Abbie's first step!

Abbie took her first step last night!! She's been standing on her own for a while now. She's 10 months old. She has to keep up with the older kids! She can do patty cake and she'll imitate some sounds. If I yell "Todd!" up the stairs, she'll yell "'odd!" She's a very happy, easy going baby. At the mall the other day, a ton of people told me she was the cutest, happiest baby they'd ever seen. She smiles at everybody and when she smiles she scrunches up her nose and she has big blue eyes that look right at you--SO cute!!

We're still looking at houses with land. There's two possibilities left, both 5 and a half acres in Payson/Benjamin and we'd build a house. I really hope it works out! We'll probably find out this week if we just stay here and refinance or move and start a farm (slowly, of course).

Right now Katherine is watching Nutcracker Ballet in her tutu (but no shirt). She also likes to get ballet books at the library and we spent some time this morning looking at ballet books. Abbie is standing up in her high chair (she will NOT sit down in a high chair. If I strap her in, she wiggles and whines and cries) eating strawberries. The boys are outside checking for eggs. Nathan said he got another egg, which means he has a dozen now to sell. He's going to buy fertilized eggs so we can hatch them in our incubator. We started 7 eggs in our incubator, but when we went to Bryce Canyon for the weekend, we left them for the neighbor boys to watch, and the temp was down too low. So we cracked them open and only one had a chick growing, but it was really cool to see a chick embryo! It was tiny and you could see the outline and a circle for the brain and the blood vessels. We're going to hatch the new batch of eggs right before Easter and sell the chicks.

Todd is working on his talk for Sunday because he has to speak in another ward for his stake calling. I'm supposed to be cleaning...uggg! I hate cleaning! I'd much rather be outside working in a garden or taking care of animals, even cleaning animal poop than cleaning my house!

P.S. I forgot to mention Katherine's imaginary friend that she named "Emily". When she pretend plays, she plays with her friend Emily. I don't know where she got that name even! It's very cute! Right now she's riding horses with Emily.