So Many Smiles

I am so pleased to say that Max can smile now, and he really is full of them. He just gets on a roll sometimes and smiles away for no apparent reason at all. He does it the most for Anna. You would think that when she puts her little face only millimeters away from his and yells "HI BABY!" he would be startled to tears, but no, he smiles. I especially love his smiley eyes.

I got tagged (thanks Em!) and I hope that means I am supposed to answer the following questions, so get prepared to know a little more about me. Here it goes . . .

What I was doing 10 years ago . . .
10 years ago, umm, I just had a conversation with Taylor that went like this:
Katie: How old was I ten years ago?
Taylor: How old are you now?
Katie: 24?
Taylor: Are you sure?
Katie: Yeah 1986 till 2008 . . .
Taylor: 1984
Katie: Oh, right, so 84 plus 6 plus 10 plus 8...I'm 24.
Taylor: (can't breathe cause he's laughing.)
Katie: 22? oh, 23!
I am 23
That means that 10 years ago I was 13, and believe it or not I was in 8th Grade Honors Geometry. I think I even got an A-. Anyway, 8th grade, not the best year for me. At the beginning of February I had probably, thankfully, just gotten contacts, and I would have been getting ready for student government elections which I lost. I did make very cool posters of myself as the picture on a dollar bill that said something clever about "CASH" (my maiden name). I never ran again after that, but I made student election posters for other people who ran and WON.

5 things on my to-do list today . . .
I used to make to-do lists, now I pretty much just try to take a shower sometime in the course of each day. Make up is a bonus.

Things I would do if I were suddenly made a billionaire . .
I think the one thing I would do besides all the usual would be to buy myself a house built by Frank Lloyd Wright just to have for fun. Preferably the waterfall house.

3 of my bad habits . . .
#1 is for sure biting my fingernails--a lifelong habit that to this point I have only kicked for short periods of time when I was bribed with money or getting married.
#2 apologizing too much
#3 if I have long enough hair I redo my ponytail every half hour or so.
I could list more

5 places I have lived . . .
-Fort Lauderdale, Florida
-Sandy, Utah
-Madrid, Spain
-Plaistow, New Hampshire
-Hinckley Hall at BYU

5 jobs I have had . . .
1) Ice Cream Scooper
2) Carpet Cleaner at BYU over Christmas break my Freshman year--14 + hour days, working with weird, sweaty return missionaries, sleeping all alone in Hinckley Hall during the most wonderful time of the year. (I put this one on because it was so sad.)
3) BYU Operator
4) 3rd Grade Teacher
5) A Mom

2 things most people don't know about me . . .
-I used to know Braille
-My Valentine Box took first place in fifth grade

And please consider yourself "tagged" if you want to be. Happy Valentines Day everyone!

Miss Independence

You find gloves, you wear them. . .

You find bread, you eat it

You find sunglasses, you pose for a picture.

She's pretty much got life all figured out. Is this really the little baby of just a few months ago? Definitely not. She is rapidly trading her dependence for independence, and I believe we have entered an entirely new chapter of our relationship that includes demands, compromises, and more entertainment than ever. The other day Anna was eating her absolute favorite lunch without fail, Macaroni and Cheese, when her eyes caught sight of a loaf of frozen bread thawing on the cupboard. It turns out THAT is what she actually wanted to eat for lunch. I explained that we couldn't eat it yet--it was cold and yucky--I believe those were my words. Well, she seemed to take it pretty well and she finished her lunch. After I got her down from her highchair, I went to fold the laundry down the hall and left her playing in the living room. When I came back in a few minutes later after I realized that everything was a little too quiet, I found Anna in the middle of the living room biting holes in each piece of frozen bread, one by one, and then laying them on the floor next to her. I don't know how she reached the bread on the cupboard and I don't know how she got the twisty-tie off of the bag. All I know is that there are many, many days when I am outsmarted by my one year old and it makes me wonder what the future holds. I know there are probably many mothers out there who would be happy to scare me with the details.

Max's Blessing

We blessed Max this weekend and had so much fun with everyone who came. Both of our families drove through blizzards, either going or coming or both, so that they could be here for it. I absolutely love having so many people who I love all together at once, and it was definitely one of those days.





















Four good-looking generations of Davis boys.