Wow, been a while since a real update.
My little man is now OFFICIALLY 3 months old. HOW SAD IS THAT? He is such a pleasant little guy. Mostly content and his smile makes my day. He really is starting to get strong--- when he is mad or wants something-- there is no bending his body from his determination. I now know that he will be a wrestler like his dad. (plus he'd probably be too short to do anything else. ahaha)
He has currently discovered his hands--- and is a slobber gut. He is ALWAYS smiling--- when he isn't eating that is. . . this kid eats ALL OF THE TIME. It's is so funny to me how different him
and Araleigh were. She was SO small and petite with black hair . . . . she was a great baby too. Canden: he is all blonde with fat everything. We have determined that Araleigh is pure Mortimer (Cory's mom's side) and Canden is a Hendricks. Everyone over here calls him little Kent. . . me PERSONALLY, I think he still looks like Cory but with Hendricks cheeks and eyes. No matter who our kids look like-- they sure our precious. Araleigh has become our little angel. Not an angel as in she is a perfect little girl . . more as in she is reminding me everyday of why I love this gospel. A few weeks ago my mom had Araleigh and had asked her to follow her into the other room. . Araleigh simply stated "No Gama's, we follow the pophet." HOW CUTE IS THAT????? Funny thing is -- I NEVER told her that. But the one thing I DO know is she LOVES church and even LOVES nursery more. She gets SO excited to go. So I know that she is learning everytime she goes . . it just fills my heart. Then Cory and I decided to get out of the cave and go out to dinner as a family in I.F. on our way home Araleigh asked for her music, so I put on her church songs . . . she LOVES to sing and sang "I am a child of God" over and over to Canden. The
cute thing is that she has had all these songs memerized forever but now she sings them to Canden like I always sang them to her. She is such a great big sister and I have a feeling that I won't have to worry much about her--- she truly loves everyone and loves good things.
Well, lots has happened over the last while. First being the Blackfoot Fair. Cory FINALLY came home and we spent about 4 days down there. Mostly we hung out in my parents booth-- one day we were with Brock the others it was just us. Araleigh cried and cried until she finally got to ride rides. WOW- they are expensive. But she had fun. She rode almost all of them by herself. There was one I was pretty nervous about because it was a fast ride and I didn't want to squish and go with her. . but she was able to go with an older girl--- and she LOVED it. She just kept her eyes all huge and her head steady trying to take it in. It was pretty funny watching her.
Araleigh has finally started dance. She LOVES LOVES LOVES it. The FIRST class I took her and she walked into the room and instantly stuck two fingers in both nostrils . . . and stood there. I WAS DYING. She was really shy and didn't know what to do. I have realized that picking her nose is a comfort thing for her--- when she shy's up she sticks her fingers in her nose. I am a little weary that she has acquired my shyness. I HATE that quality in myself . . . but as soon as her teacher asked her to come over and got her involved she LOVED it. Now all we do is practice walking on our tippy toes and her 16 count actions that she showed them this week. Its pretty cute. Every time we get in the car Araleigh says "mom, I need to go back in and go to dance again." I guess waiting a week at a time just isn't enough for her.
A few nights ago my mom, my sister (Sharee) and I all piled in my car and we went down to buy us some produce. We bought some bushels of peaches and then later sent dad down for tomatoes and peppers. We spent
all day canning, and I mean
ALL DAY. It was RIDICULOUS. I really only wanted peaches but my mom and sister wanted chili sauce so we spent ALOT of time mostly on that. They started at like 9 am and we ended at almost ONE AM. YA. Crazy. We have SO much chili sauce its ridiculous. haha. But I am so glad we each got to take home quite a bit of peaches because I LOVE CANNED peaches. My mom and I did it last year and Cory and I had them eaten within a month. They are so yummy. Now we will see if we can do jam or something-- I am not sure if I want to tackle that since I still have some from last year--- but we will see. I do know one thing though, I don't want to boil or smell another tomato for the rest of my life. GOO. It was fun spending some time with them though, even if it was in grunt work of domestic women.
Right now we are just trying to get through the tantrums of a Almost 3 year old, Cory is trying to get used to the working and school thing. (He is playing catch up on two weeks of missed school and our house has been a stress zone.) Then dealing with other personal family stuff has just made this last week hard and a bit overwhelming. BUT at least we got to see some family. Janalie and Devin and the kids came up because of Trents farewell. Well, since we didn't have the farewell, they decided to come anyways which was good. It was a good time letting the kids play. Araleigh needed to have fun with her cousins-- no pictures but at least they played well together. Well, thats all for now--- we've had a really long weekend and we need to catch up on sleep.
These kids are the reason I get out of bed everyday!
taken back for a second because all of the sudden she laid her hands on my head and whispered "Jesus wants me for a sunbeam. aim of Jehus Chist Amen." I ABOUT DROPPED OVER. Now, for a minute I was taken back and had no idea who taught her that but realized that she has been truly in tune with whats been going on. There have been A LOT of priesthood blessings that have been given in our home the last month. . . and she is aware. It was really so cute how she remembered what they did and how they did it. After she did that and I was a bit humbled, I simple told her that only Daddys give blessings but we can say prayers. Her prayers are another thing that just touch my heart every night. She has to say them all by herself and it always contains these words: "bless family, bless Canden, bless food and cake, bless my hepday presents and daddys work. name of Jesus Chist amen." We usually have to remind her to thank Heavenly Father and such . . . but it really is the cutest thing ever. How close our children are to the Lord. I am so grateful for these small tender mercies from the Lord to help remind me that these are His children and they are watching us. Now if I can only be better so that they will learn and love the Gospel as we have come to.
