The reason....

for my lack of sleep lately. This child can not be contained. He can also open doors and disable child safety door knobs. Someone help me!

This is how I find him alot -sleeping with his brother. We always move him to his crib when we go to bed, but occasionally he climbs back in bed with him. So sweet and yet soooo naughty!

Not sure why blogger turned this pic, but I can't seem to figure out how to fix it.

Big 4

 My little monster turned 4 today! A lady in my ward made this fun balloon bouquet for him. It's a good thing I took a pic since it didn't even last 2 hours at our house before the kids were popping them with pens. Not sure if you can see Deko's ridiculously filthy face in this pic or not.

 Free lunch started at the school across the street today. So we took some cupcakes to share with friends. Tripp wanted strawberry cupcakes with green (cream cheese) frosting. They were super yummy! We played at the park afterwards in the beautiful sunshine.

Tripp wanted to eat at Burger King for dinner. We ate and played on the big toy there. He got an Iron Man lunch box and was excited about it. He told me that he likes Birthdays so I guess he had a pretty good day. Happy Birthday Trippy!

For Silly Sar

This post is for Sarah and my mom-who just can't handle waiting for the news to get out. I am pregnant! I just so happen to be due on Christmas. Can you think of a worse due date than that? So seriously, if there are any other prego ladies out there who want to switch due dates, mine is up for grabs. It would be nice to have baby a few weeks early-say on 12-12-12. Tripp was 2 weeks early and Deko came on his due date, so we'll just have to see what happens with this one.

On another note, this is my little Deko in time-out. He was so cute sitting there that I couldn't help but take a pic of him. Which I think completely defeated the purpose of time-out since he whipped around and gave me a big grin after I took the picture. Oh naughty boys, I agree with Tripp -he better be getting a baby sister this time!

Preschool Days

 Today was my last day teaching these preschool clowns. It was fun! I usually put on a clip of Sesame Street for the letter of the day. I thought it was funny that they all wanted to squish together on the same couch. Left to right: Kobi, Kinley, Gabe, Lilah, and Tripp.

Today was the letter E. So I made Edible finger paint. It is just pudding and food coloring. They loved it! I gave them spoons at the end to eat it-which I think was their favorite part.

And Deklan likes to feel like he is part of the group, so he is up there eating with the rest of the hoodlums.

 I didn't want to send these soggy masterpieces home with them. Probably not the best thing to carry in a car. Got to love Deko's in the bottom right corner. He was only interested in eating. I figured I should pull the camera out at least once during preschool. I should have taken pics when I had the letter B -We celebrated the letter B's birthday. They even sang to the letter and blew out a candle. Oh well, there's always next year, right? 

Made me giggle

I was taking pics to post our apartments online and this little stinker literally ran into my shot. His cheesy grin makes me laugh everytime I look at it. What do I do with this little naughty cheeseball?

Experiment

 Awhile back my grandpa sent me an email about cooler corn. Basically you put ears of corn in a cooler and then cover it with boiling water. Close the lid and in 30 minutes you have perfectly cooked corn that stays hot in the cooler. This is great to try unless you have a son named Tripp. He did what he does best-ignore his mama. He got up on top of my cooler and jumped off of it -knocking it over. The boiling water went all over the floor. It came towards me(barefoot), I screamed and jumped out of the water (no burns). I then ran to Deko and threw him on the couch -somehow he was standing in the right spot. The boiling water went around him on both sides. Then I picked up my screaming Trippy who was wearing ankle socks, and ran him to the sink and filled it up with cold water. His socks held the water on his skin -giving him 2nd degree burns around his ankle. And the poor guy has enormous blisters.

I took him to a clinic and the doctor there thought it might be a 3rd degree burn since he hadn't been complaining about pain -the second day after he was burned. She thought there might be nerve damage. She then told me to take him to the emergency room of a big hospital. I took him to the hospital and he got to sit in a bed and watch cartoons until the doctor came to look at him. He told me it was only 1st and 2nd degree burns. Wow, thanks for that waste of time.

Tripp did really well while everyone examined his ankle and I thought he needed an "owie present." We went to the store and this is what he picked out. He's been wearing it nonstop ever since.

Maybe, just maybe this kid will start listening to me when I tell him not to do something. We'll see.

Thoughts

Is it True?
Is it Kind?
Is it Necessary?

We had Ward Conference yesterday and our bishop talked about gossip. His father told him to ask himself these three questions before sharing anything with another person. I loved his talk! He said he was driving around town with his boys and he made a comment about another driver and both of his boys looked at him and said, "Dad, you shouldn't say that." Part of his talk was about judging others. How we shouldn't judge, label, or grade others. -since we probably don't want the same kind of judgement about us. I really tried to listen the whole time, but it was a little difficult because Deko's new joy is crawling underneath the pews and joining new families during sacrament meeting. Anyways, I thought I'd share these thoughts with the blogging world and let you take what you want from it.