Jasmine's Visit- Week in Photos

Jasmine has been here for 6 days and here is what we have done: (not in a particular order)

Nauvoo:

Bike Tricks.

Swimming. Alexia conquered the diving boards only after Aunt Jasmine demonstrated that it was safe!

Daddy's Game. Lets just say they lost but Alexia had fum cheering for Big B! (AKA Daddy)

The Children's Museum.

Random Videos from the week:

Bike

Alexia has mastered riding her bike without training wheels. This has been a long road. She was almost riding last fall, but had not quite figured out stopping. After a very long winter it was like starting over, but she has managed to figure out how to ride with VERY LITTLE HELP. That was part of what took so long for her to learn, she would not let Brian or I help her by holding on to the back of her bike. She wanted to do it all by herself or not at all. Ms. Independence.

After may falls and lots of scraps and bruises, she has done it and I could not be more relieved. I have decided that it is harder to watch her fall over and over again knowing that she does not want my help. I tried to explain to her that I could help her not fall so many times, but she still wanted to do it alone. Brian got to the point where he would not watch her ride because he could not stand to watch her take so many hard falls, and some of them were pretty hard. Thanks to who ever invented helmets, knee pads and elbow pads. Now the bruises have about a week to heal before they start two weeks of learning to roller skate in gym. (I am already stocking up on neosporine) I am still working on my camera, but I will try to get picture of her in all her riding glory soon.

Snow, Snow, Go Away...And Don't Come Back Until Next Winter

First and foremost, I want to congratulate my sister Joanna and her husband Brandon on their handsome baby boy. I have not heard if he has a name yet, but the pictures that I have seen are beautiful. Brian, Alexia, and I are glad to welcome the newest addition to the family and can't wait to see him.

We got snow today. Yuck! Lexi is mad because she can finally ride her bike without training wheels, a feat that we have been working on since the fall, and it was raining again today so the ground was too slick to ride. She has been riding her bike while I jog several times a week to get some exercise.

Well, by the time I picked her up from school she was walking around singing snow, snow go away and come again next Christmas. Obviously very disappointed that it was snowing again, which says a lot because she loved being in all the snow this past winter. She is the last person I thought would complain about more snow, but that shows you that even those who love snow have had enough already.

As for Easter, we had a good time. Alexia had to wait for daddy to get home a little after 4:00PM before the Easter Bunny came, but when he did he brought sidewalk paint and the movie Enchanted (which we watched that same day). Enchanted has fast become Lexi's new favorite because she like to scene where they clean the apartment and the rats, pigeons, and cockroaches come to help. Lexi believes that she will train rats to help her clean her room one day, after they cook dinner of course (guess the other favorite). I would post some pictures from Easter, but our camera is broken so I can't take any for a while. I did manage to get some pictures during Lexi's egg hunt, but I can't load them on the computer. Sorry, I will try to get it fixed quickly so you can see current pictures.

Well, I'm off to bed. Have a good night.