Birthday Boy

The big 2. He is such an independant little boy and loves to do anything that his brother is doing.
I think that his favorite phrase is "I do it". He also loves to climb on just about anything. It was a little suprising when he let Levi help him blow out candles and open his presents. I think that Levi was more excited for Jace's birthday than anyone.


At Jace's 2 year old doctor appointment he weighed 33.25 lbs (94th percentile), and was 35.5 inches (77th percentile). Yes, he is on his way to be a linebacker.
During his immunizations I told him that he was going to get a shot and that it was going to hurt but it wouldn't hurt for long, so he needed to be a big boy and not cry. He said "okay, I big boy". As they gave him the shot, big tears welled up in his eyes and he began to cry. I told him "it's all done" He looked up at me with those big blue eyes and said "All done" wiped both cheeks with the back of his hands and said "No tears, no tears, I big boy". It was pretty cute.

Birthday Cake

Jace turns 2 tomorrow! I can't believe how big he's getting. I will post pics later of the party. I decided to try to make a Lego cake. My cake decorating skills leave much to be desired but I wasn't up to trying to do Fondant.

Preschool orientation

Levi's orientation for preschool was on Wednesday. He got up and didn't want to get dressed until I told him that we were going to meet his teacher (that was at 7:30). He quickly got dressed and put on his backpack and said "let's go to school". I told him that I had to go to work for a couple hours but then would be back to take him. He wore his backpack until I got home at 11 and met me at the door ready to go.

His teacher was really nice and he talked about going back all day long.

Bear Lake 2010

We went up to Bear Lake for Raspberry Days. How is it that we love going up there to visit my brother and his family but we never make it over to get the famous raspberry shakes? We tend to get so busy that it's suddenly Sunday and we are heading home.

The kids had a ton of fun playing on the inflatable toys and seeing cousins.

We went to the town breakfast and the raspberry syrup was stinkin' yummy!

It was a fun little get away.

Train Ride

On another much needed day off, Rick and I decided to take the Front Runner to Salt Lake and go to the Children's Museum. The boys were very excited to ride on the train. Bribery to ride on the train worked fantastically. Waiting for the train.

On the train, can you see the excitement in their eyes?

The Children's Museum was fun, there was a ton for the boys to do, float things in water, be in a construction site,play on life size animals,

Climb walls,

Dress up and be a star on your own stage,

and figure out how to make things work.

At the end of our outing we had two very tired little boys on our hands.

Scaredy Cat

Last week I had the day off so Rick and I took the boys to the Tracy Aviary to get our annual pass ($40/year and admission to a ton of great activities). It is amazing to see some of these birds so closely.

With the vulture.

During the bird show we sat right under where one of the perches that the birds fly to during the show. The barn owl below buzzed our heads. I didn't have my camera in sports mode dang it!

After the fly by, Levi wanted to leave and said that he was scared (Jace was digging it!). Rick turned to me and said "I think that we have a little scaredy cat" Levi turned and replied "No Dad, I'm a LOT of scaredy cat!"

Levi-isms

Levi has been cracking us up lately. Some of his funny sayings this past week:

At cousin Nate's wedding: "Ariel looks like a princess... She is beautiful...Mom, you are beautiful too"

When Rick was putting him to bed: "Dad, am I afraid of the dark?"

Eating cinnamon burst bread from Great Harvest (in a very serious tone and matter of fact): "Dad, this is fantastic"

Jace and Levi playing hide and seek with Dad. Jace was standing at the top of the stairs and Levi opened the closet door, "psst, Jace come hide in here"
A separate time playing hide and seek (they giggle the whole time and aren't very good at hiding) Rick walks into Levi's room (boys hiding in the closet) and said "Are my boys in here?" Jace "No" giggle, giggle, giggle

I've taught the boys correct terminology for body parts, sometimes that's a good idea...
I was ordering Levi jeans online and was measuring Levi's waist and inseam. Levi looks and me and says, "Mom, do you want to measure my penis?"