Tuesday, June 19, 2007

a boy & his pillow, our ladies man, and other random things....

So I think I am going for a record here. I am posting this and my last post was on Sun. I guess that is what staying at home with pink eye will do for ya. Anyway, we have some new pictures of pretty much nothing exciting but I figured why not post them, I know at least the family will think they are something special.



So here is our sweet but ever so moody Landon and his beloved pillow. When he was almost a year old he started ripping the entire crib sheet off. It made me so so nervous so I took the sheet cut off a square and then let him have that. He called it is la la and continued to carry it with him and suck his fingers for a little while longer.
Then we decided that he needed to stop sucking his fingers so we took the la la away and put some nasty tasting stuff on his fingers. To no avail this did not work he just attached himself to any pillow he slept on. Here we are almost a year and a half later and as you can see he still loves his pillow (although instead of using any pillow near him, he now has to have this one) and he is still sucking his fingers. We have tried finger guards and taking away the pillow. He somehow finds a way to get the finger guards off leaving a sore on his hand where he would pry it off (which makes me feel bad) and he then finds some other pillow to take along with him. I have pretty much just decided that I am now just being lazy with it, hopefully he will out grow it since I don't think they allow pillows in kindergarten.


At one point or another this school year I think Ethan had said he would marry every girl in his class. I used to think he was just saying it to tease them, but after working in his class and seeing it for myself the girls liked him as much as he liked them. The following statement from Ethan was just one of the problems he encountered in his quest of marriage

" Mom do we have a map?"
Yes

"Well I need to look at it because I told Madison the only way I could marry her is if I could find her house on the map of California."

Well good luck on that quest Ethan. At least I know it would keep him busy for longer than 5 minutes.





I only put this picture in to remind myself that every once in awhile my kids really do like each other.

Landon and Mackenzie







Well, this is how jared found landon in our bedroom one day.
I am pretty sure it would take more postage than this to mail him somewhere.

Sunday, June 17, 2007

Happy Fathers' Day!

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!!!!

So today is father's day and since I have not made a post in awhile, I figured today should give me a really good reason to. Since I didn't get jared a gift (we have all had pink eye) I thought I would just post some of the things we love about him.



I Love Jared because....

-he is the father of my children

-he is a hard worker

-after a long day of work and then helping with the kids and dinner, he will still rub my feet because he says my day was probably longer and harder than his

-he inspires me to do all the things I should do just by doing them

-he encourages me in everything I do

-he tells me I am a good cook even though we may have eaten nothing but cereal for the last three nights

-he truly helps me with the kids more than I give him credit for

-all the little things that sometimes frustrate me (contantly checking gas prices, taking forever to decide on a pair of shoes, researching prices then buying something then researching it again just to make sure he got the best deal ect, ect) really do make me laugh when I step back and think about them

-he will watch all of my chick shows (america's next top model, the bachelor, grey's anatomy) with me with few if any complaints

-he can make up bedtime stories for the kids as he is telling them

-he has taught me many many sometimes hard to swallow things about myself

-he is my best friend

-he has seen me at my worst(which can be pretty bad) and still loves me

-he loves the Lord, the gospel, and serves in all of his callings to the fullest extent

-he almost always lets me do things my way even if he would rather do it a different way

-he is the best father and husband the kids and I could have ever asked for




We LOVE DAD because......

ETHAN
-he takes me golfing
-he plays dun dun dudun dun with us
-he reads to me



LANDON
-he helps me look for my pillow
-he helps me get my pillow out of the washer
-he makes me lunch
(landon has a serious attachment issue with his pillow)



MACKENZIE (i couldn't totally understand what she was saying, but I know she love these things)

-singing with daddy
-helping him outside
-swimming with daddy



WE LOVE YOU! HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!