3 Men & A Little Lady

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Happy Early Birthday Owen!

Owen is turning 2 on the 29th, but we will be vacationing with my family at the time, so we decided to let him have his birthday present early. We gave it to him today, so it would keep him and the boys busy while we worked on house projects. He was so excited when he got his train set and was jumping up and down. He loves "choo-choos" and was happy to have his own and not have to use his brothers. Our STILL empty front living room is now the train station. We have given each boy at their second birthday a train set, so our collection has gotten quite big and now has a lot of fun accessories, like a mountain, airport, crane, police and fire station, etc. The boys have spent hours playing and love having "architect" Kenny build new designs.

GOOP!

Ian has been asking me for days to make them some slimy Goop. Its a fun and messy activity that the boys love. We always play with it outside and then I just hose off the mess. Homemade Goop Recipe:

Makes enough for 1 child…

1/2 cup cornstarch
1/4 cup water
small bowl, tin pie plate, etc.
cookie sheet or pizza pan
more water
Food coloring (if desired)

Add the water to the corn starch in a small bowl, tin pie plate, etc. Mix it together using your hands. If you need to add more water, add just a couple of drops. Add food coloring for fun.

Nectarines Gone Bad!

I love the summer when fruit is on sale. I was excited that nectarines were on sale for $ .88lb. for 3 days. I went on the last day of the sale and picked up enough nectarines to last us a week. My boys love fruit as well, so as I made a quick potty break upstairs I came down to find my sweet, beautiful nectarines across the counter top with bite marks taken out of ALL of them! I was livid and went straight to the source. IAN!!!! His response, "I like them." I was not to about let them go to waste, so I made Kenny and the boys each finish a nectarine and I ate the remaining 6. They were pretty tasty. I just wish I could have enjoyed them longer.

Monday, June 8, 2009

Cherry Festival Parade

Every year our litte town celebrates cherry season. There is a parade, carnival, and lots of fun activities. This year Drew and Ian were invited to ride in a train in the parade. They were really excited and were beaming with joy when they rode past me. Hopefully, they will be able to do it again next year because they told me its more fun to be in the parade than just to sit on the street and watch.

Owen & Mommy

the train

Ian, Drew, and Tristan

Let's go out to the Drive-In!

On Friday night we went to the drive-in movie with our good friends the Pattersons (both sets), the Grovers, & the Harris's. We had a great time hanging out, barbecuing, and watching the movie "UP" and "Earth." The boys loved both movies and couldn't get enough of pigging out on popcorn and candy.

Mese Patterson, Orin Patterson, Ian, Owen, & Drew

Owen and Orin, they have a Love/Hate relationship. Right before this picture was taken, Orin had grabbed Owen's soda out of his hand and I had to physically help Owen release the handfuls of Orin's hair from his fists. They always hug each other good bye though at the end of their visits.

Our little family!
I love summer evenings and spending time with friends. We will definitely be spending some more summer evenings at the Drive-In!

Friday, May 29, 2009

Read, Read, Read!

Last weekend we had the wonderful opportunity to drive down to Arizona and see the opening of the Yuma library. Our good friend, Erik Dunn, was the project manager of this great library and did a fabulous job. Kenny and I were both very impressed by the size and the celebration of the library. There was even a fireworks display at the end. Drew and Ian were mostly excited to hang out with Sadie and Deklyn and to meet baby Sophie, but loved touring the children's section of the library. They read inside a cave, a tree, and in little chairs. Each of them got to take home a new book.

Reading in the starlit cave!

Drew, Owen, Deklyn, Ian, & Sadie

Ms. Sadie reading to the boys.

The boys LOVE Sadie and often fight over who is going to marry her. I did find this on my mantel after she left that I have documented and dated and put in Drew's scrapbook...just in case it comes true! Its hard to read but it says, "I love Druw and Ian and they want to marry me and I will marry Druw." So cute!

After Yuma, we traveled down to San Diego with the Dunns, to swim at the beach. The kids all had a blast splashing in the waves and watching seals swim around the pier. We always have a great time with the Dunns! Thank you for being such good friends.

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Father & Sons

Last night Kenny loaded up the boys and headed out for a father and sons camp out. The boys were so excited and Ian kept telling me, "Mommy you can't go...its only for boys. We don't want to be bothered by girls!" They have been talking about going all week and kept counting down the nights until they were able to go and sleep in a tent. Kenny, in my eyes, is SUPER DAD! He even took Owen, knowing it might be a rough night, so that I could have a night to myself. However, my only fear of Owen going came true as Kenny told me about Mason fishing Owen out of the pond. (Just for the record this happened while Kenny was setting up the tent and Mason was "watching" him). Luckily he only went for a quick swim. According to Kenny, the boys spent most of the time running around with their friends, catching frogs, feeding the frogs to the fish, and eating junk food. Drew told me today, "The fish ate my frogs, I don't like those fish." They stayed up late and woke up early. In the morning the boys got to go swim in the pond before coming home. I did miss them terribly. It was weird waking up to such a quiet house and not having kids around my legs as I got ready. So for me, I spent the night in the company of great girl friends, pigged out on amazing food, and got lost in the eyes of Edward Cullen! For those of you wondering who that is, he is the vampire in the "Twilight" movie. So the Summers family all had a fun and memorable evening. I'm glad to be back together again today!

