Aunt Vanessa!

Playing with Aunt Vanessa while waiting for Sushi

Aunt Vanessa brought piano books and read Selah great fiction and non-fiction

Playing around at Tempe Town Lake

Eating again up at Pane

New best friend Simeon came over so Selah could babysit

Selah likes learning how to take care of babies.  She never takes her eyes off of them.  Oops.

Home group with little friends Brynlee and Macy

Selah, trying to convince that her baby brother's middle name should be button: His middle name can be Button while he's small.  Then, when he's bigger, it can be...Sweater...or...Truck!

Love is relative?

Dad to Selah:  I love you more than a monkey!
Selah to Dad: Well, I love you more than a hippopotamus.
Dad: Whoa, more than a hippopotamus.  And you really love hippopotamusses!
Selah: No I don't.  They're all muddy.

Grandma and Papa visit Arizona

Sonoita Wine Festival

Playing around at Granada Park

Grandma and Papa like lots of bike rides - thankfully we had great weather for it

Easter in Sedona

Selah, being considerate because I agreed to get on the floor to play some dollhouse:
"I'll put this pillow down for you mom, because you're pregnant, and I know that pregnant womans like to sit on pillows."

So very Easter

West Fork of Oak Creek

 

Easter bunny laid eggs around the campsite.

Yelling from her crib after laying down for the night:

Selah: "Mom, where do bears live?"

Lisa: "In caves, in the forest!"

Selah: "No, I mean do they live in Africa or in Phoenix?"

Camping at West Clear Creek with the McDaniel Family

Last weekend we camped and did a little hiking
with the McDaniel's: Dave, Charis (7 months), and Rachel

McDowell Mountain Hike

Selah hiked three of the ten miles!

The prettiest sight in the desert

Great view of four peaks with recent snowfall, looking east from Windgate Pass

The desert view from the eastern side

Selah and I

Selah and Casson

Bad Mothers

During dinner tonight, I was enlightening Selah about how I'm a good mother because I make her eat all of her dinner and especially her vegetables, and how bad mothers only feed their kids gallons and gallons of ice cream until they can't move.  She said "Yeah, so we don't eat any ice cream" which is not true, and I smiled and told her it was really fine to eat ice cream too, yadayadayada.  Just then, Casson called from the kitchen "Hey Lisa, where did you put that bag clip?" and I said "I didn't do anything with it."  He then found it in a random place where I had stuck it in the cupboard.  Then he started singing a song "Oh, I like to put things in random places..." I laughed and said "Don't be making fun of me!"  Selah turned to me and said softly with her hand on my arm, "Just ignore him mom.  He's not making fun of you.  He's just singing a song about bad mothers."

Riding a bike

Happy Birthday Vanessa

Cooking with Cristian and Selah

Selah and Cristian are second cousins.  They play so well together.  Cristian's sister Adriana couldn't make it this day and Selah missed her.  Later she told me she hopes that Cristian and Adriana can come to Phoenix.  Good thing she likes playing with boys.  I mean that she's going to have a baby brother.

Jolly Old St. Nicholas

Thanks for the piano books Uncle Michael. 

With Aunt Patty

Cousin Andrew

Cousin Matthew

Little Sibling

Aunt Van

Cousin Nick and Laura

"Andy and Andy" Just Engaged

GG DeWayne and GG Lois

Uncle Tim and Aunt Jackie

Cousins Dan and Joe

Cousin Amanda

Aunt Chrissy

Little Lyle