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.

really quick...

As I was putting sunscreen on Caleb the other day (by the way, hurrah it's warm enough for sunscreen!) Joseph was singing "Jesus wants me for a sunburn..."

In the last couple weeks I've said two more things as a mother that I never thought I would need to say:
No shovels in the tree!
We don't put our elbows in our glasses of milk.

April catch-up

I haven't really written what we've been up to lately, so I'm going to play catch-up today, starting with April Fool's Day...

Farris loves to play jokes on people, there's some pretty good stories I could tell. This year he decided to get the kids, so he told them we had a big suprise for them as soon as they got their pj's on (which was good, they got ready for bed faster than usual). So they gathered back in the living room, all excited and Farris brought out a brown paper bag. He told them that they were going to have to take care of the suprise all by themselves, Felicity lit up, "Oh!! We're getting a pet!!!". Farris opended up the bags and pulled out three ziploc bags filled with water and...a couple swedish fish. They were so excited, they didn't even notice the fish weren't moving, so Farris took it up a notch. He asked for Felicity's bag, looked at it a sec, opened it up, reached in, and popped on of the candies into his mouth. Farris was laughing so hard he could hardly swallow.Felicity was...well, look at the picture, she was completely shocked and a little upset that her new pet was gone. Caleb's jaw dropped, but Joseph, that funny little kid, only thought about it for a sec, then opened his bag, reached in and ate his, too. It took a little longer for Felicity and Caleb to realize that the fish were just candy and then they thought it was funny. Felicity kept telling Farris that she was going to get him back. I might have to help her out one of these days. Any suggestions? And I think we owe the kids some real fish now. We'll just have to keep Joseph from eating them.

We had a good Easter, my sister Nicki came up to help decorate and hide the eggs on saturday. My mother-in-law sent us a dye kit, and we actually got through it with only one mishap when Joseph decided to race his toy tractor right through the middle of the table. Luckily, we'd just put down newspaper, so he only got a little bit of the dye on the table when his tractor collided with the dye pot. Seth slept through the dyeing and the hunt, so I took pictures of him on Monday...

He loved the daffodils, and I had to stop him from eating them a couple times. I think he thought I was a little wierd for plopping him in a basket in the middle of all these flowers and then telling him to smile over and over again, but I got some cute ones, so it's all worth it. At least for me, and he won't remember it anyway, so it's all good.

generation gaps

Today I was reminded how different my generation is from my kids. Felicity finished talking on the phone to a friend, turned to me and asked "How do I log off this thing?"