SPLASH!!!

We went swimming at the new Aquatic Center on Saturday. Justin has been taking swimming lessons this past week and was happy to have a chance to show off his moves. Travis and I were looking forward to plenty of dunking so Justin would be happy to put his head under the water on his own during his lessons. Tyler started crying as soon as he saw we were walking towards the pool. (We hadn't been swimming since last summer.) Soon he was relaxing in the water and floating around with me.

Justin and Travis went over to go down the big indoor spiral waterslide. Justin put on a life jacket and we watched them both go down several times. Tyler decided he wanted to try it too. So, I put a life jacket on him and down we went. I held him up as we splashed and his head stayed out of the water. I thought he might start crying again, but he immediately signed for "more." So, down we went again. This time I slipped as we splashed and down I went and away he went. I regained my footing as fast as I could and reached out to find him and set him upright. I thought that would be it. But he wanted more. The next time down I slipped again and he LOVED it! Silly boy!

We went back into the kiddie pool to warm up and Travis started throwing Justin with his life jacket on and he would bob back up laughing. Tyler wanted to try and thought it was fun too! I just thought Tyler's transition was so funny. He went from crying about getting into the pool to sad that he couldn't go down the slide again. It was a fun night!

We love you, Justin!

"Does a cricket go beep-beep or crick-crick?"

To Mom who was on the computer:
Justin: “Mom, you’re so borus!”
Mom: "What does that mean?"
Justin: “It means you’re so slow, hurry up, Borus!"
Mom: "You can call me Mom."
Justin: "Oh, right. I was just being crazy."

"Mom, I just broke a rib!" (He says this as he is holding an ice pack to his ankle.) I asked him if he knew what a rib was? "I guess I don’t really know…where IS my rib?"

A couple of days after we went on a preschool fieldtrip to the firestation and the firemen kept reminding the kids to stay away from matches:
"You know I'll never play with a mattress unless it's a toy one." (matches)


Justin (4 yrs old) and Tyler (21 months old) January 2007

One day, I was in the kitchen fixing lunch and Justin says in an annoyed voice, "Mom, you are SO dignified!" I said, "Wow, thanks Justin!" He gave me a really confused look and went on playing...

One night before his birthday, I was tucking Justin in bed and he says, "I'd be so happy if there was a big earthquake on my birthday party day because it would break open my pinata and all the candy would come falling out!"

Then a minute later he says, "When I wake up in the resurrection, I'll open my eyes and go 'Ohhh, Yeah!'" (think of the song from "Ferris Buhler's Day Off")

"Mom, did you know I wanted to eat an insect for lunch?...Oh, Mom, I'm just kidding!"

Sand in our toes

When I told Justin and Tyler that Grandma and Grandpa Davis were getting them a sandbox for their birthdays, Justin said, “Yeah! Now our backyard will be fun like Grandma & Grandpa’s backyard!” We just got the sandbox and sand two weekends ago. But, it was raining all day on Saturday, so, we put it all together that following Monday. We did a little digging treasure hunt for Family Home Evening and the boys absolutely LOVE that sand! We bought some beautiful brown Oregon beach dune sand that will be great for making sand castles. Tyler immediately buried his feet and Justin started carving out roads for his off-road plastic jeep. They have been spending hours playing out back and having a wonderful time!



Tyler loves to knock down the sandcastles!



Check out Justin's two new teeth coming in!