Paul, Sarah, and Baby Mary!!

  Mary is going through a sleep regression, so both she and I have had a bad week with getting enough sleep.  She seems to understand mama and dada now when she says them.  She also seems to understand when I say thank you and no.  She can also pull herself onto her feet by herself!  She has snuggled up to Paul a lot more this week. Her 4th tooth poked through on Thursday, it's the other top front tooth.  Happy Birthday to Nathanael on Tuesday and Claire on Thursday! My ministering sister had her baby last week so I took her some lasagna on Thursday.  Friday we went to the park for the weekly ward park play date.  Friday night we went to dinner with Matt and Hannah and Addie, then walked around and played at a park for a little while.  Saturday we went hiking.

  Last Sunday I noticed that Mary's right front-top tooth poked through her gums while we were on the plane and I forgot to mention it in my last paragraph.  She has also started clapping and loves to dance.  She dances to music while she is playing or eating.  She has also started pulling herself onto her feet and can stand and take a few steps with assistance.  Happy Birthday to Eliza on Thursday! Thursday night I went to the ward book club and we talked about the book The Happiness Trap.  I only read the first couple of chapters but we had a good discussion.  Friday morning I got Mary up early and we made it to the ward park play date that morning.  It was fun and we stayed an hour and a half before Mary decided that she had had enough.  Saturday we watched conference at our house and I made some yummy French toast.  Sunday we went over to Matt and Hannah's for the day and watched both sessions of conference with them.  Paul...

  This week I deep cleaned our apartment and renewed our car registrations. Thursday, Paul got home early and we went on a family date night and hung out with Matt, Hannah, and Addie. Friday, Hannah gave us a ride to the airport.  We had a great flight to Salt Lake City, Mary slept and was relaxed.  Andrew picked us up.  We had dinner together and got ready for Grandpa Reed's viewing.  It was a pleasant viewing and many people came to pay their respects. Saturday we went up to the cemetery in the avenues and had the graveside service first thing in the morning.  Afterward, we went to the funeral at Grandpa Reed's meeting house.  All the son's spoke and did a great job.  There were two musical numbers and the whole family sang How Great Thou Art for the closing hymn.  We had lunch at Jeff's house and took a family picture.  Later we went to the park and played pickleball then we went home and played games.  Sunday, Mom drove us to th...

  This week Mary has been dancing a lot.  I will sing to her and she'll stop what she's doing, sit up, and dance.  It is so cute.  She officially started crawling on her hands and knees on Wednesday this week.  She's been moving a lot and it makes her so tired that she sleeps 8 hours in a row!  She used to get up 1-2x a night but not since she started crawling.  Mary showed off her crawling skills when we hung out with Matt, Hannah, and Addie on Saturday.  Mary also got to make some new friends in the ward when we went to another family in the ward's home for dinner. Monday we heard Grandpa Reed had a stroke and went to the hospital.  Thursday he was sent home with hospice care.  Friday morning he passed away peacefully.  Mary and I will visit Salt Lake for his viewing and funeral this next weekend.

8 months old   Happy anniversary to Mom and Dad on Monday and happy birthday to Sierra on Wednesday.  Thursday, Mary had her second tooth poke through!  It is also in the front on the bottom.  Mary also started moving around more in her sleep.  I'll put her in her crib on her back and she'll get out of her blanket and roll onto her tummy while she's sleeping and hang her hand or foot off the side of her crib. Trying out Addie's chair   Saturday Mary turned 8 months!  She is crawling and eating well, she is the happiest baby.  We went to Buc-ee's and she got the meet Buc-ee in real life! Congratulations to Andrew and Sierra on having a boy! and happy birthday to Mykael on Sunday.

  This week was pretty good.  We've been sick for a couple of weeks, and it got worse on Tuesday this week.  I was burning up but felt cold and achy all over.  Paul helped me get some extra sleep that night which seemed to be precisely what I needed because I felt much better the next day.  I had a ton of energy and felt almost all the way better again.  Mary sometimes coughs but she is much better as well. Mary has been doing great with eating more solid foods.  I have given her some soft bread, and oatmeal, and made her a smoothie and she is chewing and swallows pretty well.  She is getting used to having more solid poops.  Her sleep schedule has been changing this week as well, we're trying to figure out a good nap and bedtime routine to accommodate these changes.  She is growing so much, she is in 9-month sizes!  We got her a fall outfit but were worried she would grow out of it before too long so we got the 12-month size. ...

  This week was good.  Mary and I are still getting over our colds this week.  We would be playing in Mary's room and she found her way over to her crib and would crawl underneath it.  She is getting so good and moving around. We watched Addie for Matt and Hannah on Thursday night.  They went to a concert for their anniversary so we had Addie over for the evening.  We had dinner and watched the Little Mermaid and put her to bed.  Mary had fun playing with her cousin.