Christer & Cat

My New Favorite Picture

Christer — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:25:22 +0000

I just wanted to share my new favorite picture. Thanks Aunt Janelle.

My girls are growing up so fast!

cat — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 02:23:47 +0000

So as I was taking pictures of the girls over the last week, it’s really hit me how much they have grown and it seems to be in the blink of an eye. I’d like to share some of these pictures with you and I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.

Addison is loving summertime and being able to ride her bike outside. Her legs are almost long enough to reach the pedals! For now she happy just shuffling along.

This is a picture of Lizzie sleeping while she was sick – the teddy is a constant friend to her though. He goes any and everywhere with her and she loves him like no one else! A couple weeks ago he was getting pretty crusty so after she fell asleep I threw him in the wash and even made sure he was drying before I went to bed. At 3am she woke up (she never wakes up in the middle of the night unless something is really wrong) crying. I tried to soothe her totally spacing about Teddy- but I got the, “I’ll take you if I have to, but you’re not what I really want” impression. So I ran downstairs with her and showed her that Teddy was just getting dry from his bath time. She went back to sleep, with him in her arms, before I even got her back upstairs.

I’m calling this one “Morning Beauties” Addison always has such CRAZY hair in the morning (from the Byrd side) and I thought the comparison of their eye color was so striking. The both love to hang out in bed with mom and dad on Saturday mornings.

This has got to be one of my new favorites- Christer giving Lizzie a kiss. She is still in the adorable open mouth kiss phase and is going in for the kiss as well

I asked to her to wave “hi”- which she can, but she did this instead.

…And that’s our Lizzie scaring the crap out of us. Like I’ve mentioned before, she has amazing balance and LOVES to dance- so what better than to climb on top of the table and dance her little heart out

Addison always has the best smile that can make anybody’s day. She is such a great big sister and friend to Lizzie. She is learning so much everyday at preschool and I am reminded everyday how truly intelligent and beautiful she is.

You may be wondering what it is you’re looking at… well tonight Christer is teaching class and so it was just me and the girls for dinner. I was making pancakes and had Addison scrambling the eggs. I turned my back and told her that I needed to put the eggs in the pan soon, while I was cutting up a pancake for Lizzie. All of the sudden I here this hot swishing sound- I turn around towards Addison and see that she has taken it upon herself to put the eggs in the pan. One thing- it was the wrong pan I had a pancake already in there. So I quickly took the bowl and dumped what was left into the other skillet and thanked her for helping. I just stood there looking at the skillet with pancake and scrambled egg in it trying to figure out what to do with it. A couple minutes later I decided to flip it- and this is what turned out! Kind of the opposite of an egg-in-the-hole, more of a pancake-in-the-hole. Addison was so excited about her creation that she cstarted it eat it as soon as I put it on the plate. After a little convincing that she’d still be able to have it if she moved to the table, she moved on over and put some syrup on it (just enough) and ate it right down! Yes… ALL of it!

Update on Baby Edwards #3 – I’ve been feeling him kick for a while now but today was something new. I had my arm draped over my stomach and suddenly I felt this kick and my arm bounced up a little. It was pretty cool knowing that he’s getting big enough to do that now. He continued kicking for several minutes but not quite as hard. Tomorrow is the “official” gender ultrasound and baby well-being. I’ll keep you updated!

ok it’s not settled yet…

cat — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 18:17:45 +0000

I keep going back and forth on names- last couple days I’ve really liked Mason Range Edwards. Here’s the thing- Christer and I have always liked the name Jack (more than Jackson) and so I think we had decided even before we were having children that our boy would be named Jack. Mason is just an incredible name in my mind. Strong, good character, compassionate, etc. I really am getting kind of stuck on it. Christer likes Mason as a middle name. Range is my father’s middle name. I would go with Christer’s middle name but he won’t have that.

So those are the names we’ve been playing around with. Maybe I’ll have Christer put a poll on the site.

