3rd Birthday

Thought I needed to post some pictures.  The kids are 3 now! 

They had a blast at their pirate party with a bunch of their friends.  We handed out pirate hats and "tried" to take a group picture...what a fun failure.  Then after chocolate coin topped cupcakes we played Just Dance 4.

We celebrated 3 - 3 yr olds...our two and our friend Addie who is 1 week older than the twins.

 

 

Logan one liner

Logan:  Yogurt makes me yawn.

Passing time

Some of the best times are spent while we are "patiently" waiting for something. 

Today after church we had tithing settlement scheduled for 3:30.  We are usually walking in the door at home at 2:30 and the kids are tired and ready or almost ready for naps.  I knew I didn't want to bring them home have them fall asleep on the way home just to turn around and get them up so we could go back to church 40 minutes later so we stayed and waited.

First, we passed time by going to the truck to get the snacks I brought to try and help pass the time.  Then, we went inside for a little while and visited with friends and were bribed with candy.  This got us up to about 3:00.  We still had about 30 minutes to go and we were done with snacks and ready to go home so we went outside. 

It was a beautiful windy afternoon.  The kids were chasing after the flying leaves...then they were lifting leaves above their heads and letting go to set them into flight...then they started running around the trees...then they began climbing the trees and swinging from the one branch Logan and Alyssa (assisted) could reach...finally we had a nice walk around the building singing "I Am a Child of God" since they will be in primary in a few weeks I figured it isn't too early to familarize them with more than just the first verse of the song. 

We survived and experienced lots of fun new activities.

We can spell our names

Mommy has always sung our names to us in the tune of bingo and now we can spell them ourselves. 

There is a boy who has a name and Logan is his name-o
L-O-G-A-N
L-O-G-A-N
L-O-G-A-N
and Logan is his name-o

There is a girl who has a name and Alyssa is her name-o
A-L-Y-SS-A
A-L-Y-SS-A
A-L-Y-SS-A
and Alyssa is her name-o

We also do a Mommy and Daddy version

There is a (Dad/Mom) who has a (boy/Girl) and (Daddy/Mommy) is (his/her) name-o

Giving Thanks

Instead of 30 days of thanks I will be posting 30 things I am thankful for:

My life
Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ & The Holy Ghost
Alex
Logan & Alyssa
The Gospel
Alex's Employment
Our Freedom
Our Family
Our Friends
Our Home
Good Food
Good Education
Good Vehicles
Working A/C & heater
Clothing
Laughter
Our beds
Doctors, medicine & medical insurance
Our safety
Entertainment
Our Hobbies
Our own washer & dryer
Sleep
Memories/Photos/Videos/Journals
Technology
Vacations & family activities
Furnishings/decorations
our own yard
Stove/oven/grill

35.25 months...2.9375 yrs

I have been good the past month and a half and written some things down...not nearly enough though.  Sunday night Logan got to do the HAPPY DANCE...he can identify all 10 didgits.  On a sadder note on Sunday Alyssa expericend her first tummy bug with throw up. 

They say the most adorable things. 

Alyssa has a few words wrong, but it is so cute.
Tissues = Bless yous
Poka dots = poke a nuts
Shamu = Shampoo
Santa Clause = Christmas

Logan has said some very cute things lately...yesterday Logan was playing with his train table moving the tracks around and then he stopped and turned to me and said: Sorry about the noise.

He has also said:"Pirates aren't tired Mommy", " I'm so proud of you Mommy", and he like to use the word PROBABLY.  When he is answering a question it will often start with probably (and then the answer)

Their imaginations are exploding.  They started to love dressing up, which was great timing with Halloween last month.  We had a great halloween.  This year a family of pirates...with all the bells and whistles...a sword, a hat, an eye patch, a mustache, pixie dust, boots, sashes, a treasure chest with gold dubloons, and last but not least...a pirate ship.

Words they use a lot lately are "busted", OK, FINE.

They like to put their seat belts on as well as bring a stuffed animal or two and buckle them in as well. 

They like to toast...at Chick-fil-A the other day they were tosting their ice cream cones and saying "your'e the best". 

While looking for costumes for Mom and Dad we went to the thrift store and found some dress up clothes for the kids including Super hero capes super cheap...they were running around the house saying "Super hero to the rescue"  we also got a spiderman costume and an incredibles costume to play in.

I think I have mentioned before that they like to use the workout bench in our room as a ship...while playing on it they always say Aye, Aye, Captain!

When they get out of the shower they started to throw off their hooded towels and say,"I am (then their names)  Don't really know where they got that from...I don't do it and I have never seen Alex do it either.

They still count to 14 then the next number for some reason is 11teen.

Alyssa loves to have her nails painted all the time now.

We pulled out the socks as the weather has started to change and then we were putting them on our hands...maybe we need to make/get some csock puppets.

They are really into shadows lately.  When going to bed they like to do shadow puppets on the wall, they notice shadows on the ground while we are walking and they try and step on other peoples shadows.

I really had not given them scossors until lately and they love them.  They do pretty well and make big messes of tiny pieces of paper all over the living room. 

They have also learned some about fire.  They like to try and catch the steam off of hot food/drinks.  They like to blow out candles, and any time they see a flame you will more than likely hear them say "We don't play with fire"

They have started to really love piggy back rides and rides on shoulders.  Anytime I am low enough Logan tries to jump on my back.

Logans new favorite song is Ba Ba black sheep and he busts out singing it all the time.  They both love to sing and even get posessive of "their" songs from time to time.

We have lots of picts to post and another post or 2 dedicated to DISNEY!

The Kids First Hike

We went on a hike today with our friend Cassis and her doggies.  We did the ~2.5 mile hike with a break in the middle.  They enjoyed being outside, the beautiful weather, the overlook, the bridges, snacks at the pond, playing with the dogs, feeding the fish orange peels, and visiting with Cassie.  The did not however care for the few times each that they each tumbled.



They started out strong

 

The outing took us about 2 hours I think.  The last mile was by far the hardest.  Alex and I both carried about an extra 40 lbs. on our shoulders.  The kids were DONE!  Yes, we now know that if for some reason we hed to leave in an emergency by foot we would not get far very fast.  I  guess we need to start working out.