Perfect day's? I'm not so sure!

Well, we've all been a little house bound the past few weeks and feeling the effects of it. We started Spring Break on Monday, greatly anticipated by Weston with the thoughts of playing tennis, going to the park, having video time, etc.. But it hasn't really played out that way. Weston got sick, again and Tyler and Elayna just seem to be needing a whole lot more sleep. And wouldn't you guess it, they are on completely different schedules and needing different down time. So with all our mighty plans we've spent the majority of the week inside, on the couch watching various kid movies with loud and obnoxious theme songs. - Not that I'm bitter, just a little tired I guess! :)
















Wednesday we finally made it to the park since it was a sunny and warm day, and Weston kept begging. We made it out the door just as it was warming up to a nice and sultry 40 degrees. (Which seems a whole lot warmer inside by the way!) The boys ran and played while Elayna and I tried to keep warm on the blanket. We had friends meet us there which kept the boys busy and eventually got Elayna very anxious to get up and walk around. Which seemed to help warm things up a bit, especially since the cloud cover finally blew past. Aside from a sore back, the last hour seemed to be really nice and encouraging for another visit on Thursday, which was even better since it was a no jacket day at a very nice 50 degrees and no rain clouds!

Other than those exciting moments we keep ourselves busy doing not much of anything. As you can tell, our kids seem to entertain themselves quit nicely by either swarming together or trying to tie each other up!





































Weston the past few weeks is very much into reading scriptures. Tonight he asked about reading other stories with scriptures, but usually it's just scriptures and lots of chapters too. He will ask during the day, morning, evening any time really.
He still loves his hotwheels and as I've discovered loves them like children. I will listen to his playing and find that he is assigning mommy, daddy and baby roles to the different hotwheels and then they get rides in the bigger trucks that he has to go run errands in town. I'm not sure what that says about him - but I think it's funny anyway you look at it.

Tyler has hit the terrible two's. Hopefully it will stop when he turns 3 in a month, if not we may be leaving him with Grandma and Grandpa after our visit! He is not allowing himself to be left behind or be told what to do or how to do it anymore by any one under 5 feet tall. He has very definite ideas of what needs to happen and seems to enjoy pestering most anyone younger than him. The worst is when he will wrestle with Laynie until she cries (I think trying to make her cry) just so he can kiss her and hug her and make it all better. I'm thinking he is missing some of the connections with kissing people better - usually you don't hurt them just to kiss them. It's okay to just give someone a kiss or hug because you want to! But his independence is definitley strengthening, which is something to say because he was already fairly independent and head strong to begin with!

But then he seems to be able to switch that off at any moment and be a very sweet, considerate, helpful and loving child.... I just keep hoping that the second child is the one who wins and decides to stay!

Elayna is surviving her brothers who seem to fight for her attention. And though I'm glad they love her, I think we need to work on the obsessive part.
She has decided to start rolling over - just this week in fact. At first, second and third I thought it was just an accident, but she seems to be somewhat aware of her control in the matter. I'm guessing in about a week or two she will actually realize what she is doing and use that as a tool for mobility. Where now she will get tired of her toys, situation, location, etc.. and scream - roll over and scream more. After a while I eventually make it over to her to find that picking her up, or helping her sit up is not at all what she had in mind. She will grab my hands and yank herself up to standing so quickly that I don't have a chance to second guess her motive - and then we take laps around the house until my back gives out!

Sometimes, I find that the screaming and general anger portrayed by very fast walking in circles is usually cured with food or a nap and then she is much, much happier after that. So much for being intuative - it's only after I 'finally' feed her or put her down that I realize that was all she wanted in the first place, that and to walk around a few more laps!

She has a new trick.... though I'm not sure I like it or want it to become a habit. She is now holding her breath. I think for fun. She will look at you, take a gasp and just look at you moving her head a little for 20 sec. or so and then finally exhale and then give a little smile. It just makes me wonder what is going on her head. She also is getting into hotwheels. She usually plays 'house' with them. Which is weird to say, but if you saw her I guarantee you would come to the same conclusion. She has the hotwheels that she walks up and down the stairs of Tyler's castle and moves in and out of the doors. It's cute - but weird!

Legos are the number one toy commodity in our house right now, especially little lego boys/guys. We have the coolest rocket ships and spaceships and x-wing fighters and v-wing fighters constantly being constructed by Weston and Tyler.. Lego's are the best - except when they are left on the floor for Laynie to discover! :)

I'm just constantly amazed and confused by my kids! And as it is midnight I should have probably waited to post this for another day when the effects of extreme fatigue were not tainting my emotions and opinions. But here it is anyway... :) I hope you enjoy the picts!