Baby Boy Edwards

cat — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:54:49 +0000

So I’m thinking the name Jack Mason Edwards will be the one- any comments?

Doctor Visit

cat — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:16:58 +0000

I am 15 weeks and 2 days along today and went in for my check-up. My mom was able to come with me while Grandma Edwards played with the girls. I asked Dr. Farley if we could do a quick ultrasound. He of course humored my request but let me know that I am pretty early and I won’t be able to find out the gender of the baby unless it is in just the right position and even then- it would be pretty hard. Well he was wrong. The baby was in the perfect position and INSTANTLY both the doctor and I saw what we came to see- there was no doubt in either of our minds.

As the doctor put it, our little baby has a “ditsel.” (boy)

Baby Names

cat — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:10:19 +0000

Tomorrow MAY be the day we find out what we are having! Christer is certain that we are having another girl- I’m thinking boy this time around. We’ve been tossing around name ideas and I’d like to see what you think-

#1 for a girl would be: Reese Anne (my suggestion)

#1 for a boy would be: Jackson Range (both came up with it- Range is my dad’s middle name)- We’d call him Jack.

What suggestions do you have? We don’t like “popular” names- but of course with both girls we ended up LOVING names that were climbing the charts that year! Just so you remember- if you want to compare sibling names- Addison Jane, Elizabeth Marie.

Protective Daddy Bear

cat — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:40:47 +0000

Last night our neighbors invited us and another family over for dinner. There were two 3 year old boys. Addison of course tried to play with them the most but “boys will be boys.” She kept up with them for the most part, but it was easy to tell that they didn’t want a girl to play with them. A couple hours into it I heard Addison crying and I looked over to find both boys next to her and one of them then said, “Take it from her!” All three of them were holding onto a car that Addison had been playing with. The boys obviously didn’t want it to play with- they just wanted to take it from her. Addison doesn’t cry easily so when I saw what was going on I realized they had been doing this for a while and Addison was still holding on to that car as hard as she could. I yelled something to the effect of “Boys! leave her alone!” Once Christer realized it was Addison crying he jumped up from the table and ran to her and actually YELLED- “HEY!” The boys were startled and let go and their parents disciplined them. Christer scooped Addison up in his arms and comforted her. Later on that night at home, we were talking about that incident and Christer still got a little upset about it. He said that even though they were only 3 years old he want to smack them for making his little girl cry. He then said,” I don’t care who you are, if you look at my girls wrong, I’m going to take you out.” It was really cute to see the protective papa bear emerge.

Lizzie just adores her dad and is calling him “Da” now. This morning she was looking for him, walking around calling out, “Da, Da, Da?” It was pretty cute. When I told her that dad was already at work she stuck out her bottom lip and tried one more time, “Da?” I told her that he would be back soon and she was content with that answer.

I love my girls

We’re still alive- I promise!

cat — Fri, 28 May 2010 18:53:03 +0000

So- we have A LOT to catch up on!

I am a working mom now at American Nutrition Inc. as a personnel assistant. It’s been… entertaining, stressful, and mostly makes me miss my kids. Christer is working at PartNet still and also teaching at the U of U. He loves that he’s “Faculty” at the university.

Addison is now 2 years old going on 7. She is extremely bright and loves to color, paint, ride her bike, run, “work” – which means she’s fixing something with the screw driver, cook, wash dishes, read, and try to take over her sister just to name a few. She’s carrying on full conversations telling about what she did, who she was with, etc. It’s really quiet entertaining having her in our family. She’s learning the “house rules” which are: 1. Listen/Do 2. Be Nice 3. Clean-up. She is a very fast learner and Christer and I are realizing that we’re going to need to start saving for her college fund asap! Christer is thinking MIT

Lizzie has such a spunky personality and can easily hold her own next to her sister. She started walking only a month ago be is so agile and has such awesome balance. She’s going to be our gymnast. We’re thinking the Olympics She loves to be outdoors and I think she’s going to love swimming this summer. Lizzie has the personality that is SUPER friendly, she gets along great with other adults and children alike. I was in the nursery at church for awhile and so Lizzie came with me and Addison- and she completely captured the room. The children loved playing with her and she loved pretending she was as big as they were.

