Giggles

Donovan has been laughing for a little while now. Up until today he only laughed when he was tickled. He almost always laughs when I'm dressing or undressing him. Jason got him to laugh in the second video pretty good. I've gotten some bigger laughs from him than what's on these videos, but I haven't been able to get it on tape yet. I'm going to try to record the bigger ones. I love to make him laugh, it makes me happy.

Thumb Sucker

So, yep I have a thumb sucker. Before he was born I talked to Jason about not wanting him to be attached to the pacifier, and he's not. We'll sometimes force it on him, but he doesn't like it at all. For those of you who don't know I sucked my thumb. I sucked my thumb for way too long too. So, it's extremely fitting that I would end up with a thumb sucker. It didn't even cross my mind before he was born that he may be a thumb sucker. I completely blame myself for this. I would much rather him be attached to the pacifier than his thumb. You can take a pacifier away when you want, but you can't take his thumb away. It amazes me that he can completely reject one but prefer the other. It makes sense to me that if he liked one he'd like the other. It is cute though to watch him suck his thumb. It won't be so cute though if I have a five year old walking around with his thumb in his mouth. Hopefully he'll grow out of it.

Blessing and Christmas Party

We had Donovan blessed on Jan. 4. Jason gave a beautiful blessing. I'm so happy to have a husband that is a worthy priesthood holder. I'm really proud of him. We also had a belated Christmas party with Jason's family afterward. Brenda organized a family feud game. It was really fun, even though my team didn't win. Thanks Brenda for putting that together, it must have taken some time. Also, thank you to all that came and brought stuff for us to eat. I don't think I thanked anyone that day. Sorry for the late thanks. It was really nice having people over and spending time with family. Here's the only pictures that were taken. I wish I would have taken more.

I have such cute boys. Huh? I'm sad I ruined the last one.

Cute Baby

I like this picture.

Christmas Morning

I know this is a little late, but here it is anyway. We had a really good Christmas. There's so much build up for Christmas and it always goes by so fast. I think we all got pretty spoiled. The girls came over about ten and we opened gifts. Donovan slept through it, he didn't seem too sad about it. We opened gifts with him later. We got dumped on that day(as in it snowed a lot). We weren't sure for a bit if we should go to Mom and Dad Howells. We're glad we did because it was only the west side that got a lot of snow. The roads got better the more east we drove. It was a good day and enjoyed spending time with family. Here's some pictures from the day..