suadd

Those of you in my family know why I titled this one suadd. I've heard that thumb sucking is hereditary, what about middle fingers? This is Christian's soothing finger sucking. he only does this one when he needs serious soothing, when he is happy and just wants to chew on something he sucks on is index finger.

WHAT?

Sometimes Nicholas has a hard time eating his dinner and he needs something to motivate him to finnish. Some people call this bribeing, I like to look at it as negotiating. The trick is finding that one thing that will do it. When you do, he can finnish is dinner in a matter of seconds-technically. Of course it takes him another 5 minutes or so to swallow. He reminds me of the movie my fair lady, you know the part where professor higgins puts all the marbles in eliza's mouth and then tells her to recite his phrases.

thesis

For all of you wondering, sam defended his masters thesis yesterday. he said it was grueling and a lot harder than he thought it would be, but he passed, and he said that it will hopefully prepare him for his PhD thesis defence. now all he has to do is pass his finals, and graduation is may 13th. yea! 2 degrees down, 1 to go!

excuses are like armpits

.... everybody has them and they stink. that was the motto of one of my friends on my high school track team. lately nicholas wants me to do everything he does, and when i can't i try to explain why, like when he wants me to go down his tiny slide, i say "i can't i'm too big!" well he has figured out that these excuses get you out of doing things, so he has started to use them too. my favorites are "i can't go to bed , i'm too big!" and i can't eat my food, i'm too cold!", and my all time favorite is "i can't go to bed, i'm too tired!"

coloring eggs

EASTER

This was the first year we let Nicholas color eggs. He did a great job! He was very careful and didn't break any eggs or spill any dye. He loved double dipping them and finding out what new colors he made. In the end he was very proud of his beautiful 'eggses'. The next morning the easter bunny made an egg hunt for him, and he loved finding eggs with his favorite 'cars' characters on them, filled with his favorite candy-SMARTIES!

mission"berry" song

christian giggling

keeping up with the jones

It all started about a year ago. A friend of mine gave me a ride home from a church meeting in her brand new fully loaded Toyota Sienna mini van. it was beautiful. i couldn't help but envy her just a little bit. granted i only have 2 kids, and can fit both of them in the back seat of my car, i started to think about how nice it would be to have more room, you know so if anyone came to visit, they wouldn't have to rent a car because they would fit in our mini van. it would be nice to be able to haul large objects i purchase at sam's club, like when we bought nicholas' "big boy bed" a different friend took the seats out of her mini van and brought it home for us. then i started to notice that most of the people in my ward only had 2-3 kids, and almost all of them had mini vans. if we had 1 more kid, we would need a mini van, because we can't fit 3 car seats in the back of our car, so in reality a new mini van is almost a necessity, right? after all, i do intend on signing nicholas up for a soccer team in the fall, and i couldn't very well be a soccer mom with out a mini van. well i was convinced. that was the easy part, convincing sam would be another story. i started with little hints here and there- just to get him thinking about it too. then when i had him thinking it would be nice to have one someday, i started to find some on the internet. i reluctently came to the conclusion that we could not afford a 2004 or newer toyota sienna (2004 is the cute new body style) however a much more affordable and equally stylish 2004 mazda mpv might fit in our budget. after finding several at dealerships, i found one for sale by an individual, and it was priced $3,000 lower than any of the dealerships prices, and it had been very well taken care of. now here is where i have to admit i played a little bit on the unfair side. i taught nicholas to say "can i have a mini van please daddy?" and then blink his eyes. it worked! we went to look at it. it was perfect. then came the drama of trying to buy it. it took 3.5 weeks to get it all worked out- north carolina and our bank have some rediculous regulations for purchasing and regsistering vehicles, but it finally all worked out, and we are now proud owners of a 'white water pearl', 2004 mazda mpv.

mini van please daddy?

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