Santa Claus!

We took the girls to see Santa Claus at the mall today! Crystal wouldn't smile for the camera (she never does anymore) but she didn't cry at all!!! I thought she'd cry for sure, but she was way excited while we were waiting in line. Then Santa came up to us in line and actually talked to everyone ... then he made it snow inside the mall! Crystal was fascinated by it all so she was glad to sit on his lap when it came our turn!

Lily's Voice

Lily is just discovering her voice! Ty makes noises and she tries to copy him. It's so hilarious! The video is kinda long ... sorry :D. Her chubby little face is so adorable (I'm not bias at all... lol)!

Randomness

These are just some random pictures I found. I may have even posted some of them already but they are cute so oh well. :D

Lily is smiling!

These are cell phone pics so they aren't the best quality,

but she's still pretty much adorable! hehe!

She kills me when she gives me her side smile!

We made Christmas sugar cookies!

Crystal loved pushing the cutters into the dough!

Crystal playing with her friend Jackson!

Where's Crystal?!?!

There she is!!!

Crystal LOVES her tutu!

Crystal also LOVES ice cream!

Especially when it comes from Papa's bowl!

Crystal is always walking around the house with my shoes on!

Crystal found her swimsuit in the laundry room the other day. She took her pants off and her diaper off and tried to put her swimsuit on! After I helped her get it on (there was no talking her out of it), she stood at the front door saying 'play water.' I had to convince her it was freezing outside and we couldn't play in the water. She ended up playing in the tub with her swimsuit on...lol

I looked up from whatever I was doing and she was sitting in her clothes hamper!

It was hilarious!

Lily's Blessing Day

Lily was blessed by Ty on Sunday, December 12, 2010. I'm so grateful to have a righteous husband who holds the priesthood. It is such a great blessing to have the power of the priesthood in our home and I can't imagine how our lives would be without it!

Lily Marie Cook

Sunday December 12, 2010

Grandma Gordon made her blessing dress! Isn't it adorable!?!?!

Grandma Cook holding Lily.

Ty almost got Lily's smile on camera!

Crystal is such a good big sister. She loves holding Lily and giving her hugs and kisses!

All five of my parents grandchildren!

I don't know why but I love this picture of the grandkids ...

Crystal and Brennin (in the middle) have the cutest look on their faces!

The whole Gordon family!

(I know I look way fat! Just ignore it... that's what I'm doing till after the holidays... lol... I like my holiday food too much! I'll start in January...hehe!)

Crystal and Lily

I don't have any new pictures on the computer yet, but I just thought I'd share a few updates about the girls really quick. Lily flickered her first smile last Wednesday (Dec. 1)! I remember from Crystal that its impossible to get those first smiles on camera so I haven't even attempted getting a picture of it yet, but soon I promise! :D She's still growing like crazy and has a very round chubby face with a double chin to go with it ... hehe. Everyone still says she's small, but to us she seems massive! She sleeps really well at night and will go about 8 hours without waking to be fed... which has been really nice so hopefully she keeps doing it. She's a very noisy sleeper unfortunately and is in the same room as us but we are kinda getting used to it. She may end up in the hallway for a month or so before we put her in a room with Crystal so we can all sleep...lol!

Crystal loves being a big sister and will be ecstatic when we finally let Lily sleep in the same room with her! She really wants Lily to get up and play with her, but seems to understand that she can't yet. Every once and a while she'll try to shove a toy in Lily's face ... lol ... but then gives up when she doesn't respond to it. Pretty soon here Lily will at least be able to grab at them and interact a bit more.

Crystal is talking more and more; sometimes its understandable ... sometimes its not, but either way she seems to know exactly what she's saying (she'll repeat the same gibberish over and over again till we at least pretend to know what it is!).

We've been toying with the whole potty training idea, but Crystal has been rather stubborn about it. We let her run around without a diaper on all day one day last week and she did make it to the potty chair once (it took serious bribing ... lol). The next day we tried in the morning but put a diaper on her after her bath. Shortly after, she started peeing and grabbed her diaper, looked at me and said "mommy I pee pee in the potty!" Most people probably don't see that as progress considering she wasn't peeing in the potty but in her diaper. I was just excited that she noticed she was peeing. Unfortunately now every time she pees she takes her diaper off (can't have a wet diaper now can we). Last night Ty went in to make sure she had blankets on before we went to bed and found her sleeping without a diaper on and everything in her bed was soaked (except her nightgown amazingly enough ... lol)! She apparently took her diaper off before she fell asleep! We know she doesn't take it off if she has pants on so we'll just have to keep her in pajama pants and hopefully it won't happen again!

We got Ice Age as a 2 dollar movie at Walmart on Black Friday and she thinks its the best movie ever. She got all excited when she saw the baby. She looked at me "mommy, mommy, mommy! BABY! BABY!" When the baby cries in the movie she starts fake crying "Baby! Baby!" then says "oh it's okay, it's okay" The funniest part is when they are sliding down the ice in the cave. She gets SO excited and yells "BABY SLIDE BABY SLIDE MOMMY BABY SLIDE!" She just thinks thats the greatest thing ever! Unfortunately its all she wants to watch now. I think I watched Ice Age 100 times last week (k maybe not really but close). She walks into the living room, sees the TV and says "WATCH BABY? WATCH BABY?" Thank goodness we have a portable dvd player so she can watch it alone or I think I'd go nuts!