For the Birds

In the last two days, about 4 birds have flown right into our windows, lying on the ground in front of them for a few minutes stunned before they can fly away. What is up with that??

Also, I wanted to document Dora's latest two things--first, she calls the phone lerdleluh--she thinks that's its name. That's what my kids call my mom. So, clearly, I call my mom too much, right? Second, Dora started calling things baby and momma about a month or two ago. She has these carebears in her room, both in big and small sizes. About two weeks ago, she started calling some stuffed animals Daddy and baby. I couldn't figure out the pattern for a few days. Then I realized--when the two animals are identical other than size, like two pink carebears, it's Baby and Momma. When they are different, like a big blue bear and a little white one, it's Baby and Daddy. I thought that was hilarious. Baby is small--she has that down, but baby and mom are the same (just diff sizes) and baby and Daddy look different was pretty impressive to me. Smart kid.

Little Camera Update...

As you can tell, these photos were from the summer! Ha. Obviously I don't use this camera enough. Dora loves to get into my purse. She found my camera and phone and was in heaven...

Pretending to be a photographer here.

My kids like packaging more than the toys... it's true.

Dora is such a messy eater! There's hope though, because Eli used to be messy and is MUCH neater now.

We have this park right around the corner my kids love because there are tennis courts and blackberry bushes and a playground. Dora eats the blackberries--Eli throws them in the river, for some reason.

Look at that purple face! Aghh! Poor Whit's head got covered.

A few months back we found this used on craigslist--so we got it for $100 instead of like $650. It wasn't the one I wanted, but I'd way rather pay $100 than $650 for the one I wanted a bit more. We didn't get the fancy swingset because I wanted the kids to be able to play on it unsupervised with babies running around too.
They like it, although they don't play on it as much as I thought they would.

Here are the few paltry shots I took on Halloween. I am feeling a bit better now, but I felt awful then and I wasn't doing much. Like Dora's pink and gray pajamas under her costume? Oh well. At least she wasn't cold.

She kept making this weird face over and over.

She still has the prettiest eyes--I think.

This video is pretty random--There's one really funny bit of Dora in the middle so I'm including it. She loves to line up all these singing carebears--thanks to Lerdleluh she has like 4 that all sing together and two that tell jokes. The yellow one on the end is a joke teller--but Dora got confused. That's why it's not singing. We sit up and play with those a few times a week before we come down for the day.

How to Use Chopsticks

Here's a little video for you. I have a lot of updating to do on the blog--I just uploaded photos from my little camera and realized I had almost 100--I haven't uploaded them since the summer!! Anyhow, this one's from today--big update blog tomorrow..

Eli likes sushi--and he's a pro with chopsticks. Seriously, sit back and be amazed.

OUCH

Eli keeps jumping on things, despite repeated warnings not to... SO, he finally reaped the consequences, poor guy. I can now attest that our Heavenly Father, even when he tells us over and over, is sad to see us suffer the consequences and would spare us if he could (and still have us learn the lesson.) Poor Eli cracked his noggen and had to go in and get stitches yesterday. Whit tells the tale (with photos-Ick) on his blog.

Shout out to my Mom

I just needed to take a second to say MY MOM IS AWESOME. There are a few people in life you know you can call at 3 am just to cry (not that I've had to do that lately.) I can count those people on one hand. My mom is at the top of the list. Whit's AMAZING, no doubt, but I'd call my mom first because she'd be way less annoyed. :-)

She goes so far above and beyond on things that it's like she doesn't even know what's normal. She is the BEST mom, the best grandma... even her quirks are cute. She's politically obsessed--cute! She can't help herself from sending the kids presents and clothes a lot--cute! She sends me care packages--cute! And she is forever making the kids (and me) stuff. CUTE! She comments on every single blog--cute! (I don't eat candy, but comments on my blog are like my candy. Haha)

I LOVE YOU MOM! You are the B-E-S-T!! MISS YOU!

Bridget