Best Buds

Mathias warmed up and remembered Dustin really fast. I was a bit worried of this since it had been almost a year since they had seen each other. Mathias actually really loved having Dustin around, as did the rest of us. Dustin would play with him, rough house with him and could actually keep up with him, which let me tell you is getting pretty difficult. One day when Dustin tried to leave, Mathias ran to the door and locked the dead bolt and the handle then put his back against the door, arms spread out, and told Dustin that the door was stuck. He really did not want him to go anywhere! Every day he would ask to "see Mema and Unc Dustin." Mathias was sad when we told him that Dustin was going back on the plane and told us, "Mathias go on plane." Too cute.
Love you bud. Hope you had a good time while you were out here. We miss you.

Picking up "unc Dustin"

My brother Dustin is here for the week. We are all excited to see him and spend some time with him. We have not seen him for almost a year.

We told Mathias that Uncle Dustin was coming here on an air plane and that is all he talked about for a couple of days.When the day came to finally pick him up at the airport, Mathias was excited to see him come off a plane. Well, since they don't really let you go in and wait for them anymore, we waited at the place where you can park your cars and read the flights to see when they came in. This was pretty good though cuz Mathias could get out and move around a bit and watch the airplanes as they came and went. Then Dustin called us when his plane was here and he had gotten in luggage.

It was about dinner time when he got here so we went up to the gate way and had lunch at Tai Foons (Tai Foons is a pretty nice Chinese food place, kinda like P.F. Changs, that I got gift cards to through work). We really did not plan on this but figured what the heck since we were up here anyways. Mom was still in Orem so we walked around for 45 minutes until she got here and then went to eat.

Dustin has this pretty cool phone that you can watch tv on . You can watch live tv or they have a bunch of stuff recorded that you can watch. I tell you, this is the best invention ever if you have a very active child that does not like to sit still and wait for your food to arrive at restaurants. We were able to pull up his favorite show, Little Einsteins, on the phone and he sat there quietly watching it till the food came. It was the best thing ever . I am not sure if they have anything similar through T-Mobile but I think it is something worth looking into just for that.


Anyways, we were not really expecting to be gone long. After all, we were just gonna pick up Dustin then go straight home. So because that was the plan I only brought one diaper. Well, while we were walking around waiting for mom to come, Mathias had a stinky and required a bum change. I had obviously forgotten about the entire Powerade he drank while we were waiting to pick up Uncle Dustin and thought that we would be fine. While we were waiting for our dinner to arrive, mom looked over at me and said, "I think he is wet." I did not think much of it because A. we had just changed him like 45 minutes ago and B. she will change him if he is the slightest bit wet. So our dinner came and Mathias was sitting next to me and said, "Wet," and I looked own and it looked like he spilled something on his chair except he was not holding a drink or anything. Yup, you guessed it, he was soaked. And I am not talking about his shorts being a little wet, I am talking they were soaked and it looked like he spilled something on the seat. I felt so bad. We had no more diapers and I had no idea what we were going to do! I did not even know if there was a grocery store near by and all the cloths stores were closed. Mom asked the front desk lady if they had any diapers that were left behind or anything, they didn't. Again I felt like the worst mom. So we hurried up, paid, and left. Luckily we had a blanket and towel in the car so we put the blanket on his car seat then wrapped the towel around him and buckled him in and hoped for the best. It worked and I learned a lesson, big time, but hey at least it took me 2 1/2 years to learn that one. I will always bring extra diapers!

Happy Birthday Dev

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Happy Birthday to the best daddy in the world. To the most wonderful and handsome husband ever. We Love you so much and appreciate all that you do for us. Hope you had a great day... you old fart.

Happy 29th!

My Smart Little Guy

Warning: this post is from a very proud mommy and may include some bragging.

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So I may be a little biased, but I think I have the smartest 2 year old out there. He has been able to sing his alphabet since around the time he turned two and for a couple months now he can not only sing it but he can tell you what sound every letter makes (except the D, for some reason he gets it mixed up with B) and he can point out all the letters when he sees them. He really does know what the G says and knows what the Q says and what the V looks like. I am not sure why he was not saying them, I guess he was just playing around.
Since he pretty much has his letters down, we are working on colors. He has quite a few of these down. His favorites are blue, orange, yellow, green, red and white. Sometimes he will get purple.
We are also kinda working on numbers. He can count to 10 by himself and occasionally he will count 16 by himself only leaving out one or two numbers. We have not done numbers for a while though because we have been focusing on the colors.
Anyways I Just love this little guy so much and being the proud mommy that I am I had to brag about how smart he is. After all, that is what this blog is all about anyways, right?

Park City

Since it was regional conference today (a freebie day, in our opinions) we went up to Park City with our friends Joe, Jeri, and their two kids, Darcy and Parker. They were having some kind of farmers market of sorts. It is always interesting in Park City, you will never now what you will see (crazy tree-huggin' hippies everywhere!).

We came across a guy doing puppet shows, so of course we had to stop and let the kids watch. I don't think Mathias thought too much of it. He watched it for a bit then got a little restless.

This was one of the better puppets bits he did. He had western music playing along with it and acted as the singer.

I just love this picture. As soon as Dev put Mathias up there, Mathias put his hands on Dev's head and rested his chin and watched the show like that.

This was the other best part of the puppet show, in my opinion. He actually acted like he was playing the violin. I just don't know how all those strings did not get tangled.

All in all it was a beautiful day to get out and walk around. Thanks for the fun time you guys.

Eureka

Yesterday we went with some friends to their place out in Eureka for a few hours to ride their 4 wheelers. I was not sure if Mathias would like it because he was afraid of power wheels for a while but he absolutely loved it.

My sexy husband!

Getting ready to go. Good thing all the little boys are around the same age and size because we didn't even think to bring helmets, luckily everyone else was smarter than us and let use theirs.

Little D and Mathias.
One of the four wheelers broke on the way up the trail so I took the opportunity to get a cute pics of the kids while the guys tried to fix the problem.

Getting ready to go again once we got the wheeler working enough to take it back down.

The view at the top of the trail.

Me, Jeri, and Jami at the top.

Here is cute Jami and her son Little Davy.