October 27, 2008

What a Week!

Last Monday for family night we decided to carve pumpkins, so we got the kids into their undies/diaper all ready to get slimy. (When I was a young girl we use to dig into the goo, throw it around, and a few times my dad picked ones so big that we would sit in them!) Well my kids weren't that enthusiastic to say the least-don't let this first picture fool you.
Scott wouldn't even touch the pumpkin until finally I made up a big ball of the goo and threw it right at him. He thought that was funny and threw it back. Here we are carving our pumpkin together.Here's a video of Hailey in the beginning when she thought it may be kind of fun to touch the yucky pumpkin after all...
After that she wouldn't go anywhere near the pumpkin and had to sit on Kevin's lap while Scott and I carved it! She even went ballistic just sitting next to it for a picture... kids are so funny!
Scott with our final project. His favorite part has been helping us light it up each nightHailey's other top tooth finally came through along with the one next to it (now she has 5!) The one front tooth is still a lot bigger though so she has quite the funny grin!

I can't believe it took me almost 2 years to find out there are ducks here in Logan to feed (other than the zoo) One of our favorite things to do when we were in Rexburg was to go to the Nature Park to feed the ducks. Well these ducks are tucked away behind a park and were very eager to get some bread pieces- they came right up to the kids. It was cute to see Hailey squeal each time a duck came by her Hailey on the seesaw
These chair swings are so cool! There was another little boy there and Scott was being so cute with him. When he'd go down the slide Scott would say, "He's a good slider mom" and when he'd climb up the stairs Scott would say, "You are a GREAT climber" It gave me a proud mom moment because I realized the reason why he was giving the little boy so much praise and encouragement is because we do it to him all the time. Yeah! There's one thing I do right as a mom (and trust me there are so many things I need to work on)
Brooke had a tournament down in Orem this weekend, and since Kevin had it off we spent Friday and Saturday night down there with Brooke, her husband Chris and my mom-Grandma Melody who drove up from Vegas to watch the games. While we were there we visited my favorite place in the world-the Discovery Children's Museum. Hailey pushing the stroller in the little house
Grandma Melody and Hailey peeking into the mouse house (they even have tiny furniture and everything in there!)
The mini house for tots. With Grandma in there you can really see how small the furniture is
The upstairs of the museum is where Kevin and Scott had most of their fun. It's like a mini engineering center with magnets, a wind tunnel to test out paper airplanes you build, a building block center where you can test out your structures against earthquakes- oh man it was awesome and Scott and Kevin were definitely in their element.
We went to watch my sister Brooke's soccer game on Saturday. She's the Team Captain for UVU and she doesn't just win over hearts on the field, she definitely has a natural knack with kids-they love her
We were sitting on the blanket watching the game and my dad came up behind us! Grandpa Scott decided to show up at the game and surprise us all. If there is a good word to describe Grandpa Scott it would be "Spontaneous." I know Scott sure was excited to see him!
We had a busy week and a great weekend despite Scott not having a nap for 3 days. He went to bed last night at 7:30 pm and woke up at 7 this morning a happier boy. Thank goodness!