Pajama Party

It was Thursday... the night that dad works at the temple, and so we decided to have a little bit of our own fun while he was gone. It can usually be a long day and we're all done for by the end of it. This night I decided we would do something different and sent the girls to bed on a happy fun note. I declared to them after dinner that we were going to have a pajama party. Of course I had to explain what a pajama party was, but you should have seen the excited looks on their faces, all smiles and couldn't contain their excitement. So after all of us threw on our pajamas, grabbed our pillows and blankets and settled down for some fun. We painted our finger and toe nails, had some pudding for a treat, laughed and giggled, and read some books. The best part was the next morning when they saw Beau. Savannah said "guess what dad, we had a pajama party!" "You did?!" "Yep!" He looked over at Mirian and asked her "Merlin did you have a pajama part last night." Her eyes got huge and she stared him down with this look that said "you better believe it!" and said "Yep" so matter of factly. It was hilarious the way she said it. So here's to a night of fun.

Come To Dinner!

Right before dinner Beau was telling Savannah that she should be given an award for acting and being a queen of drama. What? She would say and laugh.. not quite getting what he meant... but when we called for dinner this is how she arrived. Princess dress, gloves, scarf, and then winter hat... and informing us that she was using her fork to comb her hair like Ariel. She just makes us laugh. Just in the course of one hour, she was a princess, a scout (hence the scarf) which was originally over her mouth and nose. It later moved to her head so she could be Red Riding Hood. Now who is this at the dinner table? I don't have the faintest idea...

A Perfect Saturday

Saturday was one of those Saturdays that you wished we would have more often. Stopping for a moment and enjoying it with your family. We decided to take the girls for a walk and ended up coming up with the contraption seen above. Isaac in his car seat strapped to the top handles (that's what you get when you have an enginner for the husband.) We planned on just a walk, but ended up having a scavanger hunt of cool textures along the way, and found ourselves at the park. We saw another small family shooting off a rocket which Beau was excited about. (Here he's showing Mirian but I think she missed the point.) We played on the toys while dad ran and picked us all up some lunch. It was such a beautiful day, one where we just couldn't go back inside after being cooped up all winter. After we ate our lunch at the park, we walked and picked up some icecream and then headed home 3 1/2 hours later... It was great. So relaxing and so fun to be outside and just enjoying the day with the family. We definately need to take time to do this more often.

An Interview with Savannah

Q: What's your favorite color?
A: It's pink! It's my favorite

Q: What do you like about dad?
A: I like him to play with me. He play games with me. He doesn't take me to school with him.

Q: What's your favorite thing to eat?
A: Taco's

Q: What's your favorite thing to wear?
A: This out fit I'm wearing in this picture. (I (the mom ) would have to say it's princess dresses or her ballerina outfit. But I guess I'm wrong.)

Q: Who is your best friend?
A: Lauralynn. She is my best friend. Cause she is. She likes to play with me.

Q:Where's your favorite place to go?
A: The moseum, the park, grandma and grandpa's house.

Q:What's your favorite book?
A: The lion king.

Q: What did you do today.
A: I was playing with Lauralynn (she hasn't seen lauralynn all day.)

Our Latest Family Picture

Well here we are. Our latest family snapshot. We took it the day we blessed Isacc, February 4, 2007. Isaac was 2 months old, Savannah (left) is 3 1/2 years and Mirian (right) is almost 2 years old. I can't believe how fast time goes by. They are so much fun lately, with such strong personalities.

Isaac's Blessing

What Can You Do In Less Than 10 Minutes

I don't know about you, but sometimes 10 minutes seems like hardly enough time to get anything done or accomplished. I can barely get a shower taken in 10 minutes. I can't even feed Isaac in 10 minutes. I can hardly get anything accomplishedin 10 minutes... but boy can my girls get ALOT accomplished in 10 minutes. And although they can create a disaster in 10 minutes it sure takes mom more than 10 minutes to pick it all up and put it back together again. Here's a few things my girls have been able to accomplish in less than 10 minutes. (Usually happens when mom is either in the shower, on the phone, in the bathroom or feeding baby Isaac.) Now posting these will put me up for public criticism, with thoughts of "Does this mother watch her children at all." I do, our apartment is not that big, I can sit in one room and see the other side of the house, and yet somehow, when I think I have 10 minutes I can jump in the shower because all seems calm, or sit down and feed Isaac, then I tend to be proved wrong.

1. Take off their clothes, empty out all the cupboards in the bathroom and find mom's prescription sunglasses which are definately off limits - as Mirian is demonstrating above.

2. Get into and help themselves to the bucket of sugar and eat it fist fulls at a time. Now they know this is definately off limits because when they were found out, they willingly walked themselves into their bedroom and climbed on their stools of their own free will to time out. Sitting there licking their fingers must have been completely worth sitting there in time out.

3. When the sugar bucket gets closed really tight.. then they have to find the alternative. Climb the cupboards to find the small sugar container in the cupboard for cooking and dump it all over the top of the cupboard so they can access it freely.

4. Open the fridge, get out the milk, pour them a quart size canning bottle of milk. Go back to the refrigerator and get the chocolate syrup to make themselves their own chocolate milk. I can only imagine how much syrup they thought they needed to finish the job.

5. Somehow get the childproof cap off of the Children's Multi-sympton Cold medicine and help themselves to it. Last time I saw the bottle it was about 3/4 full. After I arrived at the scene when Savannah came to tell me that Mirian had spilled the medicine on the floor, there was maybe a 1/2 teaspoon left in the jar. There was some on the floor but also on their lips. I tried to get all the information out of Savannah that I could. Did Mirian drink it? How much? Did you drink any? How much. After calling Posion control and planning for the worse that Mirian drank it all herself and drank 3/4 of the bottle, we kept a close eye on them all day and saw no side effects...makes me wonder why don't they stick to the nasty tasting medicine. At least that way the kids would never have any desire to get that red candy out and have more than what mom ever gives them.

But then I have to remember there are also those 10 minutes of great fun and good moments where you remember why being a parent is so great.

1. Seeing them share and play in the their make believe world.

2. Clean the bedroom as fast as we can before dad comes home.

3. Sit down with me and say outloud all the story books they have memorized.

4. Sit and give a sermon to her imaginary audience about Jesus, and the gospel and anything else she can remember about what she learned in church on Sunday.

5. Help mom take care of Isaac.

6. Play a good game of hide and seek with dad.

7. Run to Albertsons with dad to get an ingredient for dinner only to return with some flowers they picked out just for mom.

We'll save a few more for another day.

Waiting For Dad

One of the things I find the most joy in is watching Mirian and Savannah say goodbye to dad in the morning. They'll give him his hug and kiss and wave goodbye so he can go catch the "buss" as Mirian calls it. Then they'll sit at the window waving to him at the bus stop until it actually picks him up. They get so excited. In the winter they are there at the window once again waiting to see their dad! Mirian can sense and hear the bus without ever seeing it. As soon as she hears one she gets this excited look on her face and says "Buss!" "Daddy!" Knowing that dad is on them. I just have to keep reminding her not yet... since she hears that bus every hour on the hour.:) But now the weather is warm and Beau has decided to get into shape, we now look for him and Kirt jogging home from school. For once today was was one of those warm days, were we could actually wait for him outside. So they sit on the porch and wait, or run around. But as soon as they see their "Daddy!" they are off... to get their hug and kiss.