Entertaining Addie

Poor Bennett.  It seems like I spend all my time thinking of ways to keep Addie entertained and he just has to come along for the ride.

Last week my sister had a swim meet and the pool had an awesome little kid's section.  My other sister, Sarah and I got to take Addie swimming.  She had so much fun!

Our little fish can now "swim" about 4 feet by herself.
It was a very proud moment for her swimmer parents!

Sarah was very nice and took Addie on her "favorite red slide" over and over.

Our typically timid girl, was more than willing to fly down the slide!

She loves to float on her back all by herself, as she says.
She doesn't realize that if she's holding my hand, it's not by herself.

But we'll take the awesome progress!

 When we were drying off we heard Addie say, "I need to go get my hat."  We wondered what on earth she was talking about...

 Completely unrelated to the pool, but still adorable...

Yesterday I was being a bum mom and couldn't stop sewing.  I took a break and found my mom and Addie watching cute little videos outside on the iPad.  Addie loved watching movies with Bran-daw (grandma).

Dancing Queen

Lucky for Addie, there is a little girl that lives next door to my parent's house.  This has saved us because this girl loves to play with friends.  Her new friend brought over some princess dress-ups complete with wands.  Needless to say, Addie was in heaven!

She kept saying, "Mommy, I'm beautiful!!!  I'm going to get married in the temple!"

Then Grandma pulled out the big guns and dug up Aunt Sadie's old dance costumes.

I don't know if I've ever seen this girl so happy.

When she saw it she squealed, "I LOVE IT!!!!" 

She couldn't stop telling me how much she loved it.

Then she put on a little show for us.

Adorable.

Amelia, she's ready for some lessons:)

Our Growing Baby

It's inevitable. 

You just can't keep babies from growing!

Our little guy (who was never actually very little) is getting bigger by the minute!

He'll be 6 weeks on Thursday.

Here's what our Bennett is like right now:

He currently has his 2nd cold.  Yes, second.  Poor guy.

He is so easy going and doesn't get upset by much.

He still really likes to sleep.

He's starting to consistently sleep in 5 hour stretches at night!!!

He also goes straight back to sleep after taking 10 minutes to eat.  Bless him.

To get him to sleep when he's being a little stubborn, we just run our finger down his nose and he instantly closes his eyes.

He got weighed last week and was 12 lb 10 oz.  Watch out!

While he's generally an angel baby, watch out if it's 8:00 pm.  He doesn't like that time of night.

He's pretty patient with all the "love" he gets from his sister.

Since we can't be with his Daddy for the month, we've been having Scott talk to him on the phone.  He gets really alert and still when listening.  It's sweet to see how he knows his Daddy's voice and is calmed by it!

He loves his belly.

It's a shame I can't let him sleep on his belly when I'm not right next to him.

The stripes on my shirt were making him insanely cross-eyed!

We love our big guy!

Backyard Pool Party

One of the best things about being at my parent's house (except all the amazing help I get from my family) is the backyard.  Addie is constantly asking to go outside and play.  She loves the playset out there and play kitchen.  The girl's in heaven.

I bet she thought things couldn't get any more fun, and then we found our old plastic pool in the shed.

Perfect!

Thank goodness for an aunt willing to hop in the freezing water!

Love that beautiful smile!

Cousin Time

All of my parent's grandkids were in the same city at the same time.

This is a miracle with one living in Pennsylvania and the other two in Texas.

My mom wanted to take advantage of the opportunity and have a mini photo shoot.

We found matching outfits for the girls and a sharp polo for our boy.

I love that it looks like Bennett has his arm around Rylee, protecting her.

Blessing

We took advantage of being surrounded by family in Utah and had a combined baby blessing for Bennett and his cousin!

It was perfect timing to be able to bless those two babies on the same night.

There were so many people that came to support us and we felt very loved.

You'd think that with doing a combined blessing we would've taken a picture of the two kiddos together, but no.  I don't actually have a single pic of Rylee in her beautiful dress (except in the huge family pic).  Darn.  Missed that cute moment.

My cute grandparents

Scott's sweet grandparents

The whole Ellsworth clan.  Not a person was missing!

Cuddling my little man.

Cutest picture ever.
Brotherly love.

The Clark Clan.  Minus Uncle Calvin who's on his mission. He was sure missed.

Love that sweet bonding!

Aunt Martha is always ready to give B a cuddle.

So sweet.

We didn't know Jamie was gonna be able to make it, so we were thrilled when she came!

It was a great night, when you take away the ash flying around (from the millions of fires) and the train that wouldn't stop blowing its horn during Bennett's entire blessing.  We loved being surrounded by all of our family!