Early Morning Birthday call from Grandma
New Skateboard
Xander's Breakfast in Bed request: Strawberry crepes and bacon
Xander's Birthday Breakfast in Bed
Party at Scott and Alta's
We had a fabulous finish to the day at Scott and Alta's house for Pioneer day. Scott and Alta made us some wonderful hamburgers and grilled zucchini. Their yard is amazing...lots of huge trees and fun toys for the kids! We watched some fireworks and got to see Porter and Diana Olsen visiting from Maine. On the way home Dylan was really upset because his friend was mean to him. He didn't understand why she was mean but he said "Mom, I will be her friend even if she is mean to me"...."just like Jesus". I LOVE that kid!
We went to Red Butte Gardens for Pioneer Day today. The kids had so much fun in the Children's Garden Fountain getting soaked. Grandma and Grandpa Grow came and helped with the kids. It felt like it was over 100 degrees all day long but the kids were great and didn't complain at all.
Sisters
When Sydney wakes up, the first thing she does is find Zoey wherever she is and ask to hold her. This is really cute since Sydney is usually really groggy and asking for her sister with her eyes only slightly open. She always seems very content when she finds Zoey and gets to hug and love her. Sydney continues to ask me about twenty times during the day if she can hold "her baby", it never gets old...and I hope it never does.
Meat
Dylan instructed me on what happens when someone dies. He said that they lay down, stick out their tongues and they close their eyes. Whatever, I guess it's close enough.
I took the kids with me to Costco. While we were wandering the produce section Dylan was staring at the butcher's area where they process the meat. Then he asked me "When we are dead, do they turn us into meat". Scary... but the kid's got a point, looking at all of that slaughtered meat is enough to make me vegetarian again.
Memorial Day
Today is Memorial Day. We have a tradition of visiting the East Lawn Cemetary in Provo. We visit the gravesites and entice the kids to go by telling them that we will see all the cute little bunnies that live at the cemetary. We were explaining to Sydney that we will be visiting great grandparents who have died. We told her that their spirits are in Heaven with Heavenly Father and their bodies are buried at the cemetary. Sydney said "and their heads too"...geesh, what has she been watching?
Monumentous occasion...preschool graduation
Dylan graduated from preschool this week. He went very first in line and did a spectacular rendition of Rudy Rectangle. He also did a great job reading his "Ollie the Octopus" Book. (Notice how there are no pictures of him taking his cap and gown on and off...lets make that a fuzzy memory without pictures). Way to go buddy, you are off to Kindergarten!
Grow kids
It's all about the love!?!
Zoey's nervous expression is priceless. Poor baby.
Don't worry, Zoey was not harmed in the making of this photograph....just a little harrassed.
baby whisperer
Grandma Hooge came to see Dylan's preschool graduation at Avondale Academy. Zoey had some type of Montezuma's revenge stomach trouble and was really fussy. Grandma Hooge walked around with Zoey and kept her happy. She is the baby whisperer. Zoey also spit up on her shirt about three times and Grandma took it in stride. What a great lady, We love you!
Home Teachers and the balloon
Since we have lived in our house we have never had a visit from home teachers. We were very excited to find out that we were assigned new home teachers. Our new home teachers came over for the first time today. They were really nice and very understanding when our kids started jumping all over the couches. The kids were asked to go play in the other room because we could only hear little bits of the lesson. Sydney came back into the room with a big squeaky red balloon left over from the party extravaganza on Saturday. Sydney started banging the balloon on the wall and on the couch. Suddenly I realized that the balloon had something drawn on it in black pen. There is no other way to describe the drawing other than it looked like a pair of boobs with nipples. Horrified, I tried to sneak the balloon away from Sydney and shove it behind the couch while everyone was distracted. Of course, Sydney let out a big squeal and snatched the balloon away from me. Then, Sydney handed the balloon to our home teacher. The home teachers probably think that we are pervert freaks. I asked Xander later why he drew boobs on the balloon and he said that he drew a butterfly with wings on either side of the balloon.
Here is a picture of the "butterfly".....see what I mean?!
Pirate Party
We had Dylan's pirate party on Saturday. We managed to avoid the scurvy and have a great time.
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