May Happenings...

We're alive! After returning from San Diego, Lois and I came down with some rather nasty colds which turned into an ear infection for Lois and for me, a sinus infection.  Among all the fevers, coughs, sniffles and lack of sleep, we are now all better.  Thank goodness!!

This was Lois' first time being sick in her life, and I have to say that she handled it like a champ.  But the goop!  Oh, the goop.  SO MUCH GOOP.  How does that much stuff come out of that little nose?   Needless to say, we went through a lot of Puffs Plus with Lotion (a must-have!) between the two of us.  It will be nice when she can actually blow her nose.  

In other news, I got released as the primary song leader and was called into our primary presidency as the 2nd counselor.  I'm excited for the change in duties, but will miss singing with the little kiddies.  When they are interested in singing, they are a lot of fun!  This will be my first leadership role in my adult life.  Wish me luck!  

I've also joined Weight Watchers and joined a gym because I'm ready to get my "sexy" back.  For so long, I've felt like a total frump-a-dump...and I'm sick of it!  I'm also doing this for health reasons, obviously.  I want to have more energy and strength.  So if you see me eating a cookie, I give you permission to give me a little razzing.  Sometimes a girl just needs a nudge, right?  Keep me in line! 

And the big news in Lois' life is that she's no longer a two-teeth wonder!  At the ripe age of 11.25 months, she cut her THIRD tooth (her upper front tooth) just two days ago.  Now, if you remember, she cut her first two at eight months, so she's basically had no teeth to chew food with!  So we're excited for the arrival of more teeth (but not excited about the whole crankiness that comes with it) and the fourth is quickly following suit...   What's not so nice is the fact that she now grinds her bottom teeth with the little bit of tooth that has grown in and it drives us crazy! Nothing like that horrific sound of teeth grinding!  Ugh.  I try to intervene as soon as she does it, but it hasn't helped.  Hopefully this little practice will stop soon.  Lois has also started to throw mini-tantrums.  Seriously?  She's not even one yet and she has her little moments already!  You can see a picture of one of them below.   

AND...she can now stand on her own and it is so cute how excited she gets.  She has started to walk along furniture and will probably figure out walking here in the next few months.   

And now some pictures!

Look at that face...

This is during one of her tantrums.  Lovely.

We've been going to the pool now that it's nice and toasty down here and Lois loves it.

We went to the park the other day and Lois was loving the sand.  Don't worry, we washed her hands really good after this.

She even went down the slide with daddy!

Lounging in the swing - I love how she just sits back and relaxes.  She loves the swing.

And here is our unicorn baby.  We're kind of in that awkward hair stage.  It's really long, but she won't keep clips in it anymore, so usually it just hangs in her face.  But I don't really want to cut bangs. What to do?

So, this little doo was my solution to keep her hair out of her snotty, runny nose.  After taking a nap with it, it became a hair-horn.  

And just because she's cute.  

Things we are looking forward to:  Trip to Utah in June and in August, Jason's brother is getting married, my brother Mackie is coming home from his mission and we'll be getting a second niece, too!  Woo, woo!  We are blessed.