Learning to Type

Every once in a while we read a book that we LOVE! Then the kids want me to read it over and over and over... We read one of these recently, called "I Wanna New Room" the kids thought it was so funny! So I was thinking that we should start making a list of our most favorite books. I grabbed a piece of paper and had Elizabeth write down the title and author of this book, then I wrote down a couple more of our favorites. Then I thought, maybe Elizabeth could practice typing by keeping our list on the computer. So here is a picture of her typing with Rachel and Jorgan watching intently. It took about 20 minutes but she did get 2 book titles and authors down on Microsoft Word!

Rachel's Hair Cut

For General Conference, I put together kits of activities for the kids. Included in their kit was of course crayons, pencils, scissors, and glue. I was hoping that this would help entertain them so that Josh and I could listen... I was wrong, but that's beside the point!
After conference I had the kids collect all their things and put them back into their kits (a brown paper bag). And here lies my big mistake! I set their kits on the fireplace when I went to bed. While Josh was making breakfast Monday morning Elizabeth ran into the kitchen yelling, "Daddy! Rachel is cutting her hair!"



So now that we have spent the last 4 years trying to get some hair on this kid... she cut it off herself! We had a talk about how we shouldn't cut our own hair, then she cleaned up her mess. Later she said to me, "Mom, I shouldn't have done that." At least she knows!!

Playing with Daddy

This is a favorite game at our house. One person rolls around the trampoline as the everyone else tries to jump over them. They can play this game forever!!!

Babysitting

My sister, Melodie, came over from Ellensburg to visit a friend. So we got to babysit Samantha! The kids adore her and were so excited to have her at our house. Jorgan sat on the couch for at least 5 minutes holding her and feeding her a bottle. Then Rachel and Elizabeth both took turns feeding her as well. The rest of the evening was spent talking to her and kissing her and taking turns holding her. She is a really happy baby and didn't fuss throughout any of the passing around between kids... It was amazing!

Learning to Vacuum

I was thinking that maybe Elizabeth was old enough to learn how to vacuum... So here's a picture of her first try. I think she might not be tall enough for the vacuum. When she pushes it the front comes up.. so it's not really doing anything. I had to keep reminding her to hold it up higher, and then she was struggling to push it. Maybe we'll try again in a couple of months :o)

The Wise Man and the Foolish Man

I wish we would have caught the beginning of this song. Rachel and Jorgan are sitting at the table eating a snack. Josh and I were sitting in the front room talking when we heard Rachel asking Jorgan what song he wanted to sing. SO this is her singing The Wise Man and the Foolish Man to Jorgan. We kept taping hoping that they would sing more, but they didn't. Sorry it is a little difficult to hear... we didn't want them to realize we were taping and stop singing, so we recorded from the other room.

I wish I were a baby doll

This is what happens when you have 2 older sisters:


All the sudden you start thinking that you are the baby doll!

Best Friends

There's not much to say, other than, these two are inseparable! Jorgan asks for Dad all day when he is at work, and when he is home wants to do everything with him! They make quite the pair~


Elizabeth and Rachel have truly become great friends as they have grown older. Rachel really relies on Elizabeth for all fun things. And she often uses her as an excuse do not do things... she says, "Mom, I can't because Elizabeth isn't here" OR "Mom I can't do that without my sister" It's fun to see how much Rachel looks up to Elizabeth and wants to be like her.


These pictures were taken after church one Sunday. Sometimes if I can catch Liz in the right mood, she'll let me curl her hair for church. So this particular Sunday while I was curling Elizabeth's hair Rachel came in asking me to give her a hair do too. So, since Liz is normally straight and we were doing curly... we decided on the opposite for Rachel, curly to straight. They were so cute! If Rachel hadn't have cut all the hair off the top of her head (post still to come) then we would probably repeat that hair do every Sunday!

Rachel's Birthday Day

So, I'm not doing a very good job of catching up! I'm still over a month behind!
Since we celebrated Rachel's birthday a week early, we of course, have to celebrate it again on her actual birthday. So, before Josh went to work, we made a cake and sang happy birthday to her again.
This time I let the kids decorate the cake. They enjoyed the sprinkles... however there were so many sprinkles that I could hardly eat the cake.


We are so blessed to have this little girl in our family! She has taught me so much about love and kindness. I admire her great love of our Savior Jesus Christ. She often says, "Mom, Jesus is in our heart" She is growing up to be so bright and full of energy. She surprises us all the time with how mature she is becoming. When we took her in for her well check with the Dr, she was getting shots, so we waited till the last minute to tell her about it. She just looked at me like, "Mom, what are you so worried about". She had 4 shots, watched each one, then jumped down from the table like it was no big deal. (To compare, we literally had to hold Elizabeth down for hers) She is also super bright. Elizabeth is learning how to read, so Rachel wants to learn too. She gets out the "learning how to read" book and recites the first few lessons perfectly! Then she wants to keep going to learn new ones! She is just very self motivated! What an admirable quality!
Happy Birthday Rachel! I love you!

