"Sweat" and the "Wrong Thing."

Lily is potty trained, but she doesn't always want to interrupt her day to go and use the bathroom, so she holds it as long as she can, then sprints to the bathroom and in a frenzy she tries to remove her clothing to make it on the toilet in time.  I've been trying to command her to use the bathroom when I notice that she's holding it.  

One such instance happened the other day.  It was after lunch and I noticed Lily looking quite uncomfortable crossing her legs tightly, slightly bending over, and bouncing a little.  

"Go to the bathroom, Lily."  I told her.

"No thanks, Mom."  She replied.  "I think I'll just bounce and sweat."

I'm still laughing at that.

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The girl I babysit doesn't always listen to me.  One day I told her not to go in the bathroom and take out Lily's hair accessories without asking me.   A few minutes later, she was taking Lily's hair things again, so I told her, "Katie, when I ask you to do something and you don't listen, you're doing the wrong thing.  You need to ask me if you want those."

She responded, "Lani Christensen, can I do the wrong thing?"

50th Birthday Party for Mrs. Mapother!

Mom's kids all emailed me something to put in a birthday card to her.  

It made her cry, so I think we did our job.

Lily was just pretending, but Amara wasn't.

It was fun to throw a birthday celebration for my mom.  It being her 50th, it had to be memorable.  So, we had a festive birthday dinner, showered her with flowers and love notes, and topped it off with a yummy homemade cake.  It was fun.

~Mom's Birthday Menu~

Appetizer- Shrimp Cocktail

Drink- Pina Colada

Entree- Grilled Steak, Seafood Scampi, Broccoli, Rice, Rolls

Dessert- Caramel-Soaked Choco-Butterfinger Layer Cake with

Whip Cream Frosting and Caramel Drizzle!

You'll notice in the video below that Amara already has some whip cream on her lip, even though we haven't started to sing to Grandma yet.  We put a bowl over the cake to prevent the kids from getting into it again, but that was temporary.

This next video is Amara mistaking herself for Grandma and mistaking this for her very own 50th birthday, thus, her cake, her candle, her moment.

Mapother Reunion Slideshow

This past weekend, everyone (Joe, Missy, Malia, JJ, Micah, Mandy, Jaxon, April, Spencer, and Jake) came up for the Mapother Reunion.  We made many memories and had a lot of fun playing at the park.  We also took some family photos, went out to eat, and ate warm chocolate chip cookies.  Blissful weekend.  The slideshow has just about every picture that was snapped with mom's camera, so sit back, grab some popcorn, and enjoy the show.

Make a Smilebox slideshow

FHE- God's Creations

We had a fun Family Home Evening about God's Creations.  For our activity, we took the camera outside and had Lily and Amara find 5 of God's Creations to snap photos of.  Here's what they found all on their own:

Dirt

Clouds

Flowers

Ants

Grass

Easter 2009

We had fun visiting family in Utah Valley this past Easter.  We stayed at Steve's parents home and had a lovely Easter Day with them.  We also went to the AF city Easter egg hunt on Saturday morning, then to the Lauret Easter egg hunt later that afternoon.  We had a bunch of fun everywhere we went.  Needless to say, we accumlated much in the way of sweets and toys.

Take a few minutes to view some video and photos of Lily and Amara over our Easter holiday.

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Little story of our little ones...

For those who want to read a darling story of Lily and Amara, follow the link to my mom's blog:

http://tomandbobbie.blogspot.com/2009/04/big-sister-to-love.html

I love this story.

Lots More Ears

Lily did really well during conference.  On her own, she sat quietly on the couch and listened, for the most part.  But near the end, she was restless and came next to me and started talking, not directly to me, but just chatting away about whatever.  I was wholly concentrating on the speaker and intently writing notes, so I asked her to speak a little quieter.  That's when I heard her whisper this phrase.

"Aww.  I wish you had lots more ears so you could listen to the prophets and listen to me at the same time."

Feeling guilty, I was reminded of the LDS commercials promoting making time to listen, "Isn't it about time?"  So, I paused General Conference (another reason to get a DVR if you don't have one), and asked Lily what she wanted to talk about.  She didn't have anything she wanted to talk about.  She was just bored.