Happy Mother's Day! This year was fun because Luke had strong opinions about what he wanted to do and give to Marinda. At first, Amit was going to let Luke choose whatever he wanted, but then he realized Luke still needed some help putting everything together. They went to get flowers, and Luke just wanted to get a flower that you plant in the ground...that wasn't in bloom yet. Amit finally convinced him to get some flowers for the kitchen table too. When they went to get ingredients for breakfast and dinner, Luke said he just wanted oatmeal and egg for breakfast (aka what we have for breakfast every morning). Amit convinced him pancakes might make mommy happier. For dinner, Luke said he wanted apples. Just apples. When Amit said we should get some meat too, he said he wanted shrimp. Eventually, they agreed to get asparagus, salmon and ciabatta rolls. For dessert, Marinda REALLY wanted chocolates. Luke thought it would be good enough to just get chocolate ice cream, because he likes chocolate ice cream! So instead we got Marinda some good chocolate, and chocolate ice cream too :)
Luke made a really adorable card for Marinda this morning. He did this all by himself, and it was all his idea. He wrote out "Happy Mother's Day to mommy and me" as well as he could. We think it's pretty impressive considering he hasn't written anything close to this complicated before!
The other big thing this week was the Preschool movie night and raffle on Saturday! Luke was super-excited about it because one of the raffle prizes was a cool Thomas train track set. Even though there were many, many, many other prizes Marinda would have liked, Luke put all 6 of our raffle tickets in for the Thomas train set. He didn't quite understand that we weren't buying it, and that there was a chance he wouldn't get the train track. But all week he was talking about the movie night and the raffle. Then Saturday afternoon, he informed us that he "didn't want to go to the movie night, he just wanted to go to the raffle." Sigh. We went, he was pouty, but he seemed to enjoy watching Moana (first time for all of us!) After the movie, they announced the raffle winners...and Luke didn't win. He started bawling and was inconsolable until teacher Miley (from gymnastics, related to one of the preschool teachers) told him he had won a door prize - a four-wheeler toy! After that he was okay and we talked about how it was a Bear Lake party because we watched a movie about sailing and he got a four-wheeler.
Luke stories:
•Luke loved Star Wars night last week so much that he wanted to do it again this week! Marinda makes a calendar every month with little pictures on each day so Luke knows what's going on. For Star Wars night we had an R2-D2 picture. Luke decided that if he just moved the R2-D2 to the next week it would be Star Wars night again! Unfortunately for him, it didn't work.
Jacy stories:
•Jacy has become very independent this week. She wants to buckle her own seat belt, get her own clothes on, and go to the bathroom by herself. She will take of her clothes, rip her diaper off, go to the bathroom and close the door and not let anyone else in yelling "I DO IT!" Seriously, if we try and open the door she screams and slams it shut again.
•Jacy has a funny sense of humor. In the car coming back from church, Amit was making silly dad jokes. In primary, they talked about the gold plates, and one of the kids asked if these were plates like you eat in. So Amit was making jokes to this effect, and Luke was laughing normally. All of a sudden after the second joke, Jacy started cracking up with a laugh that you'd assume was fake if it weren't coming from a two year old. When we asked her if daddy was funny and she replied "yeah! it's funny!"
Luke made a really adorable card for Marinda this morning. He did this all by himself, and it was all his idea. He wrote out "Happy Mother's Day to mommy and me" as well as he could. We think it's pretty impressive considering he hasn't written anything close to this complicated before!
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| Luke's hand-written card to Marinda! |
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| Luke picked this picture to color for Marinda because it was a mommy and baby dinosaur |
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| Luke drew a picture of our family. The little animal in the middle is Durandal. We miss him :( |
The other big thing this week was the Preschool movie night and raffle on Saturday! Luke was super-excited about it because one of the raffle prizes was a cool Thomas train track set. Even though there were many, many, many other prizes Marinda would have liked, Luke put all 6 of our raffle tickets in for the Thomas train set. He didn't quite understand that we weren't buying it, and that there was a chance he wouldn't get the train track. But all week he was talking about the movie night and the raffle. Then Saturday afternoon, he informed us that he "didn't want to go to the movie night, he just wanted to go to the raffle." Sigh. We went, he was pouty, but he seemed to enjoy watching Moana (first time for all of us!) After the movie, they announced the raffle winners...and Luke didn't win. He started bawling and was inconsolable until teacher Miley (from gymnastics, related to one of the preschool teachers) told him he had won a door prize - a four-wheeler toy! After that he was okay and we talked about how it was a Bear Lake party because we watched a movie about sailing and he got a four-wheeler.
Luke stories:
•Luke loved Star Wars night last week so much that he wanted to do it again this week! Marinda makes a calendar every month with little pictures on each day so Luke knows what's going on. For Star Wars night we had an R2-D2 picture. Luke decided that if he just moved the R2-D2 to the next week it would be Star Wars night again! Unfortunately for him, it didn't work.
Jacy stories:
•Jacy has become very independent this week. She wants to buckle her own seat belt, get her own clothes on, and go to the bathroom by herself. She will take of her clothes, rip her diaper off, go to the bathroom and close the door and not let anyone else in yelling "I DO IT!" Seriously, if we try and open the door she screams and slams it shut again.
•Jacy has a funny sense of humor. In the car coming back from church, Amit was making silly dad jokes. In primary, they talked about the gold plates, and one of the kids asked if these were plates like you eat in. So Amit was making jokes to this effect, and Luke was laughing normally. All of a sudden after the second joke, Jacy started cracking up with a laugh that you'd assume was fake if it weren't coming from a two year old. When we asked her if daddy was funny and she replied "yeah! it's funny!"
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| Both kids wanted to be in the stroller on our way back from the park! |
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