Rachel -- The Big Sister

About a month ago we decided to take the bunk beds apart, move Elizabeth into her own room and put Rachel and Jorgan together in a bedroom. The move was initially to help Elizabeth have more responsibilities and hopefully help encourage her to have more grown up behavior.
Surprisingly, the change has had a grown up effect on Rachel too. All of the sudden she is finding "Big Sister" things to do. It's fun to watch her take on the role of helper when Elizabeth is gone at school.

Rachel and Lily's Birthday!

So, my sister Kyla had a great idea. Rachel and her cousin Lily have March birthdays. Kyla wanted to take Lily to Build-A-Bear for her birthday and thought that we would like to join them and celebrate Rachel's birthday too. We agreed and this is an excerpt from their birthday party.

This is Lily blowing out her candles



I just thought that was a cute picture of Rachel anxiously awaiting the end of the Happy Birthday song so she could blow out her candles.



This is our beloved Rachel blowing out her candles. She actually blew them out in one breath! I can't believe she is big enough to do that now!



We just had to post this picture to show how excited she is to open presents. I think every kid (and adult too) loves birthday presents!



Rachel loves baby dolls and this one is no exception. This one came with diapers (no the baby does not fill them) and she makes laughing and crying sounds. She loves this doll.



So, along with her baby doll, she needed a stroller, crib, play area, diaper bag, and bottles for her little one. Well, thanks to Grandma and Grandpa Scott, she is fully decked out with baby gear.

More Lizzy Dancing

I sure love this amazing girl! She has so much spunk and energy... she just makes me smile! The most recent development in trampoline jumping is jumping with music. (I'm not sure if we are bugging the neighbors with our loud music, but they haven't complained yet!) My Peacock family was all visiting to celebrate Rachel and Lily's birthdays. As we were making the cake, I peeked out the window and saw her dancing. She was so cute, that we had to record her. Josh swears that he's saving this movie to show all her boyfriends one day!

The New Chairs

So Josh and I have consistently been talking about the need to buy a new couch for the last year or so... but they are expensive, and I don't see us purchasing one any time soon. A couple of weeks ago I was telling Josh that if we could only buy a nice recliner, that would be a short/long term solution... but a nice recliner is a pretty penny too...
Then randomly Josh had a guy at work asking around if anyone wanted to buy a couple of leather recliners!! Blessings from Heaven!!! He sold us 2 matching leather recliners for $100. They are really old, but hardly used... so in great condition. This is our new favorite place to sit, read, play, sleep, etc! Yah! For a great place to read!

Baby Samantha

I had to post this picture, because I want to always remember how much Jorgan LOVES this baby!
I was standing in the kitchen getting some sweet baby loves, when Jorgan walks in and starts pulling on my shirt. At first I thought that he was a bit jealous that I was holding another baby... but really he wanted his turn to hold the baby! So we set him up on the counter and I held her close to him so he could put his arms around her. It was so sweet to watch his little finger patting her shoulder!
More recently he has become a bit more brave. He actually tries to grab her out of my hands! He just doesn't realize that we're not going to let him carry her around like he does a baby doll! It is just so sweet to watch him rub her head and give her little kisses! I hope they grow up to be good friends!

Cute Lizzy Dance

Mom and Dad Peacock got a dancing game for their Wii and we convinced Elizabeth that she should try it. We think that she is so cute!! Truthfully, it was hard to convince her to dance to the music. She is a little bit shy with large crowds.

Jorgan is 2!

I LOVE 2 Year olds!! Especially this one! He is super sweet (loves to snuggle and gives cute kisses), really funny (plays jokes on us all the time... like when I know he has a stinky diaper, so I say, "Who is stinky?" and he points to Daddy), has a cute little voice that we rarely understand, loves to sing songs (his favorite right now is The Wise Man and the Foolish Man... he can do all the actions), and adores babies (he takes Rachel's new doll all around the house carrying her on his shoulders or tucks her into bed with his blanket not forgetting to say prayers and sing a song!)
I can't believe he is 2 already... It was really fun to have a birthday party for him because he was so excited about everything!



Ever time he opened a gift he would be upset to put it down for another one. But once we promised that we would take it out of the package and give it right back and then stick a new present in his hands he would be satisfied.



He was eating up all the attention! He had the biggest smile on his face I have ever seen while we all sang Happy Birthday to him. And then actually being the one to get to blow out the candles all by himself was really something else!


He loves his airplane from Grandma Judy and Grandpa Dwayne... he flies it around all day making whooshing sounds... and he is quite particular about making sure all the people are on board!


My family gave him several Shake and Go cars... which were the hit of the party... I wish I had captured the amazement on his face when he saw Buzz Lightyear go zooming across the floor! Priceless! This is a picture of Jorgan after he told both Josh and I that we were not allowed to catch woody after he let him go... only Uncle Yann was allowed to play with him!


Here the kids are playing with the new bubble machine outside in the freezing cold! I thought they were crazy... so I took a picture and went inside!
Happy Birthday Little Man!!!