Update to "getting in the groove"

It has now been 2 months since I decided to start working on getting healthy and happy. I have now lost 18.6 lbs and am still working hard. Recently I ran for an hour on my treadmill and now the knees aren't feeling the greatest, but I'm not willing to give up. It is amazing how much better I feel eating fruits and veggies and no so much chocolate and candies, mmmmm chocolate....... Allie is now reaching in to the fruit bin for a snack and not asking for candy so much. It makes me feel good that I am teaching my kids healthy habits.

Where Did she Hear That?

I was in my room that other day and Allie walked in with 2 markers in her hand. I asked her what she was doing with them and she said that she is playing with her "crash cymbals". She asked me if I wanted to come listen to her concert. So I walked into the kitchen and there was a blanket spread out on the floor and she told me to sit on the blacket for the concert. She then sat at the kitchen table and started hitting the markers together and said "1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4 and started banging the markers on the table. when she was finished she set one of the markers down and grabbed another marker and hit it against the vase of flowers that was on my table. The vase was her crash cymbals. Where she came up with this, I have no idea.

A tidbit of information from Allie (age 3)

We were driving home from Provo today and it was raining a little and as I turned on the windshield wipers Allie asked me if it was raining. I told her it was. She then asked me if I knew where the rain came from. Wanting to hear her idea of where it came from I repeated the question to her. "Where does the rain come from Allie?" Allie says "MOM, it comes from the cwouds. The Funder makes sounds and then the rain comes down, drop, drop, drop, cause of the funder storm." Pretty impressive!

TA DA

Trevor Decided that yesterday was the day for him to start learning to walk. Chris brought him to work and told me that Trevor had walked from the chair to the couch (across the living room). I wanted to see for myself and share with all of you, so the second he started walking I had to record it for you. He gets so excited if you cheer him on that he will keep trying over and over. I'm so proud of him.

Circus

We have been hanging out with family the last couple of weeks. Last week my mom, the kiddies and I went to the Orem mall and they got to play in the big tree house and dinosaur bones. We went to the eatery and had dinner and on our way out the door we had to stop at See's chocolates. Yesterday Marci and Paige came to my house and we made Asian Lemon Chicken and cut out snowflakes on my cricut. Today my family, Pat, and Robert went to the circus. When it first started the lights went down and the colored lights started flashing. Trevor looked around to see what was going on and then covered his eyes with his hands. I'm not sure if he was scared or if the lights were bothering him. He loved seeing all the animals and sideshows. Allie was amazed at all the was going on around her. At half time they had little horses the kids could ride and Elephants. Allie was able to get on the last Elephant ride with her friend Emma from our ward (they just happened to be there). She wasn't afraid to get on it at all and she had to tell me all about how she didn't fall off cause she held onto the red things that looked like a rectangle. We went to subway for dinner aferwards. It was a lot of fun.