At Least He Listens

During sacrament meeting at church yesterday the last member of our ward to get up and share his testimony was talking about "lost souls." When Kyle heard this he perked up and said, "Lost souls? He said lost souls mama!"

Weird.


Until I realized he was confusing "lost souls" for "Lots-O."

When Kyle's Away...

Nolan will play.

This kid goes crazy for his brother's toys. 

(We're still working on sharing).

We Don't Deserve This

"We don't deserve this!" Tim said as he shook his head. "I know I didn't act this way as a kid. Where does he get this from?"

No one tells you that the terrible twos are better than the terrific terrifying threes.

At least he napped when he was two.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again. When he's cute, he's really cute. When he's bad, he's really bad.
Yesterday's cute:

-"Old McDonald had a brother. E-I-E-I-O. With a, "Wahhh" here..."
- To Tim, "I had fun with my mom today!"
-At lunch I had a chicken sandwich and Kyle a turkey sandwich on the table. His prayer went something like this, "Bless Mama's chicken. Bless my turkey. (pause) Bless my chocolate milk. (Looks at me)." After the prayer he said, "I need chocolate milk. I bless chocolate milk. I need chocolate milk."

Yesterday's bad:

- "You have NO choices dad." (Which prompted Tim's above statement).
- "Just chill."
- "Ohhh come on."
- "You can't teach me mom!"
- "I neeeeeed Chick-fil-A." (I told him we didn't have any money to go there, that he needed to earn money and we were eating dinner at home). "I find money upstairs. I'm hungry for lunch. I need Chick-fil-A. I can't eat at home." Followed by kicking his toys and a fit because he was upset.
- He already talks back like he's a teenager.

- The grand finale? Peeing on the bathroom floor at his friend's house. Still can't get him to tell me why he did that one...

An AZ Christmas Morning

The cousins Christmas Eve

I love a good 'ol AZ Christmas. It was so fun this year. Kyle is barely starting to get to know about Santa and he did pretty good with the story of Christ's birth. He was really good at remembering there was a bright star in the sky that led the, "three guys."

Alli has these nasty onesie pjs that she whipped out again this year. Haha! So festive!

After Kyle put on these Buzz wings that Santa brought he asked, "But how do I fly?" Poor kid. 

After hitting a few walls with his wings, Tim was smart and told Kyle that when they're bent back like this he's in "hyper-speed."

This girl in my ward makes the cutest barrettes. Macy wanted to put all three in her hair at once.

I have memories of all the kids in our neighborhood playing outside Christmas morning with their new toys. Who needs a white Christmas? It was so fun to be outside and chatting with neighbors. Here Kyle is riding the neighbor's quad and borrowing their daughter's pink helmet :).

 Plasma car fun!

Candace taking Macy and Reed for a ride in Reed's new bike trailer!

Blue-eyed beauties!

 Sweet sisters.

 A sick mama (Christmas vacation curse) with Nolan Bear. He got this toy from Papa and Grandma in his stocking and loved it right away!

 I can't get enough of these two together! 

 See that green grass? I couldn't get over how green the grass is. The type of grass they plant in the neighborhoods here in SA is itchy and you don't even want to sit in it. It was such a beautiful morning. We have been given such a beautiful earth to enjoy.  I have to ask again, who needs a white Christmas??

"I'm Three!"

   This past year Kyle got invited to enough birthday parties to make him realize that a) parties are fun b) the birthday boy/girl gets to blow out candles and c) he couldn't wait until his own! Knowing the candle would be the highlight for him was music to this craft-phobic mother's ears. We had a small, low-key party that left me feeling satisfied. The kids were good, Kyle felt special and the stress was minimal.

  We actually had to switch parks last minute because they were cleaning the ramadas at the park we had planned. My sincere apologies go out to the family I forgot to call!!!! That's my head these days.

We had pin-the-tail on Bullseye:

We ate pizza from the Pizza Planet, Kyle's favorite ambrosia salad and juice.

 When the kids arrived the first thing I had them do was assemble their Mr. or Mrs. Potato Head bags.

My favorite one was Emmie's (she's sitting next to Kyle). She wanted a mustache on her Mrs. Potato Head. Ha!

What good use is an empty bag? Enter the pinata. We did not want to pay $20 for a pinata. Luckily Tim found a store near his school that specializes in pinatas. I was sad to know this cute guy wouldn't be with us long.

I made this big so you could see Kyle's smile. Who wouldn't love an excuse to hit something?

LOVE that she matches the pinata! hah! She came dressed as a cute cowgirl.

The kids even got a second round. The pinata was with us for much longer than I expected.

Then Tim came in and did some damage. 

What I called the, "You Have Been Chosen," cupcakes.

When blowing out the candle is the biggest deal to you, it's pretty upsetting when the kid next to you blows it out instead. haha! This happened last year too. Poor Kyle. The crying face hasn't changed!

 

As you can see below, with the wind it took some work to get the candles lit again. I was really nervous it wasn't going to happen.

But it did and my big 3 year old was back to being happy again.

Poor Nolan Bear was very tired. Nothing was amusing to him.

So he helped himself to some tissue paper.

Kyle got spoiled by all his friends, grandparents and cousins. Thank you to everyone! He loved the phone calls and cards. I think the only thing he missed was his friend Hugh. He told most of my family members that, "Hugh is in UT," when they asked about his party. We ended the night at his personal favorite, Chick-fil-A. I love my big boy Kyle. It was so fun to have a day where he felt so special.