No More Spiders

Well, after SEVERAL comments and phone calls, I am writing a new post so that I can move on from the picture of that hideous spider on my last post!

I never did post any of the pictures that were taken of my cute girls when Ainsley was just a couple of weeks old.  My friend Amy Brimhall took these pictures:

Dirty Laundry

So, how would you like to find THIS lovely thing in your laundry basket?

That's what happened to me the other day. YUK! And by "yuk" I mean I completely lost it, and the only reason I caught it is because Derrick wasn't home and I had to save my children!

Welcome to New Mexico, where the spiders are bigger than your fist! I had been keeping my eye out for spiders for a few days because a couple of nights before, Derrick opened our front door and yelled for me to come and look at something. We had a spider on our wall that SERIOUSLY was bigger than Derrick's hand outstretched. Then I looked down by his foot, and there was another one, but not quite as big. We freaked out and slammed the door shut. I wish I had gotten a picture of that huge one on the wall, but it was gone by the time we went to get a second look. Makes your skin crawl, doesn't it? YUK!

Anyway, I figured it was about time to do another update:

The Wonderful Cecily

Cecily continues to be such a funny little girl. I hope she always has her great sense of humor. She recently got an imaginary friend. We were getting into the car one day and she was cupping her hand as if she was carrying something in it. When I inquired, she told me it was her baby elephant (in her pronunciation, it was "baby e'nenent"). Anyway, I didn't think much of it, besides how utterly adorable she was. But the next day, she says, "Baby e'nenent is in her cage!" I said, "She's in her cage?" "Yes, in the car!" So we went to the car, and she got her baby elephant out and carried her in the cup of her hand. Anyway, long story short, this has gone on for a few days, and baby elephant has a mom and dad and goes home to sleep with them. And Cecily can't be fooled. Derrick tried to tell her that baby elephant came on a walk with us the other night, and Cecily looked at him like he was an idiot and said, "No, baby e'nenent is at her home."

Cecily is totally into the pixie fairies right now (Tinkerbell). Kind of fitting, because she reminds me of a little pixie with her short hair. She loves to watch the preview of the Tinkerbell movie that is coming out this fall. She gets SO excited!

She is such a good helper. She loves to give her baby sister lots of kisses and loves. She always goes searching for Ainsley's plug when she starts crying, and throws the dirty diapers in the trash.

I had her almost potty trained a few weeks before the baby came, but I lost my motivation, and now she won't have anything to do with the toilet. Hopefully she'll get an interest again soon! I don't really want her to be five before she's trained!

She is also really into Dora and Diego. She calls Diego, "Diego go go!" (the cartoon is called "Go Diego, Go!").



The Little Ainsley

Ainsley is growing like crazy! Cecily was always so small during her first few months, but Ainsley is just a little chub! I love it!

She has the cutest crooked smile, and LOVES to be held, which is a little trying for me, but great when I have time to sit down and hold her!

She rolls over from her tummy to her back, and refuses to keep her plug in her mouth although she wants it at times. She's so silly. Sometimes she gags on her plug, but at other times, she totally wants it. I can't figure it out!

She is sleeping really well at night. She will usually sleep until 5 or 6 am, and go back to sleep for another 3 or 4 hours after I feed her.

She is so funny about her tongue. It's like she doesn't know what to do with it! It's constantly hanging out, or popping in and out of her mouth.

I've decided she must love men, because she absolutely goos and gaas at them. When she is around her Grandpa Scott, she will just follow him around the room with her eyes, no matter who is holding her. And she absolutely adores Derrick. She is the perfect angel around him, and he totally gets her to laugh.

The Delightful Derrick
D Man is still keeping busy at the restaurant. He does a great job with the advertising and is getting a lot of catering jobs lined up. People spot him all around town in his hot Costa Vida ride (remember the pimped out van I posted about several months back?!). We've decided that MTV could come up with something really cool if we got the van on the show "Pimp my Ride."

Derrick loves to hit golf balls with Cecily in our front yard. I just wish he wouldn't hit them towards the house! :)

He's been working out in the mornings with his brother and is looking pretty good, if you ask me! He's also been working on his vocal skills when we play Rock Band with our friends, the Allen's. (Imagine a totally unashamed, totally tone-deaf guy singing at the top of his lungs...)

Jennifer
Nothing too exciting going on with me. I've been getting really into cooking lately. I submitted this cake for a girl's camp fund raiser last week. It's a Coconut Almond Sour Cream Pound Cake. It was pretty good, I will admit (I had enough ingredients to make 2, so we got to eat it for dessert on Sunday)! I have started taking pictures of all of the dishes I make and only the ones I loved and will make again get put on my new recipe blog. So if you are ever looking for a new recipe, the ones on my recipe blog are definite good ones! I only have a few on there right now, but I will eventually get all of my favorites on there.

Derrick gave me my Mother's Day present early. He bought me some Nike Plus running shoes. They are the ones where you can put this thing in your shoe that will track your runs and you can see a history of your runs, among other things on the Nike Plus website. It's pretty fun, and it is getting me motivated to start running again. I have to start so slow so that I don't irritate my stupid knees. (I've had 3 knee surgeries). But running seems to be the only way I can lose weight, so I'm hoping I can get my body back into it.

Anyway, this post is forever long and not that exciting, so sorry if you have actually read this far! But I think I will finish up now. Have a great day!