I love being an Aunt–I love my neices and nephews, and after this weekend with the Greene’s I love it even more.
Belle calls me Aunty Em, and Ikey pronounces my name, Aunt M-lee, how fun to hear your name with “aunt” in front!
The boys had their first official sleepover this weekend with the Belle and Ikey, and I wish both my camera batteries didn’t die, because the kids were DARLING and we had such a crazy, fun time!
We only had one problem. Tuck and Belle were sharing a room and Ikey and Truey were sharing another room. The problem arose, when they were having so much fun, that the didn’t want to go to sleep. So after an hour and a half of fun, we put the siblings together in separate rooms, and with in 2 minutes they were asleep. When you’re having so much fun, it takes alot of energy I guess!
I got a few shots before my battery died, playing games:
By morning my camera batteries were charged, but we were so busy playing, and taking care of the busy-ness that comes from having 4 kid, we didn’t get to many pictures. But I couldn’t pass up pictures in the dress ups!
The boys are already looking forward to another sleepover! Thanks Guys!
Category: Topher
Here is how many people share the same name as us — in theory, after entering Tuckers Name, I am not too sure! 🙂
Toph:
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Emily:
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Tucker (apparently Tucker Doesn’t Exist..awesome…):
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Truman:
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Hey Sweetie-
I was looking for scripture mastery youtube videos this morning and came across this:
Thanks for being my – thanks for being my Disney girl!
Toph
me: What girl doesn’t want to be a disney girl?!?! Thanks honey, love you!!
For those of you who haven’t heard, our church has recently released a new branch of its website, that has disability specific information, to help make our church more accessible to people with disabilities. Christopher has served on a committee to help create and launch this information, I know that he hopes and prays it will be a great resource to those who need it, and after reading it, I know it will.
Here it is.
So, I love three day weekends, that end with Mondays with NOTHING planned.
It is so much fun to relax together all 4 of us, as a family, not trying to squeeze too many things in. We didn’t do anything overly exciting, but it was a great day for our family of four.
All Tucker wanted to do on Monday was decorate the Robot Track with Treasures, and make a movie. Easy to do! Here it is:
robottrack.mov
Toph and the boys shoveled and played in the snow. (Yes, Toph created a gigantic sledding hill in our front yard, that doesn’t look so gigantic in this picture).
Getting warm with Hot Cocoa
While the boys were having quiet time, I had some creative time, making fridge magnets for our big Relief Society lesson this week, I love having time to be creative and having a creative outlet…
Of course what is a good day without a good read?
In my quest for better FHE treats, we made Chocolate Cupcakes (as per Tru’s request, Chocolate a boy with my tastes)…
More delicious and more fun, YES!!!
Less Messy, NO!!! (let it be said, that I did tell him he could lick the bowl clean, but this is NOT what I meant!)
I Love You, All 3 of my Sweethearts, But especially thanks to Hubba for making it a great weekend, spending time with you makes me wish every weekend was a three day weekend. *Muwah*
literally a sponge, he is absorbing everything around him, constantly learning by watching things around him. It makes you so happy as a parent when you see your child act positively in a situation, that you know could ‘set them off’.
Today at Nursery, another little boy dumped the pitcher of water in Trumans lap, soaking him completely, instead of being angry when I asked him about it, he told me the story, then he reassured me that it was just an accident, and that the other little boy was just trying to help.
Also, Truman is becoming an avid reader, and absorbing the vocabulary from these books. I love when he talks and says things that we have read about in books!
When he gets up in the morning and after quiet time, he always bringing me up books to read to him. His favorites right now are the Maisy series, Bernstein Bears, and pirate books. He could have books read to him all day, I think. Someday we will have to try it…
Sounds like a perfect day to me…
The Evelyn’s were down for a wedding, so Mikey and Madalyn were able to come and play with us for a few hours! It was so much fun, the boys wanted to hold “baby Madalyn” and just take care of her, Madalyn was fine with it at first, but by the time I got the camera, she didn’t want to have anything to do with it! (she was happy the rest of the time!)
Having older cousins is rough on a little girl! It was fun to have a little baby around again,
and of course the boys just ran and played together, and naturally had a good time! 
Also, this weekend we went to Sunday Dinner with the Greene Fam, and of course the little Greene kids were there, so the kids ran and played and had a good time there too! Cousins are so much fun!
Here is matchy matchy Tuck and Ike–
I LOVE being so close to family, until you move away, you don’t realize the blessing of having a family close. Close enough to see and be with. Did I mention that I love our families? Love you guys, all of you!
Last month (as you can see in a previous post) our dishwasher broke. We have been washing dishes by hand, and Tucker and Truman LOVE it (Toph likes it alot too actually…) There is something about bubbles and a sink full of water that children can’t resist. Someday, when we do get a dishwasher, I think that the boys are going to miss playing in the sink, and helping me with dishes. Knowing that it won’t last forever makes this task do-able for me, but not enjoyable, but of course what mother isn’t going to enjoy having her boys happy to be standing by her side? None that I know!
(Don’t worry, we don’t usually let Tuck wash dishes like that…)
As fun as it is, I still do need a dishwasher. I am a modern woman, who misses the modern conveniences of washing dishes while I sleep at night, or even better BLOG 🙂
A conversation between Truman and Toph last night, that made me a smile–
Toph: I love you bigger than the ocean Truman?
Pause
Truman: mumble, mumble… pond
Toph: What?
Truman: I like you bigger than a duck!
Also, the night before last, Tucker was having another Night Terror (kind of like a bad,bad,nightmare), and Toph and I were asleep, and didn’t hear him tossing and turning. But Truman did, so he came out of their room, and hollered “Mom, Dad, Tucker needs some help!”
He has a sweet little heart, and I LOVE this age, when you can see it SO clearly!
So, my husband has been telling me for a while now, that an ESSENTIAL and IMPORTANT part of Family Home Evening (FHE), is the treats. I kind of just ‘rolled my eyes’ and said whatever to him, until I recently, gave in….
So, I have tried to step up to the challenge of better treats (instead of just rummaging thru the cupboards to see what we have), last week we had ice-cream (even though Tuck wanted to have Cheese Sandwiches), and here are the Messy, Messy, results from our talented son Truman, he learned a few great lessons.
1–The Ice Cream Container Lid, makes a great hat (we were NOT watching closely enough, and he is getter quicker by the day.)–
2–He can hold and drink from his bowl, with no hands
Now, I know why, I would rather stick to no treats, clean up is minimal 🙂
Maybe instead of no treats, I might find a less messy treat.
We’ll have to see what the next FHE treats will hold…