Utah Jazz!

This last Saturday night, we got to go to a "luxury suite" at the Jazz game, that Daniel's Dad bought in an auction two years ago. They accidentally gave it to the wrong person, and have been trying to get one for him to make up for it.

Originally Daniel was going to be gone on a fishing trip, so I was going to just go and take Tucker. We talked about it all week. He was sooo excited to wear his Kyle Korver jersey.....

....eat lots of free food, drink lots of Pimp Juice (root beer) and ice cream!!!

Daniel's fishing plans fell through, and he was able to come too. We considered leaving Tucker home with the sitter we already had for Nora Jane, but the kid was too excited to go, we couldn't! :) I'm glad we took him. During the National Anthem, Tucker asked me why the guy was singing for so long. But once the noise started for announcing the players, he was mesmerized. Every time Carlos Boozer shot a basket, and the announcer said his name...Tucker would repeat it.

We all had so much fun!! Guess we better start saving up for season tickets.

Playing in the Snow

These are just a couple of videos of Tucker playing in the snow during our last big snow...on Valentine's day...I think.

Frank & Wendover

This weekend we went with our friends the Carter's, the Davis', and the Beck's to Wendover to see Frank Caliendo. It was a ton of fun...we didn't get to sleep until 3:00am! We left the kids home with Annalisa and Chris, thanks guys!
If you look in between Elly and I you can see Frank in the background.

Nora Jane's bruise

Daniel's always telling Nora Jane that her pretty face my be the only thing she as going for her, so she should be careful to not bang it on things. She likes to pull her self up to standing on just about anything, and is still a little wobbley. Well she didn't listen to him and fell while pulling herself up to the end table in the basement, and hit the bridge of her nose right on the shelf.

This was just 15 minutes after it happened...but just a second after I realized she actually hit right on her nose and it was now swelling up and turning purple.

This is on Sunday, after church. Lovely!

Aquarium and Carousel

Last week my friend Elly and I took our boys to the Aquarium. It was quite an adventure with all for children (Elly has two boys, same ages as my kids.)
This picture was in front of the shark tank, not that you can tell.



After the Aquarium we stopped at South Towne Mall food court for lunch, and took the boys on the Carousel. Tucker was nervous at first, but eventually was fine with it.

Toenail???

Tucker: "Mom, what did you do with your toenail?"
Mom: "With my toenail? nothing."
Tucker: "Did you take it off?"
Mom: "No, look its still on my toe."
Tucker: "Where is it? (walking into the bathroom.) with the green thing...on the back of your hair."
Mom: "Oh...my pony tail?"
Tucker: "Yeah, your pony tail...where is it?"
Mom: "I just fixed my hair and left it down, I didn't pull it back up into a pony tail."
Tucker: "But, where is it?"

No idea how to explain further.....he gave up too.

Nora Jane's first tutu

Daniel's sister Annalisa was over the other day, and I was showing her clothes that I bought for Nora Jane for next fall, and she decided to stick the tutu on her. We couldn't help but take lots of pictures of her....

Tucker's first trip to the Dentist!

Tucker came to the dentist with me today, to watch me get my teeth cleaned. Then he got to sit in the chair, and they counted his teeth, and cleaned them. He was such a good boy, he sat still and opened his mouth big. He loved the water that they sprayed in his mouth...they did it lots and lots for him. They said everything looked good, and his two front teeth should move back in place in about 6 months...now that the pacifier is gone.

Tucker caught a football....

Last night I had to go put Tucker back in his bed after I'd put him to bed like an hour before. As I was leaving his room, I had turned off the light and he said, "Hey Mom!" "What?" I said (slightly bugged, cause I figured he was trying to come up with something to delay bedtime further). "One time I caught the football, and it broked my leg". He has said this several times over the last couple of weeks, and mostly he tells this to his Aunt Michelle for whatever reason. Apparently while we were in Hawaii, one of the babysitters, Walter, was watching an NFL game with Tucker and someone caught the football, and when they landed broke their leg and it was pretty bad, and they had to cut to commercial. For some reason he just can't let it go, and has also changed the story to be his own experiance. Funny kid!

No More Paba!

Tucker's last two pabas (pacifiers) left us sadly yesterday in a very gruesome way. Both had been ripped a little on the sides for awhile now. Yesterday they were both decapitated by their owner at seperate times...even with lots of warnings from me that that's what would happen. I had to brace myself for what would happen at bedtime. I'll be the first to admit I was just as attached to the pabas as Tucker. I decided I'd be nice and lay in bed with him for a little bit, to lessen the blow. After saying prayers...and asking Heavenly Father to make Tucker happy even though he was so sad to lose his paba...which he got upset with me for saying...we snuggled up in his bed. I was only there a few minutes when he said, "get out of my bed." So I did, and then he asked me to come back and give him a hug and a kiss..which I did, and then left the room. He then started crying for his paba...and that lasted about 15 minutes and then he was asleep. That was nothing compared to the last month of trying to keep this kid in his room to go to sleep at nights...lots of tantrums and kicking of his door. So we did survive, and now maybe his front teeth can move back into proper position. :)