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We attended a very chilly BYU baseball game last night. Each Spring I gear up for the start of baseball season. I learned early on in our marriage that Greg was a fanatic about baseball. Football season is a close second and basketball season is something to do while we wait for baseball to roll around again. But it's fun and our boys love to go with their Dad to games. And the evening was made all the better by Cosmo coming to see us and give hugs. Seriously, you'd think it was Christmas morning how excited the boys were to see him and hug him.







And honestly, isn't she the prettiest little creature in the world? Yes, I'm a bragging mother about my beautiful little girl. But man! She's precious.

David came to me one day a couple weeks ago and said "I put a bead in my nose." He was quite calm and matter of fact about it. I said "Oh you did? Let's see." And sure enough I could see a bright neon green bead (which was actually a very tiny BB for a gun) right up in his nostril. I thought it would be a cinch to get out since I could see it. Unfortunately David has no idea how to blow his nose, so when I asked him to blow into a tissue, he sniffed as hard as he possibly could, rocketing it up into his sinuses. Not knowing quite what to do, we decided professional help was needed. It being a Saturday, InstaCare was our only option. So after dumping the older boys at the neighbor's house, we went and got the little BB extracted. The doctor came in to the exam room and the first thing he said was "You must be three, right?" Apparently three year olds are the most common age for inserting things into noses and ears. David did so well to hold still and let the nurse and doctor get the bead out. It was pretty high up in the nose, but he found it and got it out. David sat silently in the chair, but had little tears rolling down his cheeks. I snapped a picture right as the doctor pulled the bead out. You can see the little green bead in the last picture.




Hopefully we learned our lesson and won't be putting things up there again.

The Big Catch Up

I have been a negligent blogger for a couple months now. We are still alive and kicking. I'll let the pictures I've chosen speak for themselves. Hopefully they have an interesting story to tell to those who read my blog. Sometimes Blogger and I have disagreements about the quantity, quality and order of my pictures. We'll see if we're on good terms this evening

CITY CREEK
Since we drive up to Salt Lake at the drop of a hat, it was no skin off our nose to go check out the new spectacular City Creek center in downtown SLC, just one block south of Temple Square. AMAZING! It's mostly full of super expensive stores that I do not shop at, but it's always fun to window shop and people watch. The Tiffany's store and the Rolex store were interesting to scope out and see the kind of people who shop there.

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THE BABY
A lot of growth and some important milestones have been accomplished by this little darling. She is an independent sitter. She FINALLY, FINALLY, FINALLY consented to drink from a bottle. She jabbers nonstop and says a pretty good DaDa. Whether intentional or not, Greg's mighty pleased. Also, her hair is out of control, but I will not cut it.




SPRING PRACTICE
Each Spring we trot out to LaVell Edwards for the open practice and take a peek at this year's football team and see how they're shaping up.




MEIN FUß
Owing to a wet floor and some silly shoes, I slipped and sprained my ankle about a week ago. I had it x-rayed and found it wasn't fractured, thank heavens. But it's still swollen and gross looking. Kind of looks like an elephant leg.


And here's the last two pictures that need to be shared. The beautiful woman holding Elizabeth is her namesake, my cousin Elizabeth. She is poise, intelligence, kindness, love, class, and elegance personified.

And whoa....she's a chubby bunny!

Good night.

Our First Derby

Andrew just competed in his first Pinewood Derby. He placed right in the middle of the pack (of 18) and we picked up some tips on how to make his car a little more aerodynamic for future derbys. Despite not winning or even coming close, he still had a good time. It reflects his easy going nature and I'm proud of him for taking things in his stride. He had fun watching the cars come down the track and being with his Cubscout Buddies. Greg is the Cubmaster and also has a very easy going, non stress approach to planning these functions. A lesson that I can learn from him..

A Post About Her

My girl is just a few days shy of six months old. Something that I'm NOT happy about. It is going by too fast and it seems like each day she is doing something new and growing right before my eyes.
She is beautiful. I hear it often enough from perfect strangers. Like waitresses who sit down at our table (on the job) to exclaim over how pretty she is and talk about her.
She is sweet. She has the silliest personality and giggles all day long. She loves her brothers to come talk to her in silly voices and make her laugh. She loves her daddy to kiss her bare tummy and make silly noises on it. She puts one palm on my face whenever I hold her on my hip. It's like she just needs to constantly touch me.
She's got two razor sharp teeth that make her smile even sweeter.
She is my tonic when I'm having a rough day. She's everything we could have asked for and more. She is the perfect addition to round out our family and make us complete. We all adore her.



Snuggling with her Uncle Paul

She LOVES the doorway jumpy.





Elizabeth Elaine Wilding

Christmas, New Years, and Beyond

Well we had a lovely holiday season. Hope everyone else did, too. My brother joined us for Christmas and the kids loved having their tallest Uncle around for several days. With Christmas on a Sunday we had to come up with a plan for presents and dealing with 9:00 church. Wait, that sounded bad. We didn't "deal" with church, we just had to plan differently because we had the early time. Sacrament meeting was a beautiful addition to our Sunday celebration of Christ's birth. We decided that we would just do "Santa" before church and save everything else for after and it worked nicely. We had our traditional breakfast of orange and cinnamon rolls chased by a bunch of candy from stockings. After church we got down to the business of presents and family time. Greg's parents and siblings joined us later in the afternoon and we had a nice Christmas dinner and played games afterwords. Greg and I broke down and bought an unnecessarily huge HDTV a couple months ago and called that Christmas for each other. Paul brought lots of movies to watch on the new TV, we had an extreme abundance of snacks and goodies (thanks to amazing friends and neighbors) and we had such a nice time together as a family. More than anything else, I love having family around to be with. Christmas brings us all together and magic happens!

We had to wake up the kids on Christmas morning. They were so sleepy.



Santa used really pretty, fancy gold wrapping paper for the Wildings this year.

David's ONLY request was a "red mote ca-troll helicopter." Santa came through for him.









It was good fun watching Paul get Elizabeth dressed in tights and her Christmas dress.





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A week or two before Christmas Andrew and Nathan participated in a children's choir that our neighbor put together for a YW personal progress goal. They sang at her grandpa's retirement home. It was a good experience for the boys to perform for elderly people who always seem so happy to see the younger set come and brighten their day.

But now school is back in session, we're into a New Year and life continues to treat us well. Happy New Year to all!