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..

Mother's Day Poem

Ryan wrote me a poem yesterday during church. When he told me about it I was expecting something really stupid, but I thought he did a pretty good job. Here it is..

I dated brunettes, but I married a "blond"
Thought I was dating the right kind of girls, but I was wrong.
Shyness and sweetness and wit were what I needed,
someone a bit more innocent and with faith deeply seeded.
Almost four years in, I've never second-guessed,
Of all those I dated, I ended with the best.
I dated brunettes, but I married a "blond",
a beautiful girl, a strong woman, and a great mom!

(fyi.. i was blond when we were dating due to a ton of highlights)

She walks!

I guess maybe I should call it stepping at this point. Lexi can only take 2-3 steps before she either falls down or leans into what she's going for. She took her first step a couple weeks ago at 8 1/2 months! We knew she'd be an early walker because she has often been ahead with the milestones and she is super strong. Yesterday at the mall we rode in an elevator with a lady who commented that you can tell Lexi is strong by the way she pulled on the stroller to sit up straight in her seat. When we got out Ryan said, "if only she knew Lexi could do a pull up!" Anyway, here are a couple videos of Lexi. She didn't cooperate like we wanted her to, but oh well. You can kinda see her taking a few steps.


I can't believe my baby is starting to walk!! She's just growing up way too fast. I can barely remember her as the chubby newborn.

Spring!

Me and Lexi left Ryan for 2 weeks to go visit my family in Missouri for their spring break. I have to admit I wasn't very excited for the trip for 2 reasons. First, I had never been apart from Ryan for more than 24 hours and didn't know how I'd do without him. : ) Second, Lexi had never been on an airplane before and I didn't know how she would do! But we both survived. Lexi actually did really great on the plane and slept through half of it. Our family went to Little Sahara in OK for a couple days until a snowstorm came and forced us to leave. We had a great time while we were there and enjoyed the sunshine while it lasted. Lexi really hates her carseat and had to be entertained on the 6 hour drive there. We all got sick of listening to baby mozart over and over and over.. Trevor tried over and over to get his jeep up this hill. My mom, dad, and me, along with about 8 other random guys sat at the top of the hill on our fourwheelers rooting for him but he never did make it up. This is also the hill where my mom rolled her fourwheeler! Luckily she wasn't hurt and even got right back on to ride and rolled it a second time before we were finished. : ) Poor mom. First day of spring! Me and my mom went out in the snow to get groceries only about 2 miles away. On the way home mom was just cruising along and I asked her if the roads weren't slippery. She said no and about 5 seconds later we about landed in the ditch! VERY scary. Church was cancelled the next day too and that hardly ever happens.
Last week me and Ryan went to go play golf with Adam and Mary but they wouldn't let us on the course with Lexi so we had to go to the driving range instead. The guy did give us a free token since he felt bad about telling us no. Lexi did good sitting in her stroller eating puffs and watching Ryan. Easter weekend we went to Greensboro to see Ryan's family. Lexi had lots of fun with Grandma Gladden. Here's a video of them but you have to try hard to ignore Ryan's brother on the phone ordering Mexican.



We went over to Adam and Mary's house for a barbecue inbetween sessions of conference on Sunday. We played a super fun lawn game afterwards.(don't remember the name of it) Then we had an easter basket hunt!! Adam made personalized baskets for all of us. Ours even came with a bunny hat for Lexi. : )

TIP: NEVER say to Jeran "picture time" in a high pitched voice..he will yell at you!

MAMAMAMA

All day Sunday Lexi went around the house saying MA MA and has been saying it ever since. Even though she doesn't know what she is saying, I just love it!! And I'm sure Ryan loves the fact that I try to rub it in that these are her first words. : ) I tried to get it on camera, but didn't have very good luck. This is the best I got..



And then just a few more random videos for my mom!