Colby learned the Alphabet song forever ago. And sometime in the last year he learned to identify all the upper-case letters (with some mix-ups now and then). So yesterday we were doing some activities with card stock letters on the table, and one of them was to put them all in order. He did pretty well, singing the alphabet song repeatedly up to the letter he was on. Until he got to "L". He was actually holding the "L" in his hand, but kept looking around the table. Finally he looked at me with a perplexed face and asked "LMNO?" He couldn't find the letter that corresponded with the "LMNO" of the Alphabet song.
If you think about it, that is an awful lot of letters to cram into two beats.
Lately Colby has also been singing made-up songs with "the BYU" thrown in periodically. I don't know where he gets it from. Bryan and I are both BYU alumni, and have a few t-shirts. But we're not fanatics (like a certain sister and brother-in-law). And we never call it "THE BYU". And we never watch BYU sports. We did, however, sing what we remembered of the BYU fight song a couple weeks ago, which ends with a rousing "Gooooooo Cougars!"
Yesterday in the car Colby was singing one of his made-up "the BYU" songs. I hadn't heard him tack on the ending before, but this time he did: "Goooooooo Kroger!"
For those of you not from this area, Kroger is a national grocery store.
And they give free kids cookies, so "Gooooooooo Kroger!" is actually a pretty fitting exclamation for Colby.
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Birthday Photo Shoot
The challenge: Get the 5 year old and 3 year old to give their genuine, adorable smiles, instead of cheesy fake ones, and get the 1 year old to sit still for 3 seconds. It's hard enough with individual poses. Getting all three to cooperate at the same time was impossible.
Success? Limited. These are the best ones (small grainy images from the Sears website). If you want to see the the rest of them go here.
While we were trying to pick out the pictures that we wanted, we took turns viewing them and watching after Ashley. At one point we both got involved, and Ashley disappeared. She was nowhere in the studio. This was at Sears, and after fanning out to search for her (including the portrait people), we finally found her playing in the shoe section. She can escape in an instant! A few moments more and she could have made it to the general mall area.
Success? Limited. These are the best ones (small grainy images from the Sears website). If you want to see the the rest of them go here.
While we were trying to pick out the pictures that we wanted, we took turns viewing them and watching after Ashley. At one point we both got involved, and Ashley disappeared. She was nowhere in the studio. This was at Sears, and after fanning out to search for her (including the portrait people), we finally found her playing in the shoe section. She can escape in an instant! A few moments more and she could have made it to the general mall area.
Sunday, April 5, 2009
Birthday fun
Spring is the time for birthdays around here. This year it seemed to last forever.
First came Ashley's, Feb 26 (one year old).
Next we had a joint birthday party for all three kids while Grandma and Grandpa were here. (I'm helping Ashley with her candle corner.)
Sienna had some friends over for a zoo-themed birthday party (Mar 22, 5 years old).
And finally Colby had his 3rd birthday on Mar 29. (I groaned when he picked red for the color of his race car cake. It's impossible to get red from white frosting!)
We have a few birthday traditions I thought I'd share.
-Handprint birthday tablecloth: each kid has a different color of fabric paint. We have a white tablecloth that we put their handprint on every birthday, with their age written on top. We keep it on the table during birthday season (with a sheet of plastic over it so it stays white)
-Fun cakes: I have fun trying to make different shaped cakes. We take a picture every year and slip it under the plastic on the birthday tablecloth.
-Measuring: There is a wall in our laundry room where we measure the kids on their birthday and half-birthday
-"Their song": Sienna and Colby each have "their song" that we make sure to sing or dance to on their birthday. Sienna's is "Brown Eyed Girl" and Colby's is "In the Jungle". We haven't picked one for Ashley yet.
-Spanking machine: A carryover tradition from when I grew up. The kids crawl through a tunnel of legs as people give them their spankings.
-I recently thought of another one that I haven't implemented yet. Asking a short survey every birthday, to see how it changes as they age. Things like "What do you want to be when you grow up?" and "What is your favorite toy or favorite thing to play?" and adding maybe a sentence or two about significant national or world events that happened that year.
What birthday traditions do you have?
Sienna likes to make to-do lists for the "play day" (Saturday). Usually it has a work side (dictated by Daddy) and a play side. Bryan took a work trip to Portugal and after long airport delays he returned early on a Monday morning, so took the day off from work. This was the day we were going to celebrate Colby's birthday. Since Daddy was home from work it was automatically a "play day". But this time Sienna's list had a birthday side and a play side.
Birthday side: Sing happy birthday, Have the birthday, Blow the cake, Eat the cake, Put the handprint, Measure Colby
Play side: Color, Slumber party, Paint, Play princess, Have fun making a tent (out of blankets and chairs), Have graham crackers and milk (a favorite snack shared with Daddy), Party! Party! Party!
For more birthday fun and pictures from March:
First came Ashley's, Feb 26 (one year old).
Next we had a joint birthday party for all three kids while Grandma and Grandpa were here. (I'm helping Ashley with her candle corner.)
Sienna had some friends over for a zoo-themed birthday party (Mar 22, 5 years old).
And finally Colby had his 3rd birthday on Mar 29. (I groaned when he picked red for the color of his race car cake. It's impossible to get red from white frosting!)
We have a few birthday traditions I thought I'd share.
-Handprint birthday tablecloth: each kid has a different color of fabric paint. We have a white tablecloth that we put their handprint on every birthday, with their age written on top. We keep it on the table during birthday season (with a sheet of plastic over it so it stays white)
-Fun cakes: I have fun trying to make different shaped cakes. We take a picture every year and slip it under the plastic on the birthday tablecloth.
-Measuring: There is a wall in our laundry room where we measure the kids on their birthday and half-birthday
-"Their song": Sienna and Colby each have "their song" that we make sure to sing or dance to on their birthday. Sienna's is "Brown Eyed Girl" and Colby's is "In the Jungle". We haven't picked one for Ashley yet.
-Spanking machine: A carryover tradition from when I grew up. The kids crawl through a tunnel of legs as people give them their spankings.
-I recently thought of another one that I haven't implemented yet. Asking a short survey every birthday, to see how it changes as they age. Things like "What do you want to be when you grow up?" and "What is your favorite toy or favorite thing to play?" and adding maybe a sentence or two about significant national or world events that happened that year.
What birthday traditions do you have?
Sienna likes to make to-do lists for the "play day" (Saturday). Usually it has a work side (dictated by Daddy) and a play side. Bryan took a work trip to Portugal and after long airport delays he returned early on a Monday morning, so took the day off from work. This was the day we were going to celebrate Colby's birthday. Since Daddy was home from work it was automatically a "play day". But this time Sienna's list had a birthday side and a play side.
Birthday side: Sing happy birthday, Have the birthday, Blow the cake, Eat the cake, Put the handprint, Measure Colby
Play side: Color, Slumber party, Paint, Play princess, Have fun making a tent (out of blankets and chairs), Have graham crackers and milk (a favorite snack shared with Daddy), Party! Party! Party!
For more birthday fun and pictures from March:
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| Mar 2009 |
Peru pictures
If you didn't get enough of a taste from the previous overview post, here are some more pictures and comments from our trip to Peru.
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| Peru Part 1: Lima and Cusco |
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| Peru 2: Machu Picchu and Lima temple |
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