Clippy Cloppy

The Clippy Cloppy

This is Shelby's toy given to her by her Great Aunt JoLynn.

It's a horse with one hoof being a rattle and the other being a squeaky toy.

When hit together you get the cloppy noise.

It's attached to a clip so we can clip it to anything for her no matter where we are.

Hence...the clippy.

Clippy Cloppy

I decided to play with this one day and discovered that if you bounce it up and down really quickly it makes the horse look as if it's running. I found it rather amusing and showed Ryan when he got home from work and he actually found it more amusing! So here's a video of Shelby's clippy cloppy "running".

You might have to look hard cause it's not the best video...but you should get the idea. Now without further adeau...The Clippy Cloppy!

Did you see it? Did you see it? Did you see his arms flail back and forth and his hooves go back and forth too? He's totally running...right? Right??

Anyways...it was fun for us...haha!!

Sounds effects courtesy of Shelby

Whenever Shelby is being toted around the house with one of us she feels the need to let us know about every thing. It's quite entertaining and her sound effects are pretty impressive especially when it comes to how long she can hold the noises for; haha! Here's a video we shot of her today.

Today is also her 5 month anniversary! We don't have any pictures yet cause she's had a rough evening and isn't feeling very well. Maybe tomorrow will be a better day for pictures! Fingers crossed!



Shelby is discovering her voice and is so proud of it. It seems like she does this all day; it's pretty hilarious. She has quite the personality and has no problem letting it show!

Mastering the arts

On Sunday April 22, 2012 Shelby mastered the art of rolling from her tummy to her back as well as sucking on her toes. Haha! It's so much fun to watch her while she does this. She always seems so proud of herself when she does this. Here's a fun video of her showing off.


Shelby mastered the art of rolling from her tummy to her back. She did it for the first time on April 22, 2012.

Whenever we change her diaper now she like to grab onto her toes as tight as she possibly can the second her pants come off. I think she knows I can't change her diaper if she's holding onto her feet; and she thinks it's funny! She literally lays there and smirks at me then lets out a silly giggle as if to say "Come'on mom...see if you can do it...I bet ya can't." I have to tickle her till she lets go; it's a pretty fun game we play on a daily basis now.

We're still unpacking our new apartment and are just about done; finally! Shelby likes to move around with us in her front pack so she's not so bored. Today was a bit much for her and she totally fell asleep in it, haha! So cute! I'll post pictures of our new place later when it gets done.

Unpacking is hard work!

Shelby is also 21 weeks today. She's just as happy as can be and is growing like a weed...or should I say flower...cause weeds are gross.

Such a pretty, happy girl!!

Ryan has been working at his new office for a week and a half now and is loving every minute of it. I however...am not. I do like Tuesday's and Thursday's because those days he doesn't have to be to work till 2pm and is home just after 7pm. Monday, Wednesday and Friday however are NOT that fun. He's gone by 9:30am and sometimes isn't home till almost 9pm. It seems like his patients like to show up late and don't really care if the office closes in 20 minutes. I just wish he would be able to be home in the evenings for dinner and to have family time with Shelby. But...I am SO grateful for his job and for the time he does get to spend with us. It's just another thing we've gotta get use to...being a doctors wife!

Visiting daddy at work for lunch.

You can't judge a book by its cover

Oh my goodness it's been a LONG time since I've blogged. A LOT has happened since my last post. Ryan got offered a job, we moved and now we're getting use to Renton, WA!

We packed up the moving truck last Friday with the help of family and friends, drove to Chehalis, WA that night then drove to our new apartment the next morning. Thanks to the help of family and new ward friends again we were able to get the truck unloaded and everything into our 3rd floor apartment in a couple hours.

Here's the website for our "lovely" new "home". The Resort at Emerald Heights. There's a reason I said "lovely" and not LOVELY! We've only been here 4 days and we're already discovering we moved right into the middle of all the "action" of Renton...and we don't like it. It was pretty much a blind move since we didn't have a lot of time to find something up here. About 1 o'clock every afternoon I get to listen to my "neighbors" rap music for a couple hours...this neighbor is 2 floors and 2 apartments over. I can understand every single flipping word of his stupid music. (can you tell it irritates me?)

I had finally had enough today when he turned on his music and the bass from his music woke up Shelby from her nap. I took myself and my crying baby downstairs to his apartment and beat on his door. I was angry, Shelby was crying and he was an extremely intimidating large black man complete with a doo-rag, tattoos, and a joint hanging out of his mouth. His apartment reeked of marijuana when he opened the door..it was lovely. (there's that word again)

I (as nicely as I could) asked him to turn his music down cause it was keeping my baby awake. He ran back in his apartment, turned the music down, came back out and apologized profusely. He even started talking to Shelby and made her smile huge. He said he was sorry again and didn't know that I had a new baby. He even said he'd try to keep it down so she can take naps peacefully. I said thank you and we parted ways but before we did he told me that Shelby has the most beautiful smile and that she looked genuinely happy.

NOT what I was expecting! I was nicely surprised....but I'm pretty sure I won't be becoming best of friends with him anytime soon, haha! Can't judge a book by it's cover though!

We're still unpacking, Shelby has her own room now and she even slept 10 straight hours her second night here! The first night we had her sleep in our room cause it was just too weird for us to have her away from us. Now, even though it's only been 3 nights, we're pretty use to her sleeping in her own room. It's amazing how much better we sleep now without a squirmy, squeaky baby in the room waking us up with every movement.

Well...it's getting late and I think I'm gonna go sleep while Shelby's sleeping. When everything is unpacked and moved where it's gonna go I'll post pictures and update further.