Happy Birthday Joe

Yesterday was Joe's birthday. We celebrated by dropping the girls off at their first school time/joy school. Another lady in the ward has a girl our age and we are going to switch teaching the kids every week. The girls loved it. They beaded pipe cleaners "worms", glued puff balls on an apple tree, walked around a pond and fed the ducks.
Back to Joe's birthday... we are not a cake family, but Joe does like a chocolate hoho and ding dongs. We got a few of those and put a candle in it. Of course it is no fun for the girls unless they blow out a candle as well, so each of theirs had a candle in it as well.
Joss is 5 months old now. He is so close to rolling over. He is spoiled rotton! There are times he is only happy if one of us is holding him. He is getting better aboud letting us put him down on the floor to play, but he has to be in the right mood.
Here are some picutres and some videos (at the end)

Joss finds his toes

lazy tummy time then roll over

tummy time.. long video

Melody almost falls off trampoline

jumping on tramp

jumping around mary

J laughs for grandparents

Joss with granddaddy

fun on the tramp

jumping with mommy

jumping with daddy

daddy chases girls on tramp

cow outside the window

cow saying moo

animals outside the window

more animals

Bethany pets baby chick

summersault

summersault 2

Joss with uncle Jimmy

daddy rubs Joss's feet on his chin

Joss with aunt Michelle

girls with aunt Michelle

laughing

J eating bananas
girls sitting in j's chair playing piano
J laughing .. very cute
girls on steping stones
playing dr
playing dr 2

4 months old

Time has gone fast. I can't believe that the little guy is already 4 months old. At his check up the other day he weighed in at 13.7 lbs and his height is 25 inches. He is growing like a weed. He is very demanding of my time. It has been getting harder and harder to make time for scrapbooking. Here are some of the ones I was able to squeeze together. After the pictures, enjoy some home video links.

Joss trying to roll over

Joss talks to daddy then spits up

long video of Melody reading Are you my mother

camera watcher

scary voice eating lollipop

Joss laughs with hickups. Melody says its not working at end 

(whenever Melody tries to do something and it won't work or happen for her, she says, its not working)

what happens when Laurie goes to the store without the girls

Joss playing with toys

talking to Joss

hunting eggs

girls in bouncer

Melody climbs to slide

Melody plays piano for Joss

Joss eating ball

coloring easter eggs

easter goodies

easter eggs in toy room

egg hunt in toy room

too tired for first time eating rice cereal

Joss talking

Joss talks... very cute

still talking

Joss plays piano

how Laurie has to workout

Melody has a splinter

Joss laughs

girls play blues clues

naked Melody in the background

Joss laughs

And from Joe:

The girls have had a large preoccupation with bugs lately (especially mosquitoes).  Whenever any one of us goes outside, Melody cautions whoever it is to "be careful, the bugs are coming out".  That same preoccupation follows them to their room when it's time to go to sleep at night.  At first, we could just talk them out of their fears.  Later, we got to the point where Melody was so convinced there were bugs in her bed I had to pull her bed out away from the wall each night so she could see there were no bugs on the floor.  Now, after explaining and showing there are no bugs, they still want a guarantee that none will come.  So last week one night I left their room frustrated at my ability to get them off of the topic and into dreamland.  I then got an idea and headed down the hall.  A few seconds later I entered their darkened room and sprayed the air over their beds with something from a dark can.  I explained that the smell would keep the bugs away for the night.  They were satisfied.  I then went back to the bathroom and put the bottle of Axe body spray back on the shelf. 

more videos

Joss sucking thumb
Joss licking hand
Joss already a couch potato
more tv watching
bouncing at the park
Melody does not want to spin
pancakes at the park
girls read bedtime story to Joss
Melody reads
super Joss
throat jump
feeding the birds
bob's bike
Bob's bike 2
feeding nana
playing with nana
Bob's bike 3
kicking feet on swing
Joss watching the girls play
sharing toys with Joss
girls washing feet
Joss peeking from under his toys

videos and pictures

girls open sunroom door
out for donuts
girls singing in harmony
bubbles at park
Melody reads to Joss
Joss plays with toys
B and M do funny walk
more Joss playing with toys
Joss talking
girls teach Joss blocks
Melody doing strange dance
girls sitting on each others lap
Joss has big smile at beg of video
hide and seek with the girls

6 hours

We are already getting 6 hour stretches of sleep at night! At this age the girls were still waking up every 2 hours or less. The time seems to go by so much faster when you actually get to sleep at night.
Here are some of the pages I have been working on... as usual, let me know of any misspelled words or grammar errors since I will be printing them.