week 14

April 15 - 21

"Mom, Sam keeps following me and I don't want him to."
"He follows you because he loves you."
 *Big drawn-out sigh* "But I have so many important things to do."


Leading up to his birthday Jordan had been waking up and announcing how many days until his birthday. The day before his birthday he woke up and said, "tomorrow is my birthday!" Then he continued with this funny little story, "I will see Ryan tomorrow and he will ask, 'how old are you Jordan?' and I will tell him, 'guess.' He will say, 'ummmmm....21?' and I will say, 'no, guess again.' and then he will say, 'Ummm...five?' and I will say, 'YES! YES! YES!'"


I was telling Jordan about something going on in Salt Lake City. He asked, "is it at the place where we were with all the Germans?" He was talking about Benji's mission reunion we went to last month.

We went to my cousins wedding reception and Jordan tore it up on the dance floor (video to come soon). He looked just like Napoleon Dynamite. I have no idea where he learned his moves. Anyway, when we left he said, "mom, I won at dancing, huh?"

Cabbage Patch Kid

Hannah sucks her bottom lip in all the time. The other day I realized she looks just like a Cabbage Patch Kid while she's doing it.

The week of the pediatrician.

 I think Hannah has made me paranoid because last week we went to the pediatrician three times, once for each kid. Nobody had too serious of a condition.

This one had pink eye:

Hives:

Eczema: 

Here's to no pediatrician for a while!

Have you ever seen an AHIOP blimp? I have.

 Jordan loves to draw blimps with sidewalk chalk and then write random letters on them. He will come running inside and ask, "mom! What does my blimp say?"

week 13

April 8 -14

One day I was making lasagna for dinner. Sam saw the box of lasagna noodles and immediately wanted them to use as train tracks. I told him he couldn't because I needed to put them in dinner and to just go use the train tracks he has in his toy room. He cried for almost an hour because he was so mad that I wouldn't let him use the noodles. He kept yelling, "but I don't have bumpy tracks!!"


One day I was getting the boys in the truck to go somewhere. A dog ran into our yard and came up to me to say hello. Sam wondered why the dog was in our yard, so Jordan told him, "Sam, he's just on an adventure!"


One day I was getting ready to show the house to a potential buyer and put a movie on for the boys while I cleaned and vacuumed. They were watching The Chipmunk movie and they were loving it. Later on Jordan came upstairs with his head down and a huge frown on his face. I told him he needed to go downstairs because I was about to mop the floor. He was so sad and said he didn't want to go watch the movie anymore. I asked him why and he responded with, "the movie said a bad word and it made my tummy hurt." I'm not exactly sure what they said, but the movie is rated PG, so hopefully it wasn't too bad. It was so cute and innocent though that I went and switched the movie for something different.


We were driving by the fire station one day when Jordan said, "Is that the fire truck store?"


 Jordan has been saving money for a toy at Walmart. It's been fun seeing how excited he is about helping out with extra chores for a quarter or two.  It's been fun teaching him about money and the value of hard work. I think the idea has caught up with him that he can buy anything at the store if he saves enough money for it and has started asking how much everything costs. Our trips to the store have easily doubled in time. The way he asks how much money something costs is, "how bucks is it?" So I will hear over and over, "how bucks is this, mom?" while we are shopping. It's a tiny bit annoying, but so very adorable.


Sam was helping me make dinner one night and said, "I'm going to call lasagna "cheese waffles."


We were driving one day in the truck and I was talking to Sam. I called him Samuel, which I guess I don't do enough because Jordan said, "I didn't know Sam's last name is Ule!?"


Jordan: I want to make a new game called "rock, paper, tape."

Easter Egg Hunt

We went to an Easter egg hunt in Brigham City last Saturday and it was a lot of fun. There were thousands of eggs, but the best part is that the plastic eggs were empty, at the end you traded all of your eggs in for a bag of candy. I'm sure it's so much easier for whatever company put the egg hunt on, but it was nice to leave with the same amount of candy. My boys didn't seem to mind either, they had a lot of fun.

 

They were split into age groups, so Jordan and Sam went at different times. First up was Sam's group. Here is ready to go.

Then it was Jordan's turn.

He was so proud of himself for finding the big "golden" egg.

Easter Morning

The boys woke up to find a note that the Easter Bunny left on the table.

