So ever since my last post, the one where I accepted that my life was crazy, I have had a ridiculous time with my children and have not felt like blogging. So here's the last few weeks:
Easter...we joined the Warby clan and attended their annual easter egg hunt in Parowan. It was tons of fun. Here are the kids, minus Grant who was asleep in the house, and the daddies.
Easter Sunday we hung out at home and the boys dyed eggs. We had hung out with our friends Friday and most of Sat so we didn't dye eggs until Sunday. I only boiled 6 eggs and I am glad I did. This is a classic example of the craziness of boys. Within 1 minute of finishing, they SMASHED all 6 eggs. If you look carefully, you can see 4 in the carton still and one on each side of the carton...the beginning of the murders of half a dozen Easter eggs. So sad.
I got the high chair out for Grant so that he would feel like a big boy and eat. He doesn't like solid foods. He gags himself, and after about 5 bites he doesn't open his month and tries to hit the spoon away. Yes, he is only months old, but he's a crazy boy too.
Grant started sitting up. I love it. This is my favorite stage: sitting up but not crawling yet. I am scared for the crawling this time because we have 3 floors. There will be lots of gate action in a few months.
I have been spending a lot of time in the back yard leveling out the dirt. Here's Ryan with my gloves. He loves gloves.
Leksi Warby turned 2 on May 2nd so we went to here party. My boys always think they need to help open other people's presents. She was SO cute and excited about her gifts.
Also on the 2nd, a bunch of my family was in town. RJ and Rachel drove out from Kansas with their 5 kids and Dane and Ang came from California. They came so that Pop, my grandpa, could meet their babies: Rex and Parker. Luckily for me, Pop lives in St. George so I got to see them too! And mom came up from Vegas. It was a lovely afternoon.
Here's Ryan with baby Rex. Ever since Rex was born, Ryan has been asking when he would see
baby Rex and so I had to have a picture of them.
Last, but not least...TA DA...we got sod yesterday. It's beautiful and it makes me feel HAPPY! We have more work to do to get it looking how we'd like, but one thing at a time. Yesterday it was sod...the next step is a lawnmower. HEHE.
Oh yeah, Silas finished this semester on May 1st. HURRAY! We have 3 weeks til he starts summer school.
CUTE, huh? Silas has always wanted an old bug and now we have to. They are both 1971 Super Beetles and Silas is planning on fixing Gordon up. We found them both on Craig's list; one was in Mesquite and the other in Enoch.
I have been pretty reluctant to potty train Ryan because he has a very strong well and I have very little patience. LUCKILY, I have a fabulous friend named DERUCHETTE who let me crash her house last Tuesday for Opening Ceremonies of Potty Time. It was so great because Cleod had someone to play with, Deruchette held Grant whenever he was tired, and I got to focus on Ryan. He sat on the toilet every 10 minutes until 3pm! Seriously, it was stressful. When he finally peed the lightbulb went on and he has had only about 5 accidents in 7 days. Today and yesterday we accident free and he's been dry every morning but one. He is really great at telling me when he needs to go so I don't have to remind him anymore! He's amazing. Oh, the photo is Ryan with his tiny ice cream cone. He and Cleod get one when he poops in the toilet. It's crazy exciting at our house!
So then we put it in the back and filled it with topsoil and compost. (The cinder blocks are blocking our neighbors dog from digging under the fence. Seriously.) Next year we are going to make another box where the cinder blocks are and I am going to try to grow raspberries and or grapes.
There's a great place called Ladybug Nursery here in Cedar near the SUU farm. Cleod and I went on a little date to purchase our plants. We got regular tomato plants and 6 grape tomato plants, a green pepper plant, 6 mixed pepper plants, 2 strawberries, 1 pumpkin and some red onions. We'll see how it goes...
Sunday, Mother's Day, was good. Grant was sick though, so I stayed home from church to be with him. It was very mother-ish.
Here's Silas with each of his 3 boys at Elephant Encounter.
Yesterday, all of us minus Andy who was working, went to Thanksgiving Point. Silas took Cleod to the Museum of Ancient Life (pictures below) while Kizzie and I took the little boys to Farm Country, which is like a mini zoo. I really enjoyed it and Silas was almost more excited than Cleod about the dinosaur museum.
Easter Sunday we hung out at home and the boys dyed eggs. We had hung out with our friends Friday and most of Sat so we didn't dye eggs until Sunday. I only boiled 6 eggs and I am glad I did. This is a classic example of the craziness of boys. Within 1 minute of finishing, they SMASHED all 6 eggs. If you look carefully, you can see 4 in the carton still and one on each side of the carton...the beginning of the murders of half a dozen Easter eggs. So sad.
I got the high chair out for Grant so that he would feel like a big boy and eat. He doesn't like solid foods. He gags himself, and after about 5 bites he doesn't open his month and tries to hit the spoon away. Yes, he is only months old, but he's a crazy boy too.
Grant started sitting up. I love it. This is my favorite stage: sitting up but not crawling yet. I am scared for the crawling this time because we have 3 floors. There will be lots of gate action in a few months.
I have been spending a lot of time in the back yard leveling out the dirt. Here's Ryan with my gloves. He loves gloves.
Leksi Warby turned 2 on May 2nd so we went to here party. My boys always think they need to help open other people's presents. She was SO cute and excited about her gifts.
Also on the 2nd, a bunch of my family was in town. RJ and Rachel drove out from Kansas with their 5 kids and Dane and Ang came from California. They came so that Pop, my grandpa, could meet their babies: Rex and Parker. Luckily for me, Pop lives in St. George so I got to see them too! And mom came up from Vegas. It was a lovely afternoon.
Last, but not least...TA DA...we got sod yesterday. It's beautiful and it makes me feel HAPPY! We have more work to do to get it looking how we'd like, but one thing at a time. Yesterday it was sod...the next step is a lawnmower. HEHE.
