Lexi's Favorite Things

Lexi, like all kids, has her favorite things. Here are the top 5...

5. Elmo, Monsters Inc. and Pooh Bear - Lexi loves Elmo's world, but doesn't understand why I can't just turn on the TV at any given time to watch Elmo. Or why Sesame Street isn't constantly playing clips with Elmo in them. Monsters Inc and Winnie the Pooh are her favorite movies to watch. She thinks Sully is so silly and thinks any teddy bear's name is Pooh.

4. Clothes and shoes - Lexi is very particular about what clothes she will wear. For example; if we do not tell her how cute she looks in the morning she will undress herself and pick out a new outfit. My sister Natalie bought her some pajamas and she would give them loves. She also loves to carry her clothes around the house. They have ended up in her potty, the sink and the garbage can. We went to the shoe store last week and Lexi was in heaven. She insisted that we buy some Disney Princess sandals, but I said no considering it is approaching winter. Everywhere we have gone this week she has shown people her new Dora shoes.

3. Music - When I was pregnant with Lexi anytime an upbeat song would come on she would move around a lot. Things haven't changed. Both Grandma's have pianos and she loves to put music out, sit down and play. She also loves to sing! She will sing as she falls asleep, while she plays, and (my favorite) at church with the congregation. I almost forgot to mention she LOVES rock band! She grabs the mic and won't let anyone else sing. And she sings very loudly.

2. Books - I take Lexi to story time usually once a week (if things are going smoothly that week). She loves to look at all the books she can. At home she will grab a bunch of her books and carry them around in her back pack, or she will sit on the couch and read them to her dolls. She can be entertained with them for a very long time.

1. Mom and Dad - I don't mean to boast, but I do think her most favorite things are her parents. All day she will ask where Daddy is. She will also grab his shoes and say, "Daddy's shoes?" And will keep asking me until I say "Yes, those are Daddy's." This will happen a dozen times through out the day. When Nate gets home she gets very excited, but likes him to chase her. She will greet him at the door then book it giggling the entire way. She is a big time mama's girl and loves to be where ever I am. She has recently started calling me "Ma". If she can't find me she goes through out the house yelling, "Ma! Ma!"

I do hope she grows out her clothes and shoes passion, but if not, I will pray for understanding and tolerance. I have never been that into fashion (obviously), but maybe she will be able to give me a few pointers. She is a lot of fun to have around!

Business Trip

Lexi and I took a business trip out to Utah to do some canning with my mom. We had a lot of fun. My mom and I canned 120 quarts of applesauce and 30 quarts of apple pie slices in 4 days. Needless to say we were both pretty tired at the end. Lexi watched a lot of movies, but was a trooper to let us work very hard. She loved getting Grandpa's lunchbox and the toy keys to pretend that she was going to work.

The New Addition to Our Family

I totally forgot to mention in my last post that we found out we are going to be blessed with another baby girl. We had a name picked out for a girl, but not for a boy so that made things easier. Also, because this baby is due in January and Lexi's birthday is in January we are already fully stocked with clothes. The name we decided is Mara Sandra Lund. I've always really liked the name Mara. Sandra is after Nate's mom. Nate's mom is the closet thing you will come to meeting an angel. She is a very special woman who we both deeply admire. We are teaching Lexi to say Mara and she will point to her belly and say her version of the word Mara. I am pretty sure she is going to love having a baby around the house...sharing her mom will be a different story :)

Elmo, Mail and Rain

This afternoon was very memorable for me. This morning Lexi and I went to story time, but arrived too late so I decided we could check out some Elmo's World DVD's and to watch in the afternoon. We had a great day together. We went to the park, ate lunch, then Lexi slept for two and half hours which meant I slept for an hour which was GREAT!!! After she woke up, I needed to get some chores done, so I decided to put in the Elmo's World DVD. I took out the trash and grabbed the mail keys. After getting the mail I went to open up our front door and it was locked!!! I started knocking on the door and looking at Lexi to let me in. She wouldn't move because Elmo was on and she LOVES Elmo's world. After the DVD was over I kept trying to convince her to unlock the door and let me in. She had decided to grab the phone and one of my books; which are both off limits to her and play with them. I started praying she would stay out of the kitchen and bathroom and basement. I ran over to my neighbors house to use her phone to call Nate to come home ASAP to let me in the house. I went back to our house to keep an eye on Lexi through the windows and continued to try to break in and/or convince Lexi to unlock the door. Keep in mind it was about 45 degrees and I didn't bring a coat because I was only taking out the trash and getting the mail. My hands and feet were freezing and then it started to rain. After an hour and twenty minutes Nate came home and let me in!!! As soon as he got out of the car I said, "If you could just laugh about this that would be great!" He simply replied, "How could I not laugh about something this funny?" I am so thankful Lexi wasn't hurt or didn't hurt anything and I only was wet and cold.