I'm Not Sharing

Eli is a really good big brother, who for the most part shares really well with his little brothers, but yesterday I think he wanted to keep the treat mommy made for him to himself, because this is where I found him.

He is hiding behind our couch were he knows his brother can't get his apples with peanut butter and marshmallow fluff.

Instacare

Last Saturday, after a fun afternoon with the family to celebrate Ben's graduation, I was cleaning up and loading the dishwasher. Now I usually wait until the boys are in bed before I do this but I just wanted to get the load going, so the twins were toddling around and playing. Well good little Emerson decided he wanted to help mommy out with the silverware. After I told him no and moved him away, he came back. This time though he fell into the dishwasher and his hand connected squarely with a spatula with a serrated edge. I promptly saw blood and found that he had a nice size gash between is thumb and pointer finger. Being weak around blood I hollered for my mom (she is use to it since she is studying to be a nurse). She checked it and thought we should take him in to get it looked at. So we quickly bundled his hand up and left Oliver and Eli in the care of Grandpa (the perks of living with my parents), and off we went to instacare. After we got in the doctor looked at it and decided that gluing it back together was a good course of action, and so he did. He told us that the glue should stay in place for about 5-7 days and would fall off after it healed. They wrapped Emerson's hand up and sent us on our way. The next morning I woke up to Emerson's hand being bare of it's wrap and the glue not holding the wound closed. So now, with the $30 visit from the previous day wasted, we wrapped his had up the best we could, and let it heal the old fashion way. Now a week later he finally started to keep the bandages on, and the wound has finally healed and all is well again.

I Looked Out the WIndow and What Did I See...

Today when I preparing dinner I let the boys play outside, (where I could see them of course). After a little while I heard giggling so I looked out the window and saw something interesting, so I ran and got my camera and this is what my dear sweet baby boys were up to....take a look.

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Things Moms Really Don't Like to Hear

Tonight I was resting on the couch, trying to motivate myself to clean up the millions of toys scattered about. I digress, Eli was playing on the floor and all of the sudden said he needed to go potty and rushed to the bathroom. A few seconds later this is what I heard...

"Oh no...I got pee everywhere"

Not a good thing, and I will leave it at that.

I Love to See the Temple

One Saturday it was so pretty out that we couldn't stay home so we packed the family up and headed to Salt Lake for some much needed family outdoor time. We visited temple square, which was a first for the twins. Eli loves to go see the temple so he was really excited.

Thanks to a passerby we were able to get a family picture with the temple in the background, too bad the twins thought the fountain was much more interesting than posing for a picture.

We finally found an area that wasn't too crowded and let Oliver and Emerson explore the wonders around. The were especially intrigued by the beautiful flowers and wanted to stomp on them, thankfully mommy stopped them before they could execute their devious plan.

I think Emerson is trying to get me to look the other way so that he could commence the stomping, but since I didn't fall for it, they came up with a new game called...

"You go that way and I'll go this way" What a fun game! They enjoyed seeing mom chase after one and then chase the other one (Daddy was getting us some yummy Lion house rolls at the time).

Overall it was a fun day! It was nice to get out in the sunlight and warm weather after being cooped up inside all winter long.

Real Salt Lake

A couple weeks ago the professional soccer team here in Utah opened it gates for free to the fans in the area. Isaac has become increasingly interested in the sport so he took Eli and my brother Kendall for a day out at the field. The boys had fun exploring the new stadium, watching the game with almost front row seats and meeting some of the players. They all came home with smiles, memories, sunburns, and COUPONS for future games!! Here are some pictures from the day.

Out of the mouth of Eli

Today as I was getting ready for church, Eli came into the bathroom (he was already dressed and ready to go) looked at himself in the mirror and stated " Oh I look good!"  A very confident boy we are raising!  

Then at church Isaac and I are Eli's new primary teachers.  We were discussing the baptismal covenant, and as part of the lesson we breifly stated that we were going to talk about repentance and he sighed and said "Are we going to talk about this again?" I guess we talk about it too much!