Cambree's thoughts

Cambree has a great memory and can recall some pretty funny stuff. Unfortunately her mommy has a bad memory and cannot recall all the funny stuff she shares. This time I wrote it down.
Cambree says to me while sitting at the computer:

Remember when you were at that place with Grandma and Grandpa (Idaho). When we got home from six flags, Daddy said I needed to take a nap because I was tired. I was tired and I slept. When I got up I knew I had slept because Daddy didn't yell at me. That is when he was 13 like you. (Who knew?)

I should note that my trip to Idaho was almost a year ago and she was 3!

Oh and she would hate that picture on top, she always tells me when people are smiling in pictures, if they look good or bad. She is full of facial expressions, one of those kids that wears what she is thinking in her face.

I have all my teef!!

I have always not liked going to the dentist and I have the same uncomfortable feeling when I take my kids to dentist. Luckily Emery has always been an awesome patient, she has had so much work done and has never complained. I know she is any dentists dream come true as far as kids are concerned. Kelci on the other hand....whew! She has not always had a plesant time at the dentist. She almost hit a dentist one time and we were even told to leave...that was a hard day.

The other day I had to take them both to get a cleaning and check-up. Kelci did great, and she didn't have any cavities! I was really relieved! Emery had one cavity (which we knew about...that's another story for another day). She also had a tooth that needed to be pulled, a baby one. She was surprised that they were going to pull it and agreed to have it done. They numbed her up real good and with a 1,2,3, the tooth literally jumped out of her mouth. The dentist told Emery she was one of the patients she has ever had...this made Emery so happy. Afterwards she told me that this was her favorite dentist and she couldn't wait to come back....weird kid, where did she come from?

On the way home we stopped by my friends house to grab the younger bunch. We were telling the kids about Emery's tooth being pulled out by the dentist. Brody asked,"Are they going to put it back in your mouth?" We told him, no, another tooth will grow in by it's self. You could tell he was concerned about this whole process. His response than was, "well I have all my teef already."

Hamburger Fieldtrip

I'm a little late blogging about this field trip to the Bishops Hamburger Farm, but after a great blogging class my friend taught on Saturday, I felt guilty!

We have a small preschool group and this was our last day together, still can't believe we are done...where does time go? We were lucky with all this crazy weather lately, rain, sun, wind, rain, sun, etc. we actually had good weather for a change. The kids enjoyed the petting zoo, especially the baby goats there. There were deathly afraid of us, but they were really cute.

One of the things included in the field trip is a train ride out to the farm or garden area. This is where they teach the kids about bees, tomatoes, onions, potatoes, cow's milk, even wheat. After they explain how everything grows, etc, they tell the children they will have one with there lunch. You know like potatoes for your bag of chips, cucumbers for your pickles, things like that. I always chuckle to myself that they don't tell the kids where the actual hamburger comes from, especially when there is a cow sitting right there...I even thought the lady called the cow Angus....but I was wrong.

Brody was very impressed with the beehive. Lately he has been asking to catch a bee, he doesn't like it when I tell him it might not be a good idea, but he'll learn.

It was a fun day and glad that I could enjoy it with Brody and Cambree. They told everyone at home all about what they had learned. Can't wait to head back in the Fall when it's pumpkin time, my personal favorite.

Landry is walking~

My little man is walking now. I am quite happy about this because crawling on the sidewalk or on the ground at the Hair Salon etc, is getting old. He always has scratched up baby toes, and all kinds of things stuck to his clothes.

I have not been able to get a picture of him walking yet, because he enjoys crawling still....dang it. He also enjoys riding on anything.

Our baby is growing up and so now we face the next big questions, when to cut the baby hair?

Batter Up!

Bryan has been playing softball with the church team. I enjoy watching the games, so each week I talk myself into packing up all the kiddos and heading over to the fields. The first night we were there, someone had left a bat and a ball laying in an open field area. Brody found it and quickly became interested in trying to the hit the ball, which was pretty funny to watch. Now you know why t-ball was invented. So after a little bit I decided I would hit the balls and he could chase them. This worked for awhile, than we were quickly joined by a few other little boys interested in playing. Well one of the boys could actually hit the ball, not bad for a 3 year old. I continued to stay close by (which I think anyone with small children should do) In this situation, I was the only mother who felt this way....strange to me. Well the little boy got a little too close to the stroller Landry was sitting in and before I could stop it, he WACKED Landry's hand (accidently, I should mention). At first I thought he just smashed it real good, of course Landry was in tears etc. So I pulled him out of his seat and discovered that the top of his index finger had actually been cut. The top layer of skin completely flapped over, weird injury I thought, but I felt bad for the little guy. That was the end of our night and we went home.

Here is my solution....no more real bat and ball at softball games....t-ball all the way (thanks to little tykes). This is small enough to pack with me and so far has been a huge hit at the games.

One night Bry was helping Brody with his hitting skills. It was so cute to hear Brody that night when he was getting into bed. He told me, "Mommy I hitted it hard, and putted my arm up, and standed fast!" He was so proud of himself.

Ohana

Last week Ang, Kya, and Lucy were able to catch a military plane out here to visit. We were so excited they could finally come. It was the first time Ang has seen Landry crawling and walking. At first he was a little confused by her, but after awhile he warmed up. In fact he was so comfortable with her that he decided to poop out of his diaper at Walmart one night (after his mom said she wouldn't need a diaper...opps). Than he proceeded with tossing his only pacifier out of the cart or somewhere during there shopping trip. Although Ang didn't figure it out until she was on her way home. These are all things that would happen to me on a normal day, so see, he is good with you!

Brody was so excited to have Lucy here to look for bugs with him. I think one morning they spent almost 2 hours outside searching for rollie pollies, millipedes, and worms. Brody was so cute, he couldn't remember how to say millipede, so I heard him outside saying, "Look a melon, I found another melon." He is really going to miss Lucy a lot.


While Ang was staying with us, we went to a mother/daughter activity at the church Sat. morning. It was a lot of fun, we made flower pens, and cute hair clips. Later that afternoon we watched the kids play on the slip-n-slide. After dinner that night we headed over to the softball fields to watch Bryan play a game. Kya was so excited to watch, he has never seen a real softball game. But he is learning about baseball for one of his scouting goals. He asked me when we got there if Uncle Bryan was a rookie, so cute! Luckily Uncle Bryan hit a homerun, this always impresses the kids....oh and me!!

We were not able to travel much while Ang was here, because I don't own a bus (rethinking this)But one of the days Bryan watched the little ones so we could go to the movies to see Oceans and go roller skating afterwards. It was a lot of fun, I was so impressed with how determined all the kids were to learn how to do it...especially Kya and Lucy. They did great. There was a couple of falls, but I think mine takes the cake. Emery ran right into me when I was standing still and I fell hard right onto my tailbone. Wow, talk about pain, I thought I was going to throw-up all night. It is still pretty sore and there is definitely a mark there, but I don't know if I damaged it more than just a bad bruise. I will give it one more week to see how I feel.


One of the things I love about when Ang visits is she loves to help with projects. This is such a daunting task sometimes around here. I am so thankful she is willing and I'm so glad that this t-shirt quilt I have been wanting to put together for a long time is done. It looks great, even after 2 broken sewing machines and a million interruptions. These are all shirts that Bryan and I have saved from high school, college etc. So many memories come to mind when I look at them. I was going to surprise Bryan with it for Father's Days, but, well let's just say it's hard to keep secrets when your projects are this big and you only have 3 days to work on it!!

We miss them so much already, next time we will have to make sure our whole family can get together!