4 months

     On Saturday (the 21st),  Leilani turned 4 months old...  She is the most precious thing in the world... my nephews and future nieces are a close 2nd. But right now its all about my baby girl.  She is so beautiful, very laid back and pretty much the best baby EVER!!  About a week ago I started to try to enforce her taking her naps in her bed instead of my arms so I could accomplish stuff during the day. She does really good at it if I get her swaddled tight, She doesn't have bubble, and I lay her down at exactly the right moment. Otherwise, she ends up sleeping in my arms or I end up sleeping with her in our bed. So I would say its a work in progress...
     I am trying to get a scholarship from the state of Colorado to pay for Dental assisting school, so the other day I had a meeting about it. I walked in the door just as Leilani rolled over for the first time. I was a little disappointed I missed it. She is developing and growing so fast, within the last couple of weeks she discovered her feet (she loves to play with them during diaper changes), she rolled over from her back to her front (when her arm is stuck under her she can roll back to her back, she laughs while she is awake, and is trying to sit up. its all happening so fast!!! Oh, and she got VERY ticklish!!
     Today she had her 4 month check up. She weighs 14.4 pounds and is 24 3/4 inches long she is in the 50th percentile for everything. The Dr. said she is perfect! She got more shots today... this time was not as traumatic on every one. no tears were spilled by anyone. She just screamed at us VERY angrily!!!
     Dusty started a new semester of school and a  job with Target, he has to be there by 4 AM. so he leaves here at 3:30AM... on a good note... he comes to bed with me again. I think that's it for us...

Leilani's Blessing day

Dusty Great Grandma and Grandma, (4 generations)

We have the same facial expressions!  Like mother like daughter.

Her cousin Deklan loves her so much!!

and she loves him!

Great grandma Astin

Aunt Shiree

Grandpa and Grandma Bott

Grandma Chenoweth

WHAT A CRAZY DAY!!! I planned to wake up early and get my hair done and look cute for this very special day... Well my little alarm clock decided to sleep in. Church starts at 9 am, I woke up checked my phone and sat straight up "Dusty its 8:10". We had to leave in a half hour!!! I'm pretty sure I took like a 1 minute shower. I was in and out while Dusty woke up. I threw my clothes on, woke Leilani up and ran up stairs to borrow a skirt from my mom, threw that on and ran back downstairs to get Leilani dressed, Her aunt Jenn crocheted her a beautiful blessing dress... the sleeve went half way up her forearm... AHH!!! I ran back upstairs, luckily my mom had found my blessing dress about a month before she was born.. I grabbed it out of her closet and ran back downstairs and put it on her... It fit!! I could breathe for a second! Then I ran downstairs to see if Dusty was ready, "Where are my pants?"  Oh man I cant remember washing them or putting them away... I was freaking out!!! I looked everywhere! Dusty looked everywhere!! Finally he saw a pile of folded laundry/ Christmas presents I hadn't put away yet.. he found them! I could breathe again! I ran upstairs again to find my mom putting Leilani in her car seat (thank you!!!) I finished while my mom left to go save some seats with Shiree and Kevin, (thankfully my dad had already saved a couple rows for everyone!) Then we had to scrape windows and our cars license plates were expired... Oh my goodness I was thinking what else could go wrong... maybe we could hit all the red lights... YEP that is what happened... But  we got there just barely on time. Dusty gave her a beautiful Blessing.
I am so blessed to have married a worthy priesthood holder who can do these things for our Children.. I love him so much! And I love our little Leilani, I can't imagine out life without her!!

update on us...

    I thought I would give a little update before Abby had to remind me.
    We had a great Christmas! We spent the morning with my family (that were still home for Christmas), the afternoon with Dusty's dad and family, and tried to spend the evening with friends but we were all to tired...  Leilani was spoiled and got lots of new clothes and some toys.   New Years was lots of fun we had some friends over and played Killer Bunnies(new game Eric gave us for Christmas) and other games. It was truly a blessing to have Leilani with us for these holidays, it was so nice to have such a perfect person with us to celebrate the birth of Christ and a new year.
    Leilani giggled for the first time today while we were eating dinner with my mom and dad. She had been talking all night, and was just in a really good mood for that late in the evening (6 pm is usually her time to start getting fussy). She had to put her 2 cents  into the conversation, and when all of our attention was on her she got very excited and started. My dad started to clap and she cooed, Dusty started to clap and she started to put her hands together, so I helped her clap. She let out a little giggle. She has a "tickle bone" like her mommy, so I tickled it, and she let out her first prolonged giggle, it was just the cutest thing. And the best part was my mom got it on her video camera!!