Paisley's new pictures. And Cody is home!

I took Paisley last week to get new pictures taken for Chritmas. She is crawling all over the place so I thougth that it was going to be a little rough to get her to sit still. But she was so good. The photographer pulled out the camera and she starting posing. I was so happy with how they turned out.














Cody has been at boot camp for the military and military job training. We have missed him so much! He finally made it home last night. The base that he is on right now shuts down for two weeks during Christmas. He brought back the cutest little army teddy bear for Paisley. We are so happy to have some time with him. Welcome home Cody.

Santa

I didn't really have any plans to take Paisley to sit on Santa's lap this year for obvious reasons.....She can't talk to tell him what she wants. But we were shopping in the mall the other day and there was Santa sitting in his chair with no line to go see him. So I couldn't resist. I decided that I really needed a picture of her on his lap. I thought that she would scream when we left her sitting there on some strange looking man's lap but she was actually pretty amazed with him. She just kept staring at him then looking at us, then staring at him and looking at us. I could see it in her eyes. She just wanted to get a hold of that beard and pull on it. But we snapped our two pictures that we were allowed and grabbed her off his lap just as she was reaching for it. Lucky Santa. We almost blew his cover!

She's crawling!

Paisley has just learned how to crawl! I thought it would take her forever to learn because of how much she is held (we live with grandma & grandpa). But as soon as she figured out she could get on her hands and knees she was crawling soon after. Now she is all over the place! It's time to baby proof the house. She is into everything she can get to. She still moves pretty slow but I have a feeling that won't last for long. She is just growing way too fast. Everyone told me to cherish every moment because "they grow so fast". I wish they were wrong. But at the same time it is so fun to watch her learn and grow. She is such a fun and happy baby and Lorin & I are just loving her to death. There is nothing better in life than being a parent!

She has also learned how to stand herself up to this laundry basket. Then it slides across the carpet and she takes little steps to follow it. It's so cute!

This is Paisley sitting in her new little chair. It has some fun toys on it so it is a good little distraction when mom needs to get some stuff done. It get's a tricky sometimes trying to feed her in the chair because she would rather suck on the toys than put the spoon in her mouth.

These pictures are from Paisley's first Thanksgiving.



The day after Thanksgiving we went to our nephew Jesse's basketball game then out to dinner at Olive Garden. Paisley sat in a big girl high chair and she loved the alfredo sauce.


This is just a picture of Paisley and her Papa Jones with his horse.

I am officially one of those psycho fans!

I'm not much of a reader but I really got into the Twilight series when I was pregnant with Paisley. Poor Lorin didn't have my full attention until I finished them. And Just when he thought it was over her new book The Host came out. Then soon after came The fourth Twilight book. I think he was finally thinking the obsession was over and then the movie came out. I was a little skeptical of some of the actors they picked (Edward). But I actually ended up thinking that he was the perfect Edward when I watched the movie and I loved it! In fact I loved it so much that I am going go see it again tomorrow night with Lorin. I'm a sucker for a good love story. Even if it involves a teenage vampire!
Me, my mom, Hailey, and my cousin Courtney went to see it Saturday night. And just like a crazy fan would I bought t-shirts with Edward and Bella on them and made everyone else wear one too.(Lorin thought that was one of the dumbest purchases I have ever made). It was hard to convince my mom to wear her's but she finally broke down and wore it.

My cute little fairy

So this Halloween Lorin and I didn't go to any parties. We didn't dress up. And we stayed home all night......Yet it was the most fun I have EVER had on Halloween! It was so fun to dress Paisley up. She was a fairy and I put a lot of blood sweat and tears into her costume....Okay actually all I made was the tutu and it wasn't that hard but I was pretty proud of it. The night before we dressed her up and took her to her grandma and grandpa Mickelsens. Then on Halloween while Lorin was at work I dressed her up and took her to see my mom at work. It turns out that across the street at Inkly's they were taking free pictures of kids if they were dressed up. So I did that. Then that night we sat around the house ooh-ing and ah-ing over Paisley and taking about a million pictures of her. It was so much fun!




I made her and Hailey matching tutus and they got to be the same thing for Halloween.


She had so much fun playing with her tutu. It was in her mouth most of the day.

She even got a treat for dressing up. She loved this sucker and threw a fit when I tried to take it from her!

Miss Tri-counties pageant

Last weekend me, my mom, Paisley had Hailey took a little trip to Boise to watch Hailey in the Miss tri-counties pageant. She did so good. She won Swim suit (an honor in it's own), evening gown and she was the first runner up! We are so proud of her. Good job Hai! These are some pictures from that little trip.




In these pictures Me and Paisley are sitting by a window in a store. She kept spitting and then laughing at herself spitting. It was so cute! Then I looked behind us and she had drawn a crowd. There were a bunch of people watching through the window and laughing at her laughing at herself. She is just so much fun!






These pictures aren't from the trip. I just thought they were cute so I wanted to share them.

Picture update

I finally got the time to add the pictures I wanted to put with my previous post!
This is when Cody was sworn into the army. It was hard to say good bye but we are so proud of him!



The first night I went back to work I was SO sad to leave Paisley. But my cute little husband surprised me and brought her to work later that night so that I could feed her and put her to sleep. She was in her car seat with a blanket over her and when I pulled off the blanket she was holding three little roses! Isn't that so cute?



Paisley started eating some baby cereal and she loves it! But I did cheat a little bit and add some banana baby food to it to give it a little flavor. Now she'll probably never eat her vegies!