Happy Halloween!

Tonight we carved pumpkins and ate glazed donuts. I even pulled the festive sprinkles out and let the kids put their own sprinkles on their donut! I was pretty proud of myself for thinking of that one. Plus Conrad is all about doing things all by himself lately, so it was a double score. Here in figure 1 you see Amelia didn't really care about the donut.

In figure 2 is demonstrated what she was all about. (p.s. yes I know she looks orphaned. Rest assured that she is not and that I really do take care of her. I even changed all 6 of her yuck diapers today, and that is saying something since even Josh was home!)
The blessed first bite of deliciousness:

The next 3 movies are of Amelia. I think she was trying to dance. I'm not sure. We had some Halloween music playing and she kept doing this same thing over and over. It made me laugh. Oh, and don't fret, each movie is less than 6 seconds long.



I will post the pictures of the pumpkins later. Josh carved 3 and I carved 1. I was busy changing diapers.

just cute

ever since Amelia has been introduced onto my blog I think I've called her cute too many times.

(insert sarcastic voice) Sorry!

(p.s.) the red bump on her eyebrow is from getting hit with a tree branch by Conrad. He's on my list right now.

Boring Morning, and boring post.

So I brought out the camera. Here are some of the pictures.
look at Conrad's right hand pointer finger.

(he has pink nail polish on it... after finding the nail polish he felt like he was entitled to have his nails painted. I let him have 1 finger on each hand).

This girl loves her toothbrush.Conrad had to have pig tails like Amelia. I did them with one in the front and one in the back.

Life has been good here. Fall has taken over including some rain, so we've had to get a little creative. (Creative for me means bringing out the camera). Life has been normal after what seemed like chaos for about a year. It is so nice. Conrad gets to see the nice side of me more often. Josh's rotation for the last little while has been like an ordinary work day. Conrad still has accidents with potty training. He is good to remember when it's time for #2. But forgets with #1 unless I bribe him. I mean, reward him. :) We're taking it slowly still I guess.

We'll see you all Utahn's in as little as 5 weeks! HIP HIP HURRAY!!!!

From the mouth of Conrad

Josh reads scriptures every night when we finish dinner, and one night probably a year ago Conrad noticed there was a STAR by a certain scripture verse and got really excited and started singing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star." Josh, being our patriarch and all, decided we should start reading that scripture at the END of our scripture reading, followed by singing the "Twinkle Twinkle" song. Anyway, about 6 months ago Conrad started filling in some of the words to the verse. And it came to pass that pretty soon Conrad memorized just about the whole thing! You get a million trillion bazillion points if you know what scripture it is!

a sampling

I never gave Conrad an official birthday party with his friends, so a couple days ago at Park Day I showed up with cupcakes and Spiderman stickers and told Conrad it was his birthday party. I felt so bad not throwing a party for him, especially since we hyped it up so much! And he would occassionally mention his birthday party. We were invited to a neighborhood Brazil party and when I told Conrad where we were going he started thinking it was his birthday party. Oh, I have a tender heart for this kid.

Park Day was October 13th, so it was actually Conrad's 37 month birthday party. I think I took 3 pictures because I was so busy chasing him and Amelia around. But I did capture a video of the friends singing Happy Birthday!

This last Sunday I caught my kids being cute. She really loves her brother. Well, most of the time. He is a classic big brother. Always teasing her with her binky... being too rough on her (he is a major snuggler/wrestler and it drives Amelia crazy). He follows her around a lot. She happily plays by herself and he is constantly taking away her toys and seeing what she's up to.

Ok, sneak peak at CONRAD's costume. Isn't that face adorable? Don't worry, Conrad wore it first. We couldn't resist trying it on her, too. That face really reminds me of Grandma Jane and my sister Jeni. It's nice having a small reminder of them out here away from them!

This is one of Amelia's first words. I love how she says "on."

Other words she says:

doggy, then followed with a high-pitched squeal of excitement trying to sound like a dog. The typed word just doesn't do it justice. You have to see it.

mommy, daddy (she even calls the construction workers in our house doing the remodel that... it's kind of awkward!),

"Dee-dee" is good for binky and blanket,

"sssssss"=shoes and socks, also works for cheese, and brush your teeth,

sandwich= "issss"

apple ="bopbee",

"nana" for the obvious= banana,

"wall" for the bathtub tile wall.

"cookie" for cookie AND cupcake. works both ways.

Flashback Friday, 1, 2 and 3 years ago

1 year ago we decided to buy Conrad a potty. 1 year later he's finally getting it!1 year ago we were drooling over this smiler. And she was drooling over everything. 2 years ago Conrad was figuring out the sidewalks in our neighborhood. Also he could not walk yet.
3 years ago this boy was just figuring out how to sleep through the night.

3 years goes by SOOOOOOOO fast when you have children. I can't wait to see what the next 3 years holds. (wait, maybe I can! explanation: beginning of residency, still living far away from "home," and having another kid or 3).

Riverside Riverfest petting zoo cage

They had goats and some small little chickens were so fun for C and A. I forgot what the chickens were called, but they had feathers covering their feet, too. Anyway, here are some pictures. This was from about 3 weeks ago, but still... I had a request for an update and I haven't taken any pictures lately. These are good pictures I had been meaning to post anyway.

Conrad either needs a brother or a dog. He is constantly trying to wrestle Amelia and she will have NOTHING to do with it. It's like we have a little squealing pig in our house whenever he lays on top of her leg or touches her arm or ANYTHING, if he comes close to her she squeals. Anyway, this is a picture of Conrad in action. He kept putting his head on the goat! Yuck! Then he would laugh with delight. He cracks us up.
Don't tell Josh, but I think a dog might be in the cards up next for us. :)