Father's Day 09

Happy Father's Day!

Share Time

Isabel is really good at sharing. Especially when it comes to sharing with Pancho. She loves to give him her toys and items that she knows he is not allowed to play with. But her favorite thing to do is share her food with him. She has discovered that this makes her quite popular....with the dog.

Here they are sharing some chocolate pudding.





What's a Mother to do? Besides take pictures that is...

The Heat is On

How do two little munchkins beat the summer heat? Lots and lots of popsicles!!!

Picture Post

Just a few random pictures that have been stackin' up
These two love wearing baseball hats. James is the pitcher and Izzy is the outfielder
At the shoe store. Both kids got new shoes. Izzy had a great time checking out all the different styles while James was very well behaved and let the clerk measure his foot and everything. He even picked out his own sandals!
James just after buying his new shoes. He loves this play area in the mall because of the giant baseball he can sit on.
Isabel sporting around in her new walking shoes
Checking out Daddy's new toy
Pancho playing pirates with James

The Last Pack

Every month when I buy my big ol' box of diapers for James I think to myself, is this the last pack I'm going to have to buy? Maybe this will be the month he learns how to use the potty!!

This has been going on now for at least 6 months! I really really want to get him out of diapers. Sometimes he is interested and we spend a day trying. This usually ends up with me exhausted from cleaning up the accidents and him totally oblivious to the fact that there is even a change to the routine occuring.

But lately, he's been talking about it more and more and seeming to have a new interest. I just spent the last 4 weeks potty training Pancho, I'm totally ready to move on to the boy! I just wish that little light bulb in his head would go off and we could be done with it already.

First Family Campout

This past weekend we decided to take the kids camping. James and JL went the weekend before with the ward for their first father/son campout, and James had pretty much been talking about it non-stop since. So, Friday afternoon we packed up the truck, gathered up the kids and the pup, got us some Big Red Slurpees, and headed out.




We had a great time. We cooked hamburgers and dutch oven dump cake about an hour after we arrived. James was so excited, he couldn't bother himself with food. He spent a great deal of time wandering camp looking for the perfect spot to play baseball with Daddy. Isabel had a bit of food before spending her evening picking up rocks and leafs and trying to catch bids. It was really fun to see the two of them wandering around checking out all the new and exciting things around them.










I would say the kids' favorite part had to be the tent. James thought it was his little house and Isabel had a blast rolling around on the soft pillows and wrestling with James. Everyone was exhausted...that is until it was time to shut off the lantern, crawl in the tent and go to sleep. Then suddenly it was a whole new adventure that required more wrestling and giggling and raspberry blowing and pillow fighting. The only one that caught on right away was Pancho. He was beat! He curled up in a little corner of the tent and tried his best to stay out of the war-path.



After about an hour of Dad's stories and some singing and more wrestling, the kids started to settle down. Once asleep, James slept like a log! Nothing can wake that boy up! Not even Pancho making a pillow out of James' head. Isabel slept for about 45 minutes before waking up and freaking because she had no clue where she was. I think she forgot we were camping and got nervous when she wasn't in her crib. This happened about 4 times every 30 to 45 mins. I was a little worried that I was in for a super long night, but somewhere around 3am she must have decided she was ok and that was the last I heard from her.



The next morning JL made us baked oatmeal in the dutch. James got in a few more hours of baseball before we broke camp and headed home. We all had a great time! Exhausting, yes, but totally worth it. We would like to make this a once a month venture. But next time....perhaps a bigger tent and some cots!