Things you missed: February

So, it's been a while since I've really updated the blog ... so I thought I'd do a few recaps. Starting with February. 

The month began with a bang: Nana's visit! Even with record low temperatures and the threat of the gas and water being shut off, we had a great time :) 

Next: ice-skating at the county ice rink. This was Lucy's second time out and we had to practically pull her off the ice when it was time to go (because she was having so much fun, not because she had fallen down).

The hit of Valentine's Day? Auntie Juju sent Miss Lu her very own custom knitted Milo Armadillo!

The big news in Calvin's life was the arrival of his Bumbo—a little green chair for babies to help them sit up on their own. He loves it! (As do his parents.)

We celebrated President's Day with a hike out at Bandelier—we went out to the Long House and looked at all of the pictographs.

Stay tuned for March! 

Lessons from Cain and Abel

This morning we read the story of Cain and Abel during our family scripture study over breakfast. We talking about how the consequence for Cain was that God punished him and that God said Cain could not go back and live with God.

Right after that, Lucy piped up and said, "Yeah, because he did something really bad. He lied!"

Nick reminded her that killing his brother was also a bad thing. To which Lucy replied "Oh, I know. I won't kill my brother—he's soooooo cute!"

Good to know.

Why I need a new camera

Seriously. He is so cute right now. (When he's not crying. He has been crying a lot lately....)

It may be because he's bored. He really likes to concentrate on things (he's studying the faucet during his bath).

After his bath he was playing with his feet—squishing them together, spreading his toes apart, kicking like crazy.

If you're thinking these shots don't look too bad and that I don't need a new camera, you should know that my friend Katherine lent me her DSLR over the weekend and that's where these all came from. Straight from the camera—no adjusting, photoshopping, or any other sprucing up.

We had a lot of fun. Calvin was a good sport :) 

Nana's arriving soon!

We're pretty excited around here—Lucy has great plans, and Calvin's working on his laugh :)

"Boo"

"Blah"

Lucy today

Walking to the bus stop: "Hey Mom, let's pretend that I'm a doll that you found, except that I look like a kid, and I'm really big, and you found me and you wound me up and now I can walk ... [walks with her arms out stiff and her legs straight for a few steps] And now let's pretend I can also turn into a unicorn and I'm flapping my wings and I can make rainbows with my horn! [flaps arms while running]"

Talking about Justice O'Connor's childhood [after reading a book about her]: "Hey, I know, maybe her Dad was a spy! That's how they got the pictures! [in the book]"

I sure love her!

Thai tacos

We had Thai tacos last night for dinner. Well, I'm not sure that's really their name (I kind of made them up), but the fresh thinly sliced veggies balanced by the sweet-salty chicken and piquant fresh ginger, alongside the garlicky peanut sauce reminded me of the yummy Thai meals we ate with our friends the Smiths back in Sandy. Which reminds me: we need to make Thai soup again (Melody taught me how).

Everything looked so pretty laid out on the table that I had to take a picture. A successful experimental dinner night—hooray!

Bits of the day

Today, Calvin Jesse:

Slept in until 5:30 am

Figured out how to hit the toys on his play gym with his fists

Took a 2 1/2 hour morning nap

Peed in his bathtub three times

Grinned at Daddy during his diaper change

Became increasingly grumpy throughout the evening

Cried at Lucy (we're not sure why ...)

Fell asleep eating at 8 pm 

Oh, and posed for these adorable snapshots :) 

Note to self

Get those 72 hour kits made!

It's the goal for our ward this year for everyone to have one.

And then the other day the Costco magazine came and they had an article on them.

And then just today I was over at my friend Christi's blog and I happened to notice on her sidebar a link to an awesome post she wrote about putting theirs together.

It's a sign: I need to get it done!

Quote of the day

"Everybody loves their head. And everybody dies."

—Lucy Webb, 12 January 2011

Clean read

Last night, sitting down to read Lucy her bedtime story from her (modern, young-child-appropriate) book of fairytales:

Miss Lu: "And can I pick the story?"

Mommy: "Sure."

Miss Lu: "Ok. And you read it and then tell me if it's sanitized."

Mommy: "Sanitized?"

Miss Lu: "Yes. If it's sanitized, then you tell me how it really happened, the not sanitized story."

Mommy: "Um, ok ..." (thinks: How did she figure out these stories have been changed?)