Sorry for so many posts in one day...

My hubbie says I need to start a support group for blogger addiction, or maybe for their poor lonely husbands... Ha Ha! Anyone else in??

More "precious" moments with my children

Well to sum up this post I'll just say: I lost Squirt today, and Little Man won't ever get kidnapped, and had a timeout. I'm also going to start calling my kids booger #1 and booger #2

First, I lost Booger #2. I heard him shout my name at 6 am. Needless to say I ignored him. Then at 6:30 Little Man came in my room. I can't ignore him so I got up. When I went to get Squirt, his door was open and his bed was empty (remember he's not tall enough to open his door) Little Man said he hadn't seen him. I did a quick check and couldn't find him anywhere in the house. So I ran to the doors, the front door and door to the garage we're locked and he's too short anyway, so I ran to the arcadia door (that you all now know he CAN open) and it's locked too. It was a wierd moment. It was like okay- don't panic- he has to be in the house, but I kindof feel like panicing because I can't find him. So I did a quick check again and found him in Little Man's room playing in the closet, behind the hamper with 2 small animals. He looked up and said "Hi"- I told you he was quiet! My mother in law says he's "stealth" that fits too.

Booger #1 and I we're having a conversation the other day. He wanted to play out front with some neighbor boys who are much older than him. I was trying to explain that it's dangerous and he could get kidnapped. He finally says "Mom look, if someone stops to kidnap me I will just say 'STOP (putting up hand in Stop gesture) I already have a mom' and then they will go away and kidnap someone else" Oh is that how it works- well that's just a comfort to me to know.
As for his timeout- I'm playing the piano in primary when all of the sudden I hear someone whisper quiet forcefully "Little Man, now" and then drag my kid out of the room. Needless to say I totally screwed the song up, but I was a little distracted. When I asked him about it later, he said "Well, I was just being a little hyper" My friend Laura who is the primary president and also the one who dragged him out made me feel better, she's a teacher, and she assured me that he will survive kindergarten, although I'm still not sure- his teacher will probably kill him or me. She also said to me a few weeks back when I commented that I thought booger #1 was ADHD or something "No, I'm pretty sure he's just a 4 year old boy." Coming from her, it just made me feel so much better. So thanks Laura! Oh, I also made booger #1 go apologize to her, it was so cute to see him tug on her skirt and whisper something to her. He really is an okay kid...

New Arizona Temples

Did you guys hear about this?? Kindof exciting. This is from the church news, I couldn't get more info because I don't "subscribe."

"Two new temples: Gilbert, Gila Valley
Plans to build two new temples in Arizona, one in the Gila Valley and the other in Gilbert, were announced by President Thomas S. Monson. This will bring the total number of temples to 134 already in operation or in the planning and construction phases."

Obviously the Lord and the Prophet know what their doing, but why put a temple in Gilbert, maybe 15 min away from the one in Mesa? We here on the west side still have to drive an hour on I-10 to make matters worse. Just my thoughts. Still exciting though.

What Squirt learned this week...

We have these huge arcadia doors leading out to our backyard. It's an 8 foot window, so I guess a 4 foot door, it is very heavy, you litteraly have to put all your weight into opening it. Squirt has been working out apparently, because he can now open the door. He's not tall enough to unlock the door, so he would get a kid size chair and drag it over, unlock the door and open it. Squirt is such a quiet child that this has only broadened my search area for when I loose him! Well I removed the chairs because not only would he escape, he would let the dog in, it seemed only when he was soaking wet and muddy... anyway on to my story... last night we were all outside playing, Squirt decided to go in, so he used all his little weight, opened the door, closed it again and then LOCKED the door. I seriously heard the click of the lock from across the yard. Now, to lock the door, you just flip the switch up, which was the easy part, but as I said before he is not tall enough to flip it down, and me being the genius I am, removed the chair!! Now problem #2 was that Dora the Explorer was on, Squirt loves Boots the Monkey (Dora's sidekick for you that are toddler free) a war could go on around Squirt and as longs as Boots is on the TV, he would not notice. So Hubbie, Little Man and I are pounding on the door, yelling at Squirt, screaming to get his attention... he's standing in the middle of the room completely ingrosed in the TV. We we're plotting which window would be cheapest to replace so we could break it and get into the house, when by the grace of God a commercial came on and Squirt turned to look at us like "What are you guys doing there?" Squirt pulled and pushed and tugged and hit the window himself, but he couldn't get it open and finally I got through his little brain that he needed to try to reach the lock. The good Lord decided to choose that exact moment for my little shorty to grow an inch because he finally reached the lock and we were able to go inside. This ordeal really only lasted like maybe 3 minutes, but I was just sure he was going to kill himself or something before we could get in... And you people want me to have more kids?!?!

