We may not have it all together, but together we have it all.

Can it be true? Can my little baby already be 6 months? I took the pictures of her in her pink sweater (Anna I promise this is the biggest flower/bow she has) last week and the other pictures (in the green) of her the other day, this is as close to a professional picture as it is going to get for a while. We want to get family pictures this summer, and pictures of just the kids, but I worry about Madelyn because whenever she meets a new face she is usually really shy and doesn't crack a smile. It takes her a little bit to warm up to someone. So how in the world is someone she doesn't know going to get her to smile for a professional photo? Oh well this will have to do...

I had to share this cute video of Rylan feeding Madelyn. I was feeding her when I got a phone call and left the room, and I came back into the kitchen to see this... He has watched me enough times that he thought he could do it, and I was really impressed. He did a really good job, and Maddy loved it! She loves her brother, she reaches for him and loves to rub his hair. Rylan gets in trouble at church sometimes for making her laugh.

Madelyn is so funny, she has become really vocal. It started out with cooing, then she would spit and blow bubbles to communicate with you...now she lets out short little screams, yelps, giggles. It is soo cute! She is the most vocal at night, in fact she is WILD at night. Right before bedtime, umm kind of like her brother Rylan! (Excuse Scott in the background, he was talking to one of his professors through Skype, and he is a little loud)

We have been looking forward to going to Rexburg this weekend for the baptism of our niece Grace. Rylan has been talking about it non-stop for days...then on Wednesday he woke up with an awful sore throat and cough. He couldn't talk all day, so that night when I put him to bed I told him that if he didn't feel better then we couldn't go be with our family that weekend. He was devastated. Then the next morning he woke up and felt MUCH better, I was really amazed. His throat felt better and he didn't have a cough. I asked him, "Rylan, what did you do?" Rylan said, "Mommy, I prayed to Jesus that I might feel better so I could go play with my cousins." This little kid has a lot of faith!

I was uploading pictures and found these that I forgot to post! Rylan had a preschool recital last month. He sang songs, did little finger plays and smiled his goofy smile at me and Maddy as we watched. He loves his preschool, and being able to "perform" for everyone. Here is a video of him singing his VERY favorite song, we hear this ringing through our house a lot!

Madelyn and I are just hanging out at home. It snowed all morning and there is about a foot of new snow on the ground. Scott and Rylan went to a monster truck show in SLC, yes on Valentines day...I know what you are thinking. It is ok, Scott is taking me out tonight. Our Stake (church community) is having a Valentine's dinner and dance that we are going to tonight! The Olive Garden is even catering it! Yum! We are excited to show off some of our dance moves that we have learned with our dance 101 DVD Scott got me for Christmas. Good thing M'Lynn came to visit us this weekend! Yeah! Our favorite babysitter! We will post pics of the monster truck show and dance later...

Madelyn is 5 months now! We can't believe it, she is such a sweet baby. She has however decided that no one can hold her unless it is her mom or dad. Everyone wants to hold her but she just fusses and squirms. It takes her a while (like a day) to get used to a new face. She has been trying all sorts of solid food now. Her favorites are rice cereal with apple juice, carrots, and sweet potatoes. Although she isn't a big fan of the packaged baby food, she would much rather eat it straight off of mommy's plate, which is ok with me. Here are some pictures of her trying some solids with Grandma Lynnette. Usually we would put Madelyn in the baby swing while we ate, but she just didn't like that anymore so we have started putting her right up to the table with us... Rylan loves to make his baby sister laugh, here I was trying to feed her and he said something to her which made her laugh so he had to do it over and over again..