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Jonathan is now three years old. Thinking back on these last three years has been great. What a blessing he is.

I took the boys in for doctor’s appointments and shots this morning. Here are the stats.

Jonathan:
40 in. and 40 lbs. 95% on both.

James:
19lbs 3oz. somewhere between 50-75% range. He’ll be seven months old on the 29th.
28 inches 90%
HC 18 and ¼ in 90-95%

The experiment...

I just realized that I already have a blog that I can practice posting on:). I apologize for sending out all the emails, I should have just posted them here! So until I get a blog up and running, I'll try to post more things here, and like Sarah, learn how to upload pictures and links and everything! Thanks for your patience and letting me experiment... We love and miss you all and hope you had a wonderful Valentine's day!!! Happy birthday to Jonathan and Amethyst! And Happy President's day!!!

a few more things I love

Michael- I love that he enjoys playing with our boys and takes an active role as Dad when he’s home. I enjoyed watching last night as he rolled around on the floor with Jonathan and letting James have a turn too. James loved it by the way.

Jonathan- I love his chubby hands, strong build, and seeing how much he loves his little brother. I enjoyed watching him over a small hill at the park this morning. He was trotting along and I could only see his upper half. Suddenly he tripped face forward and was out of sight. Next thing I knew, he was standing back up looking at his hands, rubbing off the sand and back to his little trot without a tear. He’s always been pretty good that way. I hope he takes the falls in life that same way. I love that the other day, I heard “Help! Help me, Mom” while I was in our room. I came out to find him stuck between the cupboard and the fridge. I love that the other day I picked him up from playing with a friend without James and he was distraught and worried that maybe James had gone away, “I want James to stay in our family. He is my little brother. I love him”.

James- I love the way he curls up in a little ball to sleep. I love the way he sometimes stares at me and touches my face in wonder. I love it when I change his diaper and say something like, “poopy, poopy!” and he responds with lots of smiles and giggles. I love blowing on his eye lids when he is tired but determined to stay awake and watching him drift off to sleep.

Abby's Imagination

Lately Abby has developed quite the imagination. Most of her ideas come from Cinderella. She has started calling me "Step-mother" and Maddy "Step-sister." I admit that I make her do chores and lock her in her room at times, but Maddy has definitely done nothing to deserve the step sister title. She is always talking about castles and temples--which to her are the same thing. She builds castles out of blocks, blankets, or whatever she can find. The other day she went in the pantry to play and came out and asked me if I wanted to see the Salt Lake temple. She then showed me a tower she had made of tuna fish cans and informed me that it was the temple and that she was getting married. I then saw that she was holding a "bouquet" (some fake flowers she had taken from one of my flower arrangements). In an attempt to stop her from becoming too princess crazy we've been trying to focus her attention on more productive things. I've started doing pre-school time with her every week. Her favorite part is when we have a treasure hunt in which she collect things around the house that start with the letter we are working on. She also likes the individual mommy attention. She is learning quickly and now knows most of her letters and sounds. Right now we are working on her writing and learning the lower case letters.

We have a great family

I was just thinking today of how wonderful our family is. I still need Rachel's blog, but I was reading Ruth's and Mary's blogs and looking at their cute children. I still need to figure out how to download pictures and such. If you read this I just wanted you all to know how much I love you, every one of my siblings and my wonderful parents and their spouses. I have been so blessed. I love my Nicole sisters-in-laws and we realized we've lived with all of my brothers-in-laws before they married my sisters, just confirming that my sisters had made good choices. I feel so blessed to be part of this family and even though many of you are far away know how much I think of you and love you,
Sarah