VIDEO: Miriam is walking!

She finally did it! One day before her 14-month birthday she decided walking wasn't too hard after all. She's taken 9 consecutive, stable steps so far. YAY!

March 28, 2009 - 26 sec

VIDEO: Standing

Miriam was working so hard on standing up by herself. She only started showing any interest that day, 2 weeks ago. She's so cautious, she can only take it for a couple seconds then falls on purpose. Silly kid.

March 14, 2009 - 51 sec

VIDEO: The Fort

Yes, Miriam has built a fort. There's a recliner in the corner of our living room, and she has claimed the space behind it. She stashes toys back there for safe keeping, and likes to rearrange the pillows pretty often. She spends a lot of time back there, just... sitting. She leans back against the pillows, folds her hands in her lap, crosses her ankles and just relaxes in her new found privacy.

Feb 26, 2009 - 58 sec

Updates on life

Wow, sorry it's been so long since I've posted, Grammas and Grampas. Things have been crazy here. Miriam is growing and growing. She's still quite a jabber box. This one word she says all the time, sounds like "a-bobby-yeah". She says it really fast. We have no idea what it means. She now says stinky (dinky), yucky (gucky), baby (beebee), ball (baaawwwl), puppy, daddy, mommy, yeah, wow, wowee, uh-oh, and mmmmmm right after she takes a bite of food. She can stand up by heself for a few seconds, then falls on purpose. She's taken a couple steps, we'll let you know when she's officially walking. If you ask her how old she is she'll hold up her little finger and smile. She'll tell you where her nose is, and where her hair is. She does several sign language words, please, more, all done, and thank you. It's so fun to watch her learn and develop.

Hangin' out in the fort, as usual.

Sharing a chair with Ali (UNusual)

"I think I'd like to read a book"

This is Wookiee's hiding place... how could anyone ever find her here?

Mira is still crazy over Taten. He lays on the floor and lets her "get" him.

VIDEO: Daddy's busy

Jan 25, '09 - 56 seconds

VIDEO: 1st birthday!

It was so cute! If you notice her rubbing her chest in the video, it's the sign for "please"... she knew she wanted to eat that cake, she just didn't quite know how to go about it. I thought it was so cute how she tried to grab it five or six times and just hesitated over and over.

Jan 31, 2009 - 2 min 40 sec

It's my birthday!!!!!!!!

Guess what!! I'm 1 year old now!!! I had a really fun party with some of my friends! I had a pink and brown cake with sprinkles and everything. My friends gave me lots of great toys too! I think it should be my birthday every day! I don't know why, but my mom was kinda tired out after my party, weird. I liked eating my cake but I DID NOT like the huge mess it made. My mommy and I do not like messes! I was so happy that my grandma and grandpa drove 4 hours just for me! And my aunt, uncle and cousin came from billing too! It was great! I must be so special! Stay tuned, my mommy is gonna post a little video from my party.

Just a quick post-party hose down

Mom and Dad let me open a couple presents a day early.
They gave me a chair that's just my size!
And Candice gave me these sweet blocks, I love 'em.

Daddy, you're too big for that chair!

My new little curl in back

I'm thinking about walking... but it's still kinda scary for me.

Our everyday life

"Mom, can you make lasagna every day? I'd never get sick of it"

"I got this little stool for Christmas.
I love it because it's just my size.

Thank you, Great Grandpa Haynes!"

"Here daddy, let me help you out with that."

"That's ok, Miriam... I think I got it. But thanks for the offer."

VIDEO: She's crawling!!!

This is the day she started crawling! YAY! She's been scooting for months now, and getting very, very good at it, but for some reason she decided it was finally time to crawl. I love in this video that you can really hear her excited little pant. I'm surprised she doesn't hyperventilate with all the air she sucks in when she's so excited. I'm just glad we can say she crawled before her first birthday.

Jan 16, 2009 - 34 seconds

VIDEO: Baby, baby, baby, baby, baby...

This is just a little footage of her jabbering, calling a cell phone a baby. Sounds kinda like she's saying "puppy", but that's how she says "baby".

Jan 5, 2009 - 55 seconds

VIDEO: Her silly little scoot

Mira has no interest whatsoever in crawling, walking or even standing. She's been far too busy perfecting the "scoot". Yes, she's quite fast when she's after something she wants. I think it looks kinda like skiing the way she sways back and forth. It's so cute... I don't want to forget it once she starts walking.

Jan 2, 2009 - 24 seconds

VIDEO: The Happy Dance!

Dec 30, 2008 - 45 seconds

Our Holidays

Hey everybody! We had a great Christmas, how was yours? We went to Glendive to see Jason's parents and siblings, they were all able to make it so that was great!
Miriam has become obsessed with putting things "away". We find the strangest things in the strangest places. It's been pretty funny.
Then last week she learned how to say "baby", now she says it all day long. She calls everything a baby. It's cute.

Miriam has known what no means for a few months now. She used to be pretty timid about it, but the past few weeks she has been testing those limits like CRAZY. All day long we go round and round about the Christmas tree. She touches it, looks at me, I firmly say "Miriam, no, don't touch", She looks at my like "you're not the boss of me", then she reaches right out and touches it again. I call this picture "Defiance". Can't you just see it on her face?

She got this toy from Grama and Papaw, and she LOVES it.

Jason usually has a few geek projects to get done over Christmas

Getting some walking lessons from Aunt Cassie and Aunt Alissa

I love my cousin, Addison

Miriam got lots of cool bath toys for Christmas,

now baths aren't quite as bad as they used to be

She put her baby away

Brrrrrr... it's cold outside

VIDEO: Baby giving an ottoman zerberts

This video was taken on Dec 18th. Make sure you have a hand on the volume knob before you start it, you'll want to turn it up to hear the zerbert sounds. We think this video is just too funny.

VIDEO: Miriam playing with the mirror

This video was taken Dec 14th

Mom, this girl is so pretty!

Mira just can't get enough of that funny girl in the window, she's so pretty, and fun, and she can do all the same tricks as Miriam can.






The high temperature yesterday was -18 degrees and the wind chill got down to -50. We started to feel like that movie, "The Day After Tomorrow" where the villain is the cold, and it's chasing you down, even in-doors. Our front door had a solid layer of ice covering part of it, and the threshold was frozen over. This picture is of the inside of our front door. Miriam likes to eat snow, so I'm afraid she's gonna try to lick the threshold and get stuck there. Yikes.

Miriam still hates baths so much.

"Something To Do"

The weekend before Thanksgiving, we hosted a Youth Outreach called "Something To Do" because we CONSTANTLY hear from teens... "there's nothing to do in Lewistown". So we gave them all "Something To Do". We had free pop and pizza and brought in a coffee shop owner to make $2 lattes. We had human bowling, sumo wrestling, jousting, and video game racing. We gave away some sweet prizes like a Wii and an 80 gig iPod. We also brought in a speaker to give a clear gospel message and several kids gave there lives to the Lord for the first time. We estimate that about 250 kids came! It was a big success! Thank you, Lord!