Kids!...The Crazy and Funny Things They Do and Say!

First off here is a new game Corbin and Aidan invented...Action Hero/Any Small Toy Will Do War Chess. They don't even know what a Chess Game is but they made this up and you play it almost exactly the same way. Each person gets a handful of toys that you line up on opposite ends of the Battle Field. Then you pick a toy to move toward your opponent after awhile of that they have a War or big battle. Then back to playing Chess again and when they get bored they'd have another War. Pretty clever if you ask me. I love to see their imaginations soar! The best part is they can play this for a good hour before they start fighting usually because Aidan is ready to move on to something else and starts taking Corbin's players at random. Corbin is usually getting pretty bossy by that point and calling all the moves including telling Aidan which toy to move and where to put it. That's when I step in and declare it clean up time!

O.k. So this is just a picture that Corbin wanted me to take because I took a picture of Aidan building with his blocks. But why I posted it was more because of something really funny he said and did the other night. I like listening to Taylor Swift and all her music. Corbin has taken to it as well. His favorite song is "Picture to Burn". The song is talking about how Taylor catches her Boyfriend out with another girl and the girl is driving his pick-up truck and how Taylor didn't ever get to drive his truck. So the Chorus goes something like this "I hate that stupid old pick-up truck you never let me drive. You're a redneck, heartbreak, who's really bad at lying. So watch me strike a match on all my wasted time as far as I'm concerned you're just another picture to burn." We happened to see the Music video on CMT the other morning and so Corbin started putting the whole song together. He loves to sing the chorus and gets his foot stomping to the music as he belts it out at the top of his lungs. And it's fun to watch him but what is even better is....later that night after seeing the music video he was asking me questions about it and talking to me about it. He stated " When he gets bigger he was going to have a pick-up truck and a girlfriend. So that means that if he has a girlfriend he would be her boyfriend." I told him to talk to his Grandpa about getting a pick-up truck when he gets bigger. Since Grandpa likes trucks and especially the older classics I thought he'd be able to help him out in that department. Corbin thought that was a great idea and informed me that he would be a good boyfriend and let his girlfriend drive his pick-up truck and mommy and daddy too, and Aidan and of course grandpa and grandma too. Then he said that he was only going to have one girlfriend, not two at the same time because that wasn't nice and he didn't want his girlfriend to be mad at him. So the story goes on...When he said his prayers that night he blessed himself to get a pick-up truck and to have Grandpa help him find one when he gets bigger and to get a girlfriend too and to be a nice boyfriend. He was peeking out at me with one eye closed and one open, just to see my reaction. What a little cutie and what a little stinker at the same time! I just had to pick him up and hug him. Of course I was trying hard not to bust out laughing, I couldn't quite conceal my smile though. Then I told him he was way to little to worry about that stuff yet. I love you Corby!

What a cute boy!!! Aidan loves blocks and loves to stack them but lately he has been getting way creative with his stacking. The problem is he loves to knock down his towers just as much as he loves to build them, so it's hard to get the camera ready and get his picture before he's knocked it down again. He is really getting into making arches, tunnels and bridges with his blocks. He made a really cool tower with a couple of arches the other day but he knocked it down as I was taking the camera out of the case to take a picture. Anyway this one was pretty cool too even with one side leaning he made a arch and kept it standing. Pretty cool if you ask me. I love his expression in this picture too. He likes to pull faces or just not smile in pictures usually. But here he is all smiles and just being the Cutie Pie(or Cubie Pie as he calls himself) he is. Aidan loves to get the Lego's out and build guns and battle ships with his Brother, and let me till you they get pretty extensive with their designs. These aren't just little dinky things they're building, they sometimes have a hard time carrying them when their done, 'cause they're so big and heavy and elaborate. I love you Aidy!

I just had to spotlight my Favorite Boys, we've been having such good times together lately and they've just been so dang cute and funny lately I had to share.

Surprise Vacation and More!

