Moments That Make Me Smile

Tonight is Hyrum's "date night" with Thayne, so I put the other kids in bed so they can have quality time together. Hyrum decided he wanted to play Mario Kart. So while they are playing, Samuel - conviently* - wonders down (*he hasn't got out of bed for months... 'funny' that he would when Hyrum is playing Mario...) So I help Samuel with his problem and as I am, Samuel offers his unsolicited advice: "When I played Mario Kart, I stayed on the road and won 1st place!" to which Hyrm replies: "Samuel, now go to bed!" - - - Hyrum, who knew you were so witty!

Moments That Make Me Smile

On Sundays, I usually hold Anna or Hyrum on my lap. This past Sunday, I was holding Anna when Hyrum wiggled himself right off the bench and bonked his cheek on the book holder attached to the bench in front of us. I handed Anna to Thayne and thus Hyrum ended up on my lap.

Hyrum is just one WIGGLY little boy. Sunday I wore a skirt that was a little past my knees (I call those "short skirts"). Wiggly little boys and short skirts are not such a good match. I feel like every few seconds I am pulling at my skirt to make sure I'm still covered :)

Well after wrestling with Hyrum for a while I told him my legs were tired and to go sit on the bench by himself.

That lasted for maybe 5 minutes - He came up to me and said "Mom, are your legs still tired??" ...Then he said "see they're cold!" (Hyrum had explained to me earlier that day that he likes cold things - this may be why he always chews Lion's tail - if it's wet with slobber, it'll be cold...) Anyway, so he touches my leg and tells me they're cold - I guess he thought if my legs had time to get cold they shouldn't be tired anymore! Or maybe he wanted to sit on my lap again because it was cold... Whatever his logic - I thought it was adorable and I let him back on my lap - so it worked! ;)

I think I'm just a sucker for cute words... and I think Hyrum knows that. Last night (in the middle of the night) he wondered into our room to go potty and after hewas done, he said wanted to snuggle with me. Thayne said no, so I told him he could come give me a hug. As we were hugging Hyrum says: "Mom, I just want to keep snuggling you, because I Love You!!" It was sooo sweet! But I still sent him back to his bed... He can't always win ;)

One more note about Hyrum's fettish with hot and cold. He tells me about every week at church that his feet are hot! I think having to wear nice sunday shoes and socks makes his feet hot - my mom and I both can't stand having hot feet, so I can relate, but sorry Hyrum, you'll have to endure 3 hours of shoes while we're at church!

Moments That Make Me Smile

On Sunday, Samuel's teacher asked us to make a list of some of Samuel's talents for part of the lesson and bring one to share with the class. We made the list and Samuel brought one of his Mario drawings to show everyone.

When I picked Samuel up, his teacher said that the way they presented it was like a guessing game. So they would go down someone's list and the kids would guess who they were describing.

So the first talent for Samuel was 'drawing' and Samuel said "Oh, it's me!" The second one was 'telling the truth' to which Samuel replied: "Nevermind, it's not me!!"

*LOL*

**My rebuttle is that Samuel really does try hard to tell the truth - even when he knows he made a wrong choice. I really admire that in Samuel - apparently humility is another of Samuel's talents ;)

Labor Day

Carrie, John & Family were able to come down for the weekend and celebrate Labor Day with us! Of course the best part of a holiday is good food - here's what we did this year:


For breakfast we had banana bread and cinnamon rolls...



For lunch we had steak and chicken kabobs... everyone assembled their own to their liking - we tried a few different things on the kabobs, we liked the green peppers, pineapple and onions...



I don't know if I'd put the mushrooms, tomatoes, or zucchini on kabobs again... the zuchini was nasty, the mushrooms were dry and weird, and the tomatoes were too squishy - I LOVE cherry tomatoes - but I guess I like them raw - not BBQ'd... We also grilled Banana Squash and we did like that!



To top it off, we had a fruit pizza that looked so beautiful it was almost sad to eat it!

Overall, a very successful, yummy holiday!

One of These Things is NOT Like the Others...

These are the yogurts that were eaten at lunch by Hyrum, Samuel, Anna, and myself... Could you guess who ate which yogurt?


Out of all of these, I could probably only pick out Hyrum's. He loves to chew the erasers off pencils, he loves to bite pens. The other day i found a little plastic snake with the tail all chewed up...


He stills puts everything in his mouth - he especially loves the squishy plastic Polly Pocket dresses and accessories, he spills milk on the table and then thinks it's fingerpaint, and apparently he's not done with yogurt until he has destroyed his cup! That yogurt cup has H-Y-R-U-M written all over it!!


Hyrum you are a messy boy, but I LOVE YOU!!

Farewell Ol' Friend

When we took this carseat out of the car (because Anna is big enough for her forward-facing carseat), we realized that we didn't need to keep it anymore - and yet I can't bring myself to throw it out!!


This is the carseat that Evelyn, Samuel, Hyrum, and Anna all came home from the hospital in. All 4 of my kiddos used this carseat till they were at least 6 months old (The boys weighed 20 lbs. at 6 months and I just couldn't carry them in the carseat any more. I started to notice that I was getting bruises on my legs and realized it was from helping to lift the baby carseat up into the car or up into shopping carts...) Evelyn used this seat for about 10 months and Anna used it till she was a year!


I am so sad to get rid of this carseat. I guess it's mostly the memories attached to it, but it does have some cool features... it attaches to a matching stroller and is very cushy as far as carseats are concerned... *sniff, sniff* Why are we getting rid of it?? Sadly, it has reached it's 'expiration date' (something about plastic weakening after 6 years)...

The only 'positive' from throwing it out is that if we have more kids, I guess I get to go shopping! :)

Playing with Food

So one day, this was before school started, I found this trail of food/kitchen utensils laid out throughout our house. It started at the bottom of the stairs...


Went all the way up the stairs, wound it's way throught the hallway and into Evelyn's room.


It was fun to follow the trail and see where it ended up. Evelyn was the one who made the trail. She said she made it for Daddy...