As we prepared our attempt at the garden, they're so excited
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
100% perfection, no doubt
Laura was walking around for half a day like this...
it took me a while to realize what it said...100% Perfection, my guess would be that she's learned to read already...
Some other cute things Laura has said recently...
She and her friend Sarah were playing with the polly pocket people Sarah as the husband and Laura as the wife and Sarah said I don't want to be married anymore and Laura in exasperation said "uh uh once you get married you can't change your mind".
Then Cole was telling Laura to do something and she said she couldn't and he said she could she was big and she all distressed "I'm not big, I'm only five".
Then tonight for the first time she wanted someone real to sleep with her because she was scared of monsters. I told her she could move down to sleep with Cole on the bottom bunk. She wanted Cole to come to the top and was trying to tell me why and kept saying a word I couldn't understand because she has touch time pronouncing her gs and I finally realized she said because it was pretty it was ...girly. I laughed. Cole's bed wasn't prissy enough for her to sleep in. So funny. After she realized she didin't have many other options she decided to sleep in the drabness of the bottom bunk.
it took me a while to realize what it said...100% Perfection, my guess would be that she's learned to read already...
Some other cute things Laura has said recently...
She and her friend Sarah were playing with the polly pocket people Sarah as the husband and Laura as the wife and Sarah said I don't want to be married anymore and Laura in exasperation said "uh uh once you get married you can't change your mind".
Then Cole was telling Laura to do something and she said she couldn't and he said she could she was big and she all distressed "I'm not big, I'm only five".
Then tonight for the first time she wanted someone real to sleep with her because she was scared of monsters. I told her she could move down to sleep with Cole on the bottom bunk. She wanted Cole to come to the top and was trying to tell me why and kept saying a word I couldn't understand because she has touch time pronouncing her gs and I finally realized she said because it was pretty it was ...girly. I laughed. Cole's bed wasn't prissy enough for her to sleep in. So funny. After she realized she didin't have many other options she decided to sleep in the drabness of the bottom bunk.
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Kids Say and do the darndest things
So today we get home from church and we're about to eat lunch and Cole says "I don't like being handsome, girls like me too much". I ask him to tell me why again he does not like being handsome and he says two girls already have a crush on me! He was very serious and sincere, I hope he feels that way as humbly as possible for the rest of his life :).
Then we made mailboxes for each person at home and the kids loved this idea more than I thought they would. For a half hour they were putting letters, gifts and such in each other's mail boxes. Cole has a "store" set up in his bedroom and often sells things to Laura, who borrows change off of our dressers. Anyway, Cole's first mail to Laura was the following (exhibit A):
He then gets a dinosaur and wraps it up like a present and I think oh how sweet he's giving Laura a gift and the letter said that there were dinosaurs like the one she received on sale at Cole's store. After she opened it, the innocent, unsuspecting Laura said "That is wonderful, what a nice present" and was thrilled to have it.
Hannah at some point today found a marker and decided that her belly button needed more color...
Other tidbits...
Cole asks this morning if when he grew up he could make it a law that everyone go to some type of church. He knows all about the founders of our country coming here for religious freedom and so I started to explain that and he said no they could go to any church they wanted and I explained that part of religious freedom was choosing not to have one. He didn't have much to say about that.
Hannah read for the first time in family scriptures tonight. Laura usually has her turn and tonight, following suit, Hannah wanted hers, she loved the we were listening to her. So sweet!
And here's a pic of Laura at Jackson's party that I love ...
I love it because she's waiting for her turn to play pin the balloon on the fire truck and I know by her stance and look, what she's thinking. Something to the effect of "Okay, I really really want a turn and I know the little kids have to go first....but can we please hurry...But I can handle this, I'm chillin' no prob". It's not easy for her to wait but she's hanging in there like a champ! And why wouldn't she with such a handsome guy standing next to her :).
I was looking at Cole today and Brandon was teasing him about something trying make him believe something that wasn't true and I sometimes lose sight of how innocent and trusting kids are. I think of Cole so knowledgeable and wise for his age, but looking at him today I was reminded he's just a little boy and believes in his Dad...if only it could last (without the whining and Mom! She hit me!) Ah well can't have it all.
