The Swing

Paxten has loved having a swing set in the back yard, in fact all the kids love having a swin set and it was definitely a good investment. Although I am not sure how many more years it will last! Anyways.. Paxten loves to swing and I often find him bent over the swing swaying back and forth. He can't quite get on the regular swings himself, but can lay over one and swing gently back and forth. He loves it when I puch him and as he is swinging toward me I move out of the way, like he is trying to get me and a just barely miss getting hit. He usually laughs and smiles and thinks it is the greatest thing ever! I love his little laugh and his cute little smile. I don't want him to grow up!!

School Lunch

The kids summer lunch program has started and my kids could hardly wait. As soon as school was out they were asking when they could go to the schools for lunch. They had to wait a few weeks and they were finally able to go on the 4th of June. Paige was so excited to go that the weekend before she wanted to go and was sad when I told her she had to wait until Monday. She proceeded to get in the van to go to school lunch. We did not see her do this and when we realized she wasn't oputside with the rest of the family we became a little panicked and began searching everywhere for her. We were getting to that scary point of not being able to find her when Matt opened up the back of the van and there she was! She said she was waiting to go to school lunch!! Silly girl, I hope we aren't spending the majority of our summer looking for her!!! Needless to say they kids were over joyed when the day finally came to go to school lunch. They had chicken nuggets, fries, a roll, peaches and milk. Paige ate most of her lunch, including the peaches, which suprised me. I looked over at Parker and his tray was completely empty!! That was a first! HE ate the whole things and he ate it like a growing boy! That was a good sight to see! So we are into our third week of school lunch and playing outside for about an hour before. It is nice to have the kids outside playing for a while instead of sitting in front of the TV all day!

Park

We finally had some good weather last week and the kids and I took full advantage of it. We rode our bikes at the green belt and then played at the park for a few hours. We even got our first sunburn of the season. (ooops! Forgot the sunscreen, now I know it is getting warmer!) The kids had a great time and we are hoping the weather keeps us because we like being outside!!

Wall-E

So I cursed myself on Sunday for posting about how I love church at 11 and that Parker does so good. He was horrible in Sacrament meeting on Sunday and threw a huge fit when I had to drag him to primary. He finally did okay, but I had to leave the room and visit another class because he was so on my nerves. I hope he grows out of this stage!
On a side note before I post what I was really going to post today. We are on the 2nd day of Potty Training with Parker. A friend reminded me of the idea to put cheerios in the toilet and let him shoot them. Well we tried it yesterday and he loved it. He thought that was so much fun. I think that is all we had to do, make it fun somehow to wear big boy underwear and go in the potty. He is a stubborn little boy and we just had to do it on his time. He had a few accidents yesterday, but none today so far. (Crossing my fingers) I bought Spider man Stickers for him to put on a chart each time he goes in the potty and a special treat each time he goes number 2 in the potty. He also gets a big toy when he doesn't wear diapers anymore. Whoever said bribery doesn't work, didn't have kids! Wish us luck, we are hoping he will get the hang of it and be all the way trained before we go on our Cruise, which is in 74 DAYS!!!
Now the real reason I was going to post today, Parker got the movie Wall-E for Christmas and has watched it several times. He even found a box and put it over his head and was pretending to be Wall-E so we altered the box and made it fit him better and we had ourselves a little robot. He is beginning to have quite the imagination and can keep himself entertained for a little while. It is great because he even entertains Paige for a little while. She mostly follows him around, yes she has become quite the little crawler. Some days they will play for about an hour in their rooms together. I hope they continue to play together as they get older. It helps me accomplish more during the day when I don't have to entertain them both all day long!