Sunday, April 12, 2009

Easter and More

our very own little easter bunny! of course
she wouldn't hold still long enough to get a
good picture

yup, the easter bunny hid my basket on top of the
basketball stand...what did i do to deserve
that?


Easter Bunny was much nicer to cody,
it even told him "hot or cold" to help
find the basket!




that takes confidence to walk around like that.
He is missing his "i only date boys that recycle"
tshirt though, so the ensemble is quite complete

The Easter Bunny was really mad at Tess and Kay..
they had to scale a pine tree to get theres

Lexi finding her baby in her basket!

The cute nielsens

"Holy crap Dad i cant breath!"
at least lexi will go to brew!!!

hahaha ashley i promise we weren't on
drugs... i dont know why lexi's eyes look
like that, but it is so funny!

usually andy isn't one of lexi's biggest fans,
since she disturbs all his toys all the time...
but for some reason on saturday andy really
wanted to play with lexi all day, and then come
have a sleepover, so we worked on ash until
she caved! and it was so much fun! Lexi
was so thrilled!

Lexi's first easter egg dying experience


Bumpa and Cole are always buddies!
And me and andy had lots of fun dying.. however
he didn't wanna get his hands in the "bad water"
so he just threw out the commands and i dipped

The Robison girls hard at work
This must have been before cole drank the
cup of dye.. wasn't exactly what he was
expecting poor boy
Lexi and her friend Kyson


She is in a really wierd phase right now. she doesn't
really fall asleep with a bottle anymore, we just
look over and she is zonked. She loves those
red pillows, she just lays her head on them and
it doesn't come back up.

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Happy Birthday Jacque

Happy Birthday Jacque! We love you! I
hope your boys are taking good care of you!
I'm so sorry everyone is sick today, and i hope
you dont feel like you're being skipped over! We're
all bummed we dont get to party with you!
lexi working on jac's birthday card...we both ended
up covered in paint
my two sick sweethearts! they think throwing up can be
exhausting.. try being the one cleaning it up
lexi loved loved loved grandpa's bike! i'm fore seeing trouble!!
Hugs and kisses for the bike!!




working on our artistic abilities..

Thursday, April 2, 2009

GaMeS

Andy came and played with us for
a little bit yesterday and of course Lexi
was thrilled... not too sure about andy.
It started out good since we were watching
transformers, and then lexi found the buttons
on the side of the t.v. that kept switching it on us.
so Andy stood gaurd of the buttons. Turned
out to be a pretty good battle. Lexi wasn't
responding to "the force" being put on her
though, which wasreally frustrating to andy.


lexi's new entertainment... emptying the bag out,
filling it up and starting over!

She played hard at jackson's blessing and zonked
out on the way home.



The New and Improved boogie. I'm having a hard
time getting it on camera because as soon as
she see's me holding the camera she gets distracted..
but this kind of gives you the idea. she sticks her arms
out as wide as she can and shakes her head side to side
and her whole body goes with her, we can figure out
why she doesn't end up falling over everytime.


Andy wanted to play a game while he was here

and chose twister, i kept warning him that he would

be really annoyed trying to play it because lexi

would want to help and she would climb all over the

mat, but he wanted to anyways... after a few minutes

of him unsuccessfully keeping the mat straight thanks

to lexi he started pulling her around on the mat.. then decided

he wanted a ride too so they went together! Lexi was so

thrilled to have a friend there to play with, she loves

being around little kids.

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Lexi went on her first 4-wheeler ride this weekend
and LOVED it!! we went down to the gas
station/post office/po box/scrapbooking store (i just
had to throw all that in there for the nielsen's sake) and
Lexi was just waving at everyone we passed and
couldn't stop laughing, she probably caught a few
bugs in the mouth since she wouldn't shut it!
when you play hard you crash hard

lexi has become quite the climbing maniac. she's
figuring out how to open up all the drawers to make steps
and try to make it to the countertop.

Nana's purse was getting reorganized by the girls
while prom dress shopping.

shopping can really take it out of you

Lexi is pretty excited about being a big girl and
flipped around in her car seat!

The new seat that brought sanity back
into our lives! now she's a big girl
Lexi loves sharing her food with everyone, in church
she stands on the pew and tries to feed her treats
to the people behind us, especially when they are her friends
like Austin.


Friday, March 20, 2009

Hungry?

who needs baby food? lexi sure thinks
she doesn't, after trying to get her to eat all
day long with no success i set her down on the
counter next to me while i made dinner and
she chowed down on her daddy's top ramen
he had left on the counter. you snooze you loose!
at least she's offering to share a big handful with him
lexi's pretty into this sharing thing. granted
she still yanks things out of her cousins and
friends hands, but she'll still want to feed anyone
anything that she is eating!
Since lexi's favorite game has been pulling everything
out of laundry baskets, bowls of food, boxes of toys etc..
this is a nice change that she is beginning to learn
to put things back in... like she's doing in this picture..
it is a little short lived though, she quickly gets
sick of that and returns to pulling twice as much out.
We're still working on it, one step forward two steps
back right?

you have got to be kidding me!!!
within a two hour time frame of being outside this
was the THIRD snake we came across! this was nowhere
in all the papers we signed when we bought the house! dont you
think they should warn you about these things!? is it too late
to return our home? So i was informed that they are blow
snakes and not to hurt them because they will kill rattlesnakes!
you've gotta be kidding me again, if a rattlesnake can kill me
and this can kill a rattlesnake... what does that tell you!
yup, this guy gets hungry enough and i'm lookin like a
tasty lunch! good thing i have brave cody to catch them.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Gardening Adventures

We've been so excited to get outside and get working in
our yard! (i'm sure that will get old really fast, but
we're just going to enjoy it while it lasts) Since the weather
has been so nice this week we've spent EVERYDAY out
in the yard, and we're still not even done with the front,
what a drag! anyways here are some of our fun times....
Since we never do anything downstairs, lexi hasn't been
around any stairs so i figured she didn't know how to do them.
I was proven wrong, without hesitating she was right up
the front steps and pretty proud of herself too. I did set
up a blanket out there with tons of toys to keep her entertained
but of course lexi wanted to be everywhere but on the safe,
clean blanket.