They found their baskets!

All dressed up and ready for church.

And the little Miss in her dress.

I had to make a compromise with Sam that if he wore church clothes to church he could wear his bunny costume the rest of the day. He reallllly wanted to wear it to church.

Week 12

April 1 - 7

Jordan was talking about his Light Saber toy with Benji when he said, "Actually, it doesn't have batteries so it's a dark saber."


We had a family home evening where Benji was teaching the boys about the plan of salvation by drawing pictures on the drive way with sidewalk chalk. He drew a large circle to represent earth and asked the boys what they thought it was. Jordan said, "Oh! It's a tennis ball."


Sam woke up one night screaming, "I don't want butter on my sandwich!" It took me awhile to calm him down. Seriously!? Butter. Why!!?


I had to take Sam to the pediatrician last week, when we were leaving he was picking out his lollipop and said, "I want the green one because it probably tastes like salad!"


It snowed last week, and when Sam woke up in the morning he was so excited. He started bouncing around the house and yelled, "Oh! Santa's awake! He's going to come down our chimney."



Benji: Sam do you know how much I love you?
Sam: Yeah.
Benji: You do?
Sam: Yeah.
Benji: How much?
Sam: Ummm....23.


Another night Sam woke up in the middle of the night screaming and crying, "I'm all done with my apple!!" Sometimes I just don't know what to do with him in the middle of the night.


Sam brought in a worm from outside and put it inches from my face and yelled, "I found a worm!!" I was grossed out and told him to take it outside immediately. He got the most defeated look on his face, pouted his lip, and started sobbing, "But he doesn't have a mom! He neeeeeeds you!!"


When we were coloring eggs Jordan picked up an egg to dip in the dye. It had cracks all over it so Jordan exclaimed, "Oh no! I can't use this one, it's about to hatch!"


When Sam can't find something he will always tell me that it walked away. One morning he was looking for a toy plane. This conversation took place between Jordan and Sam.
Sam: "I think the airplane walked away."
Jordan: "Sam, it probably flew away."
Sam: *laughing* "Jordan! It can't fly, it's just a toy!"

Gold Circles

Jordan walked in the front room the other day and said, "hey mom, look at me!" I turned around and found him with gold stickers on his eyes. He thought he was hilarious!

Hannah lately (4 months old)

 She loves her swing. (She swings with a seat belt, and with the latch closed, I just couldn't help but get a picture of her chunkiness.)  

She loves her singing bunny.

She has learned how to grab her toes, she spent a long time playing with them on this occasion because she was so entertained by her shadow. 

This look right here, is just so Hannah. A pleasant expression, but too cool to smile.

Okay, so I'm cool enough to get her to smile! :)

This is what happens when you try to get Hannah to smile by opening and closing your mouth.

She has started sucking her thumb (she's not in this picture, but she's about to.) Her eyes are also turning more blue. (Also, you cannot tell that by this picture...so why did I use this picture to describe those two things? I don't know! haha)

She also gets very distracted by blankets. I love her concentration face. LOVE IT! Don't you just want to squish her!?

Sitting up. Okay, she can't do it on her own, and this lasted for 1.5 seconds, but she looks like such a little peanut, I can't help but love this picture.

She looks just like me in this picture. I hope she continues to look like me as she gets bigger because I've always wanted to know what I would look like with brown hair. :)

She adores her brothers! 

She has continued to get healthier and happier. She is finally sleeping through the night again and hopefully will start eating solids soon. She just barely started blowing raspberries and I can get her to laugh by bouncing her on my knee. She really is special girl. Every time I look at her I'm reminded of answered prayers and a Father in Heaven who loves us.

Cotton tail

Seriously, how cute is Sam playing in the backyard dressed in his bunny suit? 

And I couldn't leave Jordan out, he was too cute up in the tree. (Actually he's spying on our neighbors, so I'm not sure how cute that really is...)

week 11

March 25 - 31 

For whatever reason there are only four quotes this week. Here they are.


