Hailey playing the color piano at the Childrens' Museum of Utah in Salt Lake City. 

Little Sarah is almost six months old- loves to play with her sister, her toes and anything else you give to her. Doesn't much care for rice cereal anymore- at first she loved it, now she doesn't want to eat it at all. I guess we'll wait a while again and try something else. Isn't she cute?!! 

We can't believe that Hailey is almost two already. She is getting so big and so smart, and is talking more and more all the time. She comes up with funny things to say, like "Cheese-a-mio", whatever that means, and will say ni-night house, byebye house, enunciating every syllable. One day she was being particularly ornery and I about wanted to pull all of my hair out, but after eating all of her lunch I told her "Hooray for Hailey" and she sweetly answered back, "ray a mama" meaning hooray for me. Cute girl. Now she says "hooray a byebye" calls raisins "rayos" and loves to always answer the same things when we ask her what she wants to eat for lunch- chicken, peas, cheese and apples. Not that it's all we feed her, but it's what she always says she wants to eat. She loves to help us clean up messes when it's time for her to go to bed, and will chant, "Clean up! Clean up!" and is learning how to say her colors and many other things. She has recently learned to play with play doh, to climb onto the big kids slides at the park and to play with her daddy's "Darth Tater" (a Star Wars Mr. Potato Head). She loves nursery and loves Elmo and Ernie and loves to watch the Wiggles, and even asks for them each by name. Silly girl. She amazes us all the time with the new things she can say or do. Lately, though, she's been pulling the wallpaper trim off of her wall, not such a cute thing for her to do. Not only does she pull it off, but then she hides the paper under her bed or between the mattress and the end of the bed. So, we know that she knows exactly what she's doing, and also that she shouldn't be doing it! She's way too smart for our own good. 

Here's our cute Sarah. She's such a silly girl these days. Matt likes to call her our "Little Houdini" since it doesn't matter how tightly or carefully we wrap her in a blanket before putting her to bed, she somehow gets her little arms out. She's quite the screechy kid, too, a habit I'm sure she picked up from her older sister. 

Here's another pic of Matt and Hailey at the Salt Lake zoo. This was while we were waiting in line to get on the train, one of Hailey's favorite things at the zoo.

I have been wanting to start this blog for about a month now, and am finally getting there! Here is a picture of Matt and the girls while at his grandma's house in Utah. It was one of our many stops on our recent family vacation. We went down to Salt Lake, went to the zoo, the Childrens' Museum, Temple Square, down to Fountain Green, and to Idaho Falls, ID. It was a quick trip, and a very busy one as well, but lots of fun!!Hailey had so much fun with the elephants at the zoo, liked the food at the Beastro cafe and cried when we had to get off of the Zoofari Express train. It's been fun to be able to have that special time with just our family to do fun things such as these.