Four Brothers: January 2013

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

white (day after) Christmas

I'm dreaming of a white day after Christmas, just like the ones I've rarely known...

Since living in the midwest.

Eden's first real experience with snow. She liked it for the first half hour, but then it got cold and she was ready to come in. It was the same the next day, but by the third day she didn't even want to go out and play in it. I guess she's a warm weather girl like her Mama.

Trey on the other had would play for hours upon hours outside. He would only come in to dry out his gloves and change into dry socks and then he'd be off again. Funny coming from a kid who is cold all the time and has to have three blankets on his bed at night.

The snow lasted about two weeks and then was gone. Which was plenty long for me. It was nice though having a little snow this year.

Christmas

Christmas 2012

Saturday, January 26, 2013

Christmas Eve Pajamas

We have a tradition that we adopted from my sister. Every Christmas Eve our children get to open one present. And every Christmas Eve it's the same thing...Pajamas!

I think they liked them. Of course maybe they were just overly excited about getting to see lights, or singing Christmas carols...Or of course there is that whole Santa, presents, Christmas in the morning thing. :)

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Polkadots

so in November our Relief Society held a service auction and I won some great bows that someone had made. I was so excited because I already had a polkadot shirt that I knew would look great with them. On Christmas eve I put Eden in them and started snapping pictures. I ended up with these beautiful pictures.

My, but I'm in trouble when this little beauty gets to dating age. I'm so glad she'll have four big brothers to watch her back. :)

The mega fort

The week before Christmas the kids turned Eden's room into a full fort. It was quite the production.

They even pulled in the lamp to give better light and broom handles to hold up their roof.

It was like a blast from my past when I use to build forts with my nieces and nephews. One of the fun memories from childhood relived through my kids.

Treytion Station

5. At dinner a week ago we were talking about playing basketball and Trey asked if Grandpa Weight ever played basketball with Donovan. Donovan said yes but that he couldn't play anymore because he had hip surgery. He then told Trey about the metal hip that was put in. Trey paused for a minute after Donovan got done and then said " Is Grandpa half Robot?"(5/31/09)
4. Treytion and I (Dad)were discussing how smart he is and he told me that Mallory, his friend at school, had asked him how come he was so much smarter than her. I asked him what he told her and he said, "I told her that that was just the way God made me."(approx. 3/09)
3. So a couple of days ago, I (Dad)was talking to Treytion about his imaginary friend Hannum. She is a girl that Trey made up several years ago and I thought that the name was so original that I have kept asking him about Hannum and what she is doing. Anyhow we were talking about age and the following exchange occured. Trey said, "Well in Hannumland (the place that Hannum lives) Hannum is like 19,900 years old." "Wow, she must be really old!" I said. "Naw, in Hannumland the number of your age gets smaller as you get older," Trey responded. I countered, "Then how old would I be in Hannumland?" "Oh," Trey said nonchalantly, "about 10." (2/18/09)
2. Trey knocked on the door to the computer room today and so I knocked back. Then he knocked again so I knocked back. Then he said "stop it Dad." So I opened the door and said "I can't believe you thought I was Dad." and so he said " Oh I thought you were Dad cuz he's the funny one." There you have it I'm not the funny one but I got a good laugh off of his frankness. (10/20/08)
1.Trey "Guess how you make a Turkey?"
Mom " How?"
Trey " Take a Tur and a Key and put them together."
Dad " Whats a tur?"
Trey " A turn without the N."

Tennyson Talk

7. Tennyson came into Daddy carrying a bottle of Italian salad dressing spritz and said, "Daddy, Enoch just spritzed my bed." Daddy grabbed the spritz bottle and went to find Enoch and asked Enoch if he spritzed the bed. Enoch said that he did. Daddy told Enoch that he should not spritz the bed. Tennyson added, "Yea Enoch we don't spritz the bed, because then that makes the bed taste good, and we don't eat beds!! (3/27/2011)

6. Tennyson apparently things "Gas" is pronounced "Grass" which can be quite disturbing when you don't know what he is talking about and he's saying "Grass" while pointing to his bottom.lol(3/5/09)
5. Tennyson called daddy to come in and help him and Daddy said "I'm Busy" after the second time calling him and getting this answer he called "Busy come here!" So Donovan laughed and said "What do you need Tennyson?" and Tennyson said "YOU!" (12/11/08)
4.When putting on Tenny's cloths Donovan and Tenny usually sing "put your right foot in. Put your left foot in. Put your both feet in and do a little spin." but once Tenny said "and do a little sin :) (12/7/08)
3. It's not a ham sandwich its a "Tam sandwich"(11/12/08)
2. When Tennyson says chocolate his says "chalk lick"(10/27/08)
1.The last two nights when Tennyson has said his prayers he starts them "Dear Heavenly Father... Ssh be quiet!" I guess you know what often gets said in our prayers.

Enoch Exclamations

3. reading over the other two entries is funny because Enoch now absolutely loves all bugs and wants us to be kind to them. In fact one day he came in carrying a wasp and said look Mom it's nice. (I had told him not to touch them because they would hurt him) I panicked a little and then told him to go put the wasp outside. I went with him and had him put the wasp in the grass. Then I told him to leave him there. Enoch was so sad about the idea of leaving him that when I turned my back he reached down to pick it up again. This time the wasp was not quite so nice, but Enoch after his initial yelp tried not to show that he was hurt. He's a tough guy like that and doesn't like to it when he's proved wrong

2. Enoch has developed a phobia of bees. However, the funny thing is that anything that flies and is obviously not a bird is a bee. For the past few months we have been dealing with tiny moths in the house. Every time Enoch would see a moth he would scream bee and become hysterical until someone dispatched of he moth. We have spent alot of time telling him that they are moths not bees and that they are nice. We must be making some progress because the other day Enoch saw a moth and said, "MMMMOOOOTTTHHHHH!!! THEY ARE NICE! KILL HIM DAD! (03/11)

1. Enoch now say's mo'm and Da'd. He also is trying to copy his brothers down but only gets da out. He can point to what ever he wants though so that helps. (9/09)
So although Enoch can not talk yet he can express himself. He doesn't cry very much, but he does scream. He screams when he's happy. He screams when he's mad. The only difference is the pitch.

Elijah Explainations

7. During lunch today Elijah pushed away his soup without touching it and said "I don't like soup," Daddy said, "Well then I guess that I will just eat yours all gone," Elijah screamed, "NO!" and pulled to bowl back. Daddy said, "But I love soup." Elijah retorted, "NO IIII love soup!" and proceeded to eat.

6. As Teah finished up making the meal yesterday, Elijah looked at her and said, "You cooked some more, good job Mom!!

5. "I want some alligatored" translation Gatorade. No matter how hard we try to get him to say it right he still insists its alligatored.(2/11)

4. Down "dow". This also means up for him. (8/09)
3. Every parents favorite word has just entered Elijah's vocabulary "NO". He sometimes accompanies this with a head shake or pushing something away.(7/09)
2. Elijah has learned to say Dada and All done but it comes out "ah da"(5/31/09)
1.Elijah loves to talk. He tells us all about everything... in baby language of course. He does so with moving eyebrows, punctuations in speech, and verious other facial expressions to match his meaning. (2/09)

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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

white (day after) Christmas

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Saturday, January 26, 2013

Christmas Eve Pajamas

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Polkadots

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