I feel I get so behind on posting, so here's a whole bunch of stuff in one post.
Look at this face. As my kids always say, "There could be no baby cuter." This little lady will be 5 months on Tuesday. She's the sweetest thing; rarely cranky, smiles at the drop of the hat. She's been sleeping for 12 hours straight for probably a couple of months now, so I'm feeling human again instead of like a zombie.
On Wednesday, Emily sliced her toe pretty badly at a friend's house. She was playing on their splash pad when she slipped on the drain. Danny says the drain worked like a cheese grater on that little toe. The cut went all the way through the nail even. Emily was very brave. We took her to my cousin's house so her good husband (a podiatrist) could look at it. No stitches needed at this point. I've been playing doctor this week changing the bandage and putting ointment on the cut - all without fainting. Kudos to me for that!
She lost that second tooth a week or so after the first. Again, she pulled it out herself at school, but this time went to the nurse to get one of those cool tooth-holder-necklaces they give out. Those permanent teeth are coming in nicely - and crooked! I'm sure she and our future orthodontist will become good friends. Emily also gave her first talk today in Primary. It was on the Restoration. I wrote up a little talk, which she pretty much read. I held up a few pictures. She did a great job! In the past, she's been very afraid to do things like this. We were pleasantly surprised and proud at how well the whole thing went. 
Remember way back when I took a bunch of photos of the kids to put on my wall? Well I finally got them ordered and hung. I cannot take credit for lovely way these are all arranged. My mom is the one who has a knack for that sort of thing. She helped me hang these soon after we moved in. But instead of old pictures (except the family one and our engagement shot), I have the new ones I took.
I was inspired to do this back in Alabama by a photographer friend. I took these one day in Dallas, and finally got around to getting this up. Can you read it? It spells D-I-X-O-N. I think it turned out pretty well. And I like that I did it, that it's my very own work of art. Just yesterday my neighbor thought I bought it. It was a neat feeling to get say that I took them myself.
Since Christmas, Megamoo's vocabulary has exploded. She's a little chatter box now and repeats just about anything. It's really cute. Her favorites to shout at her siblings are "No!", "Mine!", and today she yelled "Stop!" at Emily during sacrament meeting. Awesome.
Her hair is finally long enough to put into a pony tail on top. This was her first one.
My wonderful mom gave all us siblings a weekend of babysitting so we can have a get away. Danny and I (and HannahBelle) went last weekend to the Phoenix area so we could attend the temple. We also did some good eating and awesome outlet shopping. Danny said I wasn't allowed to shop for the kids - just me. You see, I've not gotten hardly anything new for so long because I'm never just my normal self. For the past approximately seven years, I've been out of whack size wise due to pregnancy or nursing or postpartum, etc. Well, I hit the motherload. Totally terrific sales. Happy Mother's Day to me! (I can feel cute again!)
This little guy is getting freckles! I swear last year he only had a couple. They look so adorable. DallinBoy went camping for the first time two days ago - the ward fathers and sons campout. He had a blast smashing bugs and hanging out with Daddy.
And my brother's video won, not one, but TWO awards in the Church's International Video Contest. He was one of three winners voted on by the panel and he won the viewer's choice award. Totally cool!!
Last week Dallin's last day of preschool was a "graduation" and a sprinkler/popcicle party. I guess his is really just a pseud0-graduation since he still has another year before starting kindergarten.
She performed in the kindergarten musical p titled E-I-E-I Oops! last week and had two water days this week. As of yesterday, she no longer a kindergartener!
