Some Recent Happenings

On Wednesday last week, we celebrated Dr. Seuss’s birthday.  Landon had green eggs and ham at school, but when he came home, he wanted some more for lunch, so that is what we had.  They both really liked it and have asked to have it again for lunch.

Later that afternoon, we had some friends over, Ellie and Jared, and did some fun Dr. Seuss activities together.  We did some rhyming games, played “the cat says . . .,”  and we made some little Cat in the Hat finger puppets that of course didn’t turn out as cute as the picture in the tutorial.  We did make a cake of the cat’s hat, and luckily it turned out all right, except for the frosting, which Landon informed me was not red, but pink, when I showed him the finished product . I guess he had a valid point.  :)

I couldn’t seem to get a decent picture with everyone smiling, so I finally just settled on this one. 

We also installed a new toilet in one of our bathrooms.  It was a much-needed repair as our water bill was huge last month after the toilet kept running.  I asked the boys if they wanted to make a house or something out of the toilet box, and they decided that a dog house would be fun.  They played in it for quite awhile, and we later decorated it with shutters, flowers along the bottom, and an address.  James had fun playing with them too when they woke up, and he would stand outside and pull himself up to the window, laughing when either Landon or Davis peeked their heads out at him. 

  

That night, Kelly came over to babysit while Shane and I went to the temple.  Kelly said they both wanted to sleep in the dog house, so he had to give them each a turn to lie down in there with their blankets and pillows.  Because it’s not too big of a box, they kept pushing on the door and calling to Kelly to come and shut it for them, so after countless time of going back there, he added a little hole on the door for a door knob for them to pull the door open and shut.   We have one more toilet to install, and we already have plans to make a puppet theater out of that one.

And finally, here are some pictures of Shane and the boys reading scriptures before bed.   They always want to read on his itouch, and they take turns pushing the "bookmark” to get to our family reading spot.

This is actually one of Davis’s calmer nights.  Usually he is bouncing all over the living room while we try to get him to sit and listen and read with us.