Pajama Party!

Last week at preschool while studying the letter P! They had a pajama party, popcorn, pillow fights and pit games. Ethan's favorite part was the pillow fight in th foam pit! Looks like they had fun!

That's the whole class around the Big Bear that Avery is afraid of.
Everyone in the foam pit

Ready for a pillow fight!

Ethan with two of his friends Ben and Kami

Snack time!

Just Catching Up!

The other day when I downloaded pics from my camera I realized that I had forgotten about a bunch of pics that I meant to post about. So here's a little brief rundown.

Friday night, pizza night. Sometimes we go the Papa Murphys route, and sometimes we do homemade. The kids loved making their own personal pizzas. Ethan wanted his to look like Wall-E. Can you see the resemblence?

This is what Avery's chocolate chip cookie looks like when she's "done" with it. She only digs the chocolate chips out leaving big craters while the rest of the cookie is intact.

Jesse and I went out to dinner a few weeks ago. We always get calamri if they have it. I personally don't like it when I find the ones that are whole, and they look like a baby octopus. Ethan, however LOVED it. And yes, he actually did eat it. I gave it to him as a joke at first, thinking he would be grossed out. I'm constantly surpirsed at his sophisticated palate!

Ethan and Avery holding hands while watching TV :)
This is the day Avery got into my mascara. I am just glad that she thinks everything is lip gloss. I would hate to see her poke her eyes out!

I just loved this picture of Ethan. When he's not having one of his 4 year old melt-downs (which has been often lately). This is a perfect picture of my sweet little boy!

This is the day Ethan decided to "fix" Avery's hair! She sat really still for him to do it too.

A Fireman and a Fairy Princess!

Ethan- Not being very cooperative about taking pictures. It's been a long 2 days of candy gathering!
Avery loved telling everyone "I'm a fairy princess!" Her hair was the big hit (as usual). I made tight little ringlets. Everyone is always so surprised that she will sit still for me to do these kinds of things to her. All it took was a box of nerds :)

A family in our ward has a cute little place with a full on pumpkin patch, they offered hay rides, and they had plenty of "farm" animals to view and pet! The kids each picked out their own pumpkin! We had a blast!

Ethan insisted on taking this picture! As you can see Avery is not quite ready, she's in mid-cheese!

I took this one! Gotta love the "camera" smile

A little distracted on this one! But still smiling!

Preschool Fire Safety Week!

Ethan wants to be a fireman when he grows up because he "wants to spray the fires". He told me this a few months ago. So when they had fire safety week at preschool he was ecstatic. He managed to get into most of the pictures, which has less to do with being a camera hog, and more to do with extreme excitement about the firemen! The preschool emailed me the pics, they turned out really cute!

Goofy

Spraying the hose! This was the highlight!

Who knows why he's in this one! Poor kid didn't get his own spotlight! :)

The whole class in front of the truck!

The sirens going off.

I LOVE this picture. Ethan looks like he's never seen anything so spectacular as a fireman with a gas mask on! Some of the other kids look scared!

Now it's his turn to wear the hat!

When we came to pick up Ethan, they were playing on the playground so I let Avery out and Ethan loved showing her his favorite thing...the lawnmower! Weird kid!

I don't know what was happening in this picture, but mouths open wide says it all!

"I'm a snake!"

This was a conversation that took place between Papa Fife and Ethan as they were playing trains.

Ethan: "I am a snake Papa, I am a snake who eats trains!"

Papa: "Well, then I'm not a train, I'm a dog"

Ethan: "I am a snake who eats dogs too"

Papa: "Well then, I am a cow, not a dog."

Ethan: "And, I eat cows!"

Papa: "Well, then I am not a cow, I am a duck!"

Ethan: " I am a snake who eats ducks too!"

This continues with a few more animals, until Papa finally says. "Well I am a chocolate chip cookie!"

Ethan thinks about THIS scenario for a minute then says, "Well, I'm a kid!"

I Want That!

Ethan is in that "I want that" stage! This phrase drives me nuts. Any toy he sees in a commercial he says "I want that!" To this I started explaining that he's not going to get everything he sees. He just had a birthday and Christmas will be the next holiday in which he will recieve gifts. So whenever he says "I want that!", I tell him, "Maybe for Christmas". Avery has caught on and now does the job for me. Whenever she hears Ethan say "I want that!" she says "Maybe for Christmas, maybe for Christmas Bud!" It makes Ethan mad, but I think it's hilarious.

Picture Day

Today was picture day! You can tell that both kids really like to be in the spotlight! They did a great job, I just wish when they were told to smile that it looked more natural and not forced and creepy :) Of course I still think they are gorgeous! Avery watched Ethan during his session and saw the photographer telling him to sit certain ways and how to do his poses, and when it came her turn, she was moving all around doing all the same poses without even being told, it was hilarious!

Kansas City, KS

Last week my friend Brooke from AZ was up in Kansas City. It's only a 3 hour drive from where we are and I couldn't pass up the opportunity to see her and her beautiful Hailey. The kids did really great on the drive up and back. We met Brooke at the hotel, and then went to this farmstead place where the kids went down a huge barn slide, fed some huge Koi (they could have done this the whole time). We walked through the gardens, and saw a bald eagle, and some other animals besides farm animals. The kids had a blast, and it was so cute to see how good of friends Hailey, Ethan and Avery would be if we still lived nearby. Then we went and had lunch, and came back home. It was a short visit, I wish we had had more time. We miss you guys in AZ (that's everyone!)

Ringing the cow bells.

They were all a little worried about the huge bald eagle statue in the gardens.

Pumping water from the water pump. He likes manual labor.

Avery, Hailey, and Ethan on the bench swing.

Physical Therapy

Jesse has to do physical therapy on his shoulder 4x's a day. The kids are totally into helping him.

FHE

For family home evening we decided to paint the little pumpkins that Nana gave the kids on Sunday at dinner. They were so excited and they turned out really cute. They didn't want me to draw faces on them for them to color in they just wanted to do it freestyle. I also made cookies for a treat and Avery thought they needed a little more salt (see pics).