Morgan and William turn 9!

Morgan and William celebrated their ninth birthdays together. Morgan chose a Five Night's at Freddy's themed cake. This is Freddy Fazbear. David did an awesome job making it. Don't you love the gum made of teeth?

 William's obsession at the time was Magic The Gathering, so his cake was a little simpler.

 They both got loaded with presents.

Here is the video of blowing out the candles.

2015 Pinewood Derby

Shortyly after we moved into the new ward we had a pinewood derby for the boys! Their first. We didn't have a ton of time to make the cars, especially since we were so busy with moving things, so right until the moment we left the house the cars were being put together. 

Here they are in the car modeling their derby cars. Morgan's is clearly the bullet from mario kart. William said his was the bat mobile, but he gave it lots of colors too, rather than just black. 

 To give Morgans car the right weight David super glued some big washers to the back of it. Pretty clever. At home it on our kitchen scale it fit in the weight requirements. When we got to the derby though it was too heavy! They had to pry the weights off, but too many came, so we ended up taping some coins to the top of it. That was disappointing. And the weight distribution was all messed up so his car almost always came in last place. Poor Morgan. He took it like a champ though.

 I guess I failed to get a good close up of William's car. His did really well though.

The boys are sitting waiting for their turns.

 Here are all the racers. William got third place! Woot!

They also got indiviual awards for their cars and a fun plaque to hold them on. Morgan's award was for Best Workmanship. 

 William got Best Use of Color. David and I got a chuckle out of that because it was supposed to be the bat mobile, which should be all black. Haha. 

They had fun and it was a well done derby.
During the race Allison fell backwards off one of the folding chairs. She fell through the hole that is at an adults lower back. She hit her head and did the whole pass out thing. Ugh! But, I think that may have been the last time she's ever passed out from crying or hitting her head! Yay! I'm happy to see that habit laid to rest.

Rain Gutter Regalia, 2015

The older boys got to participate in a Raingutter Regalia for cubscouts. I don't remember how they did over all, but they had fun.

 Here's a video of the race when Morgan and William were matched up against each other. Close race!

David wanted to try his hand it at also, so he faced off with one of the other dads. I can't remember the outcome of that race either. 

157th Passage

Morgan and William did baseball again last year, and Owen did t-ball  They had fun and improved from the year before. Here's a video of all the video's I took. :)

The Angels baseball team had a huddle after the games. Alli thought she should join one time. 

 We had an award ceremony at Dairy Queen. Here's William.

 And Morgan.

Owen's party was at a pizza parlor. Unfortunately this was the only photo I got of Owen going to get his award. He was very shy about it and just snatched his medal and ran, so I couldn't get a good photo of him receiving it from his coaches. 

Post-it #164

I compiled the videos from the spelling bee in May of last year. I put them together awhile ago and apparently didn't put any effort in getting them in the right order, so it's a little weird, but I don't want to put in the effort to fix it. :)

153rd Passsage

After I called Alli a pretty girl, Lydia said: wait a minute, are me and Alli pretty?

Me: yep

Lydia: oh, well, I look prettier.

William: can I go to Jupiter's house?

Me: whose?

William: jupiter. I don't really remember his name.

Me: Jupiter is a planet.

William: fine, I'll just say, can I go to Billy's house?

(Billy is JARED's little brother)

Me: yes, but you should probably ask your friend what his name is so you don't do something like call him Jupiter.

Lydia: what day is tomorrow?

Me: Sunday

Lydia: Sunday was a few weeks ago!

Owen: Morgan, I dare you the next time we have fire I dare you to eat the fire.

Me: I'm so tired and energy lacking.

Lydia: well you can go night night when you're done. But first you gotta get me a piece of cake.

William was making a healthy meal plan thing for a Cub Scout requirement. He chose chicken for a main dish.

Me: what kind of chicken?

William: pork?

Me: CHICKEN. what kind of CHICKEN?

William: beef.

Me: William, what is chicken made from?

William: turkeys?

I bought Popsicles for the kids. Owen chose a yellow one.

Owen: this smells like banana; is it mustard?

Lydia looked over Morgan shoulder as he was looking at flash cards if bugs. She saw a praying mantis and said, "that's a hypocrite". Maybe she knows something about the mantis that I don't know.

Owen: my long fingernails meant everything to me.

Me: what is soil?

Owen: gray stuff that you can pretty much build anything out of.

David: say dada

Alli: dada

David: mama

Alli: mama

David: say grumpy old man

Alli: dada

Owen: can I have a donut now?

