Shaun is on-call at the hospital all night tonight so I have the computer all to myself. So I thought that I would finally update my blog!!! (Shaun is a little bit of a computer hog, if you didn't know) There hasn't a lot going on over here, just hanging around the house and enjoying my kiddos. They are so much fun!! The other day Parker thought when I hit the couch with my hand that it was hysterical. He laughed for like 2-3 minutes, so cute!! Janalee wouldn't be out shined as you can tell with her jumping in front of the camera.

Our sweet next door neighbor came over one night and gave Janalee all of her old dress up clothes. She was in kid heaven! I had her put one on and then took and picture. Then she had to take it off and put another one off and wanted me to take a picture, and repeated until she had tried them on several times. It was so cute! Here are some from that night. She wanted me to take a picture, but didn't want to stand still long enough for me to take it.
Shaun came home from work one night and still had his scrub hat on and Janalee just had to try it on. Do we have a future surgeon in the house?
Here she is dancing in her pretty dress!!

And for a final video, I just thought her singing jingle bells was so cute. I forgot that I actually got her on video because most of the time she would just yell no when I asked her to sing on the camera, which she demonstrates at the end of this video, haha. She still sings it all the time. Sometimes when Parker is crying, I will ask her to sing him a song and she will sing jingle bells to him, too cute!!!!!!!!!

Christmas Time!!!!

Christmas was so much fun this year with Janalee. She didn't get the whole thing about Christmas, but she sure understood that he was going to bring her presents. She had so much fun opening presents and was totally spoiled by all who sent her gifts. I am hiding some of them so that we can bring them out in a few weeks and it is like she got new toys again. She had so much fun. Here are some pictures of the kids from that day, it was so hard to get both of them to look at the camera, it is pretty much impossible to get them both looking and smiling at the same time. These are still cute though.

Christmas outfits from Grandma Bible, aaawww so cute!!

Janalee's princess dress from Grandma Simmons

Daddy with his 2 kids and our tiny Christmas tree

Parker in his Santa suit, he looks so cute!!!!

Parker playing with his new toy from mommy and daddy. (You can see daddy passed out on the floor there, I think the kids got up a little too early for him :)

(P.S. I don't know if you noticed, but a few posts back I had some cards on there that I made. Well, I am pretty much retarded and spelled merry wrong on one of them-who does that- and Shaun didn't tell me that until like 2 days ago after we had already given it to his boss. What a nice hubby I have, I can't believe how dumb I can be sometimes. I think the kids are stealing my brain functioning-hehe)

Santa visit

Our ward had a party and Santa was there. I had been trying to get Janalee all excited to see him so I had been talking about it for a few days. They had this scary looking elf there next to Santa so I was afraid that she wouldn't want to go and see him, but she didn't care. She walked over and climbed right up on his lap, it was so cute. Parker was more interested in eating him beard. I wish we could have gotten a picture with all of us looking at the camera, but there were a lot of kids there who were waiting their turn. Next time maybe. We are loving our new camera that grandma got us for Christmas though!!! Now we can take all the pictures we want! Thanks grandma, you are awesome!!

I came home from dropping our packages off at the post office and found Parker like this. When I left both kids were sleeping and Shaun was playing on the computer. When I got home both kids were still sleeping, but Parker was now in Janalee's chair. It was so funny. Shaun even reclined the chair using Mr. Potato head, hahaha. Shaun cracks me up. It was so cute, I just had to take a picture.
Parker is now 6 months old. I can't believe it!! He is 15lbs 12oz and 26in long. He is getting so big!! He is crawling all over the house and pulling himself up on things. He is trying to walk around the furniture, but he isn't steady enough on his feet yet. Janalee likes that he is able to get around, but also doesn't like that he is getting into things now. He is such a quiet baby that sometimes I have to go on a search of the house to find him because he has crawled into a corner to play or is hiding behind furniture. My kids are so much fun, you can't help but love them!!

Cute girl

Can yo guess what she is saying? She came up to us and was saying this and it took me a minute to figure out what she was saying. It is a movie quote from one of her favorite movies. hint, hint She cracks me up all the time with the things she will come up to me and say.

I made cards this year for Shaun's residents and attendings and my family. My friend Kristen inspired me with her craftiness!!! I thought they turned our pretty good for my first attempt at card making. I need to recover now for a little while, I used up all my creative juices on these.

Fun times at the Simmons house

We had a great Thanksgiving here. We cooked a nice turkey for the four of us, well three since Parker doesn't eat yet. It was my first and I think it turned out pretty good. We ate on it all weekend, it was yummy!!! Parker is now crawling. He is loving that he is more mobile now, but I don't think Janalee is too excited all the time. He is now able to get into her stuff and she is trying to adjust to that. She does have fun playing with most of the time. She plays a little ruff, good thing the second born is durable!!
Last night I was getting myself some dinner, when I turned around janalee had jump off her chair and ran over to mine to feed Parker. It was so cute. She just couldn't get it in there fast enough for him. We will work on that, and also teach her how to change diapers too :)


This is our little Christmas tree and hanging on the lighting is our long Christmas countdown. We made some little paper decoration for it. Janalee didn't do so good with the real ornaments of the tree. I got tired after the first day of her taking the ornaments off and breaking them, so we went to paper. Now she doesn't play with them at all. Parker loves to try and eat it, yummy fake tree :)
I can't wait for Christmas, it is so much fun now that Janalee is older and understands more of what is going on.

Update

Parker has started to shuffle himself around the house. He is getting quite fast at it now. It is fun to see him inching around now. Janalee doesn't quite know what to think about him being mobile yet. He has started getting into her toys, haha.


Well Janalee has finally went pee pee into the potty!!!!!!! For the longest time she would hold it for hours and then when she was outside she would pee or if she was going to take a bath she would climb into the tub and pee. She didn't like to pee on the floor, which was good for me. Last night I told her it was time to go to bed and then she suddenly had the urge to use the potty. She pottied once and then said she had to go again. So we ended up staying up an hour past her bedtime waiting for her to use to potty again. Finally she did pee a second time woo hoo!!! I was so excited. I thought this was going to be a break through here and she would start using the potty once and a while. She had other plans. This morning she wouldn't take her diaper off for a few hours and then she held it until she was playing outside and went in the grass. Then when I told her it was time for a nap, she suddenly wanted to use the potty. I think I am being bested by a 2 year old. She is so smart that she is use the potty against me, hahaha. Who says a 2 year old can't play mind game!!!
She is so funny! It is a good thing she is so cute, she makes it all worth while in the end!!!!!

Parker is almost crawling

Looks like we got another crazy active kid here. The last two days he has been getting up on his hands and knees and rocking. I can't believe he is doing that already. He is almost 5 months. At this rate he might be crawling by Thanksgiving. Craziness!!! Janalee is really starting to play with him more and he loves that. He thinks she is the funniest thing ever and is laughing at her all the time. I'm sure with him crawling, she is going to enjoy playing with him more and more. It is so cute when your kids play together!!!
He is starting a little cold though so he isn't happy that I was making a video of him instead of holding him. He is still just so cute even when he is crying!!!