I just walked into the living room and found a whole box of wipes discarded all over the floor.
I asked Curtis. “Do you know who made this mess”. While wagging his finger he said, “It was baby. How many times I had to tell her not to do it”.
It made me smile. I must say to him often “How many times do I have to tell you not to do that”.
Curtis is really trying to repeat all the phrases we often say to him. It is really fun to see how he interprets what we say to him.
We love him to pieces!
I took these pictures of Alessia about a month ago. They are of her feeding her lunch to her bear. He ate about as much of it as she did.
when you have sand volleyball courts nearby?
The kids and I have been exercising early in the mornings. I either walk or bike them 3 miles (round trip) to a park near the house. Some days they want to play at the park but most days they want to play in the sand.
Otterpops and Watermelon!
Today was chaos at church. All the primary kids were on something. They were all wired. You add in a miserable headache and it just made everything ten times worse.
Two of my kids fell asleep in sacrament meeting and so they went home early. That left one. He was hyper. Then they added a visitor to my class when technically he was a year older. He was good just loved to talk.
The primary presidency fed all the kids ice cream. Some kids got cookies for filling out a questionnaire and some got prizes and treats for reading the friend. Can you say Sugar overload?
Maybe if they shared some of that sugar with me it wouldn’t helped me feel better about all the chaos.
The kids sang so loud (and didn’t know any of the words) I had to plug my ears. I could still hear them loud and clear (well as clear as you hear mumbled made up words).
Then to top it all off Alessia had a major blow out in nursery. They couldn’t find John so they came and got me. I found John and he opted to clean up a messy baby rather than the messy floor. Luckily for me when I got to nursery someone else was in the process of cleaning up and being the super nice lady that she is refused my offers of helping to clean up my daughter’s mess.
I thought I fed her too much apple juice but no after church John and I got whatever Alessia has. Good thing tomorrow is a holiday. We are all going to need the extra day to recuperate from church, ya know the place where you go to find peace and contentment. I guess there is always next week.
Saturday was “lets give service to the Lynn family day”. Unofficially of course. But so many people just did random acts of kindness. Curtis later asked, “why do people do nice things for people”?
Our neighbors mowed our lawn, edged it and then cleaned up all the clippings. Usually we borrow their mower to do our lawn but yesterday their mower wasn’t working and so they borrowed someone else’s and were nice enough to mow our lawn after they finished with their own.
Another family we love let John watch the BYU game at their house (since they have direct tv and we don’t). They than came over with Pizza for dinner afterwards. It was so nice to not have to cook dinner and to have great company over. It was a perfect end to a good day.
I think now that we are thinking seriously about moving that I see things in a different perspective. The dying need to get out of Las Vegas is lessened because I think of all the great people I do know here and the wonderful things they give me and my family. We really will miss this place when we move.
Now stop reading this blog and go do something nice for someone. It will brighten their day.
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Both our kids refused to suck on Binkies. They preferred their thumbs. (and miraculously both gave up thumb sucking on their own around one years old).
When we had Alessia Aunt Janeen gave us so great Binkies with Alessia’s name on them. And then there was my all time favorite, “Mute Button”. I was so sad that I didn’t get to use it that often.
Well, fast forward 18 months and Alessia has fallen in love with Binkies. She finds one and in her mouth it goes. Here are a few cute pictures of our new binkie lover.
Oh and don’t worry Mr. Dentist she doesn’t use them for extended periods of time.
So technically Alessia is no longer a baby but we still call her such. If we do have another baby we will have to actually call Alessia by her name instead of baby. That is pretty much what she refered to around here. And I don’t think I am biased in any way when I say she is beautiful.
The second Sunday she went to Nursery I was able to get her to sit still long enough to get a picture of her. (Notice I bribed her with a slice of bread). My baby is getting be so grown up and oh so opinionated. We love her so much!
PS we are trying a new picture upload thingy so to see the pictures bigger just click (and her head isn’t cut off in the bigger pictures).
This is for you Wynne.
So we want to move. We just need to find the right place to move, er more like the right job that would take us to the right place.
John flies out to S. Carolina next weekend for a job interview there. It looks good, it is something we are considering but aren’t totally set on yet.
Our rental lease is up at the end of September and so it would be nice to have a new job and place to call home before we say adieu to where we are at now.
Any more questions?
We are back. Home that is. We spent a week and a half in Utah. I am to lazy to count how many times we have been to Utah just this summer but I do know it has been a lot. We were half way home and Curtis asked me when we were going to go back. No plans to return in the near future though. I plan on staying put for awhile. At least until we move (that is if we do move).
This last trip I didn’t take pictures. My batteries were dead and it was just so nice not to lug the camera around and not have to worry about taking pics. However, my SIL Natalie did take some pics of my whole fam for me and once I get those I will post those.
The reason for this trip was my sister Shannon had a new baby. A little (he looks so tiny) boy. Her first boy. My parents flew in, Nicole and her two girls flew in, and the kids and I flew in. My parents crashed with Shannon and Nicole, Myself and our kids crashed at Janeen’s.
John’s grandma was nice enough to lend me her car (thanks a ton!) and so we were all able to go do lots of things.
So here is what we did. Drumroll please……
-X’s baby blessing plus lunch and dinner at Shannon’s. The sandwiches were divine and so was the dessert. The company was great too.
-Swimming at the rec center near Janeen’s house. Cool slides, a huge bucket that drops water on your head, diving off the high dive (almost having a heart attack doing it. It reminded me of bridge jumping in college).
-Good Food. Not enough exercise. Yet only gained 2 pounds. It was worth it!
-VanDenBerghe Olympic Games. Lots of made up games and races with medals for the winners and even a pinata. Plus an attempt at a family picture but 10 kids under the age of 5 makes it nearly impossible.
-Dinner with my In laws. Playing outside with more cousins. And gaining a new member to the family. John’s brother Chris and his family welcomed a new baby girl, Ruby this week. I saw her briefly and she was adorable. Why do other people’s newborns look so tiny? I swear my kids were never that small.
-Whining, complaining, tattling, crying mixed with laughter and fun.
-Lagoon. Rides galore, good corn on the cob, kids smiles and tears.
-Chuck E. Cheese where a kid can be a kid. Celebrated Allie’s 3rd Birthday. Cupcakes, pizza, games.
-Ikea without kids.
-Poppy pants (lucky for me my kids did it while my dad watched them) and soiled undies (too many kids potty training).
-More swimming and a Stake Party. Nothing like having a family reunion at your stake party. Free food and free bouncy houses.
-Church. Confusing Janeen’s whole ward. (I am her twin).
-Walk around Temple Square in the hot sun.
-Shopping. Too many things I wanted.
-Looking for a stroller since mine got ran over on the last morning there. DI is the place to go. I got a single jogger stroller for $12. Score!
-Flying home. Only an hour flight. So bearable.
-Finally seeing John and being all together again.
Ahh, vacations are nice but they sure wear you down. We had lots of fun. Thanks everyone for the fun times.
