Kyler's Birthday

So, my kids are so old now!! They are happily adjusting to this hard year of bringing another sibling into our lives and so graciously sacrificing birthday parties and other fun things that mom usually does.

For Kyler's birthday we just had Stephanie and her family over here for dinner. He wanted pizza for dinner, so we got Papa Murphy's and saved it for Sunday for dinner. Easy, and it made Kyler happy. My sister generously made him a large cookie (at his request) for his birthday cake and he got to open a few gifts.

I can't believe he is a mere two years from holding the priesthood. When did I get that old?

Here are some pictures.

He had to open gifts first. This gift came from his primary teacher, who is the best ever!! She gave him a variety of fun things, but this was the coolest in my opinion and it made Kyler happy too. At the beginning of the year she asked what his favorite animal was and he said cat. So, for his birthday, she gave him some of these ceramic cats that she had when she was a girl. So special!
Christian and Stephanie and fam gave him some camping gear because he is going to be camping more as a scout now. He is actually really excited to get out there and use it! That being said "it's too cold to go camping". He needs to learn a thing or two about scouting! :)
Jason took Ethan shopping with him on that Friday to get gifts from the Lego store as that is a big obsession in our house. Kyler got home from school that day and the first thing Ethan says is "KYLER, WE GOT YOU LEGO NINJAGO FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY!" I guess taking the 4 year old shopping for that was a mistake! Later on, Kyler says to Jason "You know dad, you shouldn't have left that receipt out because now I know exactly what set you bought me." So much for birthday surprises in our house, ha ha!

Here's Daddy with the big cookie. He was funny with the candles. They added up to 10! :)

We are blessed

The children and I have truly been blessed through this pregnancy and through many other points in our lives that we have such a great Daddy on our home. He is a loving husband and wonderful father. As an example, yesterday he spent his Friday evening and Saturday morning helping Connie have a little sleepover birthday party, then spent all of his Saturday accomplishing tasks he normally would not even think about because I do them. He is so great!

At one point in the day, Ethan was playing on the Nintendo DS and asked Jason for help. It would have been so easy for Jason to say no or even to just take the DS and accomplish whatever it was that Ethan could not. Instead, this is what happened



He sat with Ethan and helped him do it himself. We love him so much!!

My Favorite Ethanisms

The more Ethan talks, the funnier he gets. Here are some of my favorite things he says...

WOOK! (said with great excitement because he wants you to see what he does)

When you tell Ethan he can\'t, or shouldn\'t do something he says "don\'t worry..." For example, the other day I told him there wasn\'t room for him to sit with me. He says, "don\'t worry, you will just scoot over."

He starts almost every sentence with "almost". For example, "almost Kylwr built this ship for me with Legos."

My favorite conversation I\'ve had with him lately though is this.
Ethan: "mom, you have to pick a movie for us to watch"
Me: after thinking a minute I say "Little Mermaid"
Ethan: with a sigh of disgust "that\'s not avaiwable on blu ray! " he cracks me up!