Juliette's Blessing Day

Last Sunday was Juliette's Blessing Day.  She looked absolutely gorgeous in her dress.  She was accessorized by the sweetest little bracelet that DeeAnn made, and yellow flower made by her Aunt McKenzie.  The blessing was beautiful.  Ashton did a wonderful job.  We were joined by Ashton's parents and 2 youngest brothers, our friends Kevin and Karen and their boys, and Ashlee (and let's not forget our ward family as well).  

It was a beautiful day.

Here are a couple pictures taken by Dex (Ash may have helped a little)  :

Quiet Time

Dexter goes down for quiet time instead of nap time.  The same things still happen, he gets in bed, reads some stories to himself, and listens to his classical music cd (his choice of music actually), and eventually falls asleep.  We just had to change the name so he would go.

A while ago, we found him asleep like this:

He must have been exhausted if he didn't finish reading his "Cookie Mouse" book.  

Juliette

Juliette has such a strong neck.  I finally got it on video. It's just a little harder to do with Dex around...

Gotta love him (and her!)

Butterfly Tagging

Last weekend we went to Hitchcock Nature Center to participate in their butterfly tagging event.  It was pretty fun.  We were tagging monarch butterflies for research.  The apparently migrate to Mexico for the winter and this helps them know where the butterflies came from.  

Tagging involves catching the butterfly, determining it's sex, and putting on a little tag (a round sticker with numbers and stuff on it) on the outside of it's wing, record the info, and then let go.  We caught one butterfly in a last ditch effort on our way to the lodge. Dexter loved it!

When we let go of the butterfly, we had to say Adios! to send it on its way

Dexter's Photography

Dexter has become quite the photographer.  Enjoy his first portfolio:

What a Beauty

All dressed up and ready for church.  

Funny Boy

Dexter loves his underwear.  Loves it!  He asks to wear it a lot, but not use the potty.  Last night, I gave in and this was the end result:

He is such a ham!  

You should know, that he did it all by himself.  At first he tried to put the underwear on over his shorts but he was a bit perplexed when it didn't quite work.  He looked at me and said, "wear over diaper!"  I explained how he had to take his shorts off in order to do so, and he did.  He got undressed all by himself (I did help direct his arm out of his shirt to get his other arm out a sleeve) but he did the rest himself!  I was impressed.  He also put the underwear on too.  He has yet to repeat it, but it's a start!

-Ali