A Few Things

Sunday: I was in the mothers lounge nursing Bryan and Jacob was with us. Jacob witnessed a one year old boy get his diaper changed. As the diaper was going on Jacob said, "Look, Mom he has diapers like mine." Being the mean mom that I am I said, "He sure does and he is a baby, you are a big boy... you can wear underwear." Jacob looked at me very seriously and said, "Be nice Mama." I was then like the wide mouth frog that said, "oh."

Monday: Bryan went in for his two month check up. He is 12.3 pounds 80th percentile for his age and he is about 23 1/2 inches long 75%. I was in shock that he is so big, I am so glad that I see him as just a little guy still.

Tuesday: Today, David said that another kid at school said, "We should call you 'poo poo David'." David replied with, "P. U." The other kid just laughed and all was well. That was an awesome response David!!

He's Learned How to Ride a Bike!

Sometimes I think I compare myself to others too much. The kids in our neighborhood learn to ride their bikes at age two without training wheels.

Then I have to remind myself that we don't have to keep up with the "Jones". Everyone is different and we all learn at different speeds.

My kids learn to ride their bikes at age seven.

David learned because he was just ready. Emma went out back and acted as a coach for David.

And well, he figured it out.

He now asks to ride his bike every day.

He is still learning how to ride and look both ways before crossing the road. And that scares me.

However, I am so proud of him. And he is proud of himself. I think it's so cute that he sticks out his tongue as he concentrates.

Beautiful

Just had to jot this down real quick!!  I was just putting away David's clean clothes and he was watching me.

He said, "Mom, I can see your spirit."

I said, "Really!  What does it look like?"

With a big smile on his face he said, "It looks just like you mom.  Only skinnier."

So I sat down next to him and asked, "How can you see my spirit."

He sweetly said, "Because it is light mom, I can see it.  It looks just like you, only it is a little skinnier."

He has such a special spirit.

Kids

David woke up last night at 12:00, he had to wake me up to find out if he could go potty.  Of course I said yes all was well, he went back to bed.

David then woke up at 2:00 am.  He was crying uncontrollably, I went in asking what was wrong.  He said that he can't stop crying.  I asked if he had a bad dream.  He said that he did have a dream but it wasn't bad. He was crying so much that we had to wipe his nose.  He then calmed down and said very bluntly, "Mom, you can go now."  He laid back down and went right to sleep.

Abby woke up this morning because she wet the bed.  Luckily this happened while I was in the shower.  No lost sleep.

Jacob was sick all day yesterday.  All he wanted to do was snuggle and he had a fever.  We gave him this "Miracle Mineral Solution" (MMS), and a blessing.  He woke up this morning happy and ready to EAT!  (He hardly drank or ate anything yesterday.)

She's cute

When I picked David up from school today he jabbered about what he is doing in school. Making a haunted house, putting glitter on pumpkins and such, he looked up and saw a girl from his class.

David said, "Hey Mom, that's the girl that showed me poky man (I don't think I spelt that right) cards."

I said, "oh that's cool."

He said, "Ya, she's the girl that has spots all over her face too."

I said, "Oh, freckles, thats cute."

He said, "Ya, she's really cute."

I just smiled, then said, "what is her name?"

He said, "I don't remember, but from everything I know about her I really love her."

I laughed inside.

She really is a cute girl, red hair, freckles, cute smile...

He is in kindergarden... all I ask is that we are able to keep good communication together.

I like that he can talk to me.

August 6, 2009

I've been horrible with keeping up with the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th child when it comes to their "firsts". David lost his first tooth back in August. Yeah!! The tooth fairy brought him a tooth fairy bill, still need to get a photo of that, (for blogging purposes) she also brought him a small toy figurine. He loved it! He also asked if I was the tooth fairy. He is a very smart kid. -Ma

"I was just playing."

Yesterday I needed to pick Emma and David up from school about an hour early. David was a bit perplexed. Like he had no idea that I could take him out early!! I was really cute.

