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Even though Mothers Day is over check out my Housewife Tips on how to pamper yourself or someone you love. Everyone deserves to be pampered even if it isn't a special holiday!

Lexi in action

Here she is trying to be a dog again.

Hello! Hello! She always calls her dad... on everything like her shoes. She says "Da Da!" Or you if you ask her where Da Da is she looks at your phone. I think she thinks he lives in it.

Loving on Zoey the Zebra. She freaking loves that thing!

At Nana's house swinging and playing with the kitty, but in her mind a dog

I'm a great mom and she had Cheetos for breakfast. She also had some oatmeal afterwards.

After a long day and only a 20 minute nap. This is her at the store showing her true colors. Everyone would be proud of me it was the first time she went all day with out a bow in her hair all day while we running errans and going to appointments. It was tough on me but I did it.

Lexi is now walking

She got herself stuck in the Bumbo

She fell and hit her head on her grandma's coffee table. Her eyes got pretty swollen. My sweet little sister in law was the one that had let her go walking before she fell so she felt responsible and was devastated. Obvisouly it wasn't her fault  babies fall all the time when they are learning to walk. And I kept telling her that. She is such a good auntie and loves Lexi so much and Lexi loves her to death.

This is the next day when she woke up they both were a little purple like eyeshadow but by the end of the day the color was gone and she barely had a mark. I'm sure this is the first of many black eyes. It didn't even faze her. She cried for a minute after it happened and that was it.

Easter 2011

Easter was a ton of fun this year with Lexi kind of knowing what was going on. I tried to tell her that a bunny was going to come visit her and bring her stuff and she kept telling me it was a dog coming. So after a few hours we gave up the fight. Jaron was able to come home for 4 hours on Easter before leaving again for 2 weeks. It was good to see him but way to short of time.

Before he got home he called me and told me to go look in the garage for my Easter basket the bunny left me. I was surprised and thought it was fun because I haven't gone on a Easter hunt for a while. There were a few things for both me and Lexi in the basket.

Lexi got spoiled from us, and all her grandparents! The thing she was most excited to see in her Easter basket were pink peeps.  She started screaming and trying to open it. It was funny especially because she has never had peeps before.

Her second favorite thing was to shake the Easter eggs filled with jelly beans.

She also got a few dresses (from all the grandparents and 1 from us.), a swimming suit. outfits, pj's, candy, bubbles, a book, a pair of shoes, a purse, bubble bath, a bunny in a purse, and her stuffed zebra Zoey.  So yeah super spoiled child it was like Christmas.

When I was at the store one day I showed her this cute zebra. Well she loved it and gave it a huge kiss and hugged it the whole time we shopped. So I was like um... I guess I have to get it because I had never seen her like something that much. She Loves Zoey! She rolls on the ground with it while she hugs it and lays on her. It is super cute. I have never seen a 1 year old love a stuffed animal so much.

Lexi took her first step that night all by herself. It was only one but I go a picture of it in action... and this is how she did it. With her purse in her mouth. I think she thinks she's a dog because she always carries things in her mouth like that. Nerdy kid, but I love her!

Spring Break

When it was Spring Break for all the kids we went to St. George with Jaron's family.  It was so nice to get out of the crappy weather and into the sun! The weather was a little windy some of the time but anything beat snow in April. Jaron played lots of golf with his brothers and Dad. The girls got pedicures, went shopping, and played BINGO. Lexi LOVES her aunts and they love her! They played with her so much and made her walk so much she slept so good at night.  It was a lot of fun and I was sad to leave! I love St. George more and more everytime we go there.

What's up with the Laird's?

