They Make Me Laugh Sometimes

They are fun, frustrating, hard, loving, sweet, strong and sometimes pretty funny....

Driving in the car Colt got upset and whiny that he had no more juice in his cup. After telling him three times that I can't fill his cup up in the car I tried a sarcastic approach "ok Colt, let me just get this apple juice out of my pocket and fill your cup up." It didn't have the intended effect but it got him to stop whining, with a puzzled face he asked "why you have apple juice in your pocket?"

Colt loved this bandage when Rachel hurt her hand and had it wrapped up, so he got one too. Wore it out to dinner and everything. 

Can we say mild addiction to the ipad over here? Hiding in the cabinet so she, Livy, could play skylanders. Colt is the other addicted one. Rachel and Ellie couldn't be bothered.  

After Chinese food one night Colt opened his fortune cookie and "read" it himself to us. It said "You come here, play with your friends, and go on a trip." Pretty good fortune!

Doing water balloons with dad, his favorite water activity!

Colt continues to crack me up daily.

When we are reading scriptures his new standard question is, "Did they have the grass plates with them?" No point in correcting him, it makes us all smile :)

He takes everything so serious and totally believes everything the girls say. If they tell him he is tiny, that is it in his mind and later he will get upset about something he can't do and I will try to tell him he can do it and he will say "Rachel-Livy said I tiny so I can't do it." He is very trusting and genuine. He over reacts a bunch but he totally believes it is really that bad-with a cute sad face and voice :)

Pain from the monkey bars, ouch! She loves to do them and has put in lots of time practicing. That was one of her goals she told me and now she needs a new goal because she accomplished that one!

Healthy hands here, until a few weeks later, then she ripped hers apart too!

One night Livy was really sad about something. At the dinner table Rachel was trying to cheer her up and it was so sweet. She asked dad to tell her a joke to cheer her up and then tried her own joke. When it didn't work she says, "ok, well that didn't work so lets try something else." So she did. She kept trying anything she could think of to make Livy happy. I loved seeing this nurturing side of her and her taking care of Livy when she needed it. Usually it is the other way around so this was heart warming to watch. Love their bond these two.

Livy's friend Becky was supposed to come over to play but wasn't feeling good. The next day she felt better and was going to come over and Livy said, "I know why she is better already, yesterday I said a prayer for Becky that she would get better. I thought it would take a few days for her to get better but he must not have been busy so he did my prayer." So cute, sweet, and faithful!

Colt loves Skylanders now. He just got underwear, under panties as he calls them sometimes, and when he was playing his game later I hear him talking to himself, "This guy is on my underwear, I can't believe it!"

A place mat master piece of our family!

I love when Eric is home to entertain Colt and Ellie during homework time!

Colt loves taking lots of pictures of himself every time he gets a hold of my phone. It makes me smile to see what he captures on here.

One day Colt didn't want to go to school so he told me, "Today is not a good day for me to go to school, I'm tired." and then fell on the couch with fake yawns!

At the park one day Colt told Ellie, "watch out for those yellow flowers, don't step on them because Heavenly Father really like those flowers." So sweet sometimes.

"My daw-wee. I carry my daw-wee all day." She likes to add "all day" to lots of her sentences.

Ellie locking herself up in the mornings!

Colt's other obsession. He loves making us dancing elves.

This is the first picture on my phone and I just love it of Rae. It is a year old but she looks so sweet.