Seven for Sunday

1. Happy Father's Day!  Ours included sleeping in (until 7:30 ish--quite an anomaly at our house, especially on Sunday!), wonderful church services, yummy french dip sandwiches, cherry pie, playing trains, enjoying a nice cool house, and phone calls to dads.  Hope yours was great, too!

2. Cutting concrete is something we hope to never have to do again.  It's hard!

3.  We discovered this set of DVDs called Liberty's Kids.  It's set of 40 animated episodes about the American Revolution especially for kids.  My boys love it, even if they don't quite grasp it all.  I like it because it teaches about the revolution from start to finish.  Walter Cronkite, Dustin Hoffman, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Billy Crystal, and Whoopi Goldberg are some of the voices.  They are also on youtube.

4. My boys were yelling the words to "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom" at the top of their lungs today. Except Mckay says, "Chicken boom boom," which is funny all by itself.  I'm wondering if they'll have voices tomorrow.  :)

5. We discovered we have 2 nightshade plants in our yard after reading a KSL article about how poisonous it is.  It has these beautiful small purple flowers--you'd never guess it was a toxic weed!  But it's gone now.

6. This summer is going way too fast.  I love summer! Morning walks just for fun, park play dates, swimming, watching Camden read a book all day long, spraying boys with the hose/sprinklers in the back yard, playing in the basement when it's too hot, friends, short sleeves and flip flops, watermelon, lots of yummy fruit...I could go on and on!

7. I have about 10 weeks until this baby boy comes.  The right name is elusive.

Mr. Magoo is 2!

Mckay spent his birthday throwing up and staying home from church.  Sad day!  We did watch a movie in the afternoon, but he generally felt pretty awful.

Here's a little about Mckay:

~He hates being undressed.  HATES it!  He just begs for, "new shuht on me!" until he's dressed again.  When he had his 2 year check up, the taking his clothes off so the doctor could check him out was WAY worse than his shot.  Silly boy!

~He loves his Daddy.  A LOT.  In the morning, he either wakes up to eat bekast (breakfast) with Daddy, or he comes and snuggles in bed with me and insists on laying on Daddy's pillow.  Many times through the day, he'll say, "Daddy home soon. Daddy home soon."

~He can say just about whatever he wants.  He certainly can repeat anything we say to him, and he is eager to express himself.  Personally, I love love love it.  He often says, "thanks, mommy" or other sweet things.  He also loves to copy his older brothers.  Their favorite phrase right now is "Ooh -la-la, hi-ya!" complete with karate chop.

He is a charmer.  He is so sweet about it, but he is a little charmer!  It just melts me most of the time.  And I love it!  He has a good sense of humor (for a 2 year old), and tells us we're funny.  "Mommy bunny.  Daddy bunny."

He loves dirt, mud, shovels, digging.

He climbs really well--best to keep ladders to the roof under strict supervision!

He has some awesome dancer and loves his dance music.

He has some awesome facial expressions and practices sad, happy, angry, and (his current favorite) surprised faces.  Happy and surprised are definitely favored over sad and angry, which only last for a second or two before he starts giggling.

Brian says:

He's goofy.

He likes to help people feel better.


Pictures coming...

Nate the Great is 4!

Ok, actually, he doesn't usually like being called Nate the Great.

Nate is sweet, stubborn, sensitive, artistic, mathematical, musical, sparkly-eyed, mischievous, and so many other things I can't write them all!  He can be so super sweet and ask me to tell him how he can be a helper.  Or he can run and hide at a request to do a simple task.  Or sob and sob because his two pieces of toast are open face instead of sandwiched together, when he didn't say he wanted them sandwich style.  He's in this stage where he really is still a little boy, but crossing into older boy world, too.  I think that's hard for him sometimes.  Or maybe what is true is that it is hard for me.  I want to expect him to be older, but he really is still getting there. 

Anyway, for his birthday, we went to the Museum of Natural Curiosity with my brother, David.  That may be Nate's favorite place!  It was super busy, but still really fun for the boys.  We were way too busy keeping our eyes on the boys to stop and take pictures.  I definitely would recommend one adult for every kid under 5! 

He's pretty proud of himself for being 4!

Here are some pictures of Nate in Tball season.  We had a team of kids from our neighborhood, and it was super fun! 

Getting ready to catch.  Since this was a preschool/kindergarten division, there were no outs and everyone got turns to hit/catch.  When our team was in the field, one kid would be on first, one on third, and everyone else stood in the line in the middle to catch and throw to either first or third when the other team's batter hit the ball.  Brian spent his time on the field helping everyone know what to do.  My job was to attempt to keep Mckay off the field and away from "Daaaadddddyyyy!"

 My favorite!

UPDATE:  Just came in--3 pictures Brian took at the Museum!  Woohoo!