Baby Edwards #3 is coming along great. Due date is Dec. 19th but both the doctor and I are planning on the baby coming early so we’ll see! I saw the doctor today and he did an ultrasound (he loves doing them- I of course LOVE having them)! It was so amazing! With the girls I saw them move and they each have their own ultrasound story- so this is the story for baby #3 (I’m still giggling:) ). Dr. Farley started the ultrasound and I immediately could see the baby and could tell where everything was- he/she was curled up with it’s hand over it’s eyes/face. Then he/she stretched out and I could we had a prefect view- just looking at him/her with it’s belly up and then it started to kick it’s legs and wave it’s arms pretty intensely- even Dr. Farley was a little taken back by it. So we just watched and laughed as it went on for maybe a minute. Then little baby put his/her hand back over it’s face and curled up like he/she was taking a nap. It was incredible!

So that’s that for now- got to get back to work!

Love you all!

I know, I know….

cat — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:45:32 +0000

Sorry it’s been so long since I’ve posted- It’s hard to find an hour to myself anymore. We have a lot of catching up to do! First let’s take care of Lizzie She is such an energetic, happy-go-lucky kind of baby! She has the personality that you just can’t get enough of. She is smiling constantly- talking… constantly- moving- more like turbo moving…constantly. She just turned 4 months last week and she is ready to get up and run around with Addison. She rolled over for the first time On October 12th and I haven’t seen her sit still since then. She’ll launch herself with her powerful legs off and into anything she’s around. Yesterday she scooted across an entire room only to find herself under the coffee table- she didn’t like that very much and start to try to get my attention to help her. I left her there but cheered her on and she continued scooting until she was next to the couch- which she then tried to squeeze under LOL! Also, Lizzie woke up yesterday after her nap with 2 red marks on her face- one across her forehead and one across her mouth- when I went to get out of her crib- mind you she wasn’t crying- it looked like she was trying to chew her way out! She is such an incredible joy to have in our family and always brightens my day.

Addison is such a big girl now! She LOVES to wash the dishes (or the frisbee if the sink is clean) and help me with whatever I’m doing in the kitchen. Her hair is long enough that I can put it into pig-tails which makes her look just adorable! I try to do it everyday but she’ll only let me a couple times a week. She’s still pretty shy around strangers- but has REALLY opened up to her grandparents and she loves talking to them and being cute enough that they’ll do almost anything for her Addison loves the outdoors and I’m really excited to see her reaction when we get some substantial snow fall. She’s getting a little nervous around bugs, but still loves to play in the dirt. She is a great big sister and gives Lizzie loves several times a day.

Halloween was a ton of fun this year since Addison could get into it. She was a “Pirate Princess” and Lizzie was a bunny. We went to 2 trunk-or-treats. One on Friday night at my ward and one on Saturday night at my sister’s ward.

Addison felt like she could make her own grilled cheese sandwich. She would bite a chunk off the cheese block and then flip the bread in the skillet (don’t worry the stove was not on) and then take some bread out- bite it and flip it again. Pretty funny

Here is Addison washing whatever she can find- including the frisbee I love those pig-tails!

Addison is enjoying the first snow of the season with Grandma.

Poor girl wore herself out jumping around

Under the coffee table!

My happy-go-lucky girl!

Addison is playing with the neighbor boy Franklin- they are just putting rocks up there and watching them fall out…

What will entertain them next?!

2 month comparison

cat — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:40:54 +0000

For those who want to know if Lizzie looks like Addi – you can compare their 2 month pictures- I’d love to hear what you think!