Me and Lex just enjoying a little hay/grass/ flower/ plant..
food, who really knows what is what. i'm sure that i have
pulled out plenty of things that i assumed were weeds and
they were really flowers... who knows.. who really cares, at
least we finally got to get going.

Nana tickling bug

Thank heavens for mom. i would still be standing in front of
all the rose bushes with a confused look on my face, trying
to figure out what this "dead heading" is people keep speaking of

yummy!

Lexi's new friend, she loved this puppy, he was just the
right size. There is another neighbor dog that she really
likes until he comes up and knocks her over. But this little
dog is her friend. she even shares her toys with him. and
when he's licking her she just laughs and laughs!


HOLY ....SNAKE! yeah and it TOUCHED me! GROSS!
there goes the gardening ambition! looks like grass
will be replacing everything!!!

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

hugs

We went down to the Barkers last night for
family night to see the beginning of the farm. Lexi and Ayla
weren't to sure about touching the chicks, and with
a little bribery to andy he even let the chick sit
on his shoulder like Jack Sparrow. But Lexi
didn't need the chicks for entertainment, she
was all about playing with Ayla. after they got
done ripping the bag of food out of eachother's
hands, (when do you teach them manners anyways?)
they moved onto this.... Lexi hugging ayla non stop and
Ayla wasn't really too sure about it as you can tell from
that concerned dissatisfied face. Ashley probably wont
let ayla come play with us alone for awhile...sorry. but
it was good entertainment.
No this isn't all the same picture, Lexi continued to do
this for about 5-10 minutes, so these are all separate
times.

Poor Ayla


Since the weather has been warming up we lke to take
tours of our backyard and realize that we're over
our heads in yard work. we are calling on farmer tyson
and nana for assistance..and any others that would lke a little
"fun" in the sun! we aren't even quite sure the difference in
the weeds and flowers.. crap! we get really excited about
our options everytime we're inside and talking about it..
then we wonder outside... it is quickly a sobering experience.

Some more boogying!



This is Cody and Lexi playing tag.. i must say
this one is a little short lived. Normally it lasts for
quite a few minutes with a lot more squealing..
sometimes A.D.D gets the best of her


Some more of Lexi "loving" on Ayla. This would

be the very end of it when Ayla had finally had enough.

She's going to be one tough cookie. Right before Lexi's

tormenting Andy was playing "tackle" with her too.

What a sport!

lexi's first taste of lemon juice. this girl will

eat anything if its not baby food

Saturday, March 14, 2009

The Butterfly Boogie

She's still working on the oranges... One of
these times they'll taste better, right?

This is what happens anytime any kind of music
comes on, usually its her butterfly that flaps
around and sings..
... Sometimes she gets boogying (?)
so hard that she kinda knocks the wind out of
herself when she hits the floor

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Beauty is Pain

We got Lexi's ears pierced, and i dont know
who it was harder for, Cody or Lexi. Although
we took her down there together, cody would
not stay in the store with me, and i'm pretty
sure he was a little mad at me! Lexi cried for
about 2 seconds and then got her sucker and
it did not phase her from then on!
She's learning young beauty is pain!

she's thinking that looks really yummy..
Not anymore!

Friday, March 6, 2009

Simple Pleasure

Every Wednesday is a good day for Lexi because its
garbage day. sound stupid i know. but for a little
girl who loves outside and loves time with her
daddy, it just cant get much better. as you can
see by the smile on her face!


Lexi loves to help do laundry. i set the basket on the bed
and her next to it and she emptys it as fast as possible.
such a fun game for everyone!! not! once the basket
is empty she turns to throwing the folded clothes on
the bed over her shoulders as fast as possible. so to distract
her cody puts the laundry on her head... thats what
the first video is, dad and lexi's game..that can
entertain lexi for quite a long time!

These other video's are of lexi and her butterfly,

everytime that you touch it, it plays music and

moves... so does lexi. the butterfly cant be going

without her dancin along, even if they are in different

rooms. She isn't doing it to her full potential in these

because the camera is so distracting, but you get the idea.

and just to warn you, you probably want to turn your volume

down a little because shes across the room, so i sound

really loud when it plays :)

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Kiss The Cook

All of our neighbors have been so nice bringing
us treats since we moved in, so Lexi helped me
bake up a storm to take some treats back around.
She LOVED the beaters, as you can see in the
movie at the bottom, she definately didn't
want to give them up.
After i finally got the beaters from her,
she moved onto the crumbs on the counter.
cant beat cookie dough!!
wiping her hands and off to the next task...


This next task is her absolute favorite of the week!
She loves the microwave. The blinking light is so
cool, plus the light on the inside, and it spins! so
entertaining!



We're working on getting lexi off bottles, and we're
actually getting close! woo hoo! so she's got herself
onto the next great thing. a waterbottle! it is
about as big as her!
but she can still dominate it!


Kay and the girls stopped by and lexi was
quite pleased! she sat and kissed kiwi for
about 15 minutes!


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and hugged her! until out of the blue kiwi screamed
"OW! SHE BITES HARD!" lexi likes to sneak attack.
poor kiwi!