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Tuesday, October 26, 2010

What do we do?

I've been asked that a few times since I've had kids.  People wonder what in the world I do all day if I'm just at home being a mom.  Well, first of all, I'm rarely home.  Second of all, we do a lot! :)  Here is just a glimpse of what we are doing on any given day.

(If you want a closer shot of the pictures, just click on them)

Just two of the sweetest kids I know.


On the left side we have our first attempt at Kai's haircut.  It was a failure because I refused to cut off his curls and he screamed the entire time.  All wasn't lost though because the kids got Slurpees at the end.  On the other side we have Ava and her lizard (she's been trying to catch one all summer and we finally found a half-dead one that couldn't move fast enough), Kai and his fascination with water, daddy's softball games, and Ava's friend "Whaley Whale".


Shark Reef Aquarium


A "Late Night" with good friends.  Ice cream, a movie, and a bunch of little girls.  What more could Ava ask for?


Children's Museum.  We had so much fun!  Both kids were fascinated by the miniature grocery story.  Ava loved running the cash register and Kai was thrilled to fill his basket with food.  When he tried to pick it up though, he was truly annoyed.  It's a good thing he doesn't handle the grocery shopping in this house.  Kai dressed up as Superman and Ava, of course, dressed up as a princess and they both showed us their moves on stage!


One night we had some friends over and the kids were playing so well upstairs!  Little did I know they had emptied the ENTIRE playroom into our gigantic tub.  I'm not even going to talk about how long it took to clean up.  Some other fun things that Ava has done lately is to have us all wear pig masks.  She loved it, but Kai refused to join in on the fun.  She is also going to dance every week with her friend Taylor and she really likes it.  The last picture is just the cutest thing.  During conference my kids actually sat down for a couple of minutes and watched President Monson.  It totally made up for them running around and screaming the rest of the time.

Thursday, October 14, 2010

R.I.P. Mullet . . . . .

Kai had the cutest curls ever. I really loved them. What I didn't love is the fact that the curls made him be total business in the front and party in the back. It took us an unnatural amount of time to determine that the mullet really had to go. Randy just decided on Sunday night that it was time. We armed ourselves with a shirtless 17 month old, the highchair, some clippers, and a popsicle. Kai was terrified at first, but then decided he actually thought the whole experience was pretty cool. I may have shed a few tears. These are his baby curls people! He looks so darn cute though. As you can see by my impromptu photo shoot after the fact.

The before pics. Pictures really don't do it justice. If you need to link back to the Gaston ponytail, please do.

The Clipper Master:

The Process: At first Kai was terrified and then he decided it really wasn't too bad.

Yep. I'm picture happy. I really am bad at choosing pictures to NOT be in my blog. I'm really good at choosing pictures to make an appearance though. Of course, Ava wanted to be seen. Kai is laughing at Ava. He thinks she is the funniest thing on Earth.

The result: What a handsome little dude-man. I could just eat this kid up!