Tuesday, January 22, 2013

My Knees are Great!

Blake is now a Sunbeam in primary! The Monday after his first week, out of the blue said, "Mom, you know what I learned at church?" "No, what did you learn?" Blake says, "that my knees are great". I am a little confused so I ask if he learned this from a teacher or from his music teacher to which he responds, "the girl teacher." This meant his primary teacher since his music teacher is a guy and he knows his name. Since I taught sunbeams for a number of years and nursery, where the same manual for sunbeams was used...I knew the lessons so I thought about the lessons on being thankful for your ears, hands, etc, but I didn't remember anything specifically about knees. I asked Blake to tell me more about his knees being great. So then he starts singing, "and so my knees are great".  I laugh, oooooh, the lyrics are "and so my Needs are great".  Needless to say, we have been practicing that verse a bit more often now.

Food

I was making dinner and it had been 1 1/2 hours since they last ate, so apparently they were hungry and decided to help themselves. Dylan stuffed his face with uncooked pasta.

His current favorite fruit is blackberries.

He loves to pull out bowls and put spoons in every bowl that he pulls out.

Blake won't eat an otter pop without hot pads because his hands get too cold.

Dylan doesn't care how cold his hands get.

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Happy New Year

Did you miss us? I missed us. We have been sick. How sick? Blake took a nap 5 days in a row. Some folks have said that they secretly like it when their kids are sick because then they cuddle, etc. I do not like it when my kids are sick. It was really weird to have kids just sit and not want to do anything. This is what it would be like to have calm kids?! Kind of boring. Dylan was not only sick, but also teething, so there were some rough nights.  I can always tell how the kids are feeling by how much they eat.  It wasn't until Monday that both the kids ate like their normal ravenous selves. 

On a probably just as depressing and stressful note, we have started our house hunt.  The real estate market is crazy! Who thought it would be totally normal to make offers on houses without even seeing them and then be outbid by 10 other people when the house has been on the market for a day? As we have mentioned before, Blake is terrified of dogs thanks to my brother's dog. Every house we go into, Blake asks if there are dogs inside. He waits and listens for a dog.  

On a fun note...Dylan can make the sound that monkeys make. It is the only animal that he has down, but it is a fun one to know. He has a shirt that has a monkey on it, which is probably his favorite shirt because he picks it out of his drawer all the time. (It is one that my mom got him for his bday) When you ask where the monkey is, he points to it on his shirt and makes the monkey sound. When he isn't wearing the shirt and you ask what a monkey says, he will point to his shirt (where the monkey would be on the other shirt) and make the sound of a monkey.

Now that Blake is feeling better, he has enjoyed riding his bike outside.  I like my healthy kids!

Thursday, December 27, 2012

Jeanette

Yesterday was my sister's birthday, so we took the boys and my brothers and went to visit her.

The boys were very interested in looking at all the decorations and flowers.

We then went over and visited my Grandma.

And we visited some of my Grandma's relatives.

Happy birthday, Jeanette!

Christmas Night

Christmas night, we had the family over for dinner and to open more presents.

More fun presents.

Dylan is clapping. I guess he approves of his presents.

My brother, David, with all the boys.

Christmas

Blake woke up, comes in my room and asks, "Did Santa come to our house?"  After waking Aaron up, we hear Dylan is awake, so we grab him then go downstairs to discover that Santa did come.  A couple days before, we put the presents under the tree from Grandma and Grandpa and others who had mailed some gifts. Blake found this present, shook it, and said, "hey, these are legos!". We said he would have to wait to open them. So when he opened them he said, "See, I told you I got legos."

Super excited to get Bumblebee.

Dylan playing with his presents...but not super happy yet because he hadn't had breakfast yet.

Blake was in heaven..Playmobil...loved it!

One of the reindeers didn't eat his carrot, so it was left behind. Dylan found this carrot and ate it.

More Playmobil?!

Even more Playmobil?!!

Dylan loves dogs...can you tell?

He got lots of fun stuff!!

Dylan couldn't make it through opening presents, he had  to eat some food. Then he was happy!

The boys got Big money (as Blake calls it).

Dylan was excited about his Oreos and the candy canes.

Aaron's folks also got the boys a basketball hoop. Watch out Jimmer :)

Thank you to everyone! Hope you all had a Merry Christmas!

Christmas Eve

Before the kids went to bed, Blake made sure we got everything ready for Santa.

He said we needed to leave 2 cookies...one for Santa and one for Mrs. Clause. He wrote a letter to Santa trying to convince him that he had been a nice boy. He then drew a picture for the reindeer and left some carrots for them.

Monday, December 17, 2012

Christmas Lights

We went to our favorite Christmas lights viewing spot this past weekend. This year there was fake snow, which Blake loved.

Both the kids are terrified of Santa, so this was as good as we were going to get.

Although the lights weren't as extravagant as they have been in previous years, it was still wonderful.

At first Dylan didn't want to walk around because he was just taking it all in. Then he was all over the place and super excited.

Cute boys enjoying the lights.

Dylan's favorite was the dog...surprise. This house also had some Christmas music playing, so he was dancing while he was watching the dog.  We were in this spot for a long time.

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Naps

Blake loves it when Dylan takes naps, mostly because he gets to ride on his bike and other things without any competition.  Dylan thinks he is just as big as Blake so he loves riding the scooter.

On our way home from Disneyland, Dylan fell asleep. Totally out!

Monday, December 10, 2012

Gingerbread House

Last year we made a gingerbread house and Blake loved it, so we did it again this year.

Blake helped...candy for me, candy for gingerbread house, candy for me...


The completed product!

So happy they are done!

Nice picture Blake.