Best Pictures of 2007

I loved Brett's post so much that I decided we had better steal the idea and do one of our own. I would love to see all of you do it on your blogs too. I know I see very little of your family and would love to see more. So Tag, you are all it.

So I gave this to Abi thinking she would like it and she did, but every time she licked it, she cried because it was too cold. I tried to take it back but she wouldn't let me.

Abi rests up before tackling the second half of that piece of lunchmeat.

Grace's future in competitive donut-on-a-string eating seems to be in doubt.

You really have to click on this one to see it all. It is a little dark but I love how all the kids have simultaneous squeals of delight at the fireworks.

Gotta love pool pictures.

Time to bust out that ugly stick.

Disneyland. See? It really IS the happiest place on earth.

What cookie?

Ready to go

Today Abi asked if she could go play outside. I told her that she had to get pants on, her coat on, and her boots on. She told me she already had her "boobs on." I couldn't see her feet, but I didn't think she had her boots on yet, so I asked her "You do? Let me see." I thought I would turn around to see her holding her foot up. Instead she proceeded to pull her shirt down to show me that, yes, she did indeed have her boobs on.

Jared, I had to edit your post, it was severely lacking in story telling skills.

A Bunch of Sissies

I asked Abi if she was going to go upstairs with her sissies to play. She said, yes "and I a sissy too. And Grace a sissy and Scout a sissy and my friend a sissy too."

Random Kid Quotes

In the car on the way to the Mordecai family reunion:

Scout: "When I was a baby I didn't know if Grandpa's were crazy or not!"

In the car on the way to the 4th of July party at Amy's house:

Grace: "I'm sad that President Hinckley died"
Scout: "I'm sad that Jack died"
Grace: "I'm sad that Jack and President Hinckley and his wife died"
Abi: "I'm scared of Lions."

During the opening credits of The Neverending Story, upon seeing the title for the first time:

Scout:"Oh no! This is going to take forever!"

Sea World

Usually Sea World is my favorite thing to do on our trip, but this time we went on Sunday instead of Tuesday and it was busy. I hate going anywhere when it is busy. Since it was busy we didn't get any really good pictures. We only went to the dolphin show and the killer whale show.



Abi was still sick and had a fever. She just sat there the whole time.



The baloogas are always one of my girls favorite. They sit or stand forever looking at them. Last time we went we got a great picture of Scout with them, but there were too many people crouding around this time that they couldn't even get to the glass to see them under water.







We got to feed the seals and the sting rays. When feeding the seals a bird came and grabbed the fish right out of Abi's hand. We almost got the picture right as it happened.



Scout wouldn't feed anything because she didn't want to touch a dead fish. She did finally attempt to feed the sting rays by pinching the very end of the fish tail but she kept dropping it as soon an the ray swam past. Grace loved the sting rays. She sat and touched them forever and didn't want to leave.





Scout's favorite is the tide pool. She loves to touch the star fish.

Playing at Disneyland

There is nothing better then relaxing and just goofing around at Disneyland. We didn't do much of this when I was a kid, but it is one of the best parts about being at Disneyland with my family. The favorite place to just play this time was at Tom Sawyer's Island, they loved the pirate theme and had to try everything out. It was fun exploring all the caves and just splashing in the water. Grace wanted to get on every stationary prop in the whole park and have her picture taken like 10 times on it, leading the other girls to wanting an equal portion in the picture taking.

Disneyland Pictures

These are just the posed pictures that we took. We got pictures with a lot more characters this time then we have before. We didn't get around to going to the princess line though. Personally, I think that was a horrible idea. I am much more likely to stand in five 10 minute lines to see the princesses then to stand in one hour long line to see them all at once.

Our little coaster enthusiasts

I know what you are all thinking. Not another post about Jared's kids' affinity for circular condensation catchers. But don't worry. I'm not talking about that kind of coaster. I'm talking about roller coasters!

All 3 of our girls are big fans of thrill rides. Abi isn't tall enough to ride any of them except for the drops on Pirates of the Carribbean, the Matterhorn, and the small toontown coaster, Gadget's Go Coaster. However she loved all of them and eventually rode every one of them with her arms up the whole time.

Here are a few videos of the girls enjoying (in a shrieking manner) the coasters of Disneyland. Sorry I didn't have time to edit them, so there will be bits where it's too dark to see anything, and a few seconds of my shoes as I try to turn the camera off with my sausage link fingers.

(as a sidenote, pay no attention to the big fat guy you will occasionally get glimpses of. The camera adds like...40 pounds. It's a scientific fact.)

Gadget's Go Coaster was a favorite for pretty much everyone. As little kid coasters go, it's actually fun.

Here is one of Grace not really enjoying The Matterhorn, but Scout and Abi liked it. You can't really see Abi, but she's there sitting in front of Brittney.

