Sweet Tooth

A few weeks ago, Ken had the brilliant idea to get rid of all of the leftover Easter candy - by letting the kids eat basically a much as they wanted at one sitting and then chucking the rest.



It worked really well with Luke. He ate about 3 pieces and then decided he was done. The rest ended up in the trashcan.

Not so much with Evelyn. She ate and ate. Peeps, hershey's kisses, rollos. That girl has the biggest sweet tooth I have ever seen.

News

I've been a bad, bad blogger.

We had ultrasound pictures of our baby due in October (yes, you read that right) from 8 weeks ago that I've been meaning to scan but never got around to actually doing it.

We showed Luke the pictures and asked what he thought it was:

"A shell!"

"A crab!"

"A fish!"

Today, we took him to see the 19 week ultrasound of the baby. He thought this was pretty cool and could actually tell it was a baby.

I was a little worried because for several weeks, he was convinced that the baby would be a boy (because "we already have a baby girl" and "I prayed to Heavenly Father and He told me it was a boy")

Luckily, he had resigned himself to the fact that it could be a boy or a girl, and was fairly well controlled.

Which is good, because . .

It's a (dramatic pause)

Girl!

Scripture Reading

Evie decided to help by "reading" to us the other night.

She hopped up on the bed with the scriptures open in her lap.

This was her interpretation:

"yadda yadda blah blah and it came to pass . . . blah yadda blah . . .Jesus said . . blah blah . . .Sit down!" (finger pointing at the rest of us, in high pitched authoritative voice) "Sit down! Sit down!:

Glad to hear she's paying attention to the important points.

Changes

I realize I've been on somewhat of a blogging hiatus.

It's been a busy couple of weeks for us around here.

Ken's company did a bunch of downsizing, leaving him looking (all over the country) for another job. No luck yet (stinking economy) though he has had a couple of good interviews. Keeping our fingers crossed that something great will turn up -- anyone out there need an exceptionally excellent product manager?

In the mean time, he's been keeping busy pursuing his more domestic side:



He made these. In fact, he's done it several times. It's probably the best darn homemade bread I've ever had.



Catching up on house projects. He and Luke refinished the deck - Luke spent literally all afternoon painting the railings. I love the way his feet look, all covered in paint.

I've been working, taking my board exams, doing some traveling (mostly for work, though Ken and I did take a trip to California for a few days and hung out near the beach).

Evie's been busy learning princess songs (her new favorite is "I know you, I walked with you once upon a dream" from Sleeping Beauty. She sings it pretty much nonstop, generally while twirling and dancing). She's speaking really well now, mostly in full sentences Her best the other day was while we were attacking her with kisses. She started giggling "No kissing Evie! No kissing Evie!" over and over. Her daddy hopes she keeps this phrase up at least into her 20s.

We've had a bunch of guests which has been fun - Caroline and Michael have been in town job hunting and house hunting, and the kids have loved having the cousins around

I've got more updates and posts coming.