Ali Wants to Rock!

Alaria loves music and loves to sing. We find it so funny that one of her favorite songs right now is I Wanna Rock by Twisted Sister. She sings it and loves to dance to it. Couldn't resist putting up these photos of her in her sweet rocker shirt!

More Cole

I feel like all of my blogs are turning into "Things Cole says", but I know if I don't write these down, I will never remember them when he is older. Here are two more from this morning:

He comes in my room early this moring and tells me that he had a dream. In his dream there was a T-Rex in our house and he ate Josh...nobody else, just Josh. I asked him why the dinosaur ate Josh and he said "well he was being mean. He kept feeding him boogered peanuts." I asked him what he meant by "boogered peanuts" and he says "oh you know those things where you take a peanut and put it up your nose and then take it out - a boogered peanut". I told him I was still sad that the dinosaur ate Josh and he said "it's OK. You really didn't care in my dream because he had been kicking you."

Then Alaria came in and was jumping on my bed. She jumped up and landed right on my face. I heard my nose pop and then blood came gushing out everywhere. I was trying to catch it and it was running down my arms and all over my comforter - agh! Anyway, Cole says "Mom, you might want to keep that blood. Just in case you do decide to become a vampire, you might need it."

What a Kid

Cole sure has a strange way of showing his love for me. Here are two funny stories from the last couple of days:

On Tuesday he came home from pre-school and had been learning about "Dr. Martin Luther King" so I started asking him what he learned and why this man was important. He told me that he was special and becuase he had a dream that people with different colors of skin could get along. So I tried to take this opportunity to teach him about what life was like before this time, and then explained that it is good to be friends with everyone - it doesn't matter what color their skin is, what color their hair is, what color their eyes are, etc. and he interrupts me and says "Oh like you mom, I can be your friend even though you're a girl but you have short hair"

Today I was singing to the kids while I made breakfast and Cole yells out "No Mom! Wait, how many judges are there again on American Idol?" (I tell him 4) "OK, well then theis is what you would hear if you were on American Idol: No, No, No, NO. You're NOT going to Hollywood!"

And this has nothing to do with me personally, but still makes me laugh when I think of it. The other night Cole declared that "my two worst enemies are JEANS and SLEEPING"

Lastly - a sweet one - yesterday I took Alaria in to the doctor (double ear infection - ow!) and Cole was so cute, he drew a picture of him with a doctor and wrote on it "Thanks for taking care of my little sister" and gave it to the doctor - I seriously think it made her day, she was so shocked and Cole was so proud!

Christmas Photos - Finally!

We had a wonderful Christmas! I finally loaded all of the pictures off of the camera....here are a handful of them. Josh is already asking if we can make a chain to count down til next Christmas.

Alaria loved her doll stroller and pushed it around all morning I don't know if I have ever seen a kid so excited for Christmas morning as Joshua. On Christmas Eve, he began asking right after breakfast if he could go to bed becuase he knew that when he woke up Santa would have come.

Josh and Grandpa had a lot of fun watching Jazz games together while we were in Price.
Fun on Trax

Lights at Temple Square

Sound Advice

I just told the boys that I needed to go upstairs and put my make-up on and Cole rushes over nodding, and says "Yeah, mom. I know what you mean. I saw on a commercial that you should never leave your lips naked. It's true mom - go put some lipstick on". Then he gives me a little head tilt and half smile. Too much TV???

Where has the time gone?

Wow it has been a long time since I've posted anything! Maybe things will calm down a bit after the holidays. Here are a few photos and stories from the last little while...

Having a little girl is too much fun!

This was classic. Cole came downstairs on a random Tuesday in his suit and talking in his deep voice (picture the Indiana Jones voice from previous post) says "Bye Honey, I've got to go to meetings at church now. Get the little ones ready and meet me there at 3. Bye." Then I go upstairs to see what Josh and Alaria are doing and Josh is actually putting on his church clothes. I ask him why he is putting church clothes on and he said "Dad told me to." I ask him Dad or Cole? and he says "The Cole Dad". Then Cole comes up, ruffles Josh's hair and says "Son, why aren't you ready for church". The best part of the whole thing is that the entire time Cole had this expression on his face:
For Thanksgiving we went to Price. I don't know how my parents are such patient people. By the time we went home, the damage at their house amounted to a flooded bathrom, a burned up toaster, broken computer, plugged toilet, ...oh not to mention the HUGE pile of laundry from my kids getting the stomach flu! Somehow we are still invited back for Christmas...I can't figure it out!
While we were down there my brothers took Kris and my boys for a hike to see some Indian writings. When they got home I was glad to hear that I stayed home with Ali - especially since Kris literally threw Cole over a river to my brother Rock. Thankfully Cole is super brave and just stayed curled up in a ball and made it across...sucessfully caught. The highlight of the hike apparently was when my brother was holding Cole and hiking up a STEEP part of the mountain and Cole says "Now this is what I call hiking!"
The low point...this picture pretty much explains Josh's experience.

Later that night I asked if he had fun and he said "I just wanted to cry"

Other highlights from the past month:

* Cole actually got his ankle stuck in a lego piece so bad that I had to cut it off

* Josh teaching us about the three wisemen and showing us the one that brought Jesus "a can of tuna"

*The Twilight movie - overall pretty good, but definitely a FUN girl's night out!

* Kris and I both turning 30 - ahem, I mean 25

*Last night we went to see the Christmas lights at Thanksgiving Point, and as we were leaving we drove by the water tower and saw Santa and two reindeer. The kids got to go talk to him and had so much fun

We are having a fun holiday season and enjoying all of the fun stuff that is going on. Hopefully I will be better at posting more often

Halloween and Josh's B-Day Party

We had a great Halloween this year. The kids had so much fun between all of the Halloween parties and Trick-or-Treating....they are thinking this is their favorite holiday! (til the next hoilday comes at least!) Alaria was a sweet little ladybug, Cole and Josh were Jedis.

Cole and Alaria ran the entire night! (Josh was a little bit slower, bringing up the rear) We were worried that Alria would only last for a little bit, but she did not want to come home! She ran the whole time and would go up to each door and yell "treat" and then run to the next house. We tried to help carry her treat bucket but she would scream "NO! My bucket!" She was so much fun!

Kris even made his own mask - Sarah Palin (bulldog with lipstick)

Oh so much candy...

Josh had his XMen birthday party (I am very slow posting pictures!) He had so much fun! They play Bad-Guy Bowling, had a Superhero Battle, and played XMen Freeze. (And no, Josh didn't wet his pants...he dumped his cup of water on himself when we had cake)

Cute little supereroes! What a fun birthday!