.

Primary Activity

Today, Aidan got to go to a primary activity where they played field games with their dads. Josh really wanted to go with him, but he is at Suzuki Institute this week and today is the last day.

So Grandpa Rigby came up to go play with Aidan, even though his arm is in a sling from surgery. Here are some pictures I took. (They aren't the greatest, but Aidan is in there with the tie-dye shirt)

not paying attention to the rules, looking at me

They had to have a ball in between them somehow and race to the fence.

Playing with balloons

spelling out words that had to do with families

monkey see monkey do

Memorial Day 2014

Yesterday was a good day. We started out the day at 10 am at the zoo with Josh's family. (Josh's parents have a grandparents annual pass so they get us all in free). Nana bought Aidan a hat:

We were able to watch a show with the elephants doing tricks. It was so cool, I especially loved when the baby elephant stood on his trunk and front feet with the back feet in the air!

Aidan was very brave and went down the slide by himself (at the new little splash pad they have there). This slide goes through a tunnel in a lighthouse structure. He would have stayed there all day if he could have. We ended the day at the zoo with lunch in the cafeteria with the family before they had to leave. We stayed a little bit later because Aidan wanted to go on the slide again. Josh took him down there while I stayed close to the cafeteria (I was so sore from walking around) with Lucas. Aidan went down the slide a total of 10 times this time. Josh was counting them and after 10, Aidan wanted to go 2 more! Josh somehow got him away though.

We then went around 5 pm to go visit my Grandpa Rigby's grave. I haven't been back there since the funeral and I just really wanted to go. I got a few nice pictures with me and the kids by the headstone:

We ended the day down in Orem at Noodles&Company where Aidan got a free bowl of mac and cheese because we had bought an adult entree.

Lucas 9 months/other updates

Lucas is 9 months! He has been learning a lot lately. In probably a month and a half, he has learned to go from army crawling to crawling on his hands and knees. He has also learned to pull himself up on things, although he is still pretty unsteady at times. 

At his check up today, he weighed in at 24lbs and 10 ounces. Such a big boy! He is just shy of 30 inches long, probably about time to change him to another carseat. His legs stick out of the infant now. 

In other news,  Aidan loves preschool!  Okay, since he doesn't like to talk to me about it, I can only assume :)

But he comes home with these nursery rhymes and doesn't take very long before he can say every word in them. (they have pictures for every word or two). I'm still kind of waiting for his vocabulary to pick up, but that might take quite some time. 

We decided on a name for our daughter,  she will be Melody Paige. A lot of people have told me how appropriate it is for her to have a musical name:)

We're having a GIRL!!

This is to announce the arrival of baby GIRL August 20, 2014! We couldn't be more excited to finally get a girl in the family (now I won't be the only female in the house, YAY)

I can already tell from this that she is going to have the same nose as Lucas!

This picture looks like she is putting her fist in the air and saying "YES!"

She is going to be a cute kid just like her brothers! Josh and I always say to each other, "How in the world do we make cute kids?" LOL

She is a leg crosser! Lucas is like that too.

The hardest thing for me is going to be to decide on a name. I knew right away what I wanted to name my boys, but I can't find any name I like for a girl :(