Monday, February 25, 2008
A day to blog about
not that anything abnormally spectacular happened, but I just happen to find it bloggable so here we are...
so to start off the day was the dance between mother and son to the tune of "to go to school or to not go to school". It started actually last night with Cole complaining of a woozy head and some other symptom and I told Cole that he needed to go to bed or I did not want to hear tomorrow morning about not being able to go to school. He actually went to bed and fell asleep and with his recent record of staying awake an hour after bed time this was notable. So I did have a heads up this morning when he kind of crawled into the living room with similar symptoms as the night before. He felt slightly warm, maybe (we dont' have a reliable thermometer), but I determined it wasn't a fever at the time and gave him the no playing while not in school speech. Well a few minutes pass and I start really looking at him and his eyes are starting to look glassy and he's not holding his head up to well. So I decide he needs to stay home. Five minutes after his bell rings at school we start to get in the van to take Laura to school and he's freaking out because he wanted to go to school. Somewhere in all of that he remembered he had a pokemon battle to be present for. I still thought he was feverish. The rest of the story is he seemed mostly fine the rest of the day. I heard coughing a few minutes ago, I'm sure there'll be some kind of mambo in the morning.
For the record I do think he may be coming down with something, but today it was certainly not full blown.
Moving on....
We get back home from taking Laura to school and I decide that Cole seriously needs his hair cut. He's so not in the mood for this and we tussle and negotiate and we get that kind of hair cut. Tussled and negotiated.
and later that day..
the kids had a dentist appt. and with Cole not feverish if there ever was one, we all pile up in the van with everything but the kitchen sink except the keys. So we hang out in the backyard for a couple of hours waiting for Brandon to get home. We played freeze tag, charades, eye spy, treasure hunt, ran and timed sprints and just enjoyed each other. Cole mentioned how much he enjoyed the afternoon. I spent a good amount of time in an adirondack chair Michael made and I really think those types of chairs should be called lazy chairs because it's a marathon to get out of them so you just as soon stay in them. While I was sitting there Laura crawled on top of me and said that she wanted to be comfortable. That she wanted to be on something soft and that I was really, really soft. I'm taking it as a compliment. Hannah nana played around most of the afternoon. She's so easy going. She didn't start to get cranky in the least until about five minutes before Brandon got home. At one point she went to the door and wanted to go in. She was probably wondering why it was the opposite of most other times where she wants to go out and can't. She likes to play in the little house Michael made for the kids cause she can just get her eyes above the little window and she likes to tiptoe up and yell at us to look at her.
And finally.....
as Laura's getting dressed after bath she finds her gown that I laid out for her that she pitched three fits and cow for last night and we couldn't find it. She said oh here's the gown, how did it get here and I said I put it there for you to wear and she said awww Mom you're the best, you're the best! Can you ask for much more than that? Kids are great!
Below are pics from the afternoon, we happened to have the camera in the van. Maybe we'll lock the keys in the house tomorrow too.....oh wait it's supposed to rain, that would probably make for not as pleasurable memories :).
tried to get a pic all together and we got pieces of good ones
sitting pretty
she was saying something but it turned our good, I tried to count her freckles :) she thought that was funny
hannah has an obsession with belly buttons this picture is of her telling my belly button hi
do you think this would make a good album cover? The new carpenters...minus the sad stuff
I've got business to take care of
places to go people to see
just an ole' softy
shootin' the breeze
so to start off the day was the dance between mother and son to the tune of "to go to school or to not go to school". It started actually last night with Cole complaining of a woozy head and some other symptom and I told Cole that he needed to go to bed or I did not want to hear tomorrow morning about not being able to go to school. He actually went to bed and fell asleep and with his recent record of staying awake an hour after bed time this was notable. So I did have a heads up this morning when he kind of crawled into the living room with similar symptoms as the night before. He felt slightly warm, maybe (we dont' have a reliable thermometer), but I determined it wasn't a fever at the time and gave him the no playing while not in school speech. Well a few minutes pass and I start really looking at him and his eyes are starting to look glassy and he's not holding his head up to well. So I decide he needs to stay home. Five minutes after his bell rings at school we start to get in the van to take Laura to school and he's freaking out because he wanted to go to school. Somewhere in all of that he remembered he had a pokemon battle to be present for. I still thought he was feverish. The rest of the story is he seemed mostly fine the rest of the day. I heard coughing a few minutes ago, I'm sure there'll be some kind of mambo in the morning.