Big Thunder Mountain Railroad was probably Scout and Grace's favorite ride this trip. Our last day in the park we went on it about 9 times. I have a couple videos of this ride, but this one was my favorite.

They both love Space Mountain too, but that one is way too dark for video.

There will be more disneyland posts coming. Stay tuned!

Dateline: Disneyland

I'm writing this from my cell phone so I hope it works. I haven't been able to get actual internet access from the hotel yet.
It's been an interesting start to our trip. We had an uneventful drive, with an equally uneventful stopover in mesquite. Thursday we spent several hours in the park and had a great time even though it was a little busy. It's great to be back here.

Thursday night things got interesting. Abi started throwing up in the middle of the night every half an hour until morning. Everybody else woke up feeling fine, but about an hour later Grace threw up twice. We waited around for awhile but the puking didn't resume so we headed over to the park, assuming it must've been some mild food poisoning or something.

About three hours later Abi decorated herself, Brittney and the inside of the Monsters, Inc. ride cab with strawberry gogurt enhanced gogurgitation.

Brittney bought her and Abi some new clothes and we kept on trucking.

No more puking after that yesterday.

Today we had a great time at the beach, then when we got back to the hotel this evening Scout started complaining that her stomach hurt. About an hour later she started in with the upchuckage. During her fifth round Abi, Pukemaster General of our little vomit brigade, suddenly sat up and threw up all over the bed.

So after a call to housekeeping for new bedding, and getting everyone to sleep, I am now keeping watch at midnight with bucket at the ready. Abi has tossed her proverbial cookies several times now tonight, casting doubt on our theory that it was a fast moving bug that only lasts about 12 hours.

So now my question is, who out there has puking kids? Who got us sick before our trip? Come on now. Fess up.

By the way, it hasn't been all nastiness. We have some great pictures and video to post once I can get the computer online as opposed to just my cell.

Highlights have included Grace nearly tackling Mickey when she saw him, Scout and Grace riding Gadget's go coaster with each other in their own car (awesome video!) and Scout watching the electrical parade in a state of pure joy.

Keep your fingers crossed that the sickness goes away soon so we can enjoy the rest of our trip.

Abi

The other day I was putting Abi's coat on and she was trying to put her arm in the wrong hole.
Me "Oops, wrong one!"
Abi "Oh. This arm?"
Me "Yep. You sure are a good talker Abi."
Abi "Yeah, I talk real nice."

Abi will turn two on the 11th of May, the day after we get back. We haven't quite decided whether we are going to do anything for her birthday. We were thinking maybe doing it the weekend after, but it will probably depend on what Angela's family does with moving.

Abi's joke

Abi made up a knock knock joke:

Abi: Knock, Knock

Me: Who's there?

Abi: Who

Me: Who who?

Abi: Chicken Poo

Random Video!

I really just wanted to test putting a video on here. But as a bonus you guys get to see my cute girls being cute girls.

This morning Abi brought one of Scout's lipsticks to me and asked me to put some on her. I did and a few minutes later she came back and asked me to put it on her again. I told her that she already had some on. She said "I want a lot. A lot, lot, lot."

Abi's sense of humor

Last night when we were driving home Abi was copying everything that Grace said. Grace was asking which rides at Disneyland she can ride and she said "I can't ride that one" and Abi copied her "I can't ride that one." Then she waited a minute and said "I CAN ride that one. He he he. I kidding! He he he"

"I broken"

I guess it's just been a broken week Angela.

I had Abi up on the sink in the bathroom so I could do her hair and she grabbed a razor that I didn't notice was on the counter. I took it from her but it was too late. Her thumb was bleeding everywhere and she started screaming. It was bleeding so much that I couldn't even tell how big the cut was. She wouldn't let me touch it, so I grabbed a big wad of toilet paper and put it around her thumb. When Abi couldn't see the blood she would calm down and just wimper but it kept bleeding through the toilet paper and she would see it bleeding when I switched the bandage. It finally stopped and I was able to put a bandage on it. Abi kept pointing to the bandaide and crying "I broken, I broken"

That was on Sunday, needless to say we were late after for church. It's been 5 days and Abi was looking at her thumb and started crying again about it. "I broken"

Abigail has been showing quite a personallity lately. She has taken to finishing people's sentinces. Yestarday Grace was playing and started to say, "We have a safety violation. No babies can touch the slippery soap." But Abi interrupted her. So what really happened is Grace said, "We have a safety violation. No babies..." and Abi yelled "Allowed!"

Then today I went to change Abi and she said "No. Scout." So told Scout that she can change her. Scout yelled no and ran to the other room. Grace did the same thing. So of course Abi copied them and ran to the room where they waited. Scout laughed and said to Abi, "You are so so so..." and Abi said "Cute." Scout was going to say silly but cute certaintly works too.