My Babies!

I should probably have changed the title to my baby and my big boy, but Jack is still my baby to me!  They are growing up so fast!  It seems like just yesterday I held my little guy for the first time!  And I blinked . . . Now I have a beautiful baby girl too, and truly a very wonderful life!  I know that I don't want to get sad about them getting bigger, and I am trying to enjoy every day with them, but sometimes I wish we could stop time for a while and bask a little longer in the time I have with them!  I went shopping with my mom today and Jack wore his squeaky shoes.  I turned around and I know it is silly, but I got a little teary eyed . . . Jack was running towards me, squeaking away, just saying "mommy,mommy,mommy!" like he hadn't seen me for days!  It warmed my heart!  It is my birthday in a couple days and I am turning 27!  Wow I am getting old! I need to stop blinking!!!

Anyway.  It has been a few weeks since my last post and I have some fun pics of the kids to post!!!  Audrey is almost always happy.  The only time she cries is when it is brother induced, or she is tired!

Grandpa does a trick, with all of the grandkids at some point in their lives, that makes the moms a little nervous.  He hasn't dropped either one of my children doing this, but it does sometimes make me gasp a little!

Jack and Audrey love stories and books!  This is one of the best times to cuddle with them and read to them.  Jack will sit FOREVER, if you have tons of fun books to read!

Audrey is getting big enough now to really start to get on Jack's nerves.  It's almost payback time!

We went to Buca di Beppo for Johnny's grandma's birthday.  Audrey had fun watching everyone, and it was fun to be with the whole Tani clan.

So we had a great Easter!  Jack did three Easter egg hunts in all and got pretty good at them by the end.  On Easter, the bunny had worked very hard to put together a cute basket for him and Audrey!

Jack came into the room and went straight to his fire engine that he has had for about a year now.

Audrey loved her basket and wanted her baby doll so bad!  She currently plays with trucks a lot!  This is something we are working on changing.  Not that I have a problem with her playing with boy toys, its just thats a lot of what we have and I want her to be able to have some girl toys too!

After some coaxing, we were able to get Jack to take a peek at his basket and he loved it!!!  He lives for matchbox and hotwheels cars and trucks!

We then had a wonderful Conference breakfast.  While I was making the pancakes, I turned around and Jack was on the table AGAIN!!!  He finds great joy in this!

After Conference and naps we headed over to Johnny's parents house for dinner and an Easter egg hunt.  Jack was more interested in the cars, the dogs, and Uncle Christopher than to be bothered with collecting eggs.  We got him to pick up a few and he understood the concept, he just plain out didn't care!!!

After that we headed to my parents house for another hunt. This one he really enjoyed.  It was too cold so we did it inside.  He needed to be pointed to a few of them, but he really liked puting them in his basket and later eating the candy in them!  My dad always does such a good job with these things and he did another great hunt this year!

They also had a hunt for the little girls in which they placed a pile of cherrio filled eggs in the middle of the floor and let the girls play with them.  I thought it was cute!

Our last notable event is Audrey is determined to eat solids and skip over baby food.  Because she is likely to choke on it, I have used her mesh baggie thing a lot!  I put all kids of fruit in there and let her go at it!  She LOVES it!  She makes a huge mess, but it sure is fun to watch!