Babies, babies and more babies!

I thought I would do a post on Megan's fascination with babies. She loves mothering all her little babies...feeding, changing, burping, rocking, she's got it all down. All of the baby pictures in the house have kiss marks on them because she loves kissing the pictures. The other day I had to laugh when she was playing with a calculator and all of the sudden she squealed, "A BABY!" I couldn't possibly imagine how she connected a calculator with a baby and when I went to look she was pointing to the number 3. Everything in her little world is a baby. Here is just a sampling of the many pictures we have of Megan with her babies.

She loves looking through my baby photo album and kissing all the baby pictures of me.

She makes little nests for her babies all the time, gathering her blankies and lining up her babies. She did this all on her own.

When Andrew got home from a church meeting, Megan brought all her babies and stuffed animals for him to hold. She does this with my violin student's parents too. When they go to leave they are covered in babies and animals.

Here she is wearing her favorite shoes... the ones with the highest heels. She always acts very serious when she's wearing them.

I snapped this picture of her sleeping the other night, surrounded by all her little ones.

Mother's Day Surprises

Mother's Day was full of surprises this year. Andrew surprised me with breakfast in bed, complete with blueberry pancakes, bacon, scrambled eggs, strawberries and even a little chocolate (he knows me well). Jordan surprised me with this cute card he had made for me (with the help of Andrew). I was also surprised when Jordan went up with the primary children to sing during Sacrament meeting that he actually sang along with the other kids. Alison is the primary chorister and had told me that usually he's pretty quiet and doesn't sing much in primary.


I also drove to Spokane on Mother's Day to surprise Marianne who was recovering from a major surgery to treat her colon cancer. The 4.5 hour drive was heavenly...a quiet car all to myself, left alone to my thoughts, music and books on tape. It went by a lot faster than I was expecting. When I walked into her room, Marianne had a shocked look on her face and kept saying, "What? What? How did you get here? What is going on?" Then we both burst into tears and had a good cry. I could only stay for 24 hours but it was well worth the drive just to be able to spend some time with my sweet sister. I'm in awe of her strength, her optimism and faith. She's fighting for her life and handling her trial without complaining and with a smile on her face. She is absolutely amazing!!!!
You are probably not surpised that this was a Mother's Day I will never forget!!

Letterboxing

Yesterday we took advantage of the beautiful weather and went on a little hike around Deep Lake in Enumclaw. We went to Letterboxing.org to print off some clues that led to some hidden treasures along the way. We only found 3 of the 9 boxes, but still had a lot of fun following the clues and looking for them.

This was the first treasure we found and Jordan was so excited to find it, but very disappointed that we had to put it back for the next person to find. I forgot a stamp pad and paper so it was kind of anticlimactic to find the stamp and then just put it back without doing anything with it.

It was such a beautiful day, beautiful surroundings, with my beautiful family....doesn't get much better than that.

Sous Chef

I have enlisted the help of Jordan as my assistant when cooking meals. This is for 2 reasons. A) The kids are always fighting while I'm distracted in the kitchen and can't see what they're doing and B)Jordan will more likely eat the dinner if he's helped prepare it, especially since the whole time we're oohing and ahhing over what a wonderful dinner he made.

As you can see, he's also become artistic with his food. Now if only I could get him to actually eat the artwork.

Fun-filled weekend

Andrew and Jordan had their first camping trip this past weekend for the Stake Fathers/Sons outing. Jordan was SO excited. He packed his backpack the day before and wore it all day. When Andrew put Jordan down to bed in the tent he took out a special glow stick and they read "Danny and the Dinosaur Go Camping." Jordan has been talking about it ever since and now when I ask him who is favorite person is (which has always been me, and that's why I ask) now Jordan replies, "Daddy, because he takes me camping." I'm going to have to come up with something pretty exciting to get first place again.

I like how Jordan is throwing rocks into the river right by where Uncle Adam is fishing. Needless to say, they didn't catch anything.

I had my birthday on Sunday. My mom had us over for dinner because Andrew was scheduled to work at the hospital, but luckily he got called off so he got to come too.

I just love watching my kids play on Grandma's swing. It brings back many sweet memories from my own childhood. It was a nice, relaxing evening.

Fun in the Tub

Primary Activity

This isn't the best picture, but I wanted to document Jordan's first primary activity, a pancake breakfast with his teacher. The reason I wanted to document this is because of Andrew's reaction to this activity, not so much the activity itself.

Me: Andrew, can you go take Jordan to the church? They're having an activity for primary.
Andrew: You mean you just want me to drop him off? I'm not supposed to stay?
Me: Yeah, you know...a primary activity, without parents.
Andrew: Do you think he's ready for that?
Me: Andrew... it's at the church...with his teacher...and it's only an hour.

Andrew ended up hanging around the church for so long that by the time he came home it was almost time to go pick him up. A little overprotective don't you think...but that's why I love him!!