Me: yeah.

A few seconds later. Owen: can I have a donut now since you said "yeah"?

Me: put that gross thing down...

Lydia: no! It's not gross, it's my pet fly.

Today for school Owen was supposed to write a poem. He's been learning about it the past few days. Or has he?

This is his poem, titled "those".

Those tose nose lose those tose nose lose Those tose nose lose those tose nose lose Those tose nose lose those tose nose lose

And that's it.

Lydia: mommy, I love you.

Me: I love you.

Lydia: mommy, you're supposed to say "I love you TOO" when I say I love you. Let's try it again and when I say "I love you" you say "I love you too."

I love you.

Me: I love you, too.

Lydia: good job!

Today Allison handed Lydia a toy phone. Lydia put it to her ear and said, "bring me some candy, husband! Love you."

Me: do you guys know what daddy is doing?

Owen: last I saw he was fixing the bathroom ceiling.

Me: he's outside.

Owen: the bathroom ceiling is outside??

Me: ...no...

Lydia is playing with the play mobile nativity set. The shepherd is a zombie though and killed Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus. Then he asked a wiseman, in a very creepy snake-like whisper, what he wanted for Christmas so he could write it down. The wiseman replied with "a lady bug, rolly-polly, and a moose!"

P.s. I do not condone the zombie massacre of the holy family.

I told Lydia that she's fired. She broke down in whiny tears and cried, "why am I fired?! I don't want to be fired all the days!!!"

Lydia, picking at her dinner: I'm full...but I won't be full if we have ice cream

Lydia: mommy, this time I peed standing up and I didn't even get my pants wet!

Alli likes to shake my tummy and say "baby wakey!" I hope this doesn't continue when the baby is born!

Me: oh man, I have bad breath.

Lydia: then you better brush your teeth! Or daddy will never want to smell you again! Or love you.

Me: why does it smell like poop?

Lydia: it doesn't. Anyways, kids don't smell what moms smells.

Lydia: is your middle name May?

Me: my middle name is Dawn.

Lydia: whose middle name is Dawn?

Me: mine...

Lydia: what?! You didn't say that!!

150th Passage

March highlights:
I'm so far behind, that I'm just going to post pictures from March and do one big post.

So adorable seeing Alli follow in Daddy's footsteps. Okay, maybe just make his piano playing less musical.

Alli LOVES animals. She got a great deal of joy out of tormenting Daisy.

This didn't go anywhere, except to the annoying place of Alli always wanting to sit on the potty for no reason. 

 Morgan often gave Alli rides on the tricycle, which she loved. Then it got left being the van and crunched when David was pulling out one day. 

149th Passage

Morgan and William had their Cubscout Blue and Gold Banquet back in March. They both made a cake for it.

 Morgan went with the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. It was very near St. Patrick's Day.

 William did a country road with a hotwheels car. This was after I told him we weren't skilled enough to make a cake of Jesus. Plus, who wants to cut into a Jesus cake?

They both won awards for their cakes, but, alas, it was so far in the past that I do not remember what they were. 

144th Passage

Lydia, singing a song: I love my beautiful princess, *looks up at me* not you, only this cup. 
There is a princess on a water bottle. She loves that beautiful princess, not her mother. Lol.

Speaking of Allison, Lydia said"I love her, she is so cute! Can we keep her for the whole day?"

While doing school, Morgan: I think this is the best little i I've ever made!

Of all the letters to be proud about ones penmanship...

Time for almost a whole year of funny kids quotes. 

From Sept 2014

Me: okay Lydia, what comes before 17?
Lydia: purple leaf.

This year I had William and Morgan start a journal. They write in it daily as part of school. This is what Morgan wrote today. 
"Lydia: she likes to sing. She is like a cracker throwing Pokemon. She is the weirdest person I know."

Speaking of Halloween, 
Lydia: I'm gonna be a princess! . . . Or I'm going to be a space robot.

Lydia: look, a dog feather. Can I have it?
Me: no it's yucky. I don't know what it's from. 
Lydia: It's from a dog.

Lydia: can I smell this? (Referring to David's pomade.)
Me: sure
Lydia: this smells like a dog, and that's gross!

Lydia: look a police car.
It was in a school parking lot. 
Me: yep. 
Lydia: maybe he took a kid. I think so maybe he was naughty and his mom said "do you wanna go to the police?" And he said "yeah!" And the police took him. I would not want to go to the police!

