I realized that I hadn't ever posted to say that Aspen now has 6 teeth. I can't even remember when she got the 6th one but it's been in for several weeks. She has 3 on top and 3 on bottom. She has the front 2 of each and the third teeth are on the left side of her mouth, so she's a bit unbalanced. I can see the outline of both of the next 2 teeth coming and I hope they come soon cuz they have been causing her bum to get really sore! It was so bad on Thursday that it started bleeding :( I had never had that happen with Hunter so I started freaking out and called my sister immediately to find out if I needed to do something besides desitin. Poor girl. Luckily it is pretty much better but flares up really easy if I don't change her immediately after she goes. I'm thinking they are also the reason she hasn't been sleeping very well lately. As soon as she is back to sleeping through the night again we will be moving her in with Hunter, we can't wait to have our room back!! She will be 1 on Sunday, so crazy!
You can't see the third one on top but it's a pretty good shot of the rest of them.
Some other random updates of Aspen are that she says Uh Oh, a lot, and especially when she throws her food on the floor (which I'm pretty sure she does to save it for later, cuz she will go under the table and start eating shortly after we get her down, she's crazy!) And she says Dadadad, and you can totally tell she is saying it for Ben. Sometimes it kind of sounds like she is trying to say Hunter, but not very clear. She says shoes pretty good. She has said owie a couple times but we aren't really sure if she knows what it means. And she totally plays phone. She will grab just about anything, put it to her ear and say "Hello." The L's aren't really pronounced so it's kind of more like huh-o. I think maybe I'm on the phone too much or something! Haha she just seems so little to already by playing phone! She has said Mamam at me a couple times but not too often. When we first had Hunter me and Ben would both try to get him to say our name (mom or dad) first, but then I talked to a lady that always taught her kids to say Dad first, cuz you know that which ever name they can say is the one they want, especially when they need their bum changed. Haha. I thought it was so funny and I have only said Mom to Aspen a couple times, just when Ben's around but secretly I'm OK with her knowing his name first. She is kind of a stinker and thinks she needs to be held or walked around most of the day so right when Daddy comes home she heads to him and holds up her hand to have him walk her around since Mom isn't doing it all day like she wants. She can also sign "more." We taught Hunter a few sign words and it was really nice to be able to communicate some before he could really talk. So far that's the only word Aspen has learned and she usually only does it if I ask her if she wants more, someday I'm sure she'll figure out to actually use it. And she also just learned to fold her arms for prayers. It is so cute! And just the past 3 days or so she has realized that she can stand without holding onto anything. She will stand up by holding onto something then let go and just stand there for a few seconds. She thinks she's pretty cool when she does it, but so do we! Wow she has been doing tons lately, I didn't realize there was so much new until I typed it out!
I attempted to braid her hair the other day. It didn't work out so good. Haha. Ben really doesn't like the pony on top of her head so I figured I would try something else but her hair is just too thin!
While I was getting ready to head up to Ephraim the kiddos were playing. It got to quiet so I went to investigate and this is what I found. Hunter was lotioning him and Aspen! And for some reason besides the globs on the side of Aspens face he had it mostly in both of their hair. His I was able to just do it spiky and it looked fine but there was so much in Aspens I had to give her a bath!
Aspen and I went up to Ephraim with my family this weekend. Kira had her Badgerette review, it was way fun to get to go see her dance again. And surprise, surprise we even got to see my Dad dance again!!! He thought he was done when Kira graduated high school. Haha! They asked all the Dad's to stand up in the audience, and after they did asked them to come down to the floor. Once they were down there they were informed they were going to have a dance off! It was awesome! They all took a turn showing a "move" then we narrowed them down to 4. They showed us another "move" then he decided on one of the winners but couldn't tell which of the other 3 was getting the loudest screams. Brandi yelled "One more time!" And the announcer listened! Haha. We got to see them show another move! And we screamed and ended up getting my Dad to win! And in the process got Tucker (Brandi's baby) to cry and Aspen to look at us like we were crazy! Then we decided that we would just have to have our Dad dance with Talee and Aspen instead of their Dad's! Both of our hubby's were more than OK with that :)
Ben was on call so he couldn't come up. Him and Hunter went camping out to Sand Hollow and had a fun time back at home. Hunter ended up getting the swimmers itch, he's not ever gotten it before poor guy. He also has an ear infection right now. I took him to the Dr on Wed so the medicine has been working long enough that he's feeling lots better, but still sad that he had to deal with that and right when it was feeling better deal with the swimmers itch :(
He sure is happy for all the stuff he's dealing with :)
