BLAKE: Today Blake tried the whole "lick a metal pole when its freezing cold outside" dare. His tongue obviously got stuck and is now bleeding. When I asked him what he was thinking he said, "Mom everyone knows that that doesn't really happen." UMMM, no Blake, I think it does really happen!!

DAMON: Today, Ashlyn, Damon, and I met Terry for lunch. We got Damon a little kids cup with water in it. When we were just about finished with our lunch, Damon begs to be let out of his high chair, so I do. He grabs his drink, waves by and walks away. So I get up and follow him to see what he was up to. I find him at the Pepsi machine, reaching up trying to get something different to drink. Apparently the water wasn't good enough for him! (22 months old)

BLAKE:
The other day, Terry and Blake went golfing with one of Blake's best bud (Dallin) and his dad Cameron and little brother. They were just about done and were standing around while the boys hit a few, when suddenly Terry gets hit in the chest with a golf ball from a nearby golfer. While Terry is confronting the other golfer (who was unappologetic), he hears Cameron telling Blake, "No, that's not our ball." Come to find out, Blake was mad at the other golfer for hitting his dad, so he picked up the other golfer's ball and threw it into the little pond!

DAMON:
Right now Damon is about 21 1/2 months old. His talking has been a little slow developing, but here are a few things that he does say...

Mauee= Mommy
Daee= Daddy
Joo= Drink or Juice
Side= Outside
Home= Home
Ashee= Ashlyn
Da down= Sit down
Da dup= Stand up
Ear ee es= there it is
Ball= Ball
Bay= Blake

He is a pretty funny kid... When he wants you to sit in a certain place he will "pat" it until you do what he wants. If something gets knock on the floor, he will yell at you until you put it back where it was. His most favorite thing to say right now is Daee Home. (Daddy's home)

ASHLYN: The other day I was making chocolate chip cookies, when Ashlyn walked into the kitchen. She looked into my mixing bowl and when she saw what was in it she said:
"Well hello there gorgeous!" She loves chocolate chip cookies. Maybe you had to be there but it was funny!

BLAKE: This happened a few weeks ago while Blake was still in Kindergarten...
Blake had the day off of school because there was an early release day or something, so I decided to plan a picnic at the park with a couple of Blake's friends and their moms. After being up for awhile, I realized that Blake hadn't gotten up yet. This is not usual, Blake is usually the first one awake. So I go into his room and find him laying awake in bed. Before I can say anything Blake looks at me with sad eyes and tells me he is sooo sick and there is no way he can go to school. So I put my "sad face" on (the whole time knowing that he is totally faking), and say, "Oh man, thats too bad because you don't have school today and we were going to meet Dallin and Seth at the park for a picinic today." "But if you are too sick I guess we will have to call and cancel with them." Right then he sat up with his hand on his head and said, "Wow, I think I am starting to feel much better." FAKER!! -May 2010-

ASHLYN: We were over in Boise recently for our niece Jaedyn's baptism. We stayed at Jenna's house while we were there. On Saturday, Jenna had Baylee take a bath, and just as they finished up Ashlyn joined them in the bathroom. Here is a conversation that took place between Ashlyn and Baylee (keep in mind they are both 4 years old and Baylee is naked cause she just got out of the bath)...
Ashlyn: "Hey Baylee, I see your ta tas."
Baylee: "Let me see yours."
(Ashlyn lifts her shirt.)
Ashlyn: "Here are my ta tas, but yours are bigger than mine."
Maybe its not as funny reading it as it was in person, but Jenna and I thought it was hilarious!

BLAKE: "You are the best mom ever, even though you are fat." -05/17/2010-

ASHLYN: The other day, Ashlyn was sitting down having lunch while I was cleaning up in the kitchen. Out of nowhere she takes a drink of pink milk and says, "Man, this sure is a good cup of Joe." HA! I'm not sure where she got this (probably from t.v.), but I just thought it was the funniest thing. I wasn't even completely sure what a "cup of Joe" is. (coffee I think, still not sure.) She sure is a funny girl!

ASHLYN: A few weeks ago Terry was eating an ice cream sandwich. Ashlyn came down the stairs and saw it. So of course she wanted one. Terry didn't want her to have one so he told her that they were treats for grown ups only. And that ended it. Well today, I was just talking to Ashlyn telling her how beautiful she is, and I told her she was going to be even more beautiful when she grows up. Out of nowhere she says, "yeah, and when I am grown up I can eat one of those treats that are black in the white and blue paper that daddy eats." I was totally confused. So me and Terry were thinking about it, then remembered that he told her ice cream sandwiches are only for grown ups. And yes, they come wrapped up in a blue and white paper. We thought it was sooo funny that she remember that Terry told her they were only for grown ups. Maybe you just had to be here, but we really thought it was funny!

ASHLYN: The other day at church, Terry and I were standing outside the primary room with our class, while waiting for the younger kids to come out. As the little kids started piling out, each teacher that came out stopped to tell us that Ashlyn was sooo cute during singing time. Each of them told us that they could hear someone's voice over the top of everyone else's. They finally realized that it was Ashlyn. So when we got home we asked Ashlyn to sing for us the way that she sings at church. When she sang, it was not singing at all. She was literally yelling the words. It was not cute at all. So I can only imagine what the the teachers think when she sings every Sunday!

