The Crosbys

Lucy turned 1!! Dave and Jodi put on a great birthday party for her in their backyard the day before her birthday.


There was a BBQ and ladybug cupcakes. Here is Lucy enjoying her hamburger.


Jodi made a super cute ladybug cake.

I decided to try to put all of Raylin's hair in one ponytail. She has such cute chubby cheeks when her hair is up. Of course it didn't last for too long. Her little hairs soon started to come out. Someday she will have so much hair I won't know what to do with it all.


She moves too much to get a good picture. Look at those cheeks.


I know this isn't the best video, but Jonathan keeps begging me to get Raylin's dancing on video. I will try to get a better one later.

We like to go to the doctor first thing in the morning so that we get in and out quickly. Raylin still doesn't like getting shots, but she did great once we left. We were referred to a different specialist, so it will be nice to keep tabs on how her scoliosis is doing as she grows. Our last doctor never calls us back. Dr. Leavitt also said that we should get Raylin's birth mark removed sometime before she hits puberty. Not really sure why, but there is probably some good explanation. Here are her 15 month stats...

Height - 31in - 70th percentile
Weight - 21lbs 7oz. - 25th percentile
Head - 18in - 45th percentile

Raylin still drinks whole milk at all three meals. I still don't understand her nap schedule. Sometimes she still takes two naps and other days only one. Night time is still great though. She still sleeps from about 7:30 PM to 8 AM. She walks all over the place and is starting to climb on things. We need to work on talking next. She says please in sign language, but that is about it. I love it though because instead of giving things to her because she whines, I have her sign please. It is crazy how much she changes in such short periods of time. We love our little girl.

Before Mike, Jen, and Emily had to go home we went to the mall and let the girls play.


Lucy being cute.


For a while Raylin would shrug her shoulders all of the time. I am glad I got a picture of it. It seems like she does a lot of cute things for short periods of time that I never get pictures of.


Emily and Raylin are only 2 1/2 months apart, but Emily looks like she is 3.

Since Mike, Jen, and Emily were coming to AZ it was the perfect time for a family reunion. All of Jonathan's siblings were in Eagar together. It was a lot of fun.

First I have to tell the story of our drive to Eagar. We decided to leave late Thursday night because I had enrichment and we thought it would be nice for Raylin to sleep the whole time. We left about 9 PM and decided to drive to Payson instead of Globe (the way we normally go). As soon as we got into Payson Raylin woke up and decided to stay awake the rest of the way. At some point between Payson and Show Low I decided to put a movie on for her to watch. It was dark and the road was empty. Jonathan looked in the rear view mirror at Raylin. I looked up, saw an elk told Jonathan. He started to break, swerved a little to the right and hit the rear end of that lazy elk standing in the middle of the road. We were all ok. Raylin was a little mad because the laptop closed and turned off her movie. We got out and saw that the whole left side corner of our car was gone, including the side mirror. A man in a big work truck pulled over and helped us cut more of our bumper off so that we could drive the rest of the way. The elk was nowhere to be seen. We were blessed that we were all ok and were able to drive the rest of the way. It was pretty scary, but it didn't ruin any of our fun. I was sad that we didn't take a picture though.


The girls loved the tree swing. That is one huge tree.


They also had some fun times on the trampoline. Emily is sitting because they just played ring around the rosie.