Superhero mornings

What causes kids to gravitate naturally to some things? The last 3 days my kids have decided they are superheros and want to wear their costumes all the time. I don't mind so much since it keeps them completely entertained. The other night I walked into their room to find them fighting the imaginary bad guys. MD would jump on his bed and swing his arms around then yell " I got em!" And Hyrum, who insists on being a part of MD's game was on his bed swinging too yelling "Bad Guys!" MD and Hyrum also have started coming into our rooms at around 7:00 in the morning to ask me to put their superman costumes on.They jump on their beds because that makes them fly and they love listening to the Superman theme song and I hear them singing it as they run from room to room.

One perk (Besides the hours of playtime and the happiness it gives the kiddos) is the fact that I use superman as a way to enforce rules
"Superman always says please and thank you!"
"Superman likes to help"
or in some cases
"If you hit your brother I will have to take away superman"

Sometimes it works, sometimes not but it is nice to have something to hold over them :)









His fortress of solitude
We have had to make do with a Spiderman costume sometimes but Hyrum doesn't seem to mind :)

Sometimes or Always?

"Do I love you sometimes or always?'

Michael has started asking the boys this question and it touches my heart. The boys know what the answer is and it has becomes a game to them

"Sometimes!!!" They scream-and then they get tickled.
"No not sometimes!" Their daddy says
"Sometimes!" They scream again so they can get tickled again.
Finally after several rounds of this they finally answer "You love me always"

And their daddy hugs them close, kisses them and says "Yes I love you always."

This game reminds me of my own father who use to ask his children "Guess what?"
and the answer was always "I love you" And then we would go kiss his cheek.

Feeling crafty

Michael bought me a sewing machine a couple of months ago and I have just gone crazy! It is something I had no idea I would enjoy but the feeling of creating something and then watching it be used is just so nice. I have made tons of things for this new baby but the other day I was feeling like my 2 boys here needed some of my attention :) this morning I decided to try out a tutorial I found online.

These hats took me about an hour to make and the kids actually kept them on the whole time we were at the park.

I was watching these two kids play together and again I realized how grateful I am that they have each other. It makes me so happy to watch them play and enjoy each others company!
Down time for some snacks!

At the last ultrasound we took the boys to "see" mommy's baby in her belly. Well Apparently MD had the idea that we were literally going to see a baby and when we pulled up the pictures on the screen MD flipped out.
"That NOT the baby!!!! The Baby's gone!!!!!!!"
"No Michael that's the baby there on the screen."
"The baby's black? No that's NOT the baby! The baby's dead!!!"

Fortunately there was a picture of a real newborn next to some ultrasound pictures so we were able to explain that these were just pictures and that the baby would look like a baby when he was born. MD was slightly comforted.

Also at the same doctors appointment MD heard a baby crying in the room next to ours and he was convinced he was hearing our baby cry from my belly. I just think my boys are HILARIOUS!

Hyrum has decided he is a big boy. Everytime I ask him a question he will answer it, then follow it with "I'm a big boy!" The other day he overheard his daddy telling MD to "use his man voice" and I think he got confused and now his new title when asked is
"I'm a MAN boy!!!"

Hyrum also had a little "accident" the other day where he fell and scratched his arm. Convinced of the seriousness of his situation he decided band-aids were NOT going to cut it. So we ace-bandaged it :)

Look at that lip :) This Man boy woke up early from his nap and was NOT happy-Course it was the same day that he cut his arm so he was having a hard day anyway.
This little girl is one of the boys best friends here. She and Michael have a very love hate relationship. I am constantly trying to shoe MD away from her window where he likes to sit and yell at her to come out and play.

Guess what??

Baby boy number three will be here in 8 weeks! (Or sooner :) The baby is actually measuring two weeks ahead of my due date and my doctor thinks I will go into labor on my own so technically I have no idea when baby boy number three will actually make his debut. But if he decides to take his own sweet time November 19th is when we will force him to show up.

