Fun with Nursery Rhymes

The other day we were going over some nursery rhymes with Elina. For fun we like to leave off the last word or two of a line in a book that she is familiar with, to see if she'll be able to fill in the blank. Here are a couple funny ones that she said:

Bryce: "Little boy blue, come blow your..."
Elina: "...nose"

Bryce: "Humpty Dumpty sat on a..."
Elina: "...tuffet"

So Funny It's Dizzying

This past Sunday at getting-ready-for-bedtime, Elina was spinning in circles for fun. She got dizzy, and fell and bumped her head against a little night stand we have for her. We were a little nervous about it as it looked like she hit the corner of the night stand with her eye. Thankfully she didn't, and we saw the bump on her head above her eye. But to make sure she could still see ok, I held my hand over her other eye, and asked Kathy to hold up some fingers for Elina to count. I asked her how many fingers she saw, and she said, "one, two". Good, she seemed fine.

Then--classic Elina--while still lying on her back, she lifted up her leg and brought her foot right in front of my face, and asked, "how many feet do I have?"

Kristy is my inspiration

Kristy is always"one-upping" me in the Creative Motherhood section, so I decided to get off my lazy duff and do something with Elina. Digging through my old college books, I found some science & math fun books for small children. Soo, today we went on a nature walk. I wrapped wide masking tape around her waist and we walked around the neighborhood looking for small objects to stick to it! How creative is that!! Elina loved it, and found all kinds of things...including a pop bottle top. I don't know if that's really considered naturistic, but it stuck none-the-less.

Cousins, Here we come!!

We FINALLY made it!! Our sickly children have kept us from traveling up North for months now. We decided to take advantage of a work conference Bryce had in Orem. It was Elina & Aaron's first time in a hotel. Elina jumped all over the bed saying "This is soo fun", over and over again. When that got old, she started pushing every button in sight. Yes...especially the big red call button on the phone...fun times :)

It worked out perfectly to visit Kristy & Nathan. Cindy, Sheri, and their kids were able to come down on Friday for a huge swimming party!! Well, sort of. We tried the hotel pool, but there wasn't a kiddy section. Next was an awesome outdoor kid swimming place but it was tooo windy and dusty. Sooo, after poor, tired Cindy & Ryan headed home, we walked down to the 1950's Community Pool. They wouldn't let us use our cool floatys I so carefully packed, and the water was FREEZING! We had a fun time none-the-less. Elina even jumped off the side of the pool a couple of times. The next evening, Nathan and Bryce took the kids to see some horses while Kristy and I whipped up a fast pizza (as fast as anything homemade goes)!

I took advantage of the perfectly warm and windless Saturday to snap a couple of shots of my darling little boy!! What a CUTIE :)

Thanks everyone for spending time with us. It's always great to see family...especially since we don't know when we'll see Cindy & Ryan again!

Bye Bye Young Women

I'm learning that when I hear about a certain topic over and over again, I should probably pay attention. That's what happened a few weeks ago. Bryce and I were able to go to a Temple session for the first time since before Aaron was born. (hooray for solid foods) We also had a special lesson in YW to prepare for the Oquirrh Mt. Temple Dedication as well as in Sunday School. As I sat through these lessons, I thought, I really want to learn more about the Temple and strengthen my testimony about it.

Well, it should have been no surprise when the Bishop called me into his office and said he had good news and bad news. The bad news...it was time to be released from Young Womens. The good news...I was asked to teach the Temple Prep. Class!!

Wow, I feel like I was just getting the hang of everything, and we had soo many fun things planned for this summer. I don't even get to go to Girls Camp :( Oh well. I've decided that I was never meant to get "comfortable" in any calling...that means I've learned what I need to and it's time to move on. I'm going to miss the girls, but I am also very excited to teach about the Temple!!