The Tower

Tonight after dinner I got up to start the dishes because Makai was sleeping and heaven knows you need to do as much as you can when your baby is sleeping. While the boys finished eating(it always takes them forever to finish eating) I saw Trey run in the kitchen a few times and take some cups. But being too tired to care I chose not to pay attention. A little while later Trey told me to come see something. I came in to find his tower. He of course gave his infamous, "HIMALAYAS!" as he showed me. I guess we have another builder.

Who's clueless?

So, Tuesday night Kyle told me, "Mom, tomorrow is minimum day and the next day and the next." I laughed at him and said, "Wishful thinking buddy." I kind of brushed it off and forgot about it. Now, Wednesday is always minimum day...so that was no surprize. However, today I took the three younger boys to the park for our weekly play date with some friends and while talking to one of the other mom's she said, "So, do your kids get off early the rest of the week?" I simply asked, "Do they?" Yes she explained that due to the fact that it's the end of the second trimester they have three minimum days. Suddenly my conversation with Kyle came back into my mind! Needless to say I felt quite clueless. When I picked the boys up from school I started by saying..."Kyle I need to apologize to you...." Such a forgiving kid. He simply said, "It's okay mom. I was just going to have the office call you." I really need to get it together!

While driving home Kyle told me a funny joke he says he made up. In light of the Olympics I'll share it.
"What do they call the Flying Tomato when he's in second place?" Ketchup!

Tyler and Kory came up with this joke driving home too.
"Why was the egg scrambled?" Because it was late for a date with Spam.

I wish I could make up funny jokes. Come to think of it I do plenty of silly stuff thus making my life one BIG joke.

Reminiscing

Christmas 2006 San Diego Zoo Jan 2007

San Diego Jan 2007

Last night I sat down to the computer and was reminiscing. Where did the time go? We only had three boys. I can't even remember having only three boys. But these picture prove it. I have to admit, I had to stop looking at pictures because I became emotional. They are growing so fast!! As I looked through these pictures of a trip we took to the Santa Barbara zoo, I was reminded of this giraffe. We called it the giraffe with the crooked neck. Apparently he was born this way. It was the craziest thing to watch him walk around. The zoo keepers assured us he wasn't in pain.

Since this picture however I believe the giraffe has died.

2 months

Might Makai is officially 2 months! I took him today to the doctor for his 2 month appointment and he is 16lbs and 24 inches long! This is him a few weeks ago for him blessing. He wore an outfit my mom bought for him. Doesn't he look so handsome! WE LOVE YOU MAKAI!!

Update

A few weeks ago our nieces Emjae and Julie came down for a visit with their parents:). We attempted to get a picture of all 7 grand kids for Nana. Hah...what a joke. Our two nieces are pretty close in age...Emjae is about a year younger than Trey and Julie about 6months older than Makai. They are so cute. This was the first visit with Emjae in which she was old enough to play with the boys. They had a blast. Emjae ran and ran with the boys. We did feel a little bad for her though because she was having some knee problems and running with the boys aggravated it. She was limping pretty hard by the end of the weekend. Sorry Emjae!(oh and all the balloons were donated by Cindy who did a 14 days of Valentines for James. Go Cindy!)

Kory has a new trick! He loves to climb up the wall. Whenever I call him a monkey he reminds me he is 'spiderman', not a monkey. Tyler and Kyle are jealous because they can't do it.

On Monday we went to the Aquarium. Kyle made a new friend. We didn't get any nectar, but the little guy didn't care. He was just eating the salt water from Kyle's shirt. Kyle loved this little guy.

Tyler's teacher last weekend. She called to inform us that Tyler scored a 74/75 on a Stars Test. Good job Tyler!:)

Cheese!!

Six weeks is a fun time as a baby finally starts to show an emotion other that sadness. I love when babies start smiling! So, I totally loved this moment when Makai was enjoying dad. However to be completely honest I was a little jealous as I had been up with him all night...gave him to Monty for a minute cause I needed a break and then saw this. Where is the justice, seriously. If he wasn't so cute, I might really be mad...but look at that smile! Priceless. Today while feeding Makai I was sitting on the couch and look what flew in front of me! A cute little sparrow. Trey and Kory loved it. While trying to get him out he flew into their room. This was a moment of a lot of laughter! So fun. After about a 5 minute stay he exited as quickly as he entered.

Thanks Michelle

I am so thankful to Michelle for taking a few pictures of Makai when he was little. These are two of my favorite as they will be such a great reminder of his small size at two weeks.

Thanks a million Michelle.