FINALLY!

Brek has had his two front teeth loose since probably Thanksgiving. I thought for sure that they would be out by Christmas. Boy, was I wrong. They had been hanging, dangling, whatever you want to call it for two weeks but with a little bit of bribery, Jed was FINALLY allowed to pull the last one last Monday. The bribe (by me) was given to Brek when it was the Classic Fun Center night for the elementary school. Both Brek and Kaden love going there and I told Brek that morning that if he got that ugly tooth out of his mouth by the end of the school day then we could go that night. He agreed! Jed just shook his head at me, knowing that Brek would never get it out but was happy at the same time because he was going to make me stick to my word about NOT going to Classic Fun Center unless the tooth was out.

Well, Brek came home from school and the tooth was still in his mouth. I reminded him of our deal and of course, tears followed. He said that he had been wiggling it all day but it just wouldn't come out. He wanted me to try! I didn't want to do it. I've never pulled a tooth before, it really seems kind of gross to me and I knew what would happen if I were to try to pull it and it didn't come out. More tears....and that is exactly what happened. I felt bad, even though it was just hanging there, it really was still kind of stuck in the gums.

Brek didn't want Jed to do it because he thought that he would make it hurt too bad so he spent the next 20 minutes crying about it. He was so afraid of the pain and Jed just told him he needed to get up enough courage to let him pull it. A few minutes later, I was in the kitchen and Brek comes walking in wide-eyed and reaches for a paper towel. He had let Jed pull it. Jed had just put his finger nail behind the tooth and ripped the sucker out. Brek was so proud once it was out and off we were to Classic Fun Center!

From the looks of his teeth, I think we better start saving for the braces now!

My Favorite Valentine

Time Long Ago

This is my cute Kaden. The middle child. My favorite thing about him right now is listening to him talk and to hear him say time long ago. That's his way of saying something happened a long time ago. A little dyslexia maybe? I must talk about things that happened a long time ago all the time so he is always saying that things happened time long ago. He tries so hard to explain things the best he can but I think I am the only one who can really understand him. Whenever someone asks him WHEN something happened, his answer: time long ago.

My not so favorite thing about Kaden right now is helping him to decide what to wear for the day. Now I understand that I need to let him have his choices and most days I let him choose (as long as we are just going to be home all day) but what does a 3 year old know about style? He actually tells me if he thinks the outfit matches or not. He thinks that polo shirts are only for church and if it were up to him, everyday would be a Spiderman shirt day. He can be so agreeable one day and such a fighter the next day. Last week before church he spent 1 HOUR crying because he did not want to wear the shoes I had picked out for him. Full on bawling and kicking. THAT was a fun church day.

Oh, and this is what Jed does to Kyler before going to bed. Feeds him an oreo cookie. Look how tired his eyes are.

Hot dog!

Here is our new grill courtesy of KSL classifields and Jed's psycho obession with checking the ads on KSL daily. Seriously, he is addicted and is very close to driving me absolutely crazy with all of the "great deals" he is finding. From a four wheeler to wood (for finishing our basement?!?) to this grill, not to mention a grill for his mom and dad, and oh, I forget the TWO mountain bikes - all purchased within the last two months from KSL. I know that there would be more items to add to the list had he called the sellers just a little bit sooner, that Bosch mixer that got away is STILL eating at him.

He is grounded from searching the classifields for a month (his doing, not mine). I don't think he can do it but he is taking requests from people at his work of what to search for once the month is up. He's going to start finding great deals for other people. How nice! At least it won't be our money he's spending however, we will have a great summer. Barbecue, anyone?

"Obama's probably doin' some research..."

Tonight on the Disney channel there was a kid's inaugural party/concert on. Brek, Kaden and I caught the tail end of it. It was actually pretty fun to watch. It had the typical Disney channel stars on it, singing and all of that stuff. What was fun for me to see was that Michelle Obama was right there in the front row with her girls, singing and dancing to the Jonas Brothers! It was just cute.

I've been talking to Brek about how Barack Obama is going to be sworn in tomorrow as the new President, hoping he can understand a little about the whole process and how exciting this inauguration is. As we were watching that program on tv, he asked where is Obama? I said that I didn't know, trying to think of an answer to give him. And then he said "Oh, I know, Obama's probably doin' some research on how to be president." It was so matter of fact and with such a serious face. I'd never heard him use the word research before either. I just smiled and said probably. Hopefully, Obama has already done all the research he needs.

What am I doing???

So I have been wanting to start a blog for a long time and finally I have done it - all by myself! I am finding that I could probably use a tutor though, maybe to show me all the tricks and easy ways to do stuff. I mostly wanted to start this because I am so dang forgetful and I really do want to remember all the cuteness my little boys have now, while they are still so cute. I am a horrible scrapbooker/journal writer so I feel like this is killing two birds with one stone! Let's see how I do....