Scaring mommy!

Cicily yesterday decide that putting car keys in an outlet seemed like the logical thing to do.  Ya mommy didn't think so.  It scared mommy pretty bad and grandma too.  We have outlet covers on the outlets inside the house.  We didn't really think the outlets on the outside of the house needed them perhaps we were wrong.  Luckily the keys were the type that have a plastic head covering the key, she tried to put it in the small circle hole instead of the longer flat holes, and no one got hurt or even a shock.  Angela gave the suggestion that she was creatively scaring us instead of saying boo.

Christmas and Whitney's Wedding!

The last couple of weeks have been very busy!  We had our own little Christmas.

Then Cicily and I traveled to Southern California for my youngest sisters wedding.  Cicily loved hanging out with Princess Whitney at the Princesses Castle " San Diego Temple".

While Cicily and I were in California Nick was getting everything together for his cross country trip from Florida to Utah.

So Cute!

Cicily has been so adorable the last few days.  She's been trying to do summersaults and what can only be described as yoga?  lol  She's learned to take off her own clothes as well and has been naked most of today because of that.  She's also relized that she can reach her big toe to her mouth and now sucks on it fairly often.  lol.  It's just funny to watch her growing up.  She's saying new words all the time and always wants to talk to papa on the phone.  Every time I pick it up she now says papa over and over.  She'll tell me she wants juice and gets upset if I give her water.  She's also become very social and waves to everyone we pass if we go outside, and says bye.  Another thing she does is help put the groceries away, it was funny watching her try to carry the milk. 

Our first Thanksgiving alone!

This year Thanksgiving was just a little different for us. Since we're in Florida we were to far away from family to visit. So we had our own Thanksgiving. Just our little family. The day before Thanksgiving I started making dinner so I wouldn't have to do everything the day of. I made the pumpkin pie and the deviled eggs.

Then bright and early in the morning I stuffed the turkey and put it in the oven, made a banana cream pie, took a break while Nick made the sweet potatoes, made the green bean casserole, mashed potatoes, and gravy. And while we were doing all that Cicily was watching the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade and she was waving at all the floats and people on the TV it was really cute. Then right about the time the Turkey was finishing cooking the Carbon Monoxide alarm goes off. At first I was kinda confused because I was thinking it was the fire alarm, but we didn't have any smoke in the house. So I went out side to check if it was the building alarm, because we live in an apartment so it could have been someone else, But it wasn't the building alarm. So I went back inside and looked at the alarm and I realized it was the Carbon Monoxide detector so then I'm panicking wondering what we should do, because dinner had just finished and we had a large thanksgiving dinner just sitting there. It was very frustrating. So we opened all the windows in our apartment, the door too, and Cicily and I sat outside while Nick went to the front office to see if there was anyone there to talk to. Of course no one was there on Thanksgiving though. So Nick called his dad to see what he thought. We all felt fine and we figured it was from all the cooking since our stove and oven is gas and since the heat hasn't been on at all. So Nick reset the detector and it didn't go off again after an hour of airing out.

Luckily most of the food was still hot or warm at least to have our Thanksgiving dinner after that little episode. I think we did pretty good on dinner for cooking my first turkey, banana pie, pumpkin pie, and gravy. It all turned out great even with being sick.  Cicily loved Thanksgiving dinner too she had a little bit of everything and even pointed out a couple things she wanted more of.  

Mary and Rachel Visit!

Mary and Rachel came to visit down here in Orlando and we went to Disney World several times here are some of our advenures.  Cicily reading a book to Rachel.  




   Cicily and Rachel hanging out with Pluto.  

Cicily and Stitch!    
 












And Cicily and Rachel fighting over space next to the fence.

Silly Cicily!

Cicily has become quite a bit more entertaining these last few weeks.  Here are some of her adventures. 

First off we have the unrolling of the toilet paper that was fun rolling it back up while she was trying to stop me.

Next is the box that she is continuously playing in.  She likes to hide inside it and peek around the corner at me.  It's really cute.  She climbs on it all the time and has even used it to climb on the big chairs.  She normally wouldn't be able too.

And finaly is the adventure of trying to put anything she can in her ears this time it was green beans and luckily they didn't go very deep.

WOW!

We just watched the launch of the space shuttle discovery from our apartment! It was amazing! It was awe inspiring!

We could see it better then in the picture and the video. It was amazing we were listening to the count down on the TV and watching out the window. All of a sudden the trees were light from behind like fire was behind them and the shuttle shot from behind the trees. We could see the shuttle for a few seconds, but then it looked like a comet shooting into the sky it had a huge tail behind it. The Video and picture don't do it justice.

Climbing 2!

Did you come to watch mom?

Cicily is at it again. She can now reach the counters and any thing somewhat close to the edge.

Fish Lake!

Fish Lake!

We took Cicily to Fish Lake for the first time. It was a lot of fun we stayed in cabins and had great weather.

Dad took all the girls out fishing! (we out fished the boys)

My first fish of the day!

Mary Showing off her worm taming skills!

Me netting Mary's fish!

Watching Daddy fillet the fish!

Nick out in his pontoon boat!

Airsofting!

Check me out mom I'm upstairs!Family Pictures!

Going Down Stairs!

Well I guess every cloud has a silver lining or sum such. Cicily and everyone else in the house had the flu for several days and the cough just won't go away, but while we were all stuck indoors Cicily learned how to go down the stairs all by herself and I guess she was teething too. Cause now she's got another tooth, and we never even saw it start coming in and it's almost as tall as the ones from several months ago. Wow we're observant!

Cicily's first trip to the Zoo!

Today we took Cicily to the zoo for the first time. She loved the animals and was pointing at everything. We saw the giraffes, bears, and zebras first.

The Rhinoceros was way cool, we got a foot away from its face of course it was behind a wall and a window but it was still really cool.
Halfway through our trip we stopped for lunch.Next we went on a train ride it was cool going through the buffalo enclosure and the sheep enclosure.
I got really tired and upset, I don't remember why I just really didn't want to go to sleep and who could blame me there was to much to see.
Did you see that dad. The prairie dog went down the hole.
Next we went to discovery park.
Cicily caught a daddy turtle!
Cicily and Rachel hatched from an egg!
Then the girls wrestled an alligator.
Daddy took Cicily on her first slide!
Then Cicily took a nap, but luckily she woke up in time to go on the carousel. She loved it! I think it was her favorite thing of the entire day!