He Speaks!

Isaac is our strong, silent child no longer. Just this week, he found his voice! And I mean, he REALLY found his voice. He's louder right now than December ever was, if you can believe that! Here he is, doing his shouting-cooing.

Animal Babies

On Saturday, I took the kids to the Wild Animal Park. I had never taken them to the park all by myself before, and it was really fun! We usually go with my friend Naomi and her kids, so the whole time December was confused and was asking, "Where's Noah? Where did Noah go? We need to go find him!" because he wasn't there like he usually is!

We went there because there have been alot of animal babies born there recently. Here December is walking down the path to the tiger babies.

Here's the elephants!

If you look between the mother elephant's trunk and legs, you'll see a little gray blob, which is the newborn baby elephant. He had been born the day before, and at birth he weighed 252 lbs!

"The Coniferous Forrest" was a place at the Wild Animal Park that we hadn't explored before...

I decided that I don't take enough pictures of the interesting plants around here, so I took this picture!

The baby cheetah -- so cute! At first, he was cuddled into the stuffed animals around him that he looked just like another stuffed animal, and I couldn't see him. I told December that they must have taken the baby cheetah out of the exhibit, and we were both sad about that -- until I realized he was actually laying there all along, just camouflaged!

Baby alligator. Actually, this alligator is five years old and has been hand-raised. They were letting children ages five and up go in and pet the alligator. Yikes! Even if December had been old enough, I don't think I would have let her go see him and pet him. Alligators are the animals she's most afraid of, and if this little one had moved even a muscle, December would've been scared for life!

A picture taken while December was at the seminary during a barbeque lunch last week.

December wasn't finished napping when I woke her up, so she fell back asleep on the carpet.

Isaac's Best Friend

Isaac has a new friend -- his toy giraffe. He absolutely loves it! It can always bring a smile from him.

The Babies Have Come!

Here's the "Before" picture of Della, me, Rachel, and Sara back in November, with our babies growing in us!



The "After" picture: Della had baby Clara, I had baby Isaac, Rachel had baby Benjamin, and Sara had baby Abigail.

Isaac has begun to suck his thumb, but not consistently yet. He's still learning how to find it on a regular basis. But here was the first time he sucked his thumb to put himself to sleep! It was great!

Isaac and December have both had their pictures taken -- Isaac's 3-month picture and December's 3-year picture. I can't WAIT to get them back! They both did really well at them, although Isaac was tired and wanted to go to sleep, and December was nervous about the new person/bright lights. But they both did some good smiles, and I'm really happy with how it all went! We just have to wait a while to get the pictures back...that's the hard part, waiting.

I'm excited about today, because we're going to the mall with Naomi and her two kids, Noah and Isaac, and we're going to get Naomi's ears pierced! It'll be so fun! And my watch battery needs to be looked at, so I'll do that while we're there, too. Not as fun, but necessary! Brad is doing well at school, although this semester is the most difficult of the entire three years of seminary -- so the seasoned students say. It's true. Brad's got six papers due this semester, and they're not the tiny little 5-pagers, either! It seems like the professors like to give papers that need to be anywhere between 15 and 20 pages in length. Yikes! I'm very impressed that Brad is able to write these things! He is very smart.