Eating Rice

Rice cereal that is.  Megan is almost five months old and we decided to let her try some rice cereal.  Here are a few pictures from the experience.

Megan gets a good look at the spoon; she seemed pretty fascinated by the process of eating.

And then getting her bite.  It took her awhile to let us put the food into her mouth.

Look at that face.

Whenever I smiled at Megan, she would give us a big smile back.

It is kind of hard to tell but Megan kept drooling the rice cereal back out.  I am not sure she liked the cereal very much.

Will takes a turn feeding Megan.  Whitney also took a couple of turns feeding Megan too.  We are going to keep trying to convince her to eat some more.  Maybe she will one day decide it tastes good.

A Wonderful Visit (Part 2)

Here are some more pictures of us hanging out with Will's parents. 

Us at a wool factory in Pendleton.  The girls mostly loved just running around because the factory had a big open area, but they acquiesced to letting me take a fast picture of them.

Will's mom gave me a cool flannel board that can also be used as a white board.  I have made a couple of stories that Whitney likes.  We decided to do a performance for Grandma and Grandpa Keeler.

If you look real closely, you can tell that we were doing the three little pigs.  Rachel was the big bad wolf.

Here we are having story time.  Whitney gave some books to grandma to read to her and Megan.

Will's mom had a special photo app thing on her tablet.  You could take all kinds of distorted pictures with it.  Whitney and Rachel thought it was hilarious.

Grandma Keeler was very good at handling both little girls throwing their balls at her.

These beautiful dresses on the girls were handmade by Will's mom.  I received compliments at church for their beautiful matching dresses.  They are really adorable.  Thanks for spending so much time on them, Roseanne. 

Anyway, we had a lot of fun that weekend.  Thanks for the visit.

A Wonderful Visit (Part 1)

We had a great visit with Will's parents this last weekend.  They are amazing and so fun with the kids.  We actually met them down in Pendleton at the children's museum. 

After eating the picnic lunch I made, the kids got right down to playing.  There was a cool pizza room that had all kinds of pizza goodies.  Grandpa Keeler helps design the perfect pizza.

There was a little toy train with buttons and levers to push.  We all crowded into the train and asked Whitney to take us places.

Here is the music spot with little fun instruments.  Grandpa taught her how to play the triangle.

There was a little kid section for small children.  Rachel spent a lot of time going down the little slide and Megan hung out with grandma - she was content observing all the toys and loud kids around her.

One hit for my two girls was the tea party room.  I informed them we were having a juice party, which confused the other people in the room. Oh well.  Whitney looked really cute in her floppy hat, pouring the juice for everyone.

This was a shadow room.  Rachel didn't quite understand the concept and always moved away from the wall too early, but Whitney really liked making different shadows.

Whitney the construction worker.  She had a cool tool belt and safety goggles.

And in the grocery room.  Anyway, it was a fun museum.  Whitney has already asked if she can go back again.  Thanks for coming to visit us Grandma and Grandpa Keeler.  I will post again in a couple of days with other things we did with Will's parents. 

Down to Vancouver

It was kind of a last minute decision, but we found out that we were going to be around for the baby blessing for little Gideon and we decided to go down to Vancouver last weekend.  It was a fast trip, but it was fun.  The girls especially loved spending time with their cousins.

We spent a lot of time hanging out at the Jensen home and playing with all their fun toys (which were apparently way more fun than any toys we have).

Whitney and Magnus play baseball.

It was super cute watching Whitney read to Magnus.  Magnus picked a huge stack of books and Whitney sat with him for awhile telling him about each one.

This was also cute - the infamous chair spinning. 

Magnus liked to tell Megan that she was cute.  It sounded just the way that Rachel tells Megan that, so it was quite funny.

We went to the library in Vancouver and let the kids play.

Megan gets some tummy time on the little car carpet.

We were very nicely invited to the Jensen crackers and cheese party.  The food was delicious and it was really nice to be invited.  Now, looking back at the pictures, we didn't actually get any with baby Gideon in them.  But we did actually get to see the cute little baby and have fun hanging out with the Jensens.  Thanks for letting us come crash your home.

Christmas Greetings

We had a wonderful week for Christmas down in Pasco.  It was great being able to spend time with my family.

Will had to work on Christmas Eve and my siblings in Utah couldn't come until Thursday, so we decided to celebrate Christmas morning at our house in Umatilla.  We decided for our Christmas tradition breakfast to make cinnamon rolls.  The girls help me spread some butter.

We told the Nativity story and Megan was pretty fascinated by all the wooden pieces.

Then on Christmas morning we let the kids each open a few presents before driving to grandma's house.  They loved the new phones they received.

Down in Pasco and Rachel is decorating the Christmas tree.  Most of the tree was decorated by the time we got there, but some soft ornaments were saved for my little girls.

As tradition, we got a picture of Megan in her stocking.  Thanks to my grandma and my mom for making the stockings.

Here we decorate some gingerbread cookies.

Here is our family on "Christmas" morning.  Whitney was very excited about all those presents behind her.

Megan was also very excited about the presents; she kept trying to reach for the one that was under her.

This isn't a great picture, but we tried to get a picture of our whole family right after church.  We are going to keep working on getting Rachel to put her hands down.

Anyway, there were tons of other pictures.  Too many for the blog but we had loads of fun with games and walks and movies.  What a fun family.