Owen: the earth is 115 years old. 
Me: actually, it's closer to 6000 years old. 
Owen: what? But it told me the earth was 115 years old!
Me: who told you? 
Owen: my brain. I closed my eyes and my brain said, "the earth is 115 years old".

Oct 2014

Me: name a scary animal. 
Morgan: lion
William: tiger
Owen: bear
Me: yeah, give me another one. 
William: a deer!

Lydia: I hope I don't spill it on your dress. 
Owen: I don't have a dress. 
Lydia: I know, I thought you were a girl.

As I'm stirring a bowl of batter, 
Lydia: is that doughnuts or not?
Me: not. 
Lydia: oh, is it hash browns?
Me: no....
Lydia: what is it?
Me: brownies.

Lydia: can I play on the iPad?
Me: no, you can do yoga with me. 
Lydia: no, I'm not going to listen to yogurt!

Mother may I in real life is super annoying.

Me: you can all watch a movie.
Morgan, William, and Lydia start watching a movie.
Owen: mommy, can I watch the movie?

Or
Me: Owen, why don't you eat your sandwich while I get your spelling words ready?
Owen: can I eat my sandwich?

Every. Day.

We have a head massager thing that Owen hates. We were playing with it with the kids and Owen was afraid I would massage his head, so he ran away from me giggling. Then his giggling stopped and he scowled at me and in a whiney voice said, "why did you make me scratch my back?!" He saw my look of amusement and incredulity and continued, "it was your fault!" Lol. Hopefully we can teach him to take responsibility for his own actions before he enters adulthood.

Morgan: I don't know anyone in our family that does not have a wrist. 
Lydia: what?! You know William and Owen!

Nov. 2014

Owen: I wish I had an animal that evolved. Like a dinosaur.

Lydia: mommy, but, I don't know if we're going to die. Because I hate dying! And we are gonna die at the Jesus place. Do we have to drive there?

No idea what she is talking about.

Dec. 2014

Owen: get your coat on, pickle head!
Morgan: I don't want my coat. 
Lydia: well, well, well, then you'll turn to ice!

Morgan: I wonder if anyone has taste buds on their toes.

Lydia: mommy I think so I don't know how to get married. 
Me: get married?
Lydia: yeah, I think so I don't know how to get married to my daddy when I grow up. 
Me: you aren't supposed to marry your daddy. You can't. 
Lydia: what?!? You did!

Jan. 2015

Lydia is telling us how she is going to have 5 kids: 6 girls and 7 boys, and there will be a mean boy, but his name won't be Owen. The other boy will protect the girls from the mean boy named a different name than Owen.

Owen: I can still make noise when I talk with my brain. 
*owen closes his mouth and starts making noise*
But it's kind of hard to hear what I say.

Owen: how do you put this on? There's not a way!
Me: there's always a way. 
Owen. Nuh-uh. There's not a way to kill a towel.

I just went into the girls room to take care of a screaming Alli. Lydia still slept, but while I was in there she fell out of her bed.
Me: are you okay?
Lydia: mommy, you know what?
Me:what?
Lydia: actually....

Then she got in bed and got comfortable and looked at me and smiled, but said no more.

William: do babies only see in black and white? 
Me: no, they see color. 
William: oh. It's just that I thought they were like dogs. 
Me: nope, they're people...

Morgan told me he isn't feeling well this morning. 
Morgan: I always know when I'm sick because my chest feels cold and blue. 
Me: how does something feel blue?
Morgan: no, COLD and blue.

Lydia: I like babies. 
Me: yeah, me too. 
Lydia: you know what? When I have babies I will give one to you. 
Me: how come?
Lydia: because maybe some boys will like it.

Lydia wanted a bandaid. 
Lydia: I think so my owieis coming out...
Me: no, you don't need a bandaid. Your belly button isn't an owie. 
Lydia: well I'm going to get one anyway! (Said with attitude). 
Me: no, Lydia, do you want to be a good girl or a naughty girl?
Lydia: well, I don't care.

Morgan was running and dancing around, ducking and side stepping through the parking lot in the rain. 
Morgan: I'm good at dodging the rain! Even though I can't see it.

Feb. 2015

Lydia was singing a song she was making up. 
Lydia: i like Alli, but sometimes her don't like me...
Me: why do you suppose that would be?
Lydia: it's just a song. It's not bad, it's a song.

Morgan: mommy, daddy, I wanna sing you a song I made up. There's some parts you probably won't like, but I don't swear or anything, so just don't be affected by it or anything.