Anyway as a follow up to my previous post... the candy isn't working anymore. Today I put Squirt on the potty because he started to take his diaper off, but he just wouldn't go. He wanted to fill the toilet with toilet paper. So I said Come on Squirt, remember you go pee pee you get candy. He looked at me and said "I no want" and got down and walked away. I really really really want to be done buying diapers but I guess this is going to take a while.

Potty Training

I wouldn't say I'm actually "Potty Training" Squirt, but he is interested and goes 3-4 times a day on the toilet. I always give him a couple of skittles to reinforce that it was a good thing, and he is definatly so proud of himself when he goes. However, he won't tell me when he needs to go, instead just takes of his diaper. Yesterday, I came in from doing yard work and found him running around butt naked. There was a small puddle on the floor (thankfully on the wood about 2 inches from the rug) I asked him where his diaper was and he took me to the bathroom where he had put it in the garbage and then showed me the potty seat on the toilet, he had tried to sit on it but he's just not tall enough. Can you get mad when he tried to do the right thing?
Today was just flat out funny though. He went several times, a very small amount. Then in the afternoon, he took off his diaper so I took him in to the bathroom, I heard like a drop of pee hit the water and he said "Ahh duh, anny?" Translation-"All Done, Candy?" So maybe the candy thing isn't working for me? Or maybe it is, I don't know!

Awww, Life is grand again...

Why you ask? Because Desperate Housewives is back, that's why!

Some thoughts on my Squirt...

After spending a pleasant evening with his children last night, Hubbie said to me "Squirt is just the sweetest little guy, I actually find my self missing him when I'm at work..." (he went on to ask if not missing Little Man is a bad thing?!? I said no, I won't miss him either when he goes to kindergarten! ok... maybe a little) anyway back to the subject- I raised one eyebrow and turned my head slowly to glare at him, "oh yeah, he's sweet"
These are the few things he's done over the past few days that make him so "sweet" *I went in his bedroom to check on him one night before going to bed and found 2 books torn to pieces, I guess he was bored?
*He copies everything Little Man does, including the attitude... yesterday, he decided he didn't want to finish his lunch, so he threw the food across the table and got down, I said something to the effect of - get your butt back here, do you want a time out, and he turned around, glared at me, pointed his little finger, and growled a "No" at me, turned around and walked away like he owned the place. (I had to hide my laugh on this one, it was actually really cute)
*because he doesn't talk yet, the day is usually a guessing game. Today he opened the pantry door, pointed and started grunting. The conversation went like this... Do you want crackers? NOOOO cereal? NOOOOO fruit snacks? NOOOOOOO pretzels? NOOOOOO......(insert whole inventory here)....... corn? NOOOOOOOO gravy? NOOOOOOOO I give up, I pick him up and he grabs a plastic cup and then walks to the frige, where we start the game over again. Milk? NOOOOOOOO Water? NOOOOOOOO... (inventory again, even though the milk and water are the only things to drink in the cup he wanted)........... Cheese? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOo Milk? YEAH!
*and my very favorite... I love these words - "MOM! Squirt took his clothes off again..." when they come out of Little Man's mouth. this means I have to go investigate where ever he is playing to make sure he didn't pee on the carpet. Today however, he was on my bed watching a movie when this happened, my bed is too high and he's scared to get down, so you guessed - he pee'd all over my bed.

But you know what though, he is my sweet little boy alot of the time, he loves to give kisses, Little Man goes to Squirt for consolation when he's upset (it's actually so cute, Little Man will lay his head in Squirt's lap and Squirt just nods like he totally understands and pats his back) and he's a shy little guy around others and so he just wants to cuddle with me when others are around. So yeah, I guess he is just "the sweetest little guy" as Hubbie said, he just doesn't get to have as much "fun" as I do all day!

