Do you ever...

Do you ever feel less like making dinner than when you tell your son you're making yummy dinner, he gets all excited and says "Oh! Are you making Top Ramen?"

Little snippets

Wow, all the sudden it's been about two weeks since I wrote last...who said that summer days were lazy? Maybe hazy (it hasn't stopped raining for awhile, hurrah!) and definately crazy. Here's some snippets of what's going on:

Caleb has had two family birthday parties, he thinks five is GREAT! The first one my mom and sister Nicki were here and he came away with tractors, remote control car (his first, he was amazed), some other stuff and his favorite thing: a flashlight. I think Nicki has it right, with little boys you can't go wrong with a flashlight. Then we got together with Farris' family and had a combo party with Tennessee, his cousin that was born eight days after Caleb. Lucky boy got a tractor (can he have too many tractors? No way!), glow in the dark stars and a combo batman/superman cape. He now bounces off of everything so he can fly. OK, he has always bounced, but now he knows why he does it.

Memorial day weekend we went to a little amusment park not far away. They have a small roller coaster, Joseph and Felicity loved it. Sheesh, they did not get their daredevil-ness from me. The white roller coaster at Lagoon used to scare me to death, I can't imagine going on it when I was only two. He would kind of gasp and grab hold of me when we went around the curves fast, but he didn't cry and then he wanted to do it again with Farris. Anyway, they had a blast.

Yum, we're starting to get strawberries off the plants we got from Judy last year. Or maybe I should say the kids are getting berries. They love digging around for them, and not many make it to the house. We're still trying to convince Joseph not to eat the white ones. At least he's not eating dirt like last summer. I guess white strawberries taste better.

The rest of our garden is growing, loving the rain and cooler weather. But it wil be nice when the hot weather hits so the tomatoes decide to grow. Yum, fresh tomatoes right off the vine! We're still lawn-less (?) in the back, some day my kids will have grass stains on their knees instead of clouds of dirt following them. I hope.

Seth is eight months now, and he likes to scoot around backwards. He's ended up in strange places: caught in doorways, in the bathroom, under the piano bench. Right now, he was heading for the coat closet, made a hair-pin turn and is now on his way to the kitchen. It helps that we don't have carpet in here. But I don't know what I'm going to do when he starts crawling forward.

Felicity is enjoying her time off from school, but she's loving the summer reading program at the library. hee best friend moved into town, but she still is our social butterfly and is always playing with friends. She's started using the word "Ginormous." I don't even know if I'm spelling it right.

Yesterday was the Child Family reunion. We went to the Splash Pad in Ogden. Once you find it, it's rather fun. The rain held off for just enough time for the kids to run around in the spray. They loved running around with their cousins. Then we went to Cindi and Scott's to play Pictionary. If you think Pictionary is boring, try it with this family.

Our family is getting ready for our David and Colleen Newey Family reunion, we've started going to Huntsville, where my dad grew up, for the 4th of July. This year, we are going to do the fun run, Farris the 10k and me the 5k. I can do it, right? I figure I can always walk it if I have to. Farris is training great, he's been doing 6-8 miles a day, two or three times a week. Good job, hon! He just might finish the 10k before I finish the 5k.

And last of all, a Joseph story. This morning we were doing the Sunday Morning Run-Around, and I couldn't find Joseph any where. I even looked outside, but it was pouring (which actually, he loves). We looked and looked for about ten minutes. Finally, I looked under his bed. He was fast asleep right up against the wall. We didn't have a Great Shoe Hunt (you all know what I'm talking about) this morning, miracuously, so it was like we had to hunt for something, and Joseph volunteered himself.

The Mormon Channel

Maybe I'm behind and everybody already knows about this, but I found it tonight and I thought it was perfect! The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints has an official radio station. You can listen on HD radios, on-line, or on pod-casts. You can even put it on your facebook page. I took the link from lds.org or here's the address: http://radio.lds.org/eng/
From what I saw it's mostly talk radio, with even a series for scripture stories for kids that goes along with the scripture readers. There's even a series on creativity, from that great talk by Pres. Uchtdorf. And it's hosted by one of my favorite LDS musicians, Nancy Hansen. I've been looking for a radio station that I can be comfortable with, (no screaming or rude people, no swear words, no 'N sync or other boy bands...I know some of you guys like them, but they are a thorn in my side) so I'm very excited about this.

In unrelated news, Caleb and Joseph decided that our rhubarb needed to be harvested (Caleb's words when I told him NO MORE "But Mom, we need to harvest it for the winter!"). So the kids filled my counter with rhubarb while I was cleaning the bathroom today, then told me they had a suprise. Yup, Suprise, Mom! You can't see your counter anymore! So at this moment Farris and Caleb are cleaning the rhubarb and if anyone around here wants some, come get it. I only use it for pies, and I dont want to make a pie right now. And we've already got a lot in the freezer. So if any one wants some, please come take it off my hands. Think "Strawberry Rhuarb Pie, yum..."

