2012 Kidisms

Once again, here is a post of the whole year's worth of my sidebar "Kidisms"--things my kids say. Most are funny, some are very sweet, and each one is something that I never want to forget about my little kids.

January 2012
Miles told me that he loves me "one hundred and a million hearts of love!"

Bryan calls deodorant "goppo-stoppo" as a joke, so the kids call it that too. So, when Bryan brought home a box of Gobstoppers candy, the kids keep asking for "gopper-stoppers." Ha!

me: Miles, don't eat your boogers. That's gross!
Miles: I wasn't! I was just eating snot.

April 2012
At a field trip to a farm today, Miles got to ride on a horse. I told him that he was a cowboy! When he got down, he paused and then said, "So, uh....what does a horse boy do? Does he ride a cow?"

May 2012
Miles said to me today, "I'm almost a dad" and I replied, "Oh, really? How come?" He said, "because I like to tease so much!"

Miles was begging for something and said, "Please? Pretty please? With a cherry on top? And ice cream, and chocolate, and an extra brain?" ???

June 2012

Tess was mentioning that she wondered if she had more of my genes or more of Bryan's genes. Miles piped up from the back seat, "I have one of Daddy's shirts!" (He used one of Bryan's dress shirts as his graduation gown.) Ha!

Miles still has some funny mispronunciations; he's changing short vowels into long vowels: hotel is "ho-tail," canal is "ca-now-l, and treadmill is "tread-meal."

July 2012

As we were driving past Salt-Air tonight, Tess said "MOM! Look! It's a GIANT bouncy house!!"

August 2012

In the past we've caught caterpillars and watched them build cocoons and turn into moths....so the other day when Tess caught a frog and put it in that same "bug catcher" container, Miles said excitedly, "I wonder if this frog will turn into a butterfly!!"

After riding Rattlesnake Rapids at Lagoon, Miles said, "I am the SOAKEST of all!" (and he was, indeed, the soakest. :) I ended up the soakest of all from the Log Flume though!)

September 2012

Miles was playing with a football and asked me why they call the game "football." I said that they kick the ball a lot (which, really, they mostly don't kick it...they mostly throw it or run with it, but whatever...) and then Miles replied, "you know what they should call 'football?' They should call soccer 'football!'" Good idea my boy; most of the world agrees with you!

At Tess's school, I guess the kids all say when they're going to play against someone at something (i.e. tetherball) they say they're going to "verse" them. So, when it's Tess versus Daddy at our backyard tetherball pole, Tess says she is going to verse him. Weird, huh?

October 2012

Miles cracks me up...he's been watching the old cartoon "Transformers" and when it sings "more than meets the eye" he has confused the words so he walks around singing "Transformers, and the meetsy eye." I'm just waiting for him to ask me what a meetsy eye is.

November 2012

Bree is starting to say lots and lots of words. Here are a few favorites:

Jacket= jackie

Sock= hockey

Woof woof= fooh fooh

Binkie= Dah-dah (but Daddy=Daddy!)

Take this thing that I'm handing you= doo

Pretty= pippy

December 2012

Bree has a new favorite food: pistachios, which she charmingly calls "peetoes"

Fun Times in December

Here are just a few random photos of fun things we've done this month.  It's been a busy, but great, month!

Bryan took Tess & Miles to a U of U basketball game (and they won!!)

Tess had her school Christmas Concert.  Here she is waving to us...

...and singing her heart out.  She did a great job!

After Christmas we went to Salt Lake to see the lights at Temple Square and the candy-windows at Macy's.  (I highly recommend going after Christmas--the crowds are so tiny compared to before Christmas!)  I loved seeing the candy-windows at ZCMI when I was young and I was sad when they stopped doing it.  I was so happy when I heard that Macy's was bringing it back this year. (If you don't know what I'm talking about, they have holiday-themed window displays made entirely of candy pieces.)  The theme was Christmas ornaments and they were very cool.

This Santa Claus was my favorite.

And, on New Year's Eve, we went to a Grizzlies Hockey game.  (They won!)  Here is a picture of the family:  Miles was plugging his ears because it was so loud (which is unusual because he can be a super-duper loud kid when he wants to) and Bree is doing her typical cheesy grin when she realizes that a camera is on her. :)

Christmas 2012

We had a really wonderful Christmas this year.  We spend Christmas Eve with Bryan's family and Christmas day with my family.   On Christmas Eve night we opened our jammies and our new family game.  We actually got 2 this year:  "Hedbanz" and "Blockus" which were both a lot of fun.  Here's a pic of us playing Hedbanz in the new jammies. (Am I such a dork that it really irks me that the game is spelled "Hedbanz"...every time I type that I want to correct it!)  Anyway, Bree didn't really play, but she sure wanted to wear a headband!  (And after her jammies were on, she wanted a shirt on over top of them...whatever.)

 The kids got most of the things on their Christmas lists, and here they are with their favorite gifts:  Bree is playing with her Little People Zoo, giving the gorilla a swing in the tree;  Tess is listening to music on her new iPod; and Miles is driving the dump truck on his new construction site.

Bree pilfered all of the chapsticks from the various stockings and she was holding onto all 3 of them for dear life.  She gave us major stink-eye when we tried to take any of them away!

As usual, the day after Christmas was my very favorite day of all.  We just relaxed, slept in, didn't leave the house, ate yummy leftovers, didn't worry about any of the big messes, and happily played with all of our new gