Wisdom of Children

Lydia's birthday was a few weeks ago, and since then she's been saying, "Im growed up cuz it was my birthday last year."
(6-2-11)

Lucy saw some garbage on the ground and said, "Mom! Someone left paper on the ground. Now it's glitter." (litter)
(6-6-11)

We were outside and the girls were doing sidewalk chalk. Lucy started narrating the story she was drawing. "Our story begins in Space, where Earth is being attacked by giant lemonade!"
(6-7-11)

Lucy's prayers one night: "And we're thankful for the grateful world and all the things in the world."
(8-16-11)

Lydia had her little elephant stuffed animal up in her ear making chewing noises. I asked her what she was doing and she said her elephant was eating beans out of her ear. I asked her why she had beans in her ear. She said "Sometimes I just have little beans in my ear and elephant likes to eat them." (kids are so random...)
(9-19-11)

We were playing I Spy in the car the other day and Lydia's still been learning how to give clues with out saying what it is. She finally got one right and I said "good job!" In a very proud voice she said, "Your pleasure!" 
(9-25-11)

Lydia got into some big trouble the other night at bed time and was put in her room with the door shut. She was really mad about all of it and felt she needed to vocalise it.  Loudly. "Mom and dad are so mean! I'm so MAD at mom and dad. They are going to live with another family. And Lucy will go live with strangers, but I'll live with the Mangum's (our neighbor that they play with) cuz they have lots more toys than us. But I can't live there cuz they don't yell and I just YELL! that's just what I DO!" It went on and on. She said some pretty funny stuff for a 3 year old.  (can't wait till she's 13...)
(9-28-11)

Lydia was supposed to be in her room for a time out, but I let her out to go to the bathroom. When I came back to put her back in her room, I catch her running (as fast as possible), bare bummed, pants around her ankles, back to her room with the tube of toothpaste "hidden" in her shirt. She was so set on sneaking the toothpaste she forgot to pull up her pants I guess...Last time she got the toothpaste I found it the next morning all squished out between her pillow and her bed sheet. She's been sneaking things out of the bathroom and my bedroom like my chapstick (which was half eaten when found), money from Mike's drawer, cell phones, our Itouch, my scriptures (missing for 2 weeks)...If something's missing Lydia probably hid it under the couch or the nearest bed.  Mike's mom was missing her cell phone after our last visit. When she called it, she found it under her bed, courtesy of Lydia, I'm sure...
(9-28-11)

Remember this project...

Man was it a beast!

I picked this baby up at the DI for $20, not sure what I was going to do with it, but I finally got to work on it this summer. It's actually not completely done, but it's done enough for now. The inside still smells like 100 year old cat pee even though I spent hours and hours stripping it down to the bare wood and trying to de-smell it.  Thankfully when it's closed, there's no smell. That will be a project for when I don't have a giant gut and it's not 100 degrees outside.

BUT...

The outside fixed up really good!

Now it's in the baby's room.

4 1/2 weeks to go...

If all goes well, I've got a little more than 4 weeks to go. I have all my projects done already...I think...It's going to be a LONG 4 weeks for me.
The baby's room is ready! Here's some pictures:

Ahh...see that giant Lay-Z-Boy in the corner...that is the most comfortable chair in the world! Perfect for 2:00 am feeding/sleeping in. As much as I'm dreading sleepless nights, I'm looking forward to them in that chair.

This is the super cute quilt my mom, sister, and grandma helped me make. I LOVE it! 

I had to make bumpers for the upper rails of the crib, not for safety or comfort for the baby, but because my little destructo child, Lydia, chewed the wood all to crap, like splintered chunks taken out, unrepairable. So, I decided to just hide it with some stylish bumpers.

And my funny looking dragon that I bought 3 years ago hoping someday a little boy could play with it. 

Well...wish me luck and extra sleep for the next 4 weeks!

Just some silly girls...

Here is a video.

Swim Lessons 2011

Lucy was all about dunking herself...

Lydia was all about splashing her teacher.

They had a blast and both "passed" their levels.



Heber Valley Camp and the Big Swing

This is Lucy all ready for the big swing. They sit them on this swing and then a couple people pull her up and she lets go of a rope when she's ready to swing. This thing goes really high and I told Mike to just go up part way, but he insisted that she could handle it and pulled her all the way up. You can see from the video that it didn't go well... Click here to see.

Here is Lydia all ready for the swing. After Lucy's incident, they decided to just swing Lydia between the missionaries for a while. It wasn't as exciting, but she loved it anyway. Click here for her video.

Happy 4th!

Watching the parade with cousin Anna!

Click  here and here for some awesome dance moves!

Our first trip to Lagoon!

First off, the Merry-go-round. Yee haw.

(Notice Mike upon his noble steed. He he he!)

Then the shooter planes.

I think Lydia looks like Princess Leah in this picture. The buns, the gun.

Then the majorly exciting water boats!

The best was the water fountain. They kept on wanting to go back to those!

Bumper Cars...

It was hot, I was pregnant (and only got to go on like 2 rides), but it was actually really fun! The girls had a blast and it was fun to go all as a family.

Sports Camp

Our city did this little sports camp, and I thought the girls would love it. They got to play different sports and games. They were pretty funny to watch. I think they probably spent more time picking dandelions than they did doing actual sports, but it was still fun!

Football

 T-ball

 Soccer

 Basketball

 Parachute time

And don't forget...

Picking flowers

 (Lucy was probably the worst.)

See, she's spotted the dandelion!

My Tulips!

When we moved in last fall my mom gave us a big bag of tulips. I planted them and they looked SO cute this spring!

But sadly, they are done blooming. The last big wind storm blew all the petals off in one night. This is the last tulip from the yard...We decided to enjoy it in the house for a while (because Lucy picked it, for me...)

Thanks mom! They were great and will be again next year!