We spent an afternoon in Salt Lake last week. While we were there we visited my brother, Todd, and when we were in the car driving away Jordan said with awe in his voice, "Millie and Amelia (his cousins) have special drawers for their jammies and shirts." I had to explain that it's a dresser, and he has one too! :)


One afternoon I stepped on my porch and was delighted to see a row of beautiful flowers in my front yard. A few hours later Jordan and Sam each brought me a handful of those same flowers. They were so excited as they held them out and said, "we brought you flowers because you are pretty!" Seriously, they already know what to say and do if they sense they are in trouble with a female. I'm not sure if that's bad or good. :)


We were looking at swimming pools at Walmart and after I told my boys maybe we would get one of the little plastic ones when it gets warmer, Jordan said, "Actually, the small ones are more expensive because it will probably break, so we should just get a big one."


"I know how they make stickers! They cut magnets into small slices, but a picture on it and then bake it in the oven!" -Scientist Jordan

week 10

March 18 - 24 

Benji's dad was telling us a few stories he shared in a talk in sacrament meeting at church. They were special stories about when he was called to be bishop. Just as he finished, Jordan immediately announces, "Now are we done!?"


When I keep track of these stories, I will usually log in to my blog and make a little note of what was said so I can remember it when come back later and write the full story. I don't remember exactly what was happening in this next story, I just know both boys were on a naughty streak all day, so Benji told them if they can't obey he will give the rocket they were building to boys that do obey. Jordan, being the thinker that he is, immediately pipes up with, "Sam obeys!" (knowing that if Sam got the rocket, he'd still be able to see the rocket launch.)



Me: "Jordan, did you know that Tuesday is the first day of Spring?"
Jordan: "NO! (hiding under the kitchen table) There are thunderstorms on the first day of spring!"


Benji was telling me what he wanted for his birthday. Jordan asked, "What about a lighter?" Jordan thinks when you get older you ask for things that only grown ups can play with.


One day we made our own little band. Jordan was playing a toy guitar, Sam was on piano and I was playing the drums. Jordan suddenly stopped and said, "Oh! We're the White Stripes!"



Benji was reading bed time stories to the boys one night and there was a pyramid in the story, Benji asked, "Do you guys know what a pyramid is?" Jordan said, "Yeah, we lived in one when I was two."
(He mixed up pyramid with apartment.)


There is a girl in our ward named Jordyn. Jordan was talking about how they have the same name, and I was thinking he would feel bad that a girl had the same name as him, so I was explaining how Jordan is a boys name, but some girls are named Jordan as well. I guess I don't have to worry about him feeling self conscious about that right now because all he said was, "Well, Jordan is a nice name."


We've been working on numbers 10-20 with Jordan. One day I said, "you have a 1 and a 2 on your shirt, what number is that?"  "Two-teen." 


We have a lot of construction going on around our house. One day a tractor was pushing dirt around for some reason and Sam was watching. It would be visible from our house for a second before it disappeared from our sight while pushing the dirt. After it did that for a few times, Sam said, "The tractor is playing peek-a-boo!"


Jordan is in a phase where he says "guess what" all the time. He was telling Benji how Sam and him were pretending that our house was a hotel and each part of the house was a different area of the hotel. Benji asked if the kitchen was the pool. Jordan said, "Guess what? No." He's even using "guess whats" in his answers.


Sam came up to me the other day with his cross eyes and asked, "why can't I see my eyes?"


I had just made lunch for the boys and started to nurse Hannah before I was going to get myself lunch. Sam walked in the front room where I was nursing Hannah and asked for more lunch. I told him first I had to finish feeding Hannah, then I was going to get something to eat. He looked at me with the most confused expression on his face and said, "but you can't feed yourself like you feed Hannah."


Benji's parents are in Ukraine for a few weeks teaching classes for the Leavitt Institute. Before they left we had one of Benji's former classmates over to their house for dinner because he went to Ukraine on his mission. Jordan and Sam are already friends with their kids and was surprised to see them at Nana and Grandpa's house. Jordan asked, "He's your grandpa too!!?"



Sam has an Iron Man action figure that says, "I am Iron Man" when you press a button on it. One day Sam was pushing the button and after Iron Man talked he would exclaim, "He is Iron Man!" So for about five minutes the other day I heard this:
"I am Iron Man!"
"He is Iron Man!"

"I am Iron Man!"
"He is Iron Man!"

"I am Iron Man!"
"He is Iron Man!"

It's a good day to be a little boy on our street.

 There is a lot of construction going on our street and my boys are loving it.