Advice Please?

I keep thinking that in 11 months Addy will be baptized. I'm already getting nervous thinking that I haven't taught her enough and wondering if Addy will be ready to be baptized. She's a good kid and she knows a lot, but is it enough to know she is ready to be baptized. I'd like to know if you AKA all my friends who read this have ideas of things you are doing or have done to help your children prepare. I have some ideas, but I would like more. Thank you, that's all!

TROUBLE

I am in big trouble! I mean T-R-O-U-B-L-E! Maren just barely turned 8 months and she is growing too fast. She can pull herself up to standing. If/when she figures out she can lift her knee when standing, she will be up the stairs. I'm afraid I have another climber on my hands. Yikes!

March Highlights in Pictures

Isn't she cute?

Daddy jungle gym

Miss Sydnee

We were hoping that Maren would not like her bare tummy touching the floor and would learn to crawl normal. She still did her army crawl and ended up with a pink belly.

Can you tell who Maren looks like?

Addy with her St. Patrick's day feast

Maren loves her sunglasses

This smile melts my heart!

Snowy day off of school

My two Mia Maids and their cakes

Maren crawled under her saucer and got stuck, she wasn't very happy about it

March the Highlights

I'm feeling rather boring lately. Not bored, but boring. I feel like I just don't have anything good to write about and that I'm just a boring person. Then I remember that this blog is my journal, well one of them and I'm really recording the events of our lives. I'm not writing to impress or entertain anyone, although secretly I hope I make people laugh occasionally. Anywho, here are the highlights of our family life for the past month.

• Addy had a day off of school and it snowed all day. She and Sydnee had fun playing in the snow.
  
• For our Mia Maid activity we taught the girls cake decorating, it was a sticky, fun mess.
• Ben had a root canal and a crown put on (not so fun)
• We had our Relief Society birthday party, which was lots of fun. We played Hollywood squares. The "celebrities" were former relief society presidents, either general presidents or ward presidents. I stepped out of my comfort zone and played the part of Mary Ellen Smoot. We also played the game where you match the sister with her childhood picture. It was a great party.
• Another Mia Maid activity, we made little wall hangings with pictures of Jesus Christ, President Monson and the temple.
• My friend Amy was able to go to Hawaii and I helped watch her boys, they are hilarious little guys.
• St. Patricks day came and we had a green dinner. We had green omelets, green pancakes, hash browns and sausage, and green milk. Maren also cut her 3rd tooth.
• Ben and I were able to sneak away for a lunch date, thanks to my mom. We celebrated his birthday a few days early with lunch at Tucanos. Yummy!
• We celebrated Ben and his brother David's birthday with his family and had a yummy turkey dinner.
• Ben's birthday was on the 21st. We had a fabulous steak dinner with all the fixins and a carrot cake for dessert.
  
• On Monday the 22nd, it was my dad's birthday and my nephew Parker's birthday was on the 20th. We had a FHE dinner/party to celebrate the three birthday boys. It's always fun to get together with the family.
  
• Maren hit the 8 month mark. She can now go from laying to sitting quite well. She also learned to pull herself up to standing at the stairs. and now she can pull herself up to almost anything. I'm in trouble now!
• On the 27th we went to our ward's Easter egg hunt. It's starts at 12 noon on the dot, if you're late you miss the whole thing. This year we arrived 10 minutes early and before I could find Sydnee's age group, it was over. I tried to catch up to her group, but by the time we got to their designated area, all of the eggs were gone. One little boy who had more than he was supposed to shared a few, but she still only had a few in her basket. That was kind of a bummer. After the kids empty the candy from their eggs, they get an egg with names and addresses of people in the ward. The papers are for prize eggs. We went to houses in the ward and collected our prizes. The kids always love getting their prizes. I didn't get a single picture of the egg hunt this year, it was over way too quick.
• Maren cut her 4th tooth (they're all on the bottom) She also bit my finger and took a chunk of skin and made me bleed.
• Sunday the girls wore there new Easter dresses. I didn't get pictures of them, I should have taken pictures before church. By the time we got home, Maren had spit up on hers and was ready for a nap and the other two had gotten chocolate on theirs. Oh well, maybe next time they wear them, I'll get one.
• Tomorrow our Laurels will be running the YW activity. All of the leaders will be going to a session at the temple together. I'm really looking forward to this.
• Thursday, the last day of the month, we will be going to Salt Lake as a YW presidency for the workshops they host.

Well, there it is, March in a nutshell!