Where do I start? It's been a busy few weeks to say the least. I guess I'll try to start from the first. We got a surprise visit from my Parents about 2 weeks ago and we(the boys and I) ended up going home with them for a week. It was a well need vacation for me and the Boys and I'm very grateful for my Parents and them just knowing when we need to be rescued! I feel bad Nate had to stay home and work, he could use a vacation too. I'm sure he'll party hard soon when he takes a trip with the Guys in my Family to Vegas for the Drag races in a few weeks. While we were there we went to the Dinosaur Museum in Ogden. I highly recommend taking your kids there if you haven't already. We had a blast! My sister-in-laws Melissa and Katie, Me and Grandma and Grandpa took all the Kids as Grandpa and Grandma's treat. Corbin and Aidan had so much fun with all their Cousins. It was a really nice day and I am glad we got to all go together. All the Daddies were working...bless their hearts! Thanks Mom and Dad for such a fun week and all you did for all of us! We love you! Our cute little group! Glad we got to spend some time together. This Dinosaur was posed as if it had killed a smaller Dinosaur and was in the process of eating it. All the Kids seemed to be disturbed by that fact and were really concerned for the dead Dinosaur. Aidan was especially concerned and didn't want to leave it at first. As you can see Gavyn isn't loving the "roars of the Dinosaurs" and had his ears plugged for a while. The sound affects were a bit creepy and loud.

"The Boys". What Cuties! I'm so glad they get along so well! Corbin and Aidan love playing with Gavyn and wouldn't you know he likes Star Wars and Spider-man too!

"The Girls". All except Chloe who was riding in her stroller. Corbin and Aidan love Baylee, Jenna and Chloe too and have tons of fun playing with them all.

Aidan and Chloe getting pushed in the Swing by Grandpa. He was getting them up there pretty high and they loved every minute of it. There were several playgrounds among all the Dinosaurs and our kids found every one of them.

They had so many different Dinosaurs, it was awesome! I was amazed at how many different species of Dinosaurs they had from itty-bitties to giants and everything in between. As you can see they didn't even leave out the Sea creatures.

Poor Aidan! The day after we went to the Dinosaur Museum we discovered he had an ear infection. We took him right into my Parents family Doctor. He got him going right on an antibiotic....Amoxyccilin....as you can see we soon found out that Aidan is allergic to Amoxyccilin. About a day after my parents brought us home he broke out in this awful rash all over his body. He was about half way done with taking the medicine at this point.

More rash. I felt so bad for my little Man. He didn't even complain about it and just tried to play happily while scratching himself like crazy every few minutes. He just wasn't his energetic self but he did let me cuddle him a lot...the only thing I do like about my kids being sick is that they let me hold and cuddle them to try and make them feel better. I was lucky enough to get a hold of our family Doctor's Nurse early the next morning and she had us hooked up with a new prescription and the orders to "NOT" take any more Amoxyccilin ever and get some Benedryl in him as fast as I could. So we were right off to the store with our new orders. With in 24 hours he was a new man and much, much happier. Yeah! I hate it when my Kids are sick and miserable especially when I can't do much to comfort them until their little body starts to feel better. I just feel awful for them. Aidan is now all better about 3 days after our scare his body was all healed and no more rash.

Here are my cute little mischievous Boys and their crafty Booby-Trap they made so I couldn't get into their room. It was to their favor that I was on the phone with my Mom while they were having so much fun, who kept telling me to "just let them do it their having fun, then let them clean it up all by themselves later".

I did make them clean it up and it only took them a few hours to get their room back in to something we could call clean. Lets just say they went to bed way late and way tired by the time they were all done putting ALL their toys back in their places. At least they had fun right? And I thought they might have learned a lesson the first time they pulled this trick, but they were right back to making another Trap the next morning. I interceded about half way through this time and they still took a good part of an hour to clean it up. I haven't seen a new trap since, thank goodness.....it's a lot of work to clean those babies up!

While we were "on vacation at my Parents house" I was able to get a well needed visit in with my Best Friend Janae. I'm glad we were able to get together for lunch and catch up. I always feel better when I've had a chance to talk to her and just have some fun hanging out. Thanks Mom for watching my Boys for me and for letting me really feel like I was on Vacation!

Well this last week has just been catching up and going to meetings, preparing and doing sharing time, finding out I haven't been a good neighbor and a whole bunch has been going on with our neighbors that we should have been more aware of and spending time as a family. We've visited a few parks around town and our own park next door a few times since we've had such nice, warm weather this last week. I think that about catches us up for now. Hope all is going well in your neck of the woods!