The latest on everyone

Good ones from Thatcher this week-
1) Comes in the bathroom when I'm in the bath, and says staring right at my chest, " I'm not lookin' at your privates Mom." The kid is going to be 5, and will probably have horrible flashbacks of that moment.

2) Snuck Stewart's hammer and a nail, went outside, and was hammering it into our wood swing set. (The day before he had done the same thing and smashed his hand.) I looked outside right as the hammer was being raised above his head very, very close to his eyes. I yelled, "Thatcher DON'T! Do you remember what happened yesterday?" He gives me this look with his head tilted to the side, and says " M-ooommmm, I KNOW about safety because I am totally, totally safe. What happened yesterday was just a joke. I was just joking when I smashed my hand!" Then he does this little fake laugh. We have since hidden the hammer.

3) Thatcher HATES going pee. HATES, HATES, HATES! I don't know why but he will dance around for hours before he finally breaks down and goes. The other day Stewart walked in, and Thatcher is watching T.V., dancing around, and has "it" out and is squeezing it as hard as he can, as pee droplets are slowly dripping on the floor. Yum!

4) He does air guitar. Ha Ha hilarious!

Jack is crawling everywhere, and will walk behind a walker, but REFUSES to walk with me holding his hands. As soon as he realizes that he is walking he puts both legs up and starts whining. What brave boys we have! Thatcher was 15 months and I think that Jack will be 3 when he starts walking. He is such a love bug baby. He loves songs, and books but his favorites are dipping his hand in the toilet and then sucking on them, and emptying the dishwasher or sucking on dirty dishes. His latest discovery is outside. He wants to be out his every waking moment, eating dirt and bugs and watching for planes. When he hears one (he doesn't miss one) he stops what he is doing, freezes, and makes his mouth an O. So freaking cute!

Madeline is doing great! She just had a leading part as Henny Penny in the school play. (Will include pictures of all this soon.) Doing great, as always, in school, gymnastics and with friends. She came home yesterday and told me that she "had the worst day ever because she had so many admirers, and it was so tiring." Dramatic, dramatic, dramatic. Heaven help us in a few years.

Stewart is having an affair. With a HUGE remote control airplane. He is getting really good at it( he spends a lot of time with this love) he can do tricks and drops parachute guys from it. He is often approached, and complimented by 3rd graders at the park.(-:

Me-Same old. Kids, work sometimes, running (yeah for spring), and a sewing class!

Holidays

Is this a blog with no pictures? Yes, I guess it is lately. It has a lot to do with the fact that I don't get computers. Yep, just don't get them. Cut me some slack-new camera, and really, really old computer. They don't mesh well together. So sometime when my sister Amy is visiting, or Stew gets around to it will get some up there! Anyways.........

Madeline told me today that the leprechaun ruined her St.Patrick's Day by not bringing her anything. That the neighbor girl got gold coins, toys etc. Thanks a lot people! I worked and didn't do anything (surprising I know since I'm a holiday freak!) for the kids, except pick out green outfits for them. Then as we were walking around Target she asked me if the Easter Bunny was real. When I asked her why she said because "they is no such thing as a giant bunny, especially one that can hop around the world in a night." The bunny doesn't make any sense to her, but a leprechaun and Santa still do. Whatever- as long as she believes as long as possible. I will cry when we have that conversation. I really will. I will take drastic measures to ensure they continue!!!! No more slacking on the holidays! Time to step it up! Crisis averted, at least for now.

5 new family members

Well we had a good week, I hope everyone else did also. Stewart and I got to go over night for our anniversary. (Thanks mom and dad for watching the kids!) It was heaven! We went and stayed downtown, went shopping and to dinner at The Roof. 9 years, I can't believe it! Stewart got a new job, all the details are still being worked out, but we are really excited about it and the long term opportunities that we think are there. We also got news that Madeline got into ALPS , which were are happy about (it's a gifted and talented school in the Jordan School District.) I had a great day at work yesterday training on being in the nursery (we are switching from just taking care of the moms and surgeries to also doing the babies.) It was fun just to hold a bunch of cute, new babies. Only bad news is that Jack has been sick for 2 weeks. Started out with a cold/cough, pink eye in both eyes, and ear infection. He still has a runny nose and has thrown up a few times. Poor little guy.

The kids best news.......we added 5 new members to our house. No I'm not pregnant. We added 5 aquatic frogs to our already way too many pets house! 2 cats, hamster, and now 5 frogs. Thatcher's cousin was getting rid of one and so we took it, and put it in a 10 gallon tank we had. He looked so lonely in there so we added a few more today. We brought the new ones home and all of us were crowded around the tank as Stewart dumped them in. Things were good for probably 10 sec until one jumped on another ones back and looked like he was getting a piggy back ride. Madeline started SCREAMING and jumping all around because we thought it was trying to kill or eat it. Stewart goes into frantic mode, also screaming like a girl, and reaches his hand in and tries to separate them. He can not get the stupid things apart, so to calm Madeline down he yells over the top of her that " they are so happy to have friends now they are hugging!" She sort of calmed down and the kids got bored of the "hugging" frogs, and went outside. I kept watching them and finally the bottom one used his back legs to kick the other one off. With a little computer research Stewart found that they weren't trying to kill each other they were mating! Great. They lay eggs and then hatch within like 3 days. Oh crap! Hopefully they weren't "hugging" long enough. Thatcher asked like 5 times if the frogs were still "communicating". I don't know where he got that. Hopefully no more "communicating" or "hugging" will go on, I really don't want any more of them. I also really don't want to have the birds and bees or frogs and frogs talk with the kids this early. I'll let you know soon if we have some frogs to give away!

Tumbling

Here are a few of Madeline's tricks in motion.

Back tucks

Side ariels

Back handsprings

Back walkovers

Satan vs. Jesus

Thatcher really wanted to have his cousin (and best friend) come and play today, and was begging me to let him come over. The two have gotten in quite a bit of trouble together lately, and so I told him I didn't think that it was a good idea. He sat there a minute glaring at me with his hands on his hips, and said "Mooooooooom I just want people to know that Satan IS real!!!" I'm glad that he feels he is doing his part to spread the word(-: So I asked him if he knew who Satan was and he said "yes, he's the guy who tells you to do bad stuff." Then silence for a minute and then he added, " actually, I MADE Satan to destroy Jesus." Lovely. Everything, even church, is now including in being a superhero. Bad against good. Hopefully he meant to say it the other way around- that Jesus would be the one to destroy Satan, but in fear of what else he would add to the already blasphemous conversation, I just let it go. Where would a kid get such a crazy idea? Try the Book of Mormon. I was just reading the kid version to Madeline and Thatcher, and people were getting burned in fires, smashed by buildings, and killed all over the place. Not the best thing to read right before bed. Madeline was sitting there with her hands over her ears, saying she was going to have nightmares, and Thatcher was looking a little nervous. I think mostly because Stewart had just explained what "righteous" meant to him, and everyone not in that category was dying an awful death. Then, when I tucked him in bed he said he hoped that no one would chop him like they do in the scriptures. Wow. Wow. Wow. Time to scratch the current way we've been teaching our kids and try something different. I'm already nervous of what the kids will say to their teachers at church, now they are going to be FORBIDDEN to open their mouths! People are going to wonder what the crap we're teaching them(-: