Yuck!

Lexi came across a bar of soap and wasn't nearly as disgusted by it as I would have thought. The only thing that bothered her was that it kept slipping out of her hands once her slobber wet it down and she had a hard time getting it back in her mouth!

New tricks.

Per moms request, here is a video of Lexi waving. We have been trying to get her to do it for a long time, but she just barely started waving back to us last night.

Lexi has learned a couple other new tricks..some good some not so good. I gave her some lunch yesterday and left the room for a little bit. When I came back this is what I found... An empty tray!! I was so proud of her for eating all that I had given her and that it didn't take too long to eat it. But then I looked down at the floor.. I didn't think kids were supposed to learn this trick for quite a while! What a little stinker. She's also learned how to entertain herself with peekaboo. She'll hold anything in front of her face and walk around thinking it's so funny. Her favorite thing to use is her clothes.

Scary!!

Lexi had her first real bloody accident last Sunday. There was a time when Lexi was first born that Ryan cut a little hole in her finger with the clippers and we had a hard time getting it to stop bleeding, but this was much worse. Lexi was being too loud and wiggly during relief society on Sunday so we went out to walk down the halls. There were some nursery toys in the hallway that I couldn't get Lexi away from. I kept pulling on her hand to get her to walk with me but she would just sit her little bum down on the floor like she does when she doesn't want us to move her. So i picked her up and took her WAY down the hallway so she'd hopefully forget about the toys. When i set her down, she turned right around and started walking a little too fast towards them. I'm not sure if she lost her balance or tripped, but she fell flat on her face. I went and picked her up and it took her a few seconds to finally breathe and cry, but she stopped after a minute. Then I noticed large amounts of blood coming out her mouth. I took her paci out and it was covered with blood as well as my hand. I started freaking out.. I just stood there in the hallway for a minute trying to figure out what might be bleeding and what to do.. I'm definitely NOT good with blood!! Anyway, we hurried to the bathroom and there was a lady who saw the blood and came into the bathroom with me and got her face all cleaned off. It took a while to figure out what was bleeding to get it to stop.. I'm still not exactly sure what happened but it looks like she must have hit her tooth because it was red and bruised looking on her gum around the front tooth and then it also looks like she ripped a little bit of that flap thing that connects your top lip to your gum. Not fun! I had to feed her soft foods for a little bit, but she seems to be doing fine now. We are hoping her tooth doesn't die and turn an ugly color! I definitely can do without anymore accidents for a while. I wish there was some way to protect kids from getting hurt. It makes me SO sad!!! Oh, and FYI.. hydrogen peroxide works AMAZING on blood stains! I had never heard of that until now, but it was so quick and easy.

Lexi's story of the purple block

Lexi has started jabbering nonstop. Most of the time I enjoy it and think it's cute. Especially when I talk to her and she looks at me very intently like she knows exactly what I'm saying and then starts "talking" back to me. Other times however, like yesterday when I was trying to watch a movie, it was quite annoying. She was so loud I couldn't hear the movie. After rewinding and pausing several times, I finally figured I'd have to finish it during her nap so I shut off my movie and video taped her instead..