Belen Play Time Video

An Apostle's Words

“Oh, it is wonderful to know that our Heavenly Father loves us—even with all our flaws! His love is such that even should we give up on ourselves, He never will.

“We [might] see ourselves in terms of yesterday and today. Our Heavenly Father sees us in terms of forever."

- Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin

That's Funny

Holden cracks me up all the time. I laugh my head off and then forget what it is that he said almost immediately. So I'm starting a record. The other day he said "I hate it when I can't tell if a commercial is going to be by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints or Toyota." That's Funny.

I love you my hilarious handsome Holden. ;)

Belén Video

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I Came Back From the Kitchen...

...and what did I see? Our baby girl all grown up(sniff)! Ok, not quite, but I had put her on her tummy and she was on her back! I was so much more excited than I anticipated I would be. We celebrated all day. She did it 3 more times. What a show off :) This is my favorite job ever. (I caught it on video, but the video seems too big...stay tuned for when I get that figured out).

Cute Things

My sister asked me to update her on some of the cute things Belen is doing lately... this was my update:

Belen does lots of cute things. Some of them are hard to explain in words, I will try to get them on video. One of the things I love is her stretches. She stretches after nursing and waking up. She arches her back and pouts out her lips, it's super cute. She stretches so much she actually has gotten ME stretching. It feels great! :) I love her smiles and her laughs probably the most. I will definitely get that on video.

Just now she did something really cute. I put her down in her crib because I could tell she was ready for a nap. I gave her her pacifier and, although her mouth was full of pacifier she proceeded to mumble, protest and basically scold me through it. I thought I could get her to calm down while still in the crib at first (I'm trying to teach her to go to sleep more on her own - yeah right, ha ha!), and her scolding me made me laugh all of the sudden. It was just so cute and so I scooped her up, buried my face in her neck and kissed it, letting a little chuckle out in the process. And to my surprise she started laughing too and her lips widened into a smile behind her pacifier. Then I started rocking her and she did some more protesting which made me laugh again and it made her laugh again too. A few minutes later she was asleep. It was so cute. It made our relationship seem for a moment less mom-daughter and more spirit to spirit enjoying this life we have here on earth... learning from each other.

She's my buddy, goes with me everywhere, it's great!

PS - another "cute" thing she's doing... sleeping from bedtime until 2:30 and sometimes longer!