Great Book!

We started a "book club" at church, I didn't attend the meeting but thought I'd read the book because I'm always looking for a good book... The book was "Dear John" by Nicholas Sparks.(sorry the pic is kind of small) Oh my goodness, it was one of the best I've ever read! It starts out at the end basically, and John, the main guy tells what happened and why. Because I knew the end (which is the beginning, confused yet?) I cried almost through the whole dang book. If I think about it too much I will probably still cry. Little Man came running over to me thinking something was wrong and when I said that I was just crying because me book was so good, he looked at me like I'd grown horns. This book is so well written that I read it in less than a day. I think I'll try another of his books, once I recover from "Dear John" When Hubbie saw me engossed in it, he said "great, will we all be fending for oursleves for the next few days?" umm... of course!

Oh, I thought of one more thing that happened this week, I guess my week wasn't as dull as I thought... (I posted a couple things so scroll down if you're interested)
I went out into my garden a few days ago and look at what I found just "hangin around"

That is a tomato there for those of you who can't tell. ha ha j/k.

It's very cool to see all your hard work (or in my case my husbands hard work!) produce something. And I have 13 sunflowers popping out of the ground and lots of hollyhocks. I'm excited to have sunflowers because last year I planted them and they were just not meant to be... I planted them and waited patiently, then they all sprouted one day, and I went out the next day to see them and they were all gone, thanks to probably a little mouse. So I spiked my garden shed with some D-Con and planted them again, this time in little containers. Well I waited patiently again and they sprouted again. I swear the very next day I heard water running in the back yard and found Little Man making a pond in the yard and he was dumping out all my containers of sunflowers. There were all my little sprouts just floating on top of the pond. I was so mad all I could do was laugh histarically or I may have killed my boy! So sunflowers were doomed last year, but they're coming on strong this year with help from some more D-con and chicken wire!

Hubbie turned 30!

Hubbie turned 30 on April 3rd, boy... he was taking that a little hard (as was his mom because 3 of her 4 children are in their 30's) I tried to lighten the day for him. We made him a big sign and got him some balloons. We made him a cake and of course we put 30 candles on it. He said "you couldn't have just gotten the 3 and the 0?" Well No! He wanted a Deseret Boook gift card so I handed him a piece of paper that said "This certificate entitles you to anything you want at Deseret Book" I mean I wasn't going to go over there and get him a gift card with his own money! Then we went to the park and just ran around. And had a picnic. That ended up in feeding the ducks and birds, which if you know me, you know I hate any type of feathered 2 legged animal! So I stood back and watched as all 3 boys let ducks eat out of their hands.

We also went to lunch at Thee Pitts Again, it's a BBQ place here that is really good, but it was on the Food Networks "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives" this last week and we thought- We have got to go there again! Oh man, it was good.

My 3 boys at the park! Pics like this just make me smile!

Only out of the mouth of my 4 year old!

My dear brother Bryce (who hasn't updated his blog in like a month!) told me that I needed to update my blog. This has been a very uneventful week so this is all I could come up with...

I was getting dressed the other day (for obvious reason I don't let the boys in the room when I do this) I had my back to the door and Little Man walked in anyways right as I was putting on my bra. He walks over to me and pokes me in the boob and says "OHHHHH, so that thing just snaps on?" Like this was a question he had really been pondering deeply! Hubbie, who was brushing his teeth at the time, just about spit toothpaste all over the mirror!

So there you go... for those of you that know Little Man, you can just add that to the lengthy list of random things that come out of his mouth!

Reflections of Christ

Reposting this from Krista, for those of you who aren't in on our family blog.

There was a 'Reflections of Christ' photography exhibit recently on display at the Mesa Temple Visitor's Center in conjunction with the Easter Pageant produced by the Church. The photographer was given permission to photograph Pageant cast members for the exhibit. The photographer worked with a few other individuals to put together a 5 minute slide show which includes every image from the exhibit set to the hymn 'Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing.' This is truly worth 5 minutes of your time. (Exact time 5:35.)

http://mabrystudios.typepad.com/reflections_of_christ/2008/03/reflections-sli.html

Note: You can expand the screen to fit your entire computer screen for a better view by clicking on the lower right hand square icon (next to the volume).