What an imagination!

Just a quick update with some funny tid-bits... mostly so I don't forget them myself. The other day Anson came out of his room with his Nemo cell phone wedged between his sholder and his ear... He was saying..."Yes... uh huh... oh, you have snow at your house too Aly?" He was "talking" to Auntie Aly! Just then he dropped the phone, picked it up and put it to his ear again and said "Oh man, I lost her"! What a funny kid! His imagination is really growing! Saturday he made a playdoh birthday cake with crayon candles! And I can see that he is beginning to think of other people too. Yesterday he told me he was picking up his blocks because it would make Daddy happy when he got home! It's a start!

And then there is his vocabulary... the other day, while enjoying a nutritious lunch of fish, tater tots and peas, he looked at me and said "Mommy, this is delicious!" What a big word! More of his favorite words these days are "anemone" (where Nemo lives), "Mississippi", where Daddy had to go last week, and "Tennessee", where Daddy had to go the week before! Dusty has had to go on a few trips recently to check on some jobs. We are lucky that his traveling weeks are few and far between and that he is home a lot! We miss Daddy when he's gone! Anson told me that he is "growing up soon to help Daddy work". Not too soon, little buddy!!

Ella is doing great! She goes for an ultrasound of her hip on the 31st and will then go to wearing her brace only at night! Yeah! She will be able to wear real clothes again and catch up on her development milestones of rolling over and sitting up, etc. She is such a sweetie! She smiles a lot and rarely cries. We are looking forward to her Baptism on March 9th at 10:30 AM at our church, The Church of the Apostles. (More info to come on that... You can actually watch it online in real-time!) At her 4 month check-up she weighed 14 lbs 10 oz! Big girl! I was curious how she compared to Anson at 4 months and he weighed a whopping 18 pounds!! I forgot just how big he was!

Well, I am enjoying a quiet moment while they both nap. Today their naptimes lined up perfectly while most days one is waking while the other is going down... we'll get there. They both sleep very well at night though. Ella is now sleeping from 7:30 to 7:30! What an angel!

I guess that's all for now...