I hope announcing this so late doesn't offend anyone. I was going to wait until I was 36 weeks along so the pregnancy wouldn't feel as long to me. At one point I debated about waiting until I HAD the baby and suprised everyone with a picture of our sweet baby boy.

Also for some reason I have had the desire to keep this baby all to myself. I received some negative feedback about getting pregnant with Hyrum (Not from anyone who reads my Blog though) and we have been so excited for another boy to join our family that I have wanted to hold onto that without feeling the need to explain my resoning to anyone.

Anyway now I get to gripe!
This pregnancy is SO MUCH HARDER on my body then the first two were. I am not just talking about weight gain (Though that is also an issue-I feel MUCH bigger then with either boy) But my bones and joints ache so bad! The doctor has told me I can't lift either of my children anymore and I have been put on some medicine to help me sleep at night. I am measuring 3 weeks ahead, the baby at todays ultrasound is measuring two weeks ahead and so I guess there is a reason I am so big!

Michael snapped a couple of pics of me today so here you get to see me in all of my glory :) But this baby is definitely worth being so big.

2 little monkeys swinging from a tree!

Well more like 6 monkeys with Meg and her kids coming for a visit this last week! Lucky for my boys the Barry kids were more then willing to teach them how to climb trees-Definitely a good skill to have these days :)

Up and Away!

I think this is such a fun shot of Hyrum:)

We spent another fun day outside (I am trying to fit in as many as we can before it gets to cold. Our neighbors think it will be in less then a month-yikes!) So off to one of the parks we went! Actually the last couple of days have been spent at 3 different parks so I think I will just include all the pics in this one post :)
MD about to jump :) I am not very good at capturing them moment when they actually leap into the air-But I can get A LOT of them preparing to jump :)




I think I am really going to miss these summer days.

Kid Candids

Sundays are not the easiest day for me. Most of the time I feel guilty because I listen to all these wonderful people at church talking about how they are spiritually uplifted there but usually I just feel completely drained by the end of it. I think I only get about a tenth of whatever talk is given due to my talkative 2 and 3 year olds. This is not really news though since I think I have blogged about it before. Oh well that is just what is on my mind.

I have been thinking alot lately about keeping the Sabbath day holy. I am not sure I understand exactly what that means. I know the "Thou shalt not's" of it but a lot of times I don't know if an activity I am currently doing is "appropriate" behavior. I did attend a class at education week about keeping the Sabbath day holy and the wonderful woman talked about rearing children being a holy thing. THANK GOODNESS since that is what I mainly do!

Anyway today I started playing around with my new camera and took some candids of the kids. Enjoy!

Playing around

A Beautiful Day

Sometimes I wonder just how much effect the weather has on my mood. I know on rainy days it doesn't put me in a BAD mood per say, but I always feel like since I have to stay inside anyway I might as well get everything for that week accomplished that day. Well today was a GORGEOUS day! The weather was in the 60's and everything was crisp and clear. I was in a great mood (Probably because of the weather:) and the only thought I this morning when planning my day was that today was a complete outside day and we were going to enjoy every minute outdoors that we could. So after I showered and got dressed we went outside with lunch in one hand and an invitation to all the neighbors to come join us at the park.

I also decided that I wanted to have a morning where I just followed the boys around let them wander and explore nature. Luckily I thought to grab my camera because these kiddos are such cuties :) Really I can't think of a better way to spend a day with my kids.

I love these kind of pictures
Ooooh Dirt!
This is my favorite picture taken today- I think he looks SO cute :)
I am not sure what happened with this picture except I know my camera is getting old. I think it is still a good pic though as he shows me his flower :)
Looking at grasshoppers. MD is learning so much these days-like grasshoppers are mean (He likes A Bugs Life) and that Seagulls eat them.
I think Hyrum is trying to step on a grasshopper. He thinks that Grasshoppers are out to get him and is convinced that one bit him.
Looking at the mountain stream
And ending at the park-where I stopped taking pictures. Their friends joined them shortly and the kids ended up staying there for about 3 hours. When we finally made it home they were so ready for a nap.