Jack says...

"Maybe on kids day you can give me a present" after talking about who gets presents on Mother's Day.

"Mom, did you know that when you were little you used to play with Jesus everyday?"

I reminded Jack that when he is asleep at night his body will wake him up if he needs to go potty so he needs to listen and walk to the bathroom if he has to go. His response: "My weenie talks to me!?!"

In the car the other day we were talking about Jack's two grandma's and he said "Mom, do you ever think we should measure my two grandma's to see who's bigger?" (which means "taller" to Jack). I'm embarrassed to admit that such a clever idea never even occurred to me.

Jack and Annie snuck the ice cream out of the freezer the other day while Paul and I were outside working on re-staining the deck. He came outside with a sneaky, proud smile on his face and ice cream dripping down his chin. We asked him if he'd been eating the ice cream when he shouldn't have been and he just said with a mischievous laugh "Diss!" Then he thought about it a moment longer and said, totally serious now, "It's not a diss, guys, I was just hungry for it."

Jack's tummy tells him lots of things, not just when he is hungry. His nightly excuse for not going to bed is "My tummy told me it's not tired yet." Same for going home from a friend's house: "My tummy told me it doesn't want to go home yet."

Jack: "Mom, I don't want to go to Benis, it's scary there."
Me: "What? What's Benis?"
Jack: "You know, Benis. It's a planet."
Me: "You mean Venus?"
Jack (totally exasperated at this point): That's what I said...Benis!"

A girlie first

We had such a perfect day today and ran around outside in short sleeved shirts and flip flops. Oh how I love the feeling of waking up to a beautiful, warm spring day after months and months of cold. It's like I can't help but walk around with a smile plastered on my face no matter what is going on.

Annie and I had a "first but definitely not last" activity today...


Okay, it's probably impossible to tell from this picture but those little piggies of her's are painted PINK! While Jack was doing his boy thing (monster trucks in the playroom, of course) Annie and I snuck upstairs to get pretty toes. Okay, I guess I should add that a couple weeks ago I tried to paint her fingernails, which totally didn't work because she kept trying to touch the paint before it dried. And Jack stumbled upon us in the middle of all this and asked if he could have his fingernails painted too. :-) I said of course, rather surprised he was interested in bright pink nail polish, and then he told me "No, I don't want that on my fingers," he only wanted blue or green nail polish. Silly me, I have no blue or green nail polish. And suddenly all nail polish interest disappeared and back he went to all his boy stuff.

And two extra pics of Annie...

A guilty flashback

Okay, so I just posted on Jack's birthday and experienced major guilt when I realized that during my "hiatus" last year I failed to post anything on Annie's birthday...I should say ANNIE'S FIRST BIRTHDAY!!! Shame on me. I took tons of pictures and put nothing up on the blog. And so, not only so she doesn't hate me later in life but also for my own memory, I thought I'd post a few pictures. We did a fun little cake smash on the back patio and I borrowed my sweet SIL Heather's camera so I actually could get some good pictures!


















I had so much fun looking back at these pictures. I can't believe how different she already looks in just another half year. Craziness. She is still just as much our little princess, though! Oh how I love this little sweetie.

Happy Birthday, Jack!

I'm a month behind but I had to put in some pictures from Jack's birthday party! We had so much fun and he had lots of friends and cousins over (I think we had 13 or 14 kids...crazy us!). As I've posted many times before, Jack is obsessed with monster trucks so of course that was the theme. I wanted to make him a monster truck cake but was a little intimidated by the whole thing, until I found some easier ideas online. What we ended up with was far from perfect but Jack was completely awed and absolutely loved it. He seriously couldn't stop looking at it, it was super cute.



Jack with his cousin Hyrum


We played pin the tail on the donkey, hullabaloo, simon says, hit a piniata, but most of all the kids just ran around like the crazy animals they are :-).

Some of the kids lining up for Hullabaloo


"Simon says, do the robot"


Me and a sad Annie. Found out that night when I finally took her to Instacare that she had a double ear infection. :-(




After pizza, it was yummy cake time


Present time is always absolutely chaotic! The kids just can't get close enough to all the opening-up action.


The day after Jack's birthday party we visited Grandma Hollingshead who gave him some sweet Rev 'n Go Monster trucks, which he still races every day.


Then we went to Grandma Webb's for a family party, where Jack got some awesome light saber's. They light up and make all the essential "light saber noises" that all of the male gender seem to love!


And a cute one of James and Annie sitting cozy


We love you SOOO much Jack and are so glad you are in our family! You are the best big brother to Annie and have such a sweet sensitive heart. Your smile and laughter light up my life every single day and I can't wait to celebrate more birthdays with you (but I wouldn't mind if this "growing up" stuff could slow down just a little!).

Easter

We had a fun little Easter egg hunt at my sister Jen's house last Sunday. This is a really lame post because I didn't take any great pics, but I had to post a few I took with my phone for Erin and Amy. Enjoy the very few that I listed below. We missed you guys and wish you were here!

Annie didn't realize for the longest time that there were actually treats in the eggs. She just kept emptying them and loading them back in the basket, counting them as she went.


James, on the other hand, seemed to have a lot more experience and dug right in to his treats!

Men are from Mars

Yesterday we ordered pizza. Today Paul ate the leftovers for dinner. Jack wanted some so I heard him say he would cut him half a slice. A few minutes later I walked into the kitchen and saw this:

This, my friends, is an empty (greasy) pizza box with office scissors sitting inside. Yes, office scissors. Upon closer inspection it became clear that these office scissors were indeed used to cut Jack's piece of pizza. And just in case you are wondering, besides office scissors we also own these:



It was indeed perplexing and confusing to me why he would go to the trouble to find office scissors when two pizza cutters and a delighfully sharp pair of kitchen shears were only one one drawer below the counter that the pizza was located on. But the uncontrollable laughter I had over the whole situation didn't occur until I mentioned all this to him and he looked at me with utter confusion that I thought it was strange that he cut the pizza with office scissors. If I could only describe his face, one of complete innocence. It was like trying to explain to Jack that maybe next time he could use the pizza cutter instead of our office scissors in that particular situation. Yes, hilarious.

And here is my adorably crazy martian man, enjoying his perfect cut piece of pizza. Yum.

Jack says...

- “Mom, what if another ghost comes and beats up the Holy Ghost?”

- As we’re getting out of the car to go to Target, Jack tells me that he just “tooted.” “Do you have to go to the bathroom?” I ask, and he tells me no. Twenty minutes later, right as we get up to the register to pay, Jack says “Toots don’t always mean that you have to go potty, mom” (checkout lady in perfect hearing distance, of course).

- Getting in the car on a warm day, Jack says “It’s freezing hot in here, mom!”

- While on the potty, Jack asks me where poop comes from. I try to explain to him that the things that we eat every day are turned into that by our bodies. He thinks about this for a second, then says in an shocked, incredulous voice “Chicken nuggets are poopy?!?”

- Me: “Great job eating such a good dinner tonight, Jack.”
Jack: “Thanks, couldn’t have done it without ya!”