For the record I do think he may be coming down with something, but today it was certainly not full blown.
Moving on....
We get back home from taking Laura to school and I decide that Cole seriously needs his hair cut. He's so not in the mood for this and we tussle and negotiate and we get that kind of hair cut. Tussled and negotiated.
and later that day..
the kids had a dentist appt. and with Cole not feverish if there ever was one, we all pile up in the van with everything but the kitchen sink except the keys. So we hang out in the backyard for a couple of hours waiting for Brandon to get home. We played freeze tag, charades, eye spy, treasure hunt, ran and timed sprints and just enjoyed each other. Cole mentioned how much he enjoyed the afternoon. I spent a good amount of time in an adirondack chair Michael made and I really think those types of chairs should be called lazy chairs because it's a marathon to get out of them so you just as soon stay in them. While I was sitting there Laura crawled on top of me and said that she wanted to be comfortable. That she wanted to be on something soft and that I was really, really soft. I'm taking it as a compliment. Hannah nana played around most of the afternoon. She's so easy going. She didn't start to get cranky in the least until about five minutes before Brandon got home. At one point she went to the door and wanted to go in. She was probably wondering why it was the opposite of most other times where she wants to go out and can't. She likes to play in the little house Michael made for the kids cause she can just get her eyes above the little window and she likes to tiptoe up and yell at us to look at her.
And finally.....
as Laura's getting dressed after bath she finds her gown that I laid out for her that she pitched three fits and cow for last night and we couldn't find it. She said oh here's the gown, how did it get here and I said I put it there for you to wear and she said awww Mom you're the best, you're the best! Can you ask for much more than that? Kids are great!
Below are pics from the afternoon, we happened to have the camera in the van. Maybe we'll lock the keys in the house tomorrow too.....oh wait it's supposed to rain, that would probably make for not as pleasurable memories :).
tried to get a pic all together and we got pieces of good ones
sitting pretty
she was saying something but it turned our good, I tried to count her freckles :) she thought that was funny
hannah has an obsession with belly buttons this picture is of her telling my belly button hi
do you think this would make a good album cover? The new carpenters...minus the sad stuff
I've got business to take care of
places to go people to see
just an ole' softy
shootin' the breeze
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Tidbits
I don't have much to say, but here are tidbits of the kids.....
I told Cole to go read a book and come back to tell me what it was about. He not being big on reading, goes and writes a book and then comes to tell me what it's about..... I hope this means that through his writings and subseqent earnings..we will have a luxurious elderly care facility.
Laura likes to read scriptures to us before we read them as a family. She says a bunch of nonsense and we ask what that meant and we get more nonsense,(all gospel related) but she's pretty sincere about the whole thing, so we give her her time.
Hannah wants to hear itsy bitsy spider all the time and will come to me with her two fore fingers pressed together indicating that she wants to hear the song....AGAIN!
They're sweet wonderful kids....I never think otherwise :). more later.
I told Cole to go read a book and come back to tell me what it was about. He not being big on reading, goes and writes a book and then comes to tell me what it's about..... I hope this means that through his writings and subseqent earnings..we will have a luxurious elderly care facility.
Laura likes to read scriptures to us before we read them as a family. She says a bunch of nonsense and we ask what that meant and we get more nonsense,(all gospel related) but she's pretty sincere about the whole thing, so we give her her time.
Hannah wants to hear itsy bitsy spider all the time and will come to me with her two fore fingers pressed together indicating that she wants to hear the song....AGAIN!
They're sweet wonderful kids....I never think otherwise :). more later.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Long Time No Blog
So I never said I would be perfect at this. To recap our lives the past month or so. We had a great Christmas. Visited with family mostly at our house which isn't typical and was nice for a change. A couple days after Christmas I realized I hadn't driven anywhere and that's definitely not par for the season.
Cole turned SEVEN!!!! I am amazed at how quickly time flies. I still remember him as my little baby, so sweet. Sweet still just not so little.
So what's happening now... I'm doing aerobics twice a week at church with our fabuloso instructor Marquesas, she kicks our rears, mine needs it. I'm trying to keep up with the blog :) and trying to find ways for our family to eat healthier, you know how things go, but I won't give up yet! I'm working at Target as a sunglasses vendor and I enjoy getting out of the house and LOVE going to Target....drooling along the way...they have great stuff!
