Funniest Little Laugh

Abby has recently developed the funniest little laugh I've ever heard. I've been wanting to capture it on video to share with our families who are far away, and I finally got it on video last night. We all think it's completely hysterical. What do you think?

Abby, 16 months

St. George Half Marathon

Tige ran his first 1/2 marathon today. Lucky us, it ran right in front of our house, so we got to cheer from our driveway. It's been raining all week--it was a cold morning, but the rain stopped for the race. My pictures are blurry, but I guess that's what you get with someone whipping by you quickly and you just have a second to get a picture. We're so proud of him. He finished in about 2 hours 13 minutes. His legs are sore and stiff, but overall not too shabby. He doesn't even have blisters on his feet. Mile 2 in front of our house.
You have nice buns, and I cannot lie ...

Over 2,000 runners

Tige's fan club (Kason & our neighbors around the corner). Most of the runners got a kick out of Kason's sign as they passed.

Coming in for the finish--about 1/4 mile to go.

Tige said he needed to take an ice cold bath after the race to help with the swelling. The kids had a blast pulling the ice cubes out and sucking on them. Every time they'd drop an ice cube and it splashed on Tige, he'd cry like a girl. It was so funny to watch.

Mmmm, yummy ice!

Fossil Fun

It's been longer than usual since I updated my blog, so here are a couple of pictures that were on my camera. We gave Kason a shark tooth fossil brick for Christmas, and he had a BLAST chipping away at the brick of sand and finding 4 shark teeth and a full shark jaw. Getting started
Found that first shark tooth

Check out that serious concentration!

Found the jaw

Mom helped the most, but dad helped a little. The fossil kit came with Kason's safety goggles. Tige's are 3-D glasses from seeing Avatar. I didn't use safety googles for a few minutes, but quickly got a piece of sand in my eye, so they were essential.

The top jaw! So cool!

My sweet friend sent my kids a couple of pairs of matching pajamas from her kids with about the same age spread. Abby has decided she will no longer sit stil for a picture, so after about 20 pictures, this was the best one I could get. Some days I wonder where my sweet angel baby went. She's into all sorts of mischief, and she knows it--she turns and runs when she has something she knows she shouldn't have. She's also started clenching her fists and shaking & screaming to throw tantrums. Heaven help me when the new baby comes.

Speaking of new baby, I can feel him/her/it moving. I'm 16 weeks today, and have been able to feel movement for about a week, only at night when I'm laying really still in bed. I didn't feel Kason move until really late because I didn't know what it would feel like. With Abby, I thought I felt her move a little earlier, but wasn't sure because it had been a long time. This one, I'm positive. I love feeling baby move--in my opinion it's the only good part of being pregnant.

Kason & a friend playing. They were sitting in Kason's bed eating apples and reading a huge, thick book about fish. I just thought it was so cute for 2 kindergartners to eat apples and read books!

Kason is my fabulous helper! And Abby, my bottomless-pit, very good eater.