Journal

I have been using this blog as a journal to keep track of what my kids are doing in their lives. So I thought I would do an update on them.

I'll start with Sydney. My little Sydney is such a joy to be around. When she is home the house is never quiet. She loves asking questions and wants to know about everything around her. She loves the direction left. She always wants whichever is on the left. She wants to sit on the left. She loves left. Random I know. She also has been very interested in what she was like as a baby. The other day at dinner she asked me, "Mom when I was a baby did you go to the hospital and pick me out of a pen of babies?" She thought that we just showed up at the hospital one day and picked her out of a play pen. I explained that she came straight from Heavenly Father into our lives and there was no "pen" involved. :) She is everything girly. She loves skirts and dresses and wears them most everyday of the week. The only time when she wears pants is when I make her because it is so cold outside. She loves to dance and twirl and is a huge fan of Taylor Swift. She is a great big sister and tries to take care of Tyler and play with him. She did teach him about monsters in the playroom, which I was not very excited about. So she also has a bit of a tease in her. Sydney loves to watch Dancing with the Stars and has specific opinions about who she likes. It depends on their color of clothes, shoes, twirl factor and music. Not much to do with dancing. In the meantime she dances like Elaine on Seinfield. She's a very interpretive dancer. She is my angel and the light of my life. We always say "I love you as big as..." And then fill in the blank. Sydney, I love you to the moon and back.

Tyler is another joy in my life and completely opposite of girly. He loves his camo pants and wants to wear them every day. He also loves his Kachow slippers and is so cute when he runs around the house in them. He moves at a million miles an hour, but still gives the best hugs. He will randomly come up to me and give me kisses. Yesterday he was playing doctor and kept giving me pretend shots, and I would cry and say Ouch! He would immediately follow it with a kiss. It was a great game. Tyler loves dinosaurs. He has a big box of dinosaurs and puts them in a boat, a train, a car, whatever he can and plays with them all the time. He also loves cars and trucks. He likes to walk around with a toy in each hand. He is growing so big and being so helpful. He likes for me to give him chores around the house. I have found a few things that I can ask him to do and he loves it. I will ask him to take something and throw it away or go hand me something. He loves to be a helper. Whatever Sydney is doing Tyler wants to be involved in. He likes to sing and has such a sweet voice. He doesn't like loud noises like the vacuum or my hair dryer. He likes to be around people and yet enjoys his naps and playing alone sometimes. He loves hats. He will keep a hat on his head for hours, but he doesn't like shoes or socks on his feet. Every time we go somewhere in the car the first thing he does is take off his socks and shoes. Tyler is talking more and more everyday. The other day I was changing his poopy diaper and I said, "Tyler you stinky." He immediately replied, "I not stinky, I poopy!" I love my little boy!

Both of the kids bring Ryan and I such happiness. We are so blessed to be able to spend time with them and be their parents. Love you two!

Happy Halloween 2009

Halloween was a 2 day celebration. On Thursday Sydney had a party at her preschool all morning. They had games and food and trick-or-treating to the classrooms. It was an adventurous day. It started out with games and the kids loved painting their ghosts with marble paint. Then it was off to trick-or-treat. After the 2nd classroom the fire drill went off. It was really loud and scared poor Tyler. We all had to exit outside in the POURING rain and stand until the fire drill was over. Somebody had gone in and grabbed Tyler's coat, but he was wearing a long sleeved shirt and a short sleeved shirt and Sydney had a short sleeved dress on. I convinced her to wear Ty's coat and then when we went back inside she didn't want to take it off because she thought we were going to have to go back outside. After the drill Tyler kept asking to "go home," but we finally got him to enjoy the last of the trick-or-treating. Like I said, an adventure. One thing I love about my kids is that they are usually really nice to each other. Sydney was so excited to have Tyler at her school and enjoy what she enjoys every week. She wanted him to sit by her at circle and watched out for him in the big halls. When Sydney was picked to help during a story, she made sure that "Mickey" could help too. Tyler was very excited to be doing whatever Sydney was. It was a special day to see them love being together.

Luckily Halloween day was less eventful - no fire drills. We did chores in the morning and ran some errands around lunch time. We did run into Snow White at Costco. Sydney loved that and went over to tell her to say hello to Mickey. She even had a Snow White name tag! In the afternoon we all took naps (except Ryan, he had a church meeting - so he got blessings and we got rest :) ) I fixed the kids their favorite dinner, Macaroni and Cheese with peaches on the side. And it was finally time for some trick-or-treating. The kids dressed up as Mickey and Minnie Mouse. Tyler did a great job leaving his Mickey ears on. It was fun to see them so excited to dress up. This year Ryan took them around to the houses and I stayed home and passed out candy. We got a total of 14 trick-or-treaters, including our 2 little mice. So I think I got the easier of the two. The kids loved going with Daddy and came home with way too much candy!! It was a great Halloween.

Happy 30th Birthday Ryan!!

Last week was Ryan's big 30. It was a fun day for our family. We started with our tradition to have donuts for birthday mornings. The kids were very excited for Daddy's birthday so they could have a donut. Since Ryan is 30 and not 2 or 4 I decided to forgo the sprinkled donuts for a cheese danish. After breakfast it was off to work as usual, or so Ryan thought. We were able to surprise him with a cake at work and the kids came in and sang Happy Birthday to him. They had a great time eating cake for lunch. Sydney loved serving the people at Ryan's work with the plates and napkins. Daddy was a good sport to let us show up at work and disrupt everything he was doing.

That night we went to Five Guys Burgers and Fries for dinner. This is a favorite in our family. The kids love their grilled cheese sandwiches and we like the burgers. It is a great family style place to eat because my kids aren't the noisiest there. Or at least not too noticeable. After our lovely and healthy day of food (donuts for breakfast, cake for lunch and fast food for dinner) we were headed to the mall. Ryan decided he wanted to join the iphone cult. :) He loves his new phone and I love hearing Tyler say "iphone." It just makes me laugh. Happy birthday Ryan. We hope you had a great day and love you lots!