Cole and Laura have started gymnastics again and for the most part enjoy it. Laura was excited about being out on the big floor but now realizes that the little room was more fun and less work. She's hanging in there though. Cole doesn't like his Saturday morning cartoons interrupted for gym but when he gets there he likes it. We got the little Gator up and running and the kids love it. Laura and Hannah especially.
Hannah and I have been going to baby storytime at the library and she likes the shakers and to watch the other kids do the actions to the songs, much like Cole and Laura used to. We are a family of watchers, okay not Brandon.
Brandon's working hard and sticking with a jam packed schedule as usual. He plays racquetball ever so often and sneaks in Halo occasionally, but mainly works and takes care of us.
It's more than noteworthy that the Prophet of the Church Gordon B. Hinckley passed away on Sunday. He was a great leader and will be missed beyond measure.
More to come........maybe even before next year.
Cole turned SEVEN!!!! I am amazed at how quickly time flies. I still remember him as my little baby, so sweet. Sweet still just not so little.
So what's happening now... I'm doing aerobics twice a week at church with our fabuloso instructor Marquesas, she kicks our rears, mine needs it. I'm trying to keep up with the blog :) and trying to find ways for our family to eat healthier, you know how things go, but I won't give up yet! I'm working at Target as a sunglasses vendor and I enjoy getting out of the house and LOVE going to Target....drooling along the way...they have great stuff!
Cole and Laura have started gymnastics again and for the most part enjoy it. Laura was excited about being out on the big floor but now realizes that the little room was more fun and less work. She's hanging in there though. Cole doesn't like his Saturday morning cartoons interrupted for gym but when he gets there he likes it. We got the little Gator up and running and the kids love it. Laura and Hannah especially.
Hannah and I have been going to baby storytime at the library and she likes the shakers and to watch the other kids do the actions to the songs, much like Cole and Laura used to. We are a family of watchers, okay not Brandon.
Brandon's working hard and sticking with a jam packed schedule as usual. He plays racquetball ever so often and sneaks in Halo occasionally, but mainly works and takes care of us.
It's more than noteworthy that the Prophet of the Church Gordon B. Hinckley passed away on Sunday. He was a great leader and will be missed beyond measure.
More to come........maybe even before next year.
Saturday, December 8, 2007
Tis the season
to be busy! There's shopping, parties, decorating, blogging :)....
Last weekend, we had the first of at least a couple of parties for Cole's birthday. He invited three people, one boy and two girls from school. We're appreciating the short guest list while it lasts. He and Brandon planned it which made for a more simple but great party. It was nice for me to not have to do it all and I think they had fun together putting it together. Brandon is so good about that kind of stuff.
We went to the temple today with our friends the Ricks and that was nice, it was busy there, we saw Sheri Dew and Elder Russell's wife in the parking lot (that's the extent of my lds celebrity sightings). We went to Brandon's work party tonight.
I tried putting up our outdoor Christmas lights on Thursday while Daddy G. visited and babysat the kids for me...Brandon was out of town and I was hoping to surprise him. He was surprised by the mess and no lights..not exactly but he'll have some tweeking to do to say the least.
Well I'm sure there's something else more exciting I should have blogged about, but it's later and that's what's in the brain. Aren't you glad you spent your time reading this?
I hope the season settles down for us all so we can enjoy instead of just endure it.
Jennifer
Last weekend, we had the first of at least a couple of parties for Cole's birthday. He invited three people, one boy and two girls from school. We're appreciating the short guest list while it lasts. He and Brandon planned it which made for a more simple but great party. It was nice for me to not have to do it all and I think they had fun together putting it together. Brandon is so good about that kind of stuff.
We went to the temple today with our friends the Ricks and that was nice, it was busy there, we saw Sheri Dew and Elder Russell's wife in the parking lot (that's the extent of my lds celebrity sightings). We went to Brandon's work party tonight.
I tried putting up our outdoor Christmas lights on Thursday while Daddy G. visited and babysat the kids for me...Brandon was out of town and I was hoping to surprise him. He was surprised by the mess and no lights..not exactly but he'll have some tweeking to do to say the least.
Well I'm sure there's something else more exciting I should have blogged about, but it's later and that's what's in the brain. Aren't you glad you spent your time reading this?
I hope the season settles down for us all so we can enjoy instead of just endure it.
Jennifer
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