Thor's Insite

"Mom, is there a 'English Fork'?" Thor inquired.  

"No, there is only a 'Spanish Fork' in Utah" I replied.

"Spanish Fork is in Utah?" he asked.  "I think there is a English Fork in California, 86", he added.

"86, what is 86?" I asked with a confused look on my face.

"It is on 86 East and 86 South", he stated.

I laughed and he got a huge smile on his face.  I didn't tell him that they probably do not have addresses in CA like they do in UT.  

 

We had just arrived home from washing his dad's car.  I asked him not to tell his dad because I wanted it to be a surprise.  So Thor told me that he would "try not" to tell his dad.  As soon as his dad opened the front door Thor said "Dad, look at your car".  He then explained that he didn't tell his dad we washed it.

Baby Athena has joined Thor and Hercules in the G pantheon

Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, war, the arts, industry, justice and skill.

Our sweet baby girl (code name - Athena) joined our family on Sunday, August 14, 2011. She weighed 7lbs 8oz and measured 20 1/2 inches long.

Thor absolutely adores her and always wants to know where she is so he can check on her. He enjoys feeding her and I often find him talking to her. He laughs when he hears her little squeaks.

Hercules is somewhat aware of her presence, but doesn't pay much attention to her. He does like to pat her head and put his fingers in her eye, he gets jealous when she has a bottle and he doesn't, but other than that, he is just as content and happy as ever.

Here she is today (Aug 23, 2011). She is a great sleeper and only gets a little fussy when she is hungry. She loves to be swaddled and instantly stops fussing when she is picked up and held.

I have the best 3 kids in the world. I feel incredibly blessed.

April Showers...

May 2011 already! Hercules just had his 9 month birthday. As a birthday present he received his first 2 teeth. It doesn't seem much like a present when misery is involved. I took him to the doctor on Wednesday and he is very healthy baby. He is 20lbs (which Thor was at 6 mths old). He is in the 75+% for height & 50th% for weight.
All he wants to do is move around. Unfortunately, he doesn't want to crawl, he wants to walk. I bought him a walker a couple of weeks ago and he is cruising around in it. Although, he'd prefer that I hold his hands and let him walk that way instead.

Thor is the best big brother - he loves to make Hercules laugh.



April was a good month for Thor. He got to have a birthday party for Charlie Chaplin & watch the "Circus". He even helped Hercules dress up like Charlie.

Thor gets certain traits from me, and one of them is clumsiness. One day he was playing with his friends at school and had a little accident. He was running and for whatever reason his body got ahead of his feet and he biffed it. He didn't fall to his knees but straight to his face. He received a really bad rug burn to his nose. The photo shows the burns, but this is when it looked the best. His nose was swollen and red the first day.
Thor also had fun when his dad taught him how to play TWISTER.

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At the end of the month he went with his dad and participated in the MS Walk. The photo demonstrates how much he enjoyed the walk. He really did have a good time!

Ew - Green Beans

I captured a video of Owen eating green beans. I tried it two nights ago, and it was not well received by him. I thought I'd try it again last night to see if maybe he'd warm up to them. No such luck.




Yesterday was Owen's 6 month birthday. Time sure goes by fast. He loves to eat cereal, bananas, apple sauce and squash. He sits but is still a little wobbly and can roll from his back to his stomach but hasn't quite mastered stomach to back. I took him to the doctor his check up. He is in the 50 percentile for weight, 75 percentile for height and 25 percentile for head size. He is a solid kid and it looks like I've got 2 football players on my hands.

Just for you Ellen!

I am finally posting after 5 months...
I just spoke with my wonderful friend Ellen. She asked me to send her some pictures of Owen and Ian. We can all thank her for getting me motivated to update this blog. Ian is 4 1/2 and Owen is 6 months.

Owen's first camping trip

Some might say I am crazy or foolish, but either way we still took Ian and Owen camping over Labor day weekend and it was awesome. Owen did so well. The only reason he woke during the night was to eat. Ian has been asking to go camping all summer and we mostly went for his sake. Poor little Ian got pink eye on Friday and we were worried we wouldn't be able to go camping but the doctor gave us the OK. Unfortunately we had to give him eye drops every three hours - but at least we still got to go. Ian loved it and got to play with his buddy Jack all weekend. We had tons of fun and I'm glad we went.

Trip to Dinosaur Museum 8/31/2010