Olivia's Favorite Things to Do (Usually with Jocelyn)

There's nothing Olivia loves more than playing with Jocelyn and going to the park.  These are pictures from my old school camera that I've been meaning to put on my computer for months, but never have.  Keep in mind, we don't stay home all day like these pictures suggest.  We just always have a camera at home.

Jumping on the bed: of course, the whole time I am singing about 5 monkeys jumping on the bed the entire time.  She also loves jumping with Jocelyn and she loves it too.

When John's parents came to stay at my house, we had the girls sleep in our room so they could take the girls' room.  We brought Jocelyn's crib mattress into our room for Olivia to sleep on.  Most nights, she couldn't stay on the mattress.  She slept in this position every night.

When John's parents came over, we set up two new bookshelves that, of course, Olivia had to help us with.  Instead of giving her a real hammer, we gave her the meat one instead.  And she was actually pretty good!

Olivia always has to wave bye bye to everyone.  She also loves to wait for her Daddy to come home from school.  To prepare herself, she got on her Cinderella dress, pulled up a chair, and was reading her book while waiting.

The corner of Olivia's room is perfect for forts.  She loves to pile up all her stuffed animals and sleep on them!  Usually Jocelyn is along for the ride too.

Olivia reading books to Jocelyn:

As much as I brag about being super organized, I'm not nearly like Olivia!  It must be in her blood (from her father's side) because she loves lining things up.  I'm pretty sure I've shown it before in previous posts.  But here she is lining up all her library books.

I'm pretty sure Olivia and Jocelyn throw food under the table during meal time on purpose so that they can eat it later.  Either that or Olivia brings food under the table to feed Jocelyn.  Don't worry.  I do sweep my floor more often than I brush my teeth, so you don't have to worry about them eating week-old bananas.

Playing under the bed.

I don't know why I allow this to happen, but everyday my kids take all my kitchen stuff out of the bottom cabinets:

And then they crawl inside.  As annoying as it is to clean up all the pots and pans and bowls and having them in my tiny kitchen while I'm cleaning, it's worth it to keep them occupied while I prepare dinner.

And yes, I do clean all my dishes again right before I use them, just in case you were wondering.

Jocelyn's Favorite Things to Do

It's been a long time since I last blogged on here.  I could blame it on a lot of things, but how about just looking at pictures instead.

Jocelyn is getting so old, but not so big.  She is almost a year old but only weighs about 13 pounds.  My sister thinks I should put her in movies when then need a scene shot with a newborn because my child is so little, but she might ruin the shot when she tries to crawl away on set.

Jocelyn is so interactive now and really tough.  She has taken a few steps, but not walking yet though it is weird seeing a little girl who still wears 3-6 month clothes walking, but she'll be doing it soon.  She talks a lot!  Always yells "MAMA!" and tries to repeat things that we say.  Her favorite song is the famous "Gunk Gunk" song from girls camp since she always does the hand motions with me.  Here are a few pictures of other things that she likes to do:

When I was young, a lady in my ward made me a little doll.  Olivia now plays with it all the time.  One day we thought it would be fun to switch it up a bit.

So we put the clothes on Jocelyn!  Isn't that adorable!

She always like to help me with laundry.  She usually sits on the bed and hands me clothes one by one.  This is a recent development.  Otherwise she sits on the floor and takes everything out of the basket.

And just like her big sister, she loves looking at herself in the mirror.  It's the best toy in the house that we have!

I think Jocelyn's body is equivalent to a gallon of 1% HEB milk.

Unlike Olivia who likes to dump out all the toys, Jocelyn prefers to play with them in the basket.

Until I reorganized the toys into 3 different baskets on the shelf.  Now she just likes to take them all out and play on the shelf.

And finally, this girl LOVES to eat!  She eats more than Olivia and that is no exaggeration.  She has 3 teeth on top and only 1 on the bottom, but that doesn't stop her from eating fruit twisties, whole bananas, a jar of baby food, and a cup of cheerios in one sitting.  She must get that from Aunt Amanda.