The thing about kids...

The thing about kids is that sometimes you can't help but scream at them and sometimes you just want to scoop 'em up and sqeeze them so tight!

That drives me crazy sometimes. Isn't motherhood great?

I have had this post in draft for a while and I need to record a couple of funny stories and cute moments.

While waiting outside the line at the National Archives in D.C. there was a man who's son (around age 6) was misbehaving, and the dad wasn't doing anything about it. Finally Shayden turns to me and whispers "That dad is making a wrong choice, he's not even giving that kid any consequences!"Then the even funnier thing is that he thought about it for a couple of seconds and said "I wish I had a dad and mom like that!" ha!

The other day Shay was playing at a friends house and when I went to pick him up my friend said that he had randomly said to her "Katie, being a mom is hard work huh?" I thought that was cute. Then another day he turns to me and says "mom, what's it like to be a mom?" I said, "it's hard because you are always worried about your children, more than yourself. And it makes your heart grow so big because you never thought it could hold so much love" Then he said, "Do you know what it is like to be a Dad?" and of course I said no, then "Well, someday I will tell you if I am one."

I caught Jasmine "reading" to Daisy who was grateful for the company:

The day after Shayden got his new glasses (the day after!) he took them off and left them on the grass at a yard sale! I was freaking out of course, I am very good at that. Mostly because he had just gotten them but also because the insurance that we bought only fixes them, not replaces them. He felt so bad, he said that he would use his own money to buy new ones. I suggested that we say a prayer and so we did. We went back to the sale and miraculously enough someone had found them and turned them in. Only after stepping on them though. So they were pretty beat up. But that's okay as long as we had them! Shay was pretty impressed and happy and when we got back in the car he said "I better thank Heavenly Father for helping me!" and he said another prayer. What a good lesson. Oh and a good lesson for a stressed out mom because I got to apologize later for getting so upset about the whole thing :) On a side note, since then he has really shown a lot of responsibility with taking care of his glasses and has had just a couple of close calls, not bad.

And one last picture of Shayden being a monkey in the doorway (caption: "mom, hurry and take a picture I can't hold it much longer!")

State Fair

We went to the fair with my work and my parents met us there, I had not been for a long time and we all had fun. The kids did a reading program where they got free coupons for the rides, so they enjoyed that of course.



Shayden finally caught his fish!

We saw a reptile show with this enormous turtle:

check out the legs on this thing!

Jasmine's favorite ride:

It was a fun filled day and we were all pooped by the end of it.

Then I decided to go back with the kids the next week to see the Veggie Tales concert that was happening and it did not dissapoint. We had a blast singing along to all of our favorite songs! We were about to leave a few minutes before it ended since we were starving but then decided to go up to the front to take a picture up close, and we ended up staying for the rest. Shayden was right up by the stage with a bunch of kids when they shot streamer cannons right over his head! We went home all covered in gold.