Emma is used to change and was ready to go very quickly.

On my way to the office I had to pass the play ground. I noticed three boys rolling around in the middle of the grass. My first thought was, WOW, I can't believe they aren't doing anything about those boys. Looks like someone is going to get hurt.

I looked a little closer and noticed that David was right in the middle of it all. The boys were all smiling and having a great time.

Then I was amazed that it was my little boy that was playing so roughly. I wasn't in shock, we keep saying that he needs a dog so he could rough house with it.

That night we were eating dinner and I was telling Pa what I had seen. I described the boys as Wrestling boys. David puts his head down and said, "I wasn't wrestling, I was just playing."

So for the record, he was just playing. But he was sure having a GREAT time!! -Ma

Spider Man

Every time I try to get rid of spider man David lets me know that he is not ready to get rid of the dancing and singing guy.

So now that he has a good rip I thought I would be able to send him packing, after all he is broken.

David assured me that we can fix him.

So I did...

I guess spider man needs to stay a little longer.  :(  -Ma

First Day of School

The kids were so excited to go to school they woke up before me, 5:30am.

The sun was in their eyes.

When I picked them up, David was beaming!!  He had a great day, and week for that matter. Emma was very disappointed that this new school teaches math.  She didn't want to get out of bed the following day.  But, she loves it now.  -Ma

Meet the Teacher 2009

We chose a new school for the kids to go to this year.  And we couldn't be more happy with our choice.

This is David's class of 17 students, and his cute teacher in the blue dress.

And this is Emma's class of 14 students and her teacher.

Emma was still in her class coloring.  But here are some cute pictures of the rest of them.

There is Emma.  David was so funny, there were three girls at the top of this climbing dome. The girls were saying how they were afraid to be on the top of it.  David walked under them and said, "I'm not afraid of nothin'!" as he walked away from them... typical boy.

They were both very excited to go to school, however David didn't want to sit down and color the picture the teacher had for him.  So we took it home so he could color it and take back to his class.  After he was done coloring it he said with a twinkle in his eye, "I can't wait to see my teachers eyes."  I asked him why and he said, "Because she will be so excited to see what I did." 

-Ma

Ouch!

June 11, 2009

As sad as it is boys will get hurt.

Jacob is our little helper.  If we are working on ANYTHING, he is there with us.

When this happened he was helping me clean out our tent trailer, we were getting it ready to sell.  I had a piece of metal on the floor.  I had that sweet voice from inside tell me that someone could get hurt on that sharp metal and that I should move it.  So, I spoke back, in my head and said, "I will just put this away and then I will get the metal."

I turned around to put away that "something else" and I heard screaming.  Jacob fell on the metal item.  Hardly any blood, but he had this deep gash on his leg.

Quickly we went inside to clean it and put a bandage on.

I put a butterfly band aid on because it was a wide cut and it looked like if I didn't get it to hold together he would end up with a yucky scar.

Looking at in now over a month later, I am so glad I did.  He has a scar but it is thin compared to what it could have been.

Just a side note.  After putting on the butterfly band aide I put on a larger band aid to keep him from taking the "important" band aid off.

In this photo he was so excited that I was taking his picture.

He would point to his cut and say "ouch", really slow.

We went to the library to wait in line for the free culture pass.

I wanted to take Emma to the zoo because her birthday was coming up.

While waiting in line I talked with a couple mothers who were in front of me, I told them that I really wanted to take my kids to the zoo because it was going to be Emma's birthday.

David was running with the said lady's boys.

When he fell, H A R D.

He has never fallen this hard before.

I ran to the van to get the "doctor kit".

Cleaned him up, put band aids on.  Then I listened to him cry saying that he wants to go home.

I just couldn't take him home we only had 5 more minutes till the library was to open, we were close in line and we were going to get the zoo pass!!