BLAKE: The other day Blake went to his friend Dallin's house after school. When I went to pick him up, Ashley (Dallin's mom) said, "I didn't know Blake was allergic to peanut butter." I said, "He's not." She told me that for lunch, she was getting the boys some peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and Blake told her he was allergic to peanut butter. So he convinced her to make him a turkey sandwich instead (his most favorite thing to eat). She didn't question his allergy cause if a 5 year old knows what allergic means, then he must really be allergic. When I told her he lied, she thought it was just histerical! Lets just say Terry and I are in big trouble, cause at 5 Blake is already a very good liar!! -5 years old-

ASHLYN: When Ashlyn met her new baby brother Damon for the first time, she asked her dad, How long do we get to keep the baby for? We told her, forever, so she was pretty happy about that.

ASHLYN: Ashlyn's little mind was really thinking alot while I was pregnant. The other day she says, " Mom, will your baby be my baby when I get big?" I said, "No, my baby will still just be your little brother when you are big." So she asks, "So who will be my kids when I am older." I tell her that we don't know her kids yet because they still live up in heaven with Heavenly Father. And then of course she asks, "When will I get my kids?" So I tell her that one day when she gets married she will be able to have kids. So then, very randomly, she asks, "Where is my married ring?" (Obviosly she realizes that when you get married you wear a ring.) So I told her that when she meets a really nice boy, he will ask her to marry him, and if she says yes, he will give her a ring. I just think it is really funny the way little girls think. Blake would have never asked a question like that! But she is really excited to have a baby when she is older.

ASHLYN: Ashlyn has a favorite song on the radio right now, which is "Party in the USA" by Miley Cyrus. Everytime we get in the car this song comes on. She loves it and sings along with it everytime. Well we recently drove down to Utah to visit my parents, and both of the kids were asleep in the backseat. Suddenly Ashlyn's song comes on, and she pops right up and starts singing. As soon as the song was over, she was out cold again. And don't get me wrong, she wasn't just resting her eyes or anything, she was honestly asleep, woke up for that song, then fell right back to sleep. How funny!

ASHLYN: So, some friends and I somehow got on the discussion of some of the gross "bathroom" things our kids have done when they were younger, and it brought to mind a couple disgusting things that Ashlyn did when she was younger. And if you ask me, these are "hands down" some of the worst things ever!! 1. One Sunday afternoon, some friends of ours invited our family over for Sunday dinner. I would bet Ashlyn was about 18 months. We had finished eating dinner and were sitting around the table while the kids were off playing. We realized we hadn't seen Ashlyn for a while so we started looking for her. We then found her in the bathroom. Her face, hair and clothes were soaken wet cause she had been playing in the toilet. The worst part is, when I looked in the toilet it was full of pee. One of their kids had used the toilet and forgotten to flush, and Ashlyn had been playing and drinking it!!!!! YUCK!!!! 2. So, you know the toilet scrub brushes, Right? Well, you have the brush and then there is a little cup that you put the brush in after you clean that collects the liquid and stores the brush. Well one day I found Ashlyn drinking the liquid out of the toilet brush cup!!!! EEWWW! So you know its a mixture of toilet water, toilet "grime", and cleaning chemicals. Can it be any worse???

BLAKE AND ASHLYN: I just overheard Blake and Ashlyn "pinky promise" that they would always watch "Hot Wheels." (Hot Wheels is just a "boy" cartoon about guys driving fast cars. They happen to be watching it at the moment.) I just think it is pretty funny that they even know what a "pinky promise" is! -8/23/09-

ASHLYN: Lately Ashlyn has started coming up to us and saying that she needs to tell us a secret. She then comes up to our ear and whispers that she loves us sooo much. Isn't she sweet? -8/12/09-

BLAKE: A few evenings ago we had a church social that we went to. Terry and I were busy chatting with another couple while the kids ran off to play with the other kids. One of the ladies we go to church with has an English accent. She came up to me to tell me that she had gone over to Blake and his friend Drew to fuss at them for something that they were doing. But when she told them to stop doing whatever it was they were doing, Blake looked at her with big eyes and said, "Wow, you speak Spanish!?!" She said, "No." Blake said, "Well it sure sounds like you do!" Obviously Blake assumes that anyone with a different sounding accent must speak spanish. She thought that was just hilarious, so she had to come over and tell us. -7/31/09-

BLAKE: Terry's mom was telling us today that Blake said that his dad is the smartest man that he knows. So I asked him, "Who is the smartest lady that you know?" And he said, "I don't know. I don't know any smart ladies." Terry thought that was pretty funny! -6/3/09-

BLAKE: Tonight as I was putting Blake to bed, he gave me a kiss and said, "You know what mom." " I am so happy, cause I get to love you forever, because space goes on forever and ever." I thought that was pretty darn sweet! -5-14-09-

BLAKE: Tonight I was just thinking about a few things from when Blake and Ashlyn were a bit smaller. A couple of things that stand out in my mind are pretty funny now, but at the time I was horrified. When Blake was about 3 and Ashlyn was about 1, I happened to be in the bathroom and could here Ashlyn crying. It was strange cause it was really muffled sounding. So I go out to investigate. What I find is... Blake sitting on an upside down rubber storage container (which we use as toy boxes), and Ashlyn is trapped beneath it screaming her head off. Blake thought it was the best thing ever. I felt so sorry for Ashlyn cause she was terrified. Another time, when they were pretty much that same age, I once again heard Ashlyn crying in the other room. I go in to find Ashlyn being cornered by Blake and he is poking her repeatedly with a pencil. I was horrified. For a while I was really worried that Blake might actually hurt her. Thankfully that time, and no other time for that matter, did he cause her any harm, but there was a short time when it was clear that he did not like her. They get along great now and play really well together. I just wanted to write this down, you never no when this kind of information might be good in the future for embarassment or who knows what else! -5-14-09-