Super Man

The most recent trend for my boy is to watch The Incredibles daily and to run downstairs to the dress up trunk where we keep his cape and his mask; Then to hurry to his bedroom and put on his boots, because all super heroes have boots you know.

He likes to call himself Superman because he has super powers and he is a man. He has a gang of super heroes that usually hang out with him: Flash Gordon, Batman and two others that I have no idea who they are. My aunt Vilma sent him these McDonald's toys a while back and ever since he has picked up on the Super hero thing these toys and him have become inseparable.

The second movie that we HAVE to watch every day is Megamind. Dear Santa brought this for him for Christmas and it has become a #1 hit in our house, it is such a funny and entertaining show. Anyways I really think the movie made Josh realize about the "good guy-bad guy" thing and he has become fascinated by it.
I don’t really want to introduce Marvel characters yet, a bit too violent for my taste but the Incredibles and Megamind are just the perfect super hero fix that this little man needs each day.

Here are some pictures of his latest adventures, as you can see he has a very serious face in some pictures and that would be because he was trying to save Rapunzel at the moment and I assumed he was concentrating hard.

 

Valentine's day

Even though I am not a big fan of Valentine’s Day I do try to make it a little special. This was my first real busy valentine’s though. Julia had to write 25 cards to her friends from kindergarten and Josh had 8 cards to write as well.  The kids also made some cards for grandma, grandpa and mommy and daddy.

Julia has mastered the pencil now and really enjoys writing. Josh just barely got how to write his entire name and he did a pretty good job on his friend’s cards. But those cute little friend’s cards took us an entire afternoon to prep, I was exhausted.

Joshua actually got to have a party from preschool and got a bag loaded with candy. Julia just had a regular day at school and got 0 candy but a lot of pencils and crayons.

Julia actually let me try a valentine’s hair –do on her that day; she had a big smile on her face so I guess she liked it. Let’s just say that I usually succeed 1 out of the 10 times that I try to do her hair cute, I was just glad that it was for this occasion.

For lunch that day I took the kids to McDonalds. I usually let them play for 15 or 20 minutes, but this day we played for an entire hour. The kids loved it and they like getting their toys at the end of their meal.

That night the kids and I made Spencer’s favorite food: spaghetti and meatballs with a side salad and French bread and of course daddy’s favorite drink root beer.

I was so tired at the end of the day I felt sleep at 7:00 on josh’s bed after I read him a story. Spencer came and got me out of his room by 11 o’clock. We had and evening planned which included snacks and seasons 1, 2 and 3 of Psych.

The main thing about that day was to make everyone feel special and loved and I think that with all the hugs and kisses that we received from we did just that.

Julia's second field trip

Julia had her second field trip. This time it was to the Ogden’s nature center; Julia liked to call it the nature fun center.


She was so excited, she kept telling me all about that she was going to have a long bus ride to the fun center and see animal prints and walk on the snow.

Unfortunately there was no snow to walk on that day but they indeed had a great time and learned a lot. She came home loaded with information about animals and their habitats. The first thing that she told me was mommy you put too many cloths on me, I was hot. That will teach me to listen to the weather man next time.

She was fascinated by beavers. She asked me if I knew what they ate and proceeded to tell me that they loved sweet trees; she shared this information with such enthusiasm and pride that I still remember. She loved everything about her field trip; especially that she got to hold hands the entire time with her best friend Brooklyn.

Train Show

A couple of weeks ago looking in the newspaper I saw that a train show was coming to sandy. I made sure I marked that in my calendar.

The entire Exhibit was great. There was nothing over whelming or a lot of walking to do; things were set up so nicely that it was fun to move from one exhibit to the next.  

And of course this wouldn’t be a good show if it didn’t have a Thomas the Train display. This particular table was the delight of my kids. They could name each and every engine’s name on that display. That gray one on the left is Spencer. Oh yeah! They love finding an Engine with their daddy’s name.

