All Smiles

I can not believe that our sweet little boy is three months old.  He is such a joy in our home and the girls absolutely adore him!  

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We LOVE LOVE LOVE when he smiles.  It is so adorable.  We have made him giggle a couple of times but we can not figure out what we did to make him giggle for him to do it again.  One day I will catch it on video.  He is such a morning boy.  In the mornings is when he is all smiles and he is the happiest.  He sits in his bouncer and stares at his toys while I get ready for the day.  He is starting to hit the toys that are hanging in front of him but for the most part he just looks at them.

 Yesterday I was playing with Calvin on my bed and he was so happy and content.  I had to leave and left Hailey in charge of him and she ended up leaving him alone for awhile and he feel asleep while laying there.  This is HUGE!  I was such a happy MAMA!  He takes naps in his crib but does not care for it at night so he is still in bed with Mom and Dad, which I do not mind.  Last night I only had to get up once with him!!!

 My girls are amazing with him.  Ashley is great at changing his diapers and holding him.  Lindsay is the one who wakes up every Sunday morning and gets herself ready, then grabs Calvin from me and gets him ready before we go out the door at eight.  Not sure how I would do it without her.  Hailey will hold him for awhile, but she would rather play with him while he is in his bouncer.  I have the best helpers that any Mom could ask for.  I love the picture of Lindsay asleep with Calvin on her chest.  She was exhausted and so was he, but they looked so comfortable.
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He LOVES his pacifier!  If he is not happy it is usually because he wants his pacifier.  I just went into the room to check on him while he was napping and he found his thumb.  It was so adorable, but I took his thumb out and gave him back his pacifier.  I think it would be easier in the long run, but how cute is that!

  He is such a special boy.  It is amazing how much love you can have for someone that you have only known for three months.

Stars On Ice

I am a huge fan of ice skating and I always have been.  I remember watching the Olympics with my family as a child and the only reason I watched them was for the Ice Skating Compitition.  While we were at Great Wolf Lodge we got a phone call from Michael Wynkoop asking us if we wanted to go with them to the Stars on Ice that was going on that night, they had three extra tickets and there was no way I would pass those up.  We decided to take Hailey with us since she is the youngest girl and she misses out on a lot of things that her sister gets to do.  She was really excited to have a special date with just Mommy and Daddy, and of course Calvin too.  Mitchell was such a great sport to come along with me.  I think he was bored out of his mind, but he never once complained!

 The performance was amazing.  Sasha Cohen and Evan Lysacek were my favorite.  Hailey really enjoyed it also, but she was so tired from being at Great Wolf Lodge all day that she could not keep her eyes open so we sugared her up with kettle corn and cotton candy.

Hailey also had a fun time playing with Kailey, Heather and Michaels Niece.  It was such a fun night!

Great Wolf Lodge

We had the opportunity of getting a huge discount for a nights stay at the Great Wolf Lodge in Washington and we could not pass it up.  It was such a fun mini vacation full of good friends, good fun and good food.  The Woolners in our ward were staying at the lodge for their family reunion so it was fun to be there at the same time.  Sister Sommers offered to watch Calvin for awhile so we could play and it was so much fun.  The rides are a blast.  My favorite ride happened to be the River Canyon Run.  Howling Tornado was fun, but I did not like that I went down backwards so I had no idea what was going on.  It feels like you are being flushed down a toilet bowl.  I went on it with Mitchell, Alex Woolner and his son Addison and we went so high and soooooooo fast!  They were laughing at me the whole time because I was quite terrified.

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My girls had a lot of fun also.  Ashley's favorite ride was Alberta Falls where you ride in a tube alone or with a friend.  Lindsay liked the Howling Tornado.  Hailey would not go on any waterslides except for the small kiddie one.  She was scared to go on the big slides because she had to go alone.  She went on the small waterslide over and over and over and she never got sick of it.  I think that Mitchell liked it all, he had a great time trying to terrify me, but make it fun also.  :)

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 Calvin did so well.  You are able to go into the water park from 1-close and then go again the next day until close.  We stayed the next day until 3 and he pretty much slept the whole time.  Mitchell let me go on rides without worrying about Calvin and he took him up to the room and he cried for awhile, but that was the only time.  

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After playing at the waterpark the girls decided to play Magicquest.  This is where you are on a special quest and you use your wand to find clues.  We borrowed two wands from a friend of ours and then Mitchell bought Hailey her own special pink wand and they had a lot of fun playing the game with Mitchell.  I think that Mitchell had more fun then the girls.  :)

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This is a definite place that we will go to again but next time I think I will have a reward chart or something where the girls will have to earn it.  I know they would do anything to go back.  :)

 

Our kids in front of the Great Wolf entrance.  Upon leaving it was 17 degrees outside.  After being in an 84 degree room for two days and then to step out into that, it was a shock.

Having fun in the wave pool.

Waiting for the HUGE bucket to dump water on their heads.

 

This was when the huge bucket of water fell on Lindsay and Ashley.  It was so funny to watch their faces.

 

Hailey enjoying the kiddie area.

Ashley and Annabelle after riding Alberta Falls together.

 

Playing Magiquest together.  They were called the "Couch Potatoes."

Our sweet girls and little Calvin.