Embarrassing Booger

The other morning Madi came downstairs and announced to Ryan, "I had a booger on my nose and I was so embarrassed!"

Night night baby!

Avery. Oh Avery. What do we do with you?

Avery constantly cracks us up with her funny/cute facial expressions. She is starting to talk so muh and her little voice just melts my heart. Everytime I lay her down for her nap, I tell her, "night night, baby." Which she responds, "Nigh nigh baby!" Then I say, "I love youuuuu!" And again she responds, "I love youuuuuu toooooo, ooooo!"

Chips

For lunch today I made the girls a P&J sandwich. I bought some ranch chips and dip the day before(which I never do, I ususally just by tortilla chips) so I told the girls if they ate all their sandwich they could have some chips. Most kids love chips! Well, as I was eating a few chips with the dip I asked Madi if she would like to try it. I put it up to her mouth and she immediately backed away saying, "I have to eat my sandwich first, remember mom, that's what you said."

Me: "Oh, yeah. Good job Madi."

Wow! What an OBEDIENT child I have!! haha.

Toot Toot!

Why is it everytime after bathtime, kids like to run around the house naked? OR is it just my girls?

Tonight while Ryan was getting the girls out of the tub, Madi, shall we say, "passed gas". Then Madisen and Avery took off running around the house naked, a bathtime ritual. Here comes a "Toot-Toot" Train! Haha! Get it?

Yeah. Me neither.

Mini Body Builder

Madisen wakes up every morning around the same time. This morning I heard her coming down the stairs and then comes running into our room.

"Mom! Avery needs a drink of water, because it will help her grow strong like this..." She then puts both arms up and flexes like a body builder.

Where do kids come up with this stuff?

Dad, where's your hair?

I was playing with Madi in the living room as we were supposed to be getting ready for church. I told her "we gotta do our hair now," to which she replied, "Dad, your hair is all gone. You better go find it."

I tried to explain that my hair wasn't lost, it was just gone forever, but she told me, "you gotta get some more. Just go get some."

If only things were that easy...

Goofy Girl

We ate dinner, and wanted to start cleaning up to have family home evening and scripture study before Ryan had to rush off to study. We were waiting on Avery to finish. Avery kept saying she was "done" eating, but everytime we went to take it away or ask her if she was done, she would shake her head and say "No." . We would say ok, eat your food then. She would just sit there for a minute and then yell out, "Done!" So we again, tried to take her food and ask her if she was all done and she would again shake her head and say, "No." Well this went on several times (probably a dozen at least!) All of a sudden she starts laughing and making these ridiculous faces at us...she was playing us the entire time! What a GOOF- BALL!!!

I just got done giving Ryan a hair cut andafterwards Ryan always trims his goatee himself. Well he was bent over the trash can in the kitchen shaving his goatee, when Avery walks up, tilts her head to look up at him and says, "whad you doin' dAAAd?!"

It was funny and cute!

I guess it was one of those times where you, "had to be there" ! haha!

Ethan and Emily

After we were done visiting with Emily at the hospital on Saturday we started making the long (2 1/2 hours) drive back home and we had this conversation with Madi.

Madi: "I thought we were going to the hos-pit-tapal?"

Me: "We were just at the HOS-PI-TAL Madi. Mommy went to visit Emily. Emily is still very small and she can't come home yet. Someday you will get to meet Emily, ok?"

Madi: "Yaaaa....well, Emily is at the hos-pit-tapal and I want to see her."

Me: "Maybe next time you can. And do you remember mommy telling you about Ethan? Remember I had two babies, but Ethan went back to Heavenly Father....Ethan passed away, Madi."

Madi: "Yeah, Jesus has Ethan now. And Ethan is with Heavenly Father too, in Heaven."

Me and Ryan: "Yes, Ethan is in Heaven with Heavenly Father and Jesus. But he will always be your brother and will always be in our family."

Madi: Pondering for a while.... "Yaaaa, Ethan is with Jesus Mom."

Hogle Zoo

On Saturday we went to Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake with Ryan's mom and Bob. The girls had a blast hanging out with Grandpa and Grandma Graf and seeing all the animals. Madisen especially liked the zebras and reminded us all of "Marty" from the movie, Madagasscar. There was actually a special place where you could see all the animals from the country, Madagascar. After seeing all those animals Madi said, "That was incredible!"