I just love my kids and the things they do. Pictures are the best.
We love lizards around here. Parker and Sarah have bent the screen in our front window and in spite of my best efforts to unbend it and keep it in place, the lizards climb between the screen and our window. If we open the window we have friends. The kids think they are awesome and I love them too. I would much rather have a lizard in my house than a cockroach.
Riley is also getting pretty mobile. It's funny to see him get into stuff and watch what the other kids do. I can't believe how big he is. He now has four teeth and two more are coming in. We had to move Sarah into the room with Parker and Kelly because he is pretty unhappy at bedtime and has learned what screaming will do (because we didn't want him to wake up Sarah). A few more nights and I think he will be over the screaming habit.
Sarah loves being in the room with Kelly and Parker. Sarah still loves Riley and is always taking care of him. She is surprisingly gentle with him unless she is mad. For her birthday she got two babies and they now go everywhere with her. It's pretty cute to see her make food for them. I just wish she wasn't so good at finding the baby wipes to change her babies. Tonight JP found the perfect description for her. She is our Tonka Princess. She loves trucks and being in the dirt but she also loves dressing up and playing with her dolls.
Parker LOVES spider man. Spider man can somehow find a place in every conversation. He is having a really hard time with the fact that he has to wait so long this month for his birthday. He's so sad it's last in the family. We are going to try to make it extra fun for the poor boy. He is also learning to play MarioKart on the Wii. He is pretty good and can beat Kelly on a few tracks and she doesn't like it. She thinks she is older and should be better at everything. Parker is expanding his vocabulary. If he doesn't know the name of what something really is he will make one up. It's pretty hilarious. We are also working on not calling names with him too. The other day he was really mad at me and yelled "You're a genius!" It's a good thing it was really funny. He still was in trouble for yelling at me. Most of the time what he calls people aren't real words. I love him.
Kelly is my sweet heart. She is very much a little mother and so wants to be a princess. There are always times we have to remind her of how a princess acts. Once we do she generally toes the line. It's a very serious goal that she wants to be a princess, a missionary and a mom. She is doing great in school. I love that she comes home and teaches us all about the things she has learned. Some of which lately has been Johnny Appleseed, Christopher Columbus and matter. She has songs for most everything she learns and loves to teach us. She has a great memory. I also love that she is not afraid to share the gospel. It gives me a good example to look to. She told her teacher all about conference.
Last night someone in our ward "booed" us and gave us Halloween treats in a bag. Tonight we passed it on. The kids loved it and each got a turn taking the treat to the door, knocking and running. The only time I went was with Sarah and we got caught! I guess I'm not very sneaky.
We hope you all are enjoying this wonderful October. Wear some warm clothes for us and drink some hot chocolate! Love you all.
(Sorry I can't find the pictures of Sarah's birthday. They must be on JP's phone. I will post them when I can find them.)
Anything is better dipped in ranch. Even if it's peanut butter and jelly.
Sarah was helping me color.
Taking care of Riley so he won't get wet while in the living room.
No words needed.
Yeah! Dad's home. He's a kid magnet.
We love lizards around here. Parker and Sarah have bent the screen in our front window and in spite of my best efforts to unbend it and keep it in place, the lizards climb between the screen and our window. If we open the window we have friends. The kids think they are awesome and I love them too. I would much rather have a lizard in my house than a cockroach.
Riley is also getting pretty mobile. It's funny to see him get into stuff and watch what the other kids do. I can't believe how big he is. He now has four teeth and two more are coming in. We had to move Sarah into the room with Parker and Kelly because he is pretty unhappy at bedtime and has learned what screaming will do (because we didn't want him to wake up Sarah). A few more nights and I think he will be over the screaming habit.
Sarah loves being in the room with Kelly and Parker. Sarah still loves Riley and is always taking care of him. She is surprisingly gentle with him unless she is mad. For her birthday she got two babies and they now go everywhere with her. It's pretty cute to see her make food for them. I just wish she wasn't so good at finding the baby wipes to change her babies. Tonight JP found the perfect description for her. She is our Tonka Princess. She loves trucks and being in the dirt but she also loves dressing up and playing with her dolls.
Parker LOVES spider man. Spider man can somehow find a place in every conversation. He is having a really hard time with the fact that he has to wait so long this month for his birthday. He's so sad it's last in the family. We are going to try to make it extra fun for the poor boy. He is also learning to play MarioKart on the Wii. He is pretty good and can beat Kelly on a few tracks and she doesn't like it. She thinks she is older and should be better at everything. Parker is expanding his vocabulary. If he doesn't know the name of what something really is he will make one up. It's pretty hilarious. We are also working on not calling names with him too. The other day he was really mad at me and yelled "You're a genius!" It's a good thing it was really funny. He still was in trouble for yelling at me. Most of the time what he calls people aren't real words. I love him.
Kelly is my sweet heart. She is very much a little mother and so wants to be a princess. There are always times we have to remind her of how a princess acts. Once we do she generally toes the line. It's a very serious goal that she wants to be a princess, a missionary and a mom. She is doing great in school. I love that she comes home and teaches us all about the things she has learned. Some of which lately has been Johnny Appleseed, Christopher Columbus and matter. She has songs for most everything she learns and loves to teach us. She has a great memory. I also love that she is not afraid to share the gospel. It gives me a good example to look to. She told her teacher all about conference.
Last night someone in our ward "booed" us and gave us Halloween treats in a bag. Tonight we passed it on. The kids loved it and each got a turn taking the treat to the door, knocking and running. The only time I went was with Sarah and we got caught! I guess I'm not very sneaky.
We hope you all are enjoying this wonderful October. Wear some warm clothes for us and drink some hot chocolate! Love you all.
(Sorry I can't find the pictures of Sarah's birthday. They must be on JP's phone. I will post them when I can find them.)
