Organized People Are Just Too Lazy to Look for Things!

I'm so excited! Jared made us a bookshelf for Mackayla's room this morning and her room finally looks organized!! We still have to paint it, but that'll be a project for another weekend. Jared did a great job and was glad he finally got to put his new nail guns to use. Mackayla really seems to like it, and all her toys seem "new" because she can actually see them.

Jared posing for a picture. Hard at work!

We all know who really did the work!

Bradley teaches daddy about nail guns and air compressors.

I've decided to put Mackayla in preschool. It will be the Jones Preschool here at our house :) I was talking to April earlier this week about some children's craft ideas, and decided to go downstairs and dig out my old stuff from teaching preschool. I had forgotten how much stuff and ideas I had! The class I worked with, the Chipmunks, were the two year olds, so everything I have is perfect for Mackayla. I've been trying to do more crafts and projects with her lately, but I've decided to be a little more formal about it now. I'll try to have some time each morning for our "school." I'm going to have a theme each week as we did at the preschool center and do games, songs, books, and projects related to the theme. I have lots of ideas from all my old lesson plans so let me know if anyone wants some. I think I'll start out with some spring type themes for the next few weeks, such as birds, flowers, bugs, Easter, bunnies, etc... and see how it goes. I'm pretty sure she'll love it. Hopefully, we can even invite a friend or two over at times to join Mackayla.

We made white chocalate chip cookies on Friday night, and cookie dough was eaten by all. If you look closely at the picture you'll see that Mackayla decided she needed to taste each of the cookies as they came out of the oven. She got a few tasted before Jared caught her and put a stop to that (she was only taking one bite out of each!).

Bradley is just starting to attempt to scoot around. He has rolled over from his tummy to his back, but we don't think that he had any idea of what he had done.

We stopped for Sonic drinks after getting some groceries, and Mackayla invented this new olympic sport - cream slushy eating with chop sticks (about as sensible as eating rice with chop sticks, and just as messy!).

Bradley was not about to be left out of this one.

Love is in the Air

We had a wonderful Valentine's day complete with our second annual homemade, heart-shaped pizza. We gave a little purple doggie to Mackayla for a V-day gift. Jared came home from work and placed a white stuffed dog on the table. Before he could explain that it was for his lovely wife Mackayla assumed it was for her, grabbed it and was so excited that she now had two new doggies! I had to wait until she went to bed to hold my dog.

With the new dogs around we of course needed to have a doggie party! A good time was had by all.

Bradley at the doggie party.

I am working on getting Mackayla's room more organized rather than just having two big baskets filled with toys. Jared is planning on making us a shelf for the toys. Mackayla and I were organizing things today and were able to get one of the baskets emptied. With an empty basket sitting there Mackayla of course needed a ride. She climbed in and I pushed her around the house for a few minutes until by back wore out.

Bradley has his 4 month check up this last week. He weighed in at 16lbs 4oz and was 26.5 inches long! We gave him rice cereal a few times now and he loves it. We'll probably wait until he's closer to 6 months before we start adding vegetables and fruit to his diet.

I love taking pictures of Jared and the kids so here are a few from this week. (My goal is to start being in more of the pictures)


Last week Grandma Hatfield had a layover in Salt Lake on her way home from helping Derek's family. We were so happy to be able to see her for an hour.

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"Indulgence"

Best Friends

Mackayla and Bradley are becoming better friends every day. They play cards together, read books, have tummy time, and do whatever else Mackayla wants to do at the moment. Bradley is a good sport and joins in the fun whenever mommy or daddy help him out. Following are a few pictures of the two of them hanging out.

Mackayla set up a little tea party where everyone gets to drink lemonade. Lots of fun!

Bradley watching Mackayla take a bath. "Hey dad, can I get in too? That looks like so much fun!"

Typical happy, smiley face Bradley. He is always so smiley. He is such a good kid, even though mommy is trying to get him to sleep in his own bed at night. He'll be 4 months old in a week or so, and maybe he'll have to start crying it out a little if his mom can handle it. Right now he starts out in his crib and moves to mommy and daddy's bed after about 4-6 hours.

Our little courgar! The shirt is 6 months and hardly fits him because, like his father, he is a little broad across the chest!

Mackayla is also doing great. She has decided to eliminate the nap from her daily routine, but then crashes out around 8 every night. That's fine with her parents, because when she does take a nap she's a little night owl up until 10:30 or later. Additionally, she has started eating much better than she ever has. Granted, she isn't up to Jaden's 4 pieces of french toast in the morning, but she holds her own with 2-3 sometimes. Last week she got to go to a Jazz game with her dad. She had a great time with her popcorn and fizzy drink, and even noticed the mascots too. Her dad isn't sure if she realized it was a basketball game. Just kidding, she loved the basketball part too.

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...and now we know!

There were a couple of nights last week when Mackayla woke up in the middle of the night crying, and was not able to go back to sleep for many hours. This is not, and has never been unusual for her, but I thought maybe now that she's talking so well she would be able to tell us what the problem was. We had a few conversations about it and this is how they went:

Me: Did you have some trouble sleeping last night?
Her: Yeah Mom, I did.
Me: How come?
Her: I don't know.
Me: Did your tummy hurt?
Her: No, it was good.
Me: Did your ears hurt?
Her: No, they were pretty good.
Mommy, my hair was hurting.
Me: You're hair was hurting?
Her: Yeah, it was.
Me: Are you sure?
Her: Yes Mommy, it was AMAZING!

Then later that evening she brought the subject back up at the dinner table.

Her: I had some trouble sleeping last night.
Me: I know, how come?
Her: My nightlight was hurting me.
Me: Oh yeah, why is that?
Her: Because I had to sleep on my ribs.
Me: It was because you had to sleep on your ribs?
Her: Yeah, and because of the letter A.

So anyway, we're glad to finally have this mystery all cleared up.