Then he sang us a song that started with a poem by shel Silverstein and ended with him listing everyone in the entire family and using a word to describe them. For example "William is wacky" "Allison is acty" "Caseyshould be Stacey" "Christine is sinstine" ( which means sincere, he explained.) and on and on forever.

William: why do they call butts "butts"?
Morgan: to make kids laugh. 
William: if they were called "hand", kids would still laugh. 
Morgan: or if they called it "slacken"...
Both boys erupt in laughter.

Morgan: did you know that one time my senses got confused and instead hearing music I saw music? They can do that, you know.

Lydia: *gasp* I think I hear knocking! Morgan is that you? 
She pauses and listens. 
Lydia: I think it's an alien! *whimper* I don't like this house; it looks like a haunted house!

I was giving Morgan his spelling words. 
Me: hippopotamus
Morgan: h-i-pp...
Him and his brothers crack up. But he eventually finished and he spelled it right in his first try!

William is doing a little report about foxes for school. He just looked up from his reading and said, "when is the humans mating season?"

Lydia got a big ol' bloody nose yesterday, and then another one just now. 
Owen: Lydia's nose is turning into a blood monster. 
Lydia: I'M NOT A BLOOD MONSTER!!
Owen: no, your nose. 
Lydia: NO I'M NOT!

Lydia was complaining about her tummy hurting. She said "I think I need bubble gum in my tummy." And then later, "when someone's tummy hurts you're supposed to say 'you have to go poop.'"

I was straightening my hair for a date with my husband. Lydia came in and saw the layer I had clipped to the top of my head so I could straighten the layers on the bottom. 
Lydia: oh, your hair is beautiful!
Me: oh, I'm not going to leave it like this...
Lydia: yeah, because someone might laugh at you!
She was in and out if the bathroom. She came back on when my hair was all down and straight. 
Lydia: awww! Your hair isn't beautiful anymore!
At least no one will laugh at me?

Did you know that if you get an apple, light the stem on fire, then open your chest and put the apple in your chest and close your chest, you can then see in the dark? Owen told me so.

March 2015

Owen is learning about the plant cycle. He looked up from his book and said, "I didn't know fruits and vegetables were made from fabric." 
Hmm, I think you're missing something there, buddy.

Me: Owen, why would you throw your baby sister?!?
Owen, with a big smile: I thought she was a cat. 
Me: *stare at Owen with incredulity and disgust at his answer*
Owen: what? I forget!!

Lydia: mommy, guess what?
Me: what?
Lydia: I love you. 
Me: I love you, too. 
Lydia: it's a joke!

April 2015

I was brushing Lydia's hair:
Lydia: ow!
Me: there was a really big knot in your hair. 
Lydia: that's because I ate a lot of food.

Lydia: mommy, did you know that Lydia starts with balydia? And Alli starts with loudia, and you, mommy, you start with baneladie. 
Then she cracked up.

David: Yes, I realize I'm standing in the kitchen wearing nothing but my garments and a belt, eating yogurt out of the lid of a butter dish, but that's exactly what I want to be doing right now and I won't be judged by you!

Lydia: Stop!! Mommy, William is erasing me!

Allison has discovered the floor vents. One of her favorite activities is to pull up one in the living room and throw shoes and toys into it. Today while removing said items, this conversation happened:
Owen: she put a corn tortilla down here. 
Lydia: no, that was me. 
Me: you put a tortilla in the vent? Why?!
Lydia: to feed the spiders.

May 2015

Morgan: if five was a letter I think it would actually be M. For some reason I think that. Sometimes I actually read numbers.

Me: you're supposed to stay in the cul-de-sac. 
Lydia: I don't like the cold-e-sac, I only like the warm-e-sac, because the cold-e-sac is cold!

William: Morgan, we might be sitting ducks!
Morgan: what do you mean?
William: I mean this might be gross.

Huh. Not sure he quite gets the expression...

Lydia is singing a song and making it up as she goes. 
"No one will ever think I'm a bad guuuuuuy. And this is a two year old shoooooe. Because it says 5 but it's actually for a two year old giiiiiiirl."

July 2015

Owen: I was only doing one penny of my strength.

Lydia: that's boring! Mommy, Morgan was blinking a lot of times and it was boring!

Me: I wish I could be skinny. 
Lydia: what? I don't want you to be skinny! If you are skinny than you are a cat!

Owen: I can't wait until I kill a gorilla.

Aug. 2015

Owen: I'm not mean; I've never even murdered anyone.

Post-it #155

Morgan and William started cubscouts after turning 8 and they earned their bobcat award in January. Despite their underwhelming smiles, they actually both really like scouts.