It's amazing what a week can do...

I feel like this past week Fisher has grown up right before our eyes. He started pulling up, crawling on his hands and knees, starting to take side steps while standing up and holding on, eating little tiny pieces of real food such as biscuits and crackers tonight (I guess he's just going to skip baby food), getting three more teeth on the top, and pictured below climbing up the stairs. The stair climbing really scared me today when I found him at the top of the stairs. Oh me oh my and he's only 8 months.
He also had a well child check yesterday and here's his stats:
weight - 19 1/2 lbs (50 %)
height - 28 inches (60 %)
head circum. - 17 1/2 (60%)
so pretty much he's well proportioned!

Mother's Day Highlights

Cheesecake I made myself - oh man it was scrumptious! This is what was left before I thought to take a picture.

Yummy grilled veggies!

Fish, Fish, and more Fish ( I think Shelbie had more fish then anyone)

More highlights:

* Relaxing all day and doing whatever I wanted

* Laying in bed and hearing the kids whispering and rehearsing saying, "Happy Mother's Day". They also had made me multiple cards and gifts from school and church. They were so excited and that made me excited.

*When I got out of the car at church Miles told me that I looked beautiful

* Having the primary kids sing during sacrament meeting and Shelbie looking straight at me the whole time and singing her little heart out - so sincere!

* Getting an awesome meal prepared for me per my request of everything that I wanted. My meal included: baked fresh grouper and amberjack fish, grilled veggies - mushrooms, squash, zucchini, onions, pineapple casserole, rolls, corn souffle, and cheesecake which I actually made myself cause I'm a little particular about my cheesecake. My only complaint about the dinner was that I got to full to fast and I couldn't fit any more goodness in.

* Not having to clean up dinner!

* Feeling very loved and appreciated!

* Extremely grateful and thankful to be a Mother and to have such a wonderful Mother!

Feliz Amigos and Mother’s Day Luncheon

  Miles’ 1st grade class has been preparing for awhile to open up their own Mexican restaurant.  All the kids signed up for different jobs – Miles signed up to be a prep cook and was soooo… excited!  All us parents got to come to the restaurant and be served by the kids.  It was so good to see them all working together so well and working so hard to make their restaurant the best they could.  It was great to see a smile on Miles’ face and see him working as a good teammate.

Miles also served as a greeter to all the parents when they got there. Shelbie’s VPK school put on a Mother’s Day luncheon on Thurs. and I was lucky enough to be able to go with just Shelbie.  Grant watched the other kids so Shelbie and I could have some special time together.  She made made me so many wonderful gifts and it was great to spend time with my sweet Shelbie! 

ps - You probably noticed that I got my hair cut :-)  It is definietly getting hot and it feels so good to have a light head of hair.

Side note:  I tried using Window Live Writer to post this post.  I am still learning about it but I think that I’m going to like it because you are able to do a few different things then what you can do with just blogger.

Pulling up!

Well, it's happened Fisher has started pulling up on everything including his crib. I think we'll be putting his crib down to it's lowest setting tonight.
I wanted to write down a little more about Fisher lately so here goes:
* great disposition
* you smile at him and he smiles back almost every time
* he has the best belly laugh around
* if your sad I'm almost certain that a smile and snuggle from Fisher would cheer you up!
* pulling up and bouncing on everything
* has his own way of crawling with a combination of hands and knees rocking, throwing himself forward, army crawling, sitting up, and rolling.
* busy boy already
* has two bottom teeth all the way in and I think he's getting some more
* does not like baby food and at this moment is eating nothing other then mommy's milk :)
* loves his siblings (you should see the sweet way he looks at them)
* Mommy's little sidekick (I left him the other night with a babysitter for the first time while Grant and I went to a party. He did great but I honestly missed him!)
* I asked Grant if he were to describe Fisher what would be say. His response was: Cute, precious, sweet, smiley, laughable. That pretty much sums it up!

Preschool

Tues. Coral went to her first morning at preschool. Just for the month of May and the first week of June four other moms and I are doing a mommy run preschool every Tues. and Thurs. morning from 9:15 - 11:15 am. Every week one of us hosts the five kids at our house and does a different theme. Coral was so excited to go on Tues. and I think that this will be really good for her. We will probably do something like this in the fall because her birthday is in October and she just misses the cut off for real preschool. Overall the mom that hosted on Tues. said that she did good but struggled some with her attention span. Well that was no surprise, she reminds me of her brother Miles in that sense and we are still working with him :-)
Here are some pictures of my precious Coral and all her cuteness!