giggles!!

We are in Utah playing with cousins and grandmas while Steve is "working" in Scotland. While Steve has been gone Leo has started to smile (in response to us, not just randomly) and then today he whipped this out. He is a wonderful sweet baby, we love him!!! Thanks to Aunt Lizzy we got it recorded.

Kyla and her best bud Jade...

Kyla has had a best best friend all her life, Jade. They are 6 weeks apart and SO much a like! They have had tons of fun this summer...

Swim lessons



Dance class


Silly girls in their matching jamies made by Jade's mom.



We are so glad this family lives here in Flag and are dreading the day Jade's dad will finish school and they will move on...

Funny Johnny

John has had some winners this week, he has kept us laughing.
He is really into Bob the Builder, for awhile he wanted us all to call him Bob. He is over that but still sings the theme song when he plays, "Can we fix it? Yes we can! Bob the Builder, get the job done." So this afternoon he was outside playing with Kyla and I heard him say, "let's get the job done, Kyla." I am not sure what the job was but they got it done...
He and Kyla are always asking for snacks and treats, they are hungry little monsters. The other day John said "Mom, I'm a lot of hungries!" That meant he was really really hungry, not just ordinary hunger.
And speaking of food, in sacrament meeting this week after eating the bread he said "YUM YUM THAT'S GOOD BREAD!!" and yes, he yelled it! The bishopbric have told Steve they watch our kids for entertainment...
He has learned some Jedi mind tricks to get his way, when he asks a question he follows it up with "yes?" He tells you the answer you are suppose to give, no need to think... ok maybe not Jedi but it does work to convince me sometimes. "Mom, can I have a treat? Yes?" Half the time I say yes because I think he is so cute!
He is a cute little boy and I love him lots!

sleeping through the night...

Last night when Leo woke up to eat "in the middle of the night" I checked the clock, I always do, I am not sure why it matters but I like to know what time it is when he wakes up... Anyway, I was SURPRISED to see 5:30 on the clock! He usually wakes up around 3 to eat, another 2 hours is one huge step closer to sleeping through the night. I don't consider 5:30 am to be morning... he has to make it to 6:30 or 7 before I will give him the real sleep through the night title. So even though Johnny was awake all night coughing and in and out of my bed all night I still felt like I got a great nights sleep until.... Steve's alarm went off, I checked the clock, it said 8 am... Steve's alarm goes off at 6 am... my clock was 2 hours ahead!!! What a cruel joke! At that moment of sleepy disappointment I remembered Ky and John playing on my bed the night before and realized they must have changed my clock then. So Leo and I are still on the night shift... we are both ok with it, for now.

Dare Devil Johnny

Yesterday I came out of my room to find Johnny standing in a small tote ready to slid down the stairs. When I asked in my super calm mommy voice what he was doing he informed me he was riding his "gate board" down the stairs. I suggested that might be too dangerous. He told me "Mom, its not dangerous, its FUN!!!" Steve has been waiting for the day our mostly timid Johnny Boy would turn over a new dangeroso leaf, the day may have arrived. I just hope he manages to stay out of the hospital!