Owen watching and wanting to swim with the fish.

Ian admiring the pond.

Drew feeding the fish.

The camp site

Drew braving the jump!

Brrr that looks cold!

Drew and Ian, the best of buddies!

I really do love the men in my life!!!!

They say the cutest things.....

Mya, my little girl, said in her prayers last night, "Please help us to be strong and healthy like the Hulk!"

Owen almost ran straight into a woman as we entered a dark parking garage. As I told him to watch out, he quickly yelled, "Well she's all black!" Coincidentally she was African American! She was wearing a black dress, which is what he was referring too!

Owen told me today, "You are the best mom I ever had! I love you all the way up to Jesus!" He also loves kissing and told Kenny, "I just want to stay home from school and kiss mom all day!"

Drew lost a tooth at school when he bit into his apple. He felt the tooth inside his mouth as he was chewing and when I asked him about it, he said, "I didn't realize it was mine and I wondered if it was one of the workers!"

While at church, a teacher asked the kids what happened to Jesus right after he was baptized and brought up from the water. Ian enthusiastically raised his hand and said, "He asked for a towel!"

After a long struggle with my boys, to get them inside, bathed, and into bed, I yelled, "I am done, go to sleep!" Owen looked up at me and said, "Mommy I'm sorry you're sad, but the problem is that you don't beat up Drew and Ian. Just beat them up and I will be on your team!"

We are not a family who eats beans, so when Drew went to a friends house to play and eat dinner, he was hesitant to eat the burrito that had refried beans in it. When I picked him up he said to me, "Mom she put mud inside the burrito!"

Aunt Connie pleaded with Owen to shoot his daddy with the gun instead of her and his response, "No, he's the best daddy i've ever had!"

I begged the boys to quit fighting and Drew looked at me and said, "Its not Mothers Day anymore mom!"

Owen got kicked in his "man hood" and said, "Oh, I hurt my Tenders!"

Drew asked this morning, "Mom in 2011 can we get a cat?"

Everytime I feed Mya prunes, Owen comes up to me and says, "Me like chocolate mom!" I give him a bite and his face turns to total disgust.

Owen ran up to me after wrestling the dogs and said, "Me see Cassie's boobies!"

While I was nursing Mya, Drew walked in and said, "Is she done drinking from your boob?" I replied, "No and it is called a breast, thats the proper way to say it." He looked at me puzzled and said, "No thats the Spanish word for it."

Kenny opened the fridge and said, "Something in here stinks." Ian looked at him and said, "Dad, sometimes I toot over there!"

Last night as the boys were saying good night to Mya, Drew looked up at me and said, "Mom, Mya has a boy haircut!"

Drew was reminding me about how when we saw macaws in Hawaii, that one of the macaws was chewing on a woman's hair. He said, about the macaw, "Thats not very nice, it's not choosing the right."

My favorite word Drew and Ian used to say when they were toddlers was, Laddie- for water. I thought it was such a cute word. Owen comes to the fridge and points his little finger and says, "Wa-Wa" for water. So cute!

Last night Kenny went in on a call to deliver a goat and Ian came into our bed. He climbed in and snuggled up beside me, he usually snuggles into Kenny. I asked him why he was snuggling with me and he said, "I can snuggle you because daddy isn't here mom!" He is such a daddy's boy.

Ian is such a daddy's boy. The other night Kenny had to go to the clinic and Ian was sobbing for him for a good twenty minutes because he wanted to go too. When I asked him why he was so upset he replied, "I just want my daddy, he is my favorite boy!"

Birthday parties celebrated in California are usually BIG! There is always a huge jumper, pinata, food for the whole family, and tons of presents. Well we went to a party last night and the boys spent 2 hrs. jumping in a big jumper. On our way home we saw another party going on that had an even bigger jumper with a slide attached. Ian asked, "Can we go to that party too?" I replied, "We don't even know who those people are. " His response, "Well lets just go ask them their names."

As we prepared to go to the Glenwood Springs pool in Colorado with Kenny's four sisters Drew impatiently said, "Come on girls, you're taking too long!" Kenny told him, "Get used to it, this is what men do, wait for girls to get ready."

Much to my dismay I found black ink all over our white sheets on our bed. I of course went straight to Ian and asked very sternly, "Did you write on my sheets with a pen?" With an innocent look he replied, "I was just trying to write my name."

Drew was watching me as I divided my hair into sections with clips to straighten it. He looked up at me and said, "Wow, you look beautiful!" Then when I was completely done with my hair he said, "You're a cute little mommy!"

Ian was dipping his finger in Kenny's contact solution and then touching his eye. I asked him what he was doing and he replied, "Just putting my eyes in mom!"