funny/cool/scary/SPRING!

Just a couple things that have happened lately that, as a mom, I thought were pretty funny/cool/scary:
Yesterday morning when I got up I walked into the boys' room, and there was Joseph laying on the bed. He smiles and the first thing he says to me is:"I'm not going to drive a car when I'm a kid." I had two thoughts: "That must have been some dream." and "That's one worry to cross off the list."

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Felicity has been mulling over my motherish need to know where she is at all times. Then her little thinking cap came up with a solution. I hope I can describe it to you so you can understand. First she wrote out a list of possible places and hung it on her bedroom door. It says:

Felicity is in here.

Felicity is at Idaho. (in case she got there without us knowing?)

Felicity is at church.

Felicity is at school.

Felicity is outside.

Felicity is in the house.

Felicity is at her friend's house.

Felicity is with Christy and Kendrick. (there's some love, Christy =)

Then next to it she made a little contraption. She took an old tin pencil case and stuck in the wider half of a plastic Easter egg, so the rounded top was sticking out. She pinched the edges of the pencil case in a little so it grips the egg to keep it from falling out, but it can still move up and down along the length of the case. On top of the egg she drew an arrow, pointing to her list. After she taped the case onto her door, she can move the egg inside the case so it points to where ever she is at that moment. How's that for 2nd grade ingenuity? And the list of all her possibilities makes me laugh.

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Seth is loving the warm weather. He cries whenever we bring him in the house. And, the little guy has figured out how to get out the door and down the steps all by himself. From there it's a short jaunt into the street. I might not make it out of his first two years without any gray hairs. Last night I gave him a bath, dressed him in his pjs. First he made it outside and into the street without us knowing. Then I had Caleb and Joseph in the bathtub while I was running about getting things ready for bed. I kept the bathroom in hearing distance, thankfully, because I heard Caleb laughing and saying "No Seth!" I started for the door, Seth likes to reach into the tub and splash and I didn't want to have to change his pajamas. Then I heard a splash and ran in. He was headfirst in the water. My heart about stopped, but I got him out and he was soaked but fine. Scared us silly. Yup, here come the gray hairs.

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We put together a bunkbed set for Caleb and Joseph on Saturday. I'm a little nervous...but we layed down some ground rules. I'll probably have to add some (like no throwing your brother off the top), but for now they're doing fine. Caleb is so excited about his birthday. It's not until the end of May, but he's been trying to decide what kind of party/cake he wants. He's stuck with an outer space theme the last few days, that might be what it ends up being. Any ideas?

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It's finally spring time and it's been gorgeous outside the last few days. I've heard some people saying they have their gardens all planted, but I'm not that brave yet, I've lived in Utah long enough to see those snowstorms come after two weeks of warm weather! But my tulips are out, trees are blossoming, and we're taking steps to plant grass in the backyard. Hallelujah, I've been waiting seven years for a grassy backyard. We'll have a big party when it's all in. But I might not let anyone step on it for awhile. Just look. =) Happy spring everyone!

Playing Spring Catch-up

Whew! It's been busy around here, but today I'll try to do the catch-up thing.
My brother's family came for a short visit on April Fools day, which was also little Michael's third birthday! He's such a cute little stinker, Joseph and him are going to get in a lot of trouble someday, they like to build on each others ideas (I can just see: "Hey! Let's go outside!" "ok, let's climb on things." "Ok, let's climb on the roof" "ok, let's run around on the roof" "ok, let's see if who can get off first" and etc.) My mom was also able to come, too, so we had a fun family party, with ice cream of course! And even though it was a Thursday we had pizza. Felicity was little put out, she kept telling me we couldn't have pizza until Friday. Farris had to continue his April Fools day tradition. He picked up the boxed theater candy, one box for each of the kids. They excitedly tore into it and ta-da! found rocks. It wasn't quite as good as last years fish joke, but the kids were giggling. I'm pretty sure Michael tried one of the rocks to see if it tasted good. But then Farris was nice and they all got their candy. And then we were picking up rocks off the floor for awhile...The kids had spring break that next week, so we headed to Idaho on Friday, staying at my sisters house in Ogden over night. Joseph went with Robert and Tasha, bless them. We caught conference on the radio and then at Chad and Tarilynn's house (well, Seth and I slept through the second session. It's a good thing they print everything in the Ensign). On Sunday after conference -and a yummy dinner, thanks Tarilynn! --Farris headed back home for his work week and we went to my parent's house. Mom and Dad are re-doing their kitchen, which turned into also redoing their pantry...so they had to re-do the bathroom to make the pantry bigger, and since they were taking out a wall for the kitchen, they had to redo some of the living room, and if they are doing all that, they might as well do the laundry room, too. Whew! It's starting to look great, if their house was here we'd move in. With most of the kitchen cabinets, the oven, stove, and flooring gone, Felicity just looked around, gasping, "How come Grandma and Grandpa ruined their kitchen?" I love the word aghast, so expressive, and that was Felicity. We're excited to go back this summer to see all the new improvements in place. The kids had fun playing all around the house with cousins, on grandpa's gigantic swing set, with all those the books (Felicity loved this cowboy chapter book, who knew the Princess/Fairy girl would like it so much?), and with all those toys in the family room. Caleb had so much fun playing with construx! We're looking on eBay for his birthday present now. We also got to eat lunch with grandma at the school. Felicity even stayed behind one day to help grandma clean up the cafeteria. On Thursday we met Farris in Twin and headed over to his family's house. Farris' family loves to play games, usually card games (well, and the wii, too. Caleb beat the pants off everyone bowling. He got a 200!). We played Pounce. Anybody ever tried that one? I'm thinking I'm going to have some Pounce parties here so I can practice. I need to beat Cindi! Or at least Sam and Geri. Or Farris. Someone, anyway. On Sunday we headed back home. Our daffodils have bloomed and our tulips are getting tall and budding out. The roses are leafing out, and the little seedlings we started in paper cups are getting long and leggy! They need to be planted soon, if it would stop snowing here, anyway. Spring is coming and I'm lovin' it.

Sooooo, anyone want to try Pounce?