Rebecca has 4 teeth now at 10 months old! 1 on top and 3 on bottom. She got her first tooth at 9 months old.
Her favorite words are "woah!" and "wow!" She puts her mouth in a perfect O shape and repeats them with enthusiasm.
She took her first steps in December to Charity - 3 steps the first time! She loves Charity. I like to think that she's confused and thinks she's me, because often she'll leave me for her.
Me: Liam, we're just going to the first meeting at church and then skipping primary since you're not feeling well.
Liam: Yay! This is the best day of my life! Primary makes church soooo long. I love you mom!
Me: I think it's your turn for a date!
Liam: Yeah, but I want to go with dad cuz...Wendy's!
Liam: This is the best day of my life! The 2nd best day of my life!
Me: What's your first?
Liam: The day we went to that place across the big ocean. What's it called?
Me: France?
Liam: Yeah! And the 0 best day of my life is when we went to Legoland!
Liam's penpal, Bea, sent him this puzzle of NYC in preparation for our trip.
Holidays and games go together.
One of the very few times I have shopped with more than 1-2 kids. An old lady about had a heart attack when she noticed I had 3 kids.
Liam has been utilizing any high surface to keep his toys from Rebecca.
The morning after we got home from NYC we went on a hike with our homeschool group. We were all a bit tired!
Rebecca enjoys emptying out the puzzles from our puzzle cupboard.
More Explora time.
Faith made all the kids matching Christmas pants!
We had updated family pictures done. Here's a photo dump of them!
The boys had their first jiu jitsu tournament. I had no idea it was so violent! Seeing little boys crying on the mat broke my heart! It also hurt so bad to see Peter fight his hardest for two fights while he was so sick. He shouldn't have fought, but he did. He also wanted to win sooo bad and get a medal, but he lost both rounds. It hurt my mama heart! :-(
He laid down in the stroller between fights and almost threw up. He could barely walk and had to go back for his second fight.
He did such a good job getting some good moves in, and we're so proud of how well he did especially not feeling well!
Benjamin only had one round and beat the highest placed fighter, so he automatically won first place in his division and got a belt, which is like a medal.
Charity and I sight-read a violin duet at the nativity event.
Rebecca loved the animals at the live nativity.
The boys enjoyed watching films in the Living Christ room. I wish I had gotten a picture of the nativities. Hundreds of beautiful nativities in an amazing display with live music for 3 days.
I had to be at the church for a musical number, and Lamoni is the bishop, so he couldn't miss church....so poor Liam with a super high fever got to sleep in Lamoni's office during church.
The boys' jiu jitsu class.
Rebecca is a very adored little baby.
She popped 7 teeth out in a 2-3 week period!
The boys made replicas of traps from the book, Naya Nuki, that we read at homeschool group for the book club.
Also dioramas from the book.
Lamoni and Rebecca dance to My Girl together when he gets home from work.
I jumped on the sourdough bandwagon, and now we're bread snobs.
Taking advantage of the manger set up at the church.
We hosted Christmas Eve nativity play, charcuterie and games.
Grace came for Christmas!
All 9 of us kids were together which was so great.
Joy came for Christmas morning with us of course.
It was our first Christmas in a long time that we didn't have Lamoni's parents and grandma with us.
Rebecca figured out how to unwrap a dum dum and was very excited about it.
And...the rest of the day was spent building Legos.
Eve and Rebecca got to reacquaint themselves.
Kate and Joseph came, and Kate babysat while we went to the temple and did sealings.
The entire family!
We had a spontaneous Christmas concert after Kathryn and Nathaniel did their book recitals.
Faith's girls sang so beautifully.
Kathryn prepared some really fun Christmas games.
The five sisters!
Faith's family stayed with us for a few days after Christmas.
These three are like the Three Musketeers.
We all took the Railrunner up to Santa Fe together and walked around the farmers market. The kids were stoked to meet one of the contestants on Forged in Fire.
Adelina and Joseph got to celebrate their birthdays together.
Jason was a baby whisperer getting Rebecca asleep multiple times.
Joseph and Kate got engaged in Santa Fe! We're so excited for them.
This is how Lamoni does roadtrip snacks. We drove up to Utah caravanning with Faith and Jason.
We stayed with the Shaws and ate up Courtney's delicious food.
Visited Michael and Audrey in their new house.
And tried out their Lamborghini.
Then we stayed the rest of the time with Mel and Melinda.
We loved spending time with Deruchette and her kids there too! Such good times. We were also *totally* traveled out after that year of trips!