A librarian comes out to tell us not to run anyone over and that we need to be kind... blah blah blah.  Then he gives us some shocking news.  He said that from here on out they will not be putting all of the passes out at one time, they will stagger the times that they put out the passes.

I thought, "great, I should still be able to get the pass and get out of here.

So, the doors are opened and the crowd, now more eager than before makes there way into the library.

The kids and I walk closer and closer to the shelf thingy that they put the passes on, I see the ZOO PASS

I pick up my pace to get to it with a hurt child.

I was almost to the wanted pass when the lady that was in front of me, (the mother of the child that was running with David) is on the other side of the shelf thingy, without showing her face she reaches her hand around the shelf and she grabbed the last ZOO PASS!

The lady stood up, straitened her clothes.  Looks at me like she won the battle and said, "Oh, I don't think they put all the passes out this time.  I think this was the ONLY ZOO PASS."

I look at David and said, "I am so sorry I made you wait here for nothing.  Lets go home."

Not that I was entitled to the pass, but she was not very nice about it.  She looked at me down her nose.

On our way home David said, "Ya know why I fell Mom?"

I said, "No Dave, why did you fall?"

David said, "It was because of that boy, he made me fall, he made me run."

I responded, "And you know what.  His mom took the last zoo ticket too!!"

Hmm.  -Ma

Spying

While working in the back yard, David started "inventing" something.  He had no idea I was taking these photo's.  It appears that he is trying to put something inside of the tube.

He is in deep thought.

Oooops he caught me!

Now he is just being silly!!

Boys are fun!!  -Ma

When I Get Big

David found a sticker with Mr. Clean on it.

He said, "This is what I am going to look like when I am big."

I said, "Really?  That is cool."

As he was walking away he said, "Ya, it's because I eat lots of banana's, I am going to have big muscles."

-Ma

Put Just Right

When I was younger, my older brother and his friend would go into my room and move my 

nick-nacks on my dresser.  They wouldn't move them much just ever so slightly.  Then they would wait.  I would go into my room and I would always notice that something was touched, something was moved.  They would do this over and over again.  They would always watch, and they would always be stunned that I could see a difference. 

This morning I poured David a bowl of cereal, he ate a little bit and then ran to go potty.  When he came back he said, "Who ate my cereal?"  Emma piped in, "Mama did!"  I laughed and said, "How can you tell?  I just had one bite."  He just giggled. -Ma

Happy Birthday David

Every year David gets to have his birthday in a different month, sometimes it will be in November and other times we will celebrate in January.  I think we celebrated it once in December.  for those of you out there that plan to have a baby in December I would strongly suggest staying away from that month.  

David was born Christmas day 5 years ago (it is amazing how fast time flies).  We had a small party this year with Grandpa and Grandma Nyman.

David really wanted a pinata this year so we negotiated and got him the less expensive #5 instead of a super hero.  He was happy.

This is a transformer.  Turns into a motorcycle.  Pa put it into a motorcycle, then he handed it to David, telling him that it is complicated and he doesn't think that David should take it apart.

Well, David is our inventor, so he took it apart and put it right back together.

Batman graced us with his presence.

Grandpa and Grandma got this really cool spiderman costume.  David put it on then ran as fast as he could down the hall, saying that he was the fastest super hero.  Emma is modeling it for him.

Happy Birthday David!  -Ma

Hanger Creation

He's done it again.  He has made a new creation, he calls it his hat hanger.

He is such a fun and funny boy!

-Ma

David's Sandwich

Mom, can I make a sandwich?

Not the kind you make, but the kind I make.

I need one of these (hotdog bun),

will you get me some yogurt?

I just need to taste the yogurt first.

Will you get me some cheese, please.

Mmmm, this is going to be good.

I just need some crackers.

Hmm, I need something else.

More yogurt.

And cheese.

It's a good David sandwich.

Oh ya, this is so good!

I love this last picture because of his eyes.  When he was just little and nursing, he would latch on and immediately his big blue eyes would roll back and you could tell that he was in heaven.

-Ma