January 2015 - Comic Con FanX

Comic Con came early this year and we brought all the kids with us.

Day 1: Thursday

Jaina was excited to get a sticker of Studio C

We found a really amazing looking dinosaur cosplay.

The girls just loved this Unikitty Cosplayer.

Karri was such a good sport and gave Jaina a ride when her legs were so tired.

Since we found the Tardis in September, we opted out of it, but we did run into a Weeping Angel.

My favorite part of the giant Lego display!  I wish they really had Star Trek Legos.

There was a kids corner that had Tea with Princesses. It was a great place for the girls to unwind. 

Day 2: Friday

I went up early on Friday with Jaina and Melody because of a Photo Op time. 

So we had a lot of hanging out to do.

We found a Clone Trooper

A Fairy Godmother, Cinderella & Elsa.

Then Anna was at the Tea Party!

We also found, Snow White, Aurora, & Bell, with a photo bomb by Maleficent.

And the reason why we came up so early was to meet Matt Smith aka The 11th Doctor.

I introduced him to Melody, told him that we call her Mels. 

Then he tickled her tummy and said "Hi Mels!"  It was perfect!

Since we wanted to have all the kids with us for the whole Con, we 

decided to get a hotel room for Friday night. So in the afternoon, I walked 

the girls over to the hotel, which was around the corner from the Salt 

Palace, so we could take our shoes off and run around a bit before going 

back over and meeting up with Pat, Xander & Mara.

When we got back, Jaina was able to do this ropes course as part of becoming a Super Hero!

Pat took the kids for me so I could attend the Doctor Who panel with JD, Chris, Karri & Heidi. 

We had to pay to attend the panel, which was crazy, but it was awesome to be able to do it.

They had Karen Gillan 'Amy Pond' and Billie Piper ' Rose Tyler'

Along with Matt Smith 'The 11th Doctor'

After the panel the kids were pretty much done, so we headed over to the hotel and took a dip in the pool. Oddly enough, we have been to enough hotels during Jaina's life that she always expects to be able to swim. So when I was looking for a hotel I made sure that there was an indoor pool, seeing as it was January.

Day 3: Saturday

Mara was really excited to meet Phoebe Tonkin from 'H2O: Just Add Water' 

a show about 3 girls that can turn into Mermaids.

Pat found an awesome Cosplayer of Zero from the Megaman video game.

Also on Saturday, Pat and I were able to meet Carrie Fisher aka 'Princess Leia' from Star Wars.

Oddly enough, I kinda met her on Friday in the bathroom when I was there 

with Jaina, but didn't know/realize it had been her until Saturday.

We got our family picture right before we left on Saturday. We decided that from 

now on we will only bring the little girls if we go up in the evenings, but not for an 

all day or all three days. They were really cranky and restless by the end of day 3. 

Thanks Salt Lake Comic Con FanX! It was fantastic as always! See ya in September!

January 2015

These girls just love each other so much. They have a very special bond that 

has been present since day one. I hope that it will grow stronger as they get older.

This was one of those rare times when Daddy was in charge of bath time.

She really likes this selfie feature on my phone.

I put my purse on the couch, not thinking, and the next thing I know, she's 

pulled out everything. At least it was a reason to go through it and re-organize.

For a few weeks, Melody would hold her binki on the side of her mouth! 

It was usually when she wanted to talk.

She really likes to just stuff food in her mouth, which usually means 

that she will have a choking moment. But she sure does love her Oreo's.

Mana & Karri watched the girls while we (with Xander) went to a movie. 

Melody was busy showing off her mess making skills.

And her new walking skills!!!! She started walking on January 1st.

Just a cute picture of me and Jaina.

She found the baby foam brush and started brushing her own hair! 

I love the little things that she's learning.

I can't remember where Jaina was, but Melody got ahold of her 

Blanket Brown and Minnie and was dragging them all over the house.

She is really getting good at walking!

It's so fun to play with her hair after bath time.

Mana had ordered a puzzle from Shutterfly of family pictures. 

These five had a great time putting it all together.

It's very rare when Melody will let someone else hold her while she has 

her bottle. Mana was very happy that Melody cuddled with her.

We're still trying to figure out all this table food stuff for her. 

But she seems to really like Fruit Loops.

JD gave us this Doctor Who puzzle and it took us FOREVER to put together. Then we realized that we were missing a piece!!! Often Melody would walk up to the table, put her hand up on it and grab whatever she could. So we had to fix it quite a few times. I searched and searched for at least a week and couldn't find it. We knew that we wanted to mount it to hang on the wall, so we took it into my craft room for the time being. 

*About a month or so after we 'finished' the puzzle, Melody was playing in a bucket of toys, found the piece and gave it to me! It was so crazy because I had looked in those toys at least twice before and didn't find it.

She has become quite the thief whenever we are playing video games. She really likes the Wii controllers.

This is Melody's first pony tail!!!!!!

Xander had his Science Fair at school and did his project on the Healthiest Drink. His experiment was that he placed pieces of meat in cups of different sodas and a cup of water for 2-3 days to see what happened to it.  Most of them had changes to size, color and smell. Water is by far the best thing that we can drink, and Mountain Dew is the worst of the sodas that he tested.

Melody's first time eating Spaghetti.  I just love how babies always turn orange from the sauce.

Jaina has started drawing people.  I love her progress!

She even drew this picture of Karri & Mana

Melody is always interested in what Jaina is doing, and also really likes hair brushes.