Sutton has now started 'the climb'. She attempts pulling herself up on anything that she comes across. With all of the extra exercise, she is slimming down and starting to look more like her lean older sister.
Salem was having a great time playing with her cousins Parker and Logan during Drue's soccer game.
Salem and Drue celebrating together after Drue scores a penalty goal during last week's shoot-out. Drue scored a beautiful goal that helped seal the Vikings' victory.
Salem is quite intrigued by any kind of instrument. We brought home several instruments from Egypt that she loves playing with, but her favorite is definitely Drue's guitar.
Both Sutton and Salem look forward to music class each week. The next-to-last song during class each week is always the 'instrument song' where they get to play any instrument of their choosing. Sutton's favorite is the drums.
Even the excitement of Drue's most recent soccer game couldn't keep those eyelids open. Salem crashed halfway through the game. It was an intense game with lots of action, but was an unfortunate 2:1 loss for the Vikings.
Salem developed a high fever Saturday afternoon so she spent the rest of the day and most of Sunday resting in our bed. She would wake up briefly to watch some "Jungle Book" or "Little Mermaid" and to get a sip of what is now our traditional hydrating liquid when we're sick. Drue used to call it pregnancy juice, but we need to come up with a new name for it since we all like to drink it when we're feeling under the weather. It is made by mixing a 1:1:1 mixture of orange juice to cranapple juice to Sprite. This is what the nurses at St. Mark's hospital serve to every mom right after she's delivered her baby!
We're so happy that all of the snow is melted off of our deck and the weather is nice enough now that we can hang out and relax in the hammock. We enjoyed grilling and spending time out on the deck tonight.
5 Things We're Thankful For Today:
1. Sutton's incredibly sweet and playful personality that we're getting to know better and better each day.
2. The sweet boys at the Jeremy Ranch Elementary school playground who could have been irritated and annoyed by two-year olds playing on their playground but instead were kind, patient, and helpful with Salem and her friend Alex while they enjoyed the jungle gym.
3. The resiliency of a 2 year old's body. Salem was quite sick over the weekend with fevers as high as 104.5 degrees, but she seems to have made a quick recovery and was feeling much better and more playful today.
4. "Deck weather". We love hanging out on our deck relaxing, playing, grilling, and just enjoying the beautiful weather.
5. Ibuprofen. We seem to go through a lot of this at our house. Drue tends to need it after most soccer games and it's the only medication that helps when Salem has a fever.
Drue's soccer season got underway this weekend. Going to Drue's soccer games is our favorite spring and fall activity--great weather, nice parks, tasty snacks, and outstanding soccer! The team pulled off a great 5 to 1 victory.
Salem enjoys watching the game, especially joining in on the yelling from the sidelines. But her favorite part of Drue's game is when the half-time and the end of the game whistle blows so that she can run out onto the field and find her Papa.
I have to admit that there are few times that I feel more proud of my husband than when I watch him having a great time with our girls.
Sutton is just getting her first exposure to grass. She's still undecided-- she doesn't enjoy the texture on her feet, but she can't resist playing with the grass with her hands.
We went to Sugarhouse Park to break in Salem's new tricycle. She's still working on learning how to pedal so until then we'll be using the push-bar so that our walks will cover more than 5-10 feet.
Sutton loved watching the birds and ducks at the park. She, however, has yet to grasp the concept of feeding the ducks...why give the ducks perfectly good bread that she can eat herself :-)
Sutton got to swing for the first time this weekend at Grandma and Grandpa Hull's house. She was all grins from ear to ear.
We are very proud of Salem and the wonderful big sister that she is to Sutton. She was happy to give up her time in her favorite swing so that Sutton could experience swinging. She stood next to Sutton the entire time gently swinging her and encouraging her.
5 Things We're Thankful For Today:
- 1. That Drue is so incredibly handy that he can fix, build, and create anything that he puts his mind to.
- 2. That Drue recognizes when his time (and the time that he spends with us) is valuable enough that he hires someone to fix, build, and create whatever he wants to.
- 3. Good teachers. We were worried that the girls wouldn't enjoy this session of music class because their teacher, Miss Kirsti, is on maternity leave. But they both seem to adore their new teacher, Miss Stephanie.
- 4. Being able to carpool to work together. This normally can't happen since our offices are in opposite directions (Maggie's in Heber and Drue's in Murray), but this week Maggie is attending an EMR conference that is being held only a few blocks away from Drue's office.
- 5. The excitement and anticipation of an upcoming vacation. We're going on a cruise to the Mexican Riviera with Maggie's family in a few weeks and we're all getting very excited.
Wise (or mostly silly) Words From a 2 Year Old
- Great encouraaging words from a big sister as Sutton starts to become impatient in her carseat during a drive home: "Don't be sad Sutton...we're almost home and then mommy can hold you."
We normally try to publish our weekly blog on Monday night after the girls have gone to bed. This Monday night, however, we were too busy watching our KU Jayhawks win the NCAA national basketball title!!! It was a photo finish during regulation with Mario Chalmers sinking a beauty of a 3-pointer to tie the game with 2 seconds remaining. It was all KU from then on out during overtime. Rock Chalk Jayhawk!!!
Salem and Maggie went on a date to the movies this week. They saw Horton Hears A Who. They both had a great time and Salem is still talking about the bird that tried to scare the elephant.
Salem and Maggie went on a date to the movies this week. They saw Horton Hears A Who. They both had a great time and Salem is still talking about the bird that tried to scare the elephant.
We are having so much fun with our girls at their current age. We love watching what good friends they are becoming. We caught them holding hands in the backseat while driving home the other night...so cute.
We spent Saturday afternoon at the Kamas pool with our friends the Hemmerts and the Christensens. Here are Drue and Salem with Jared and his youngest Preston.
Salem and her partner in crime-- Kardin. Salem is so lucky to have such a wonderful cousin to grow up with...even though the two of them cause all sorts of trouble for Maggie's mom.
There (fortunately) is not much sledding snow left around our house so we drove up to one of Maggie's brother's properties for some fun in the snow. Here's our sweet Sutton ready to hit the slopes with Maggie's mom, Suma.
Our two cuties hanging out in the sled. It was a 10 minute hike from the cars to our sledding area so the girls enjoyed having Drue pull them while they relaxed in the sled.
The men ended the day with a race down the hill. Drue was leading the pack, closely followed by our friend Eddie, and we're not sure if that was Tamy or Bassam running into Allie (Bassam and Ana's dog) higher up on the hill. The 'big kids' seemed to be having just as much fun as our young children.
5 Things We're Thankful For Today:
- 1. Ice cream cones to top off a long day of hard work and play. This has been our favorite family treat for the past two weeks (even Sutton sneaks a lick or two).
- 2. Salem's manners. She's become particularly fond of the words 'please' and 'thank you' lately and it's absolutely delightful.
- 3. Having a physician in the family so that we didn't have to make time to go in for office visits to treat Drue's sinus infection and Maggie's strep infection.
- 4. Salem keeping her 'big girl panties' dry all day long!
- 5. Having bluetooth capability in our car. We try not to talk on our cell phones while driving, but it does happen on occasion and it's so nice being able to have our conversations directly through our car speakers instead of holding our phone.
Wise (or mostly silly) Words From a 2 Year Old
- This is neither wise nor silly...nor from a 2 year old. It has been one of the sweetest sounds in our home this week so we thought it deserved a mention. Our sweet 8 month old Sutton started saying 'Mama' this week. Surprisingly, she uses it specifically for Maggie most of the time, particularly when Maggie sets her down.
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