My Birthday Surprises

I turned 30 on the 25th! Gah!  I feel so old! I just can't figure out how I became as old as my parents! My children gave me two wonderful gifts for my 30th birthday this year. The first one was from J. He WALKED to me UNPROVOKED! But it was short lived. I tried to get him to do it again and he threw a temper tantrum instead. It was exciting for a minute at least! Haha. 

The second surprise was from Crystal! We've been trying to get her to ride her bike without training wheels to no avail. As soon as she realizes something is going to be hard she tends to walk away from it. But today she stuck to it and SHE DID IT!!!! She can ride her bike without training wheels! Her bike is just a tad too tall for her still so she has a hard time getting started, but then she's off on her own!!!

Other than Dairy Queen slacking and not having any cakes ready, I had a pretty fantastic day! Ty got me a new Brandon Mull book, and you can't go wrong with a Brandon Mull book!!!! I'm excited to read my birthday present... just as soon as I find time. Maybe after I finish catching up on my blog!!! Haha!

RANDOM PICTURES/VIDEOS OF THE WEEK

Friday night the girls wanted to watch Frozen and spend the night in the toy room! They did great and even stayed in bed! 

Jacob Ty Cook turns 1!

The following is what happens when you try to get a good picture of a one year old while alone with 3 kids:

Yep... he crawled away before the picture took. This is going well right?

J's Stats

Weight: 21.8 pounds         45%

Height: 29 inches              30%

Head Circ: 45.5 cm           45% 

Jacob stands and plays with toys, drinks his sippy and dances, but he doesn't want to have anything to do with walking. Haha. We can coax him into it occasionally (he took his first steps on our cruise) but he has no interest in doing it full time. He still tends to wake up once at night but is getting much better at just going back to sleep instead of thinking he needs nursed or cuddled first. He is still nursing but I've started weaning him to just 2 feedings a day. He hated milk at first, but we finally gave in and put chocolate in it like his sisters drink and he loves it now. He says Momma and Dadda and repeats words quite clearly occasionally. He has also started pointing at things which is totally adorable! All in all he's doing great! 

GETTING READY FOR THE PARTY:

We were going to be traveling home from Idaho Falls on J's actual birthday so we decided to throw a party for him the night before his birthday. We went with a Wild Kingdom Theme (it helped that we found it all on super clearance at Zurkers)! 

IT'S PARTY TIME:

Week of Detox and a trip to Idaho Falls

VACATION DETOX
The week after our vacation we struggled doing normal things again. Haha. The kids wanted to eat every 12 minutes and drink 'smoothies,' as they call them, all day long! They also wanted Mac N Cheese every night for dinner. I'm afraid Kraft isn't cutting it anymore after the stuff they had on the cruise. Well for everyone but J. He still loves Kraft. Haha. We even had a movie night one night and drank out of our Princess Souvenir Cups so we could feel like maybe we were still there! :D

She was catching up on lost sleep from vacation. She fell asleep sucking on Eric's (Little Mermaid) clothes. No worries I removed it after getting a picture of it. Haha.

Yep he loves Mac N Cheese. Even the stuff out of the box. Haha.

Crystal made a store one night with all the stuff that was still out from our trip. I was a little slow to unpack from this trip.

Ready for our movie night!

Oreo face :D

We went to the church one warm afternoon this week so the kids could ride their bikes in a larger, safer parking lot. J has a buddy that is just a few weeks younger than him that lives in the same complex as us. His friend started walking at around 10 months old! He started showing J how it was done while in the parking lot. It was adorable. They were both pushing the toy car around the parking lot together!

This is J throwing a tantrum because Crystal and Lily went outside without him. Even he had a hard time detoxing from our awesome vacation! :D

Random cute video.

IDAHO FALLS

I went to Idaho Falls because our tenants were moving out of our house there and I was going to get things cleaned up and take care of repairs so we could put it on the market again. But when I got there the tenants hadn't moved out yet and they didn't get out until after I was back in Utah so instead of working I played the entire week :D

Yep. Princess/knight in a baseball cap. Haha. This girl cracks me up!

Fun at Leo's Place with cousin Millie

He climbed up on it himself! He won't walk but he can climb better than a monkey!

Again he can stand and swing a sword but has no interest in walking around the room at all. 

Two trouble makers! These cousins are going to be great friends!

Yeah my son is a bully... we are working on it. 

He can stand to drink from his sippy also. He may walk someday. Haha