And funny Caleb story, then I'll go help unload rhubarb, the other day Caleb and Joseph were playing with blocks and as Caleb made some amazing stack he turned to Joseph and me, very seriously, "Now this is hard, so don't try it at home, ok?"

Happy Birthday Caleb!

I can't believe it was five years ago that we dropped Felicity off with some friends in the middle of the night and hot footed it to the nearest hospital...even though it wasn't the one we were supposed to go to! The staff at the Chinle Hospital on the Navajo Reservation was wonderful at welcoming our suprise rez baby. Now Caleb is such a goofy, smiley, giggly, happy, determined, smart kiddo. We love him so much!

Happy May Day!

Caleb is stuck on April Fools Day. The other day he asked me what day it was, when I told him he yelled "Happy May day!" This was after a bout of "Mom! There's a spider behind you!" He did this continually for about five minutes. I finally told him, "Oh, good, the gorilla behind you can eat it." His eyes got really big. He couldn't quite tell if I was teasing or not so he slowly turned around...and started giggling more. Then his May Day jokes started having gorillas and spiders in them. It's a good thing his giggles are so cute, he makes me laugh just by watching his eyes crinkle up. I just hope his sense of humor grows as fast as his skinny little legs.

Weekend, gardening, and Felicity's plans to get rich

I'm running a little behind on my blogging, we've been gardening alot this week, I'm having a blast playing in the dirt! Right now I'm cleaning up our strawberry patch, yum juicy strawberries this summer. I love having a yard to play in.
We spent the weekend in Idaho with family, very much fun. On Friday night we went bowling with Farris' siblings and in-laws (except for Geri, you'll have to come next time!). 'Kay, bowling, actually any kind of game, with this family is always...different! We laugh a lot. The rules we played by (thanks, Stacey) were: 1. For every gutter ball, you had to roll your pant leg up. 2. For each pin left standing you have to do a push-up. Yeah, it's been like ten years since I went bowling. Ouch! It's a good thing I've been doing Cindy Crawford's video, thank you Julie. And I didn't count exactly right a few times. Maybe more than a few times...and afterwards we went to Dairy Queen to eat up all those calories we just lost, and probably then some. I think the next time Farris goes golfing I'm going to tell him he has to do a push-up for each stroke over par. Well, he could do that. Maybe roll up his pant leg? On Saturday we went to Jump To It, one of those places with inflatable bounce houses and slides. The funniest was sticking the kids in velcro clothes and then onto the wall. Felicity giggled and giggled. Sunday was baby Rachel's blessing. She is such a pretty little girl. Tasha, you did good. And it was even raining in my home town, hurrah for that, it doesn't happen near enough. We also celebrated Judy and Kelan's birthdays. Happy birthday to you both! We ended up spending an extra night in Burley so Farris could visit with his grandparents, they are two amazing, wonderful people. I'm so glad I can claim them as my grandparents.
The kids are always funny, but this idea of Felicty's made me laugh pretty good. She came up to me the other day with a big paper with a song written on it and her piggy bank. Her plan? To stand on the street and sing so people could drop money into her bank. Pretty ingenious, I thought.
Caleb was mad at Farris yesterday (and today, too, actually) because Farris dug up Caleb's weed garden. Yes, my little boy is excited to be growing things and weeds do grow the best and easiest. Maybe Farris really owes Caleb a goldfish now.
Joseph...what can I say? He's so crazy, he makes me laugh all day long. And sometimes get close to cursing...He crawled into Seth's carseat the other day and fell asleep. Yesterday he fell asleep on the kitchen counter. Maybe he needs to start sleeping in past 6:30 every morning.
Seth hit his seventh month mark. After watching his cousin Parker zooming around by rolling from place to place, he is inspired and is now rolling around, too. He's trying to get his little knees under him now, but I'm hoping he doesn't crawl for a little longer.
Now, I made this really long blog so you could enjoy my music while you read...hee-hee. Any more suggestions?

Conversations with Joseph

In the last half an hour I had two conversations with Joseph that I just have to share...
1.
(I was hanging clothes in our closet)
"These are mine." Joseph points to a pile of hangers.
"Actually, they're mine." I said.
"Actually, they're my clothes." He replied.
"We don't wear hangers." I said, laughing.
He looked up at me and said "I do." (with kind of a "sheesh, mom, don't be silly" look)

2.
I was talking to Joseph who was sitting on the side of the bed. I looked away for a second, and then he wasn't there anymore.
"Joseph, did you just fall off the bed?"
Silence. The top of a head appears just over the edge of the bed.
"Yup."

I know these aren't really important conversations, but this is just a small smackeral (yes, we've been watching Winnie the Pooh a lot lately) of what I am around every day. It's kind of funny.