I've been really lacking on sharing this last little bit on whats been going on. Not to much is new at the Laird house. Jaron's working like crazy as usual. I've been busy doing all my side projects. And of course my adorable daughter keeps growing up on me. Well that is all that I feel is going on, but here are a few other things.
   I've had a lot of people ask me if I got surgery on my heart or what the deal is. So here is the update since I wrote about it last. In the last few months I had to take 9 test and take 2 blood thinners to jump through all of the insurance hoops to get it done. With all the tests I found out I'm healthy, which is good because I am only 25. Because the test showed that the insurance co. didn't want to pay if I had the surgery. My neurologist was recommending which helped. And for my luck I have had some problems that I like to call headaches and the Dr.'s call episodes. One in Feb. with numbness, dizzy, disorientation and  which is why I went on the second blood thinner. I have a lot of bruises now so we joke that Jaron beats me. And then a few weeks ago I had another where my left side wasn't really working. I was feeding Lexi and holding her food in my left hand. I couldn't keep holding it for some reason and dropped it and it made a fun mess. After my head went back to normal it started killing me. So I figured it was just a migraine. My Dr. said that was another episode and because I was on medicine that I would for sure be able to have the surgery now with my insurance approval. So yeah after a weird 4 months I am so happy to hear this! I will be scheduling it in the next day or two.  I probably am going to wait until Jaron has some time off so he can be home to help out with Lexi. I've had a lot of prayers from loved ones through this time, so Thank you so much!
   On to more important things!
   Lexi was starting to say quite a few words like Kitty, Bear, Ball, Dog, Bunny, Hat, Mama, Dada, Nana, Hi, Baba, I want..., yum, and Duck.  Well after 2 weeks of saying all those things everything has turned into a Dog. Any bird of course is a duck. Luckily I am still Mama and Jaron is still Dada. On my other blog you can read how she called a baby a dog and offended their mothers. It was funny. She does say I want a baba. But it runs all together so it sounds more like I wanyayayaybaba. The best is when I was woken up last week with a high pitch scream like something was wrong. So I hurry in there. When I walk into her room she is standing up with a bottle in her hand and automatically stops screaming and tells me she wants a baba. I'm like are you kidding me. She totally has me wrapped around her finger.
   She has 4 teeth right now. It is the Sponge Bob look.  Her favorite things are shoes taking them off and trying to put the on. She also loves books. I'm not just saying this cause I want to make my kid look smart. It really is the truth. She loves to read them even if they are upside down. And we are also in a huge Sesame Street phase. She could watch it all day if I let her. She will sign "more" when she really wants something. I try to bribe her to get to do it... sometimes it works. She usually just yells "MOMO" She is also extremely proud of herself for learning how to roll her arms. She thinks it's super cool.

She is learning to ride her first 4 wheeler.

Playing peekaboo while eating and the food stuck to her head. Super funny if you were there.

St. Patricks Day

One of our favorite things to do while Jaron is gone

Reading while she drinks her baba

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Have you read this months issue of The Barrel of Blogs yet?  If you haven't heard we moved homes.  The Barrel of Blogs now has a improved and did I mention a Pretty site at http://www.thebarrelofblogs.blogspot.com/ You can follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Blog Frog and Subscribe for all of our updates.
   April's edition features all new articles and tips from fashion, spring cleaning, how to make leg warmers, and photography. If you need a good laugh you can find some good articles. I personally am loving the article about Bumbles and Light. Her pictures are amazing!! I would die to be that talented! She also has great stories too. And of course I always love all the recipes! Try all the recipes out at your next get together! Hurry now and go read it!




First trip to the Zoo

   Last week Jaron took Alexis and I to the Hogle Zoo for her first time.  It was a lot of fun to watch her see all the animals for the first time. She thinks every bird is a duck including roosters, turkeys, peacocks, basically anything with feathers and a beak. It's funny and pretty cute. She didn't know what to think of the elephants. From the second she saw them you could see in her eyes like wow what is that. And she couldn't take her eyes off of them. She clapped at the monkeys. I think the giraffe kind of freaked her out. It was eating and it's tongue was huge and lick around a pole. She didn't like that. We spoiled her with ice cream. When it was gone she gave Jaron the meanest look she has ever given to anyone. It was super funny. She means business when it comes to ice cream. What can I say, she is my child! lol We hit the train last. She loved it and screamed like a little girl (good screams) the whole time. I think she is getting ready for Disneyland rides. A lot of the animals were still inside and not to active.  So we will have to go again when it is warmer and they are playing more outside... I'm sure Jaron will be totally thrilled with that idea. (he loves the zoo... Not! He took us to bribe me to let him go to the sand dunes. Lets just say it worked)