Some of the exhibits were so amazing.  I mean they made you feel like they were real trains going around.  I had to keep an eye on Grandpa and Josh who seemed to be in Heaven looking at all those trains.

They even had a big Thomas the Tank Engine ride for the kids to ride on. Grandma Smith kindly volunteered to make the line to ride on Thomas while we looked at the displays. She had to stand in line for 30 minutes!. All the kids appreciated her sacrifice.

I would just like to mention on this picture you can tell Andrew has no idea what’s going on, Julia is obviously not in her element (girly stuff) and Josh well his dorky smile says it all. He had the best time of his life.

After the show we brought Jacob to our house. Jacob wanted to hang out with Josh and Andrew wanted Jacob all to himself it was pretty funny.

At the end of the day all the boys had a bubble bath together and Julia and Josh went to bed while A.D. was left to roam free with his new found best friend.

They tumbled together, climbed on blocks together and gave each other plenty of hi-5s and knuckles until 11 that night. Andrew really loved having someone his size to play with him, we’re going to have to do it again.

There were Lego trains, yes! LEGO trains, with cities made out of Lego surrounding them; there were miniature trains that you had to look in really close to catch them going this of course required miniature backgrounds. Here are a couple of pictures of my favorite ones.

This post is way over due; I mean he turned 18 months back in December. Oh well, someday when life gets a little bit less crazy I’ll be able to post these things faster.

At 18 months:
He can say mame, daddy, osh(josh) Ula(Julia), ud(food), play, go, more, milk, ippy(zippy), car, ball, chu chu (yet another train aficionado), bye, hi, anma(grandma, cold, nose, pupu, iaper(diaper), teeth( when is time to brush his teeth) and prayer.

He also loves to reprehend the cat. I been meaning to take a picture of this for the longest time but it happens so fast that by the time I have to get the camera he is done with his speech and finger pointing to poor Dasher.

Andrew Loves trains, you give him a stack of toys to play with and he will automatically go for the trains. These are the objects of contention between Josh and Andrew. Those two boys love their trains.

His favorite foods are noodles and rice and unlike Josh he will rather eat candy rather than his green vegetables.

He wears a size 5 1/2 although his left foot seems unable to keep any shoes on.

He loves having his hair done in the mornings, especially for church. I always have to fight with Julia and Josh to let me do their hairs but Andrew willingly comes to me. He loves looking at himself in the mirror when I am done and he really loves for me to compliment him on his hair style, so vane!

He is already wearing size 24 months to 2t.

He is figuring out how to climb out of his crib, because have I mention that he is a climber. He is my first climber actually. Julia did Ok on climbing on things and Josh never dared, but Andrew is another story. He loves to climb on anything he can; He is a little dare devil.

He is finally going full time into nursery. Oh what a blessing that was. He loves to color and sing. I have caught him humming some tunes for the Wise man song and Twinkle little star song at home.

I snick by his classroom every so often and I just feel my heart melt when I see him sitting on a little chair with his arms folded just listening to the teacher. Now if he would just learn to do that at home we'll be all set.

I do believe his favorite thing to do in nursery is snack time, because when we take him over to his classroom the first he says is ud (food).

His only bad habit right now is the fact that he loves to stick things inside his left ear. Anything that he can find will go straight to his ear. Just the other day I looked at him and he had pen markings all over his ear hole.

His favorite time of the day is Bath time. He can stay in that tub the whole day if it was up to him but only if Josh is in there to play with him. They both usually come out with wrinkly toes and fingers.

His favorite thing to play with after trains is the fisher prize doll house in Julia’s room which makes Julia so mad because she is left with a big mess at the end of the day. He loves to grab the dad and the kids and just play with them for hours. He must have quite an imagination already.

He loves the camera, he will actually pose for me if I asked him too. I love it!

Now that our basement is finished he loves to go downstairs and turn or keyboard on and just dance to the pre-recorded songs in it. Yeap! He is a dancer.

That’s all about my boy; he is growing fast, way too fast. I can’t believe he is not the little baby who used to fit so nicely between my arms. I can barely hold him anymore.