BY THE SEA...

This is how you do Legoland 7 months pregnant :)

So, I guess the cabin fever got to us, or maybe it was knowing that our precious new baby is coming in a couple months and we wouldn't be going anywhere for a while, but we decided to take a trip to the beach in California and a stop at Legoland this last week.

We seem to always hit the beach on rainy days, but that didn't dampen the enthusiasm, except when Eliza fell into the salty sea and was completely soaked.

We discovered Jared is a seagull whisperer.  He taught the kids how to hold up Cheetos and the seagulls grabbed it from their hands with the feet.  They all had a blast, until Lucy started dropping gold fish crackers for the seagulls right at her feet and the birds were swirling all around her, them she flipped out, but Daddy, the seagull whisperer (or shouter in this case) frightened the menacing birds away...for a moment.

The kids wanted to swim every chance they could at the pool, even though it was freezing cold...brrrrrr

Legoland was fun...it exhausted the kids, and mommy and almost Daddy :)

Lucy kept crying to go home, but then today she cried to go to the beach.  I reminded her of the long car ride in her buckle, but she just smiled and said, "Yeah, let's go to beach!"

The drive was an adventure to say the least.  We did great on the way down, but coming home we were a bit travel weary and there were tears all around, we almost had even Mommy and Daddy tearing up as we sailed through St. George at 6:30 p. m.  Jared was our star driver and we joked because his lead foot got heavier and heavier as the kids began crying...by the time he realized how fast he was going he saw police lights in the rearview...oopsy....

Then and hour later...police lights again... double oopsy.  So all in all we got one warning and one ticket :)  OH, and we made it home in one piece and tucked the tired little munchkins in their beddy-byes.

Hopefully we made a happy memory!

Everyone Loves Lucy!

She's turning 2 in a week... and we can't imagine life without our little miss Lucy.  We call her the queen these days.  The older kids are able to see in the humor in her way of life, and how being queen cannot last forever.  

We chuckle lovingly as we know a new sister will dethrone the current queen.  

Despite her often demanding speeches, where she says the same thing over and over again, getting slightly louder each time, until she has everyone's attention :) she is very sweet and caring.

She notices when anyone is sad ad is quick to offer a hug.

You might hear her calling your name though out the house and you will see a huge smile on her face when she finds you.  She will say "I was missing you" as you hugs you and pushes her way onto your lap.

Some of our favorite mispronunciations are

Garbage = boddage

Chocolate Milk = Cocko-nilk

Toothpaste = tootpaste (with the matching tootbrush of course)

Uckles = popsicles

At our house it is survival of the pickiest, and Lucy is no exception.  She has a very limited palette.  It includes:

Apples

nuts

noodles (with out any sauce)

chocolate milk (she won't touch ice cream, bread, or any form of meat)

smoothies

Cheese

Candy hearts

rainbow cheerios...

popsicles

and dare I say... toothpaste when ever she can find it

She is definitely on board in the "Daddy is awesome" club and adores he time with Daddy.  She is pretty good at getting what she wants from all of us, but especially Daddy.  She is always asking me, "Where's Daddy!!!???" if she can't see him.

We bought candy hearts during Valentines and she still asks for the everyday, even though they are long gone.  She is probably my child that remembers things that are not right in front of her the best.  

We recently went to the dentist and she had 1 tiny cavity on the back of her front tooth.  He fixed it in the office with no shots in less than 5 minutes.  She screamed as we held her down, but her teethies are all fixed.  She reminds me every night that the dentist fixed her teethies.

She is terrified of strangers coming into her space, especially the mail lady at Jared's office.  She is getting braver and only cries if the mail lady says "Hi cutie!"

I also cut her bangs because she won't let me do anything with her hair and I missed her cute eyes hiding in her overgrown bangs.  She was so upset at the thought that I would cut her hair, she looked at me intently with a frown and said, "Not my hair, it's so pretty"

Summer Sunshine...in February :)

The weather has been wildly warm for this time of year, 67 degrees!  The kids have been loving it and so has mom.

How to tell if you have a fever...or a "cold"

Lucy has had a cold the last few days and her track record in the past has been 80% of her colds turn into croup, so I have been watching over her waiting for the first intimation of a fever.  The other day Eliza started to get a stuffy nose and I felt her forehead.   She look at me intently and said, "You are trying to see if I have a fever or if it is a cold aren't you mom"

I chuckled as I got her meaning, a fever would manifest itself as a hot forehead, on the other hand a "cold" would surely show up as a cold forehead.

So there you have it:

Fever = hot forehead
Cold = cold forehead

Lucy's new job is to make sure all the hats smell like flavor blasted goldfish. 

2 handsome fellas

Under the Sea...

I am contemplating making a habitats I spy book for children.  This is the beginnings of my ocean page.  I am having WAY too much fun, too many late nights and early mornings :)

"Do you have any idea what it is like to be me?" ---

So Eliza posed this question to me...

"Do you have any idea what it is like to be me?

"No," I said, "I don't..."

She smiled happily and said..."IT'S GREAT!"

I love her positive attitude :)  Here's to happy 4 year olds...