All in the pronunciation

My kids are convinced that the tweezers in the Who Shook Hook game are called Tweezelers.

Date night

Friday night, we got to go to the Mahler's First Symphony directed by Tierry Fischer.  I still absolutely love Tierry Fischer!  It was a great performance and I managed to stay mostly awake despite having a 5 week old baby still sleeping 3 hours at a time.  Turns out that they were recording that performance for a CD to sell next year for the 75th anniversary of Abravanel Hall.  Might have to get that one.

Utah State Fair

Nell's birthday was this last week.  So much fun!  We met up at Julie's Fabric Stash and hung out with her, my mom and Sharon.  We also got to go to Malawi's pizza with them before Sharon went back home to Roy.  Evelyn through a fit while we were there... but we all survived it, even Evelyn.  Saturday, we met up at Utah State Fair.  It was a rough start, we almost forgot the tickets, my mom was sick all night so she and my dad had to stay home.  Finally got settled and played... then Sam disappeared.  Someone finally found him and took him to the lost kids tent. Oh my gosh!  Scariest moments ever!  All I could do was pray. 

 

Look at all these cute kids!

3+1

Nella and her roller coaster buddy

Keeping baby happy

This was the coolest thing.  The kids LOVED this guy.  But they were so funny about it... they kept running just in front of it saying, "Watch out!  It's going to get you! It's going to bite you!"

Love these guys

Smiling

I've tried really hard to get a good smiling picture of this kid. It's been an exciting venture. But yesterday he smiled at my mom while he was wide awake. So cute! Now to get him to smile at me.

Sweet baby

While it's tougher with this little guy, he sure is sweet.

Look who's growing up

This baby wanted to hold his own bottle tonight I guess.

First hair cut

last week

This last week was the kid's fencing competition.  They did really well, but Sammy had a particularly hard time coping with the fact that he's the smallest and hasn't been able to beat two of the other kids in the class... including the very tall 10 year old that wouldn't usually be in the class in the first place.  Poor kid.  He really is very good for a 5 year old. 

 

Jer also set up our tent in the back yard to clean out before he put it away for the winter.  The kids had a blast playing in it for a while and we did our reading for school while we were there.  Cute kids.

 

Crap

I thought that Sam was done with food allergies.  I guess not.  He hasn't had any reactions to anything for about 3 years.  His eczema gets worse if he eats lots of treats, but other than that he's been fine.  Today at Costco, he was trying all the samples and either the pomegranate or the mango sample made him break out it hives and choke.  I still keep Benadryll in my bag from all those times that he's had a reaction in the past... it's about 3 years old at this point, but luckily it still works.  He came home, napped and now is using my sympathy as a chance to play video games on a non video game day.  Adventure never stops.

Bit the bullet

We bit the bullet.  I was just going to teach our kids the piano, and so far it's worked out well with Sam and only so-so with Ada.  But our neighbor, who majored in piano performance at BYU and whom Ada loves because she's the Primary chorister in our Ward started teaching piano lessons again last year.  I'm super excited because Ada tends to commit herself more thoroughly to excelling in something if it's taught by someone that she loves.  If I tell her to practice, she does it without enthusiasm.  If her teacher sends her home from a piano lesson with a list of things to practice and check mark... she's immediately on the piano trying to figure it all out for her.

Our kids don't have to be great pianists.  That's not my dream, though I would love to hear them play and enjoy it.  Jer's and my goal is that they can read music well and use it if they want to.  Love it.