Building Towers

For Christmas, Eden got a set of wooden blocks. This has been by far, one of her favorite presents because she can now build towers. She loves to stack the blocks and see how high they can get. Aaron and I are always so amazed at how steady her hand is, especially for a two year old. This is one of the many towers Eden has built, we hope you all enjoy:

Overdue for pictures

Eden loves to pose for pictures, especially now with Enoch. She always asks to pull out the camera and say "cheese". These are four of my favorite that we've taken in the last month, I can't decided which is my favorite, I like each for different reasons, but you can decide which one you like the best for yourself.

1. Together in mom and dad's bed

2. Perfect pose on the blanket

3. Pink cat and blue dog pjs

4. Snuggled together on the couch

Welcome baby Enoch

Well he is finally here: Enoch David Smith

Weighing in at 7 pounds and measuring in at 20 inches long! Born on Thursday, December 10th at 7:45pm in Provo. We are excited to have this new addition to our family. Eden is a good helper with Enoch and dad couldn't be prouder of his son.


If you ask me, he looks a lot like Aaron (at least Aaron's baby pictures), so that means he should grow-up to be just as handsome.

Two-year old vocabulary

Eden is talking more, but sometimes her words don't sound exactly like what we would call it. For example to Eden, a flower is called a "sasow". I don't know where she got that from flower, but that's what it means to her. In the following video we tried to get her to say "ketchup," but again, her idea of ketchup comes out a little differently. It was quite entertaining...but she's getting better now at calling it the real thing.

So we learn that 2-year-olds have their own language, and the only ones that really understand what they are talking about is mom and dad. Thank goodness for parents.

A little Duck

Halloween is come and gone, but I had to post these cute pictures of our little Halloween Duck.

She loved this costume, as you can tell. I loved it because it was warm, and it was the best deal ever at the D.I.


Here is Eden and Aaron with our beautiful pumpkins. It was a fun Halloween. It took few houses of trick-or-treating before she understood that all you do is knock on a door, say "treat" and they give you candy. I'm sure if I let her, she would have gone all night, but I was tired after 30 minutes and I figured we didn't need more candy than what we had, especially for two-year-old teeth.

Growing fast

Our little girl is almost 2 years old, and we can't believe how much she's learned. She talks to us now, not full sentences, but we understand better what she wants, she loves to practice her alphabet and her numbers. But most of all she wants us to read to her. I've got about half of her books memorized now, so I can read them without having to look at them, or just quote them in the car if it's been a long drive. But one book, Eden has got down, that is "Moo, Baa, La la la."

Her growth has amazed us, and we know we must enjoy every moment now, because soon she'll be fighting for attention with her little brother. Until then, we'll just sit back and be amazed.

Our growing little girl

We can't believe how fast Eden is growing and changing. It seems that just yesterday she was learning to crawl and now she's her own little person and with personality and everything. We know that we only have two more months with just her and then a new little addition will be here. Here are just a few cute pictures of our sweet little girl:

Eden loves to climb up on the piano bench and play her favorite song she calls "God", which is "I am a child of God."

Grandpa Smith gave her a bike this summer, it is so cute to see her on it, but she still doesn't quite reach the pedals. Next summer I'm sure she'll be going everywhere on it.

Eden loves her doll, her baby. She wants to make sure it's fed, and wrapped up warm in a little blanket. She is all girl taking care of her toys.

Eden also loves to play dress-up, we take our few little pieces of cloth and wrap her in them and she loves to run and dance wearing her new dress-up clothes.