On his way up in the world...

Wyatt gained a couple of pounds and grew a couple of inches - hooray! We'll take what we can get with this kid. He is now officially taller than our dog.

You Can't Make This Stuff Up

Two funny things that I don't want to forget...

Jaxson ran out of preschool today so excited to tell me some exciting news- "Mommy, guess what?! I have a brain in my head and it tells me what to do!"

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Last month we walked into church (late) and I was hurrying Jaxson into his classroom. As he was walking in, I looked down and noticed his hands cupped around something. I stopped him just inside the classroom to see what he had, and if you are guessing potato bugs, you are right! He had gathered up a whole family of potato bugs on our walk to church and was planning on bringing them into primary to do who knows what with them. Don't worry, he set them free (reluctantly) through the window in his class. There is never a dull moment with little boys!

Temple Portraits

We have been working on this project for Super Saturday and home classes, and it is finally ready! We started out just offering the Salt Lake Temple, but we have added a bunch more. To see the details, go here. To see pictures of the other temples, go here.

The picture is HUGE and so pretty. Keli at http://www.kelibphotography.blogspot.com/ took all of the pictures for us. This is really fun for Super Saturday or enrichment night- pass it on to your enrichment leader! Also, if you host a class at your house, you get to make a picture for free.

One last thing - we are looking for a couple of fun ladies to teach the classes in Logan - if anyone knows of someone please let me know!

What we are up to...

Wyatt's favorite spot to watch movies...he doesn't even mess up the pillows!

1st day of Preschool, where he said to me "Mommy, you just stay in the car, I'll go up to the door by myself." Ummm...stay in the car and cry my eyes out, you mean? How in the heck is he this old already?!!

If you see us and we look slightly dusty, this is why. I talked Mark into the idea of repainting finally, and it turned into this...scraping the orange peel texture off of some of the walls. Which is surprisingly not as fun as it sounds! More pictures to come...

Spirited

Wyatt about gave me a heart attack in Walmart today. Seriously, this child. We made it through grocery shopping with no major meltdowns, a feat with a one and four year old in the shopping cart. 1 trip to the potty, 2 bananas, 1 donut and 1 hour later, and we were ready to pay. Yay! My favorite part of the experience of shopping with toddlers. I would rather have my fingernails ripped off. One by one.

So I am unloading groceries as fast as I can onto the conveyer belt and Jaxson is playing with the little toys in the register isle. (P.S. I would love to get my hands on whoever made those little cell phones and cameras and decided to put them at the point in the store where parents are the most worn down and desperate- I think we have about 12 of those little beauties floating around the house.) I usually leave wyatt strapped in at this point, but he had wiggled out of the buckle and I was afraid he was going to fall on his head trying to reach the candy. So...I let him down on the floor to play with Jaxson. Both boys were sitting there playing with the cameras and phones while I unloaded the rest of the loot.

I had a big bag of dog food on the bottom of my cart, and the elderly man who was checking my groceries couldn't get his hand scanner to work. So he was trying to lift the bag to the register, and I took about 5 seconds to help him. 5 seconds!! All of the sudden, the nice lady behind me was like, "ummm, your son just ran off, he was heading to the exit". I look down. There is Jaxson, still playing. Wyatt is no where to be seen. I took off at a dead run through walmart (I still can't see him), I ran through carts and people around the door to the exits and see him just RUNNING for all he is worth through the double doors. I caught him just as his feet hit the parking lot of busy cars. AAAAAAHHHH! I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. I think I was close to doing both. So I carry him kicking and screaming back to the check stand (where I had left my groceries and Jaxson) to pay for our stuff and get the heck out of there. Sweaty and near tears, I'm trying to pay one handed as I hold a squirming-like-crazy Wyatt under my other arm, and the nice elderly man working the register goes "He sure is spirited." Uhhhh...yeah.

Random videos and a picture of a really harry pirate

So, I meant to post this one in July...but we can still be patriotic in August, right?!

And then Wyatt (of course) was not to be outdone by his brother, so he had to show off his latest accomplishment: jumping (okay, really stepping off of) the cable box in our yard - many, many times. I never wanted an electrical/cable box in our yard and was sad when we ended up having one. I was wrong to feel that way, apparently. The boys love that thing and play on it almost as much as their swing set. Dang it, who cares if it's ugly! I love his face in this video, but this can't be a good sign from him, can it? Maybe we shouldn't be encouraging him and clapping for him as he falls on his face...

And I've decided to finish off this post with a picture of a dog in an eye patch (left over from the pirate party), because I am guessing that most of you haven't seen a dog wearing one of these before. So here you go:

Doesn't he look so happy?

A Pirate's Life For Me