Got Milk? Or Mustard?

So, I was cleaning out my fridge, not the best thing to do with a small child crawling around. Of course right away Noah started causing havoc by taking things off the shelves. First he played with his milk jug until he figured out how to take the top off...I decided that wasn't the best thing for him to be playing with and took it away.



Next, the mustard bottle came down and right into his mouth.



I think the look on his face says it all.....CHOCOLATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Saturday

What a wonderful opportunity we had on Saturday to stand and sustain our new prophet, President Thomas S. Monson. Savannah was especially excited to do this and kept asking when it was her turn to stand and sustain him. General Conference is definitely one of my favorite times of the year as we listen to our prophet, apostles, and leaders of the church.
Xander also had a party on Saturday that was a lot of fun for him. It was at a place called My Little Gym and they played all sorts of games, jumped on a trampoline, played in a ball pit, and climbed on all kinds of different jungle gym type structures.




Xander really loved the zip line...they had Spiderman music playing in the background as the kids each took several turns.

Pirates and Princesses

Friday night my good friend Jeanne took Savannah and Xander to the local McDonald's where they were having a Pirates and Princess night. Savannah dressed up in a white princess/bride dress and Xander was none other than Captain Jack Sparrow. I know, what a surprise! They ate, played some games, and had a really great time! Savannah even won a game of Bingo and received a beautiful light-up wand. Thank goodness for good friends like Jeanne!


Jeanne and the kids.

Just Another Day

While Xander attends preschool, I put Noah in the club's nursery. This arrangement gives me an hour and fifteen minutes to myself which I really enjoy. Yesterday when I went to pick up Noah, one of the nursery workers told me it was probably time to graduate Noah from the infant to the toddler area. I asked her why. Holding up a broken baby swing, she laughingly said, "This is Noah's work!" Apparently one of the workers, thinking it was a good idea at the time, put Noah in a baby swing. She said he loved it, laughing and squealing as he got the swing really moving. The swing is supposed to swing forward and backward but Noah had it swinging wildly from side to side...and then it broke! I wish I had been there to see that one. The nursery workers all LOVE Noah and always joke about his size and how heavy he is and now this is just one more thing to laugh about. Yes, a small incident but stories like this one are what make our little lives fun.


Every morning we all stand at the door to wave goodbye to Savannah as she heads to school. I thought this picture was so cute of the boys.

April Fool's

I was hoping that David's phone call about the crack in his windshield that he received on his drive home from New York yesterday was his idea of a great April Fool's Day joke...but, ha-ha...the joke's on me...it really happened! Dang it! So, the only funny thing that happened in our family yesterday was the kids' dinner. I asked them if they wanted hamburgers and mashed potatoes for dinner which they said would be great. Ha-ha! I gave them vanilla ice cream with caramel sauce and little "burgers" made out of candy and cookies instead. After Savannah's first bite of the "mashed potatoes" she said, "These sure taste like ice cream." We had to basically force Xander to try his potatoes; I guess they didn't look that appetizing to him. Anyway, the joke didn't go over that well. I think I have two of the only kids in America who when they received candy, cookies, and ice cream for dinner wanted the leftover lasagna instead.

Xander looked excited until he had to eat it...and then he wasn't so happy.

I thought it was a great idea...thank goodness it only took me about 2 minutes to put together since the kids only ate about 3 bites between them.

"A Person's a Person, No Matter How Small"

Saturday I took Savannah and Xander to see the movie "Horton Hears a Hoo". What a cute movie with such a great message. I would highly encourage you all to take your little ones to see it. At the end of the movie people started clapping including Xander, who jumped out of his seat, pumped his arms up and down, and then started clapping and shouting "I love that movie! Can we see it again?" It was obviously quite a hit with him. The new little saying in our house has been a line from the movie, "A person's a person, no matter how small."

Fun with Friends

The big Easter Egg hunt that we were supposed to go to last week at Savannah's friend Gavin's house got rescheduled for yesterday. So, although it was almost a week after Easter, we headed over to his house for some lunch and a really fun egg hunt. The kids had a blast. Gavin's mom had littered their front and back yard with hundreds of eggs and the kids did a thorough job of picking them all up.


Even Noah found an egg that kept him busy for awhile.



Savannah and her friend Tianna and two really full baskets.


After the egg hunt the kids headed to the back yard to have some more fun!


Noah found this little chair in the middle of the yard and was so proud of himself when he climbed up into it all by himself. He sat there like a big kid and clapped at his great accomplishment.


The kids enjoyed pulling Noah around in this tractor and he even seemed to know what he was supposed to be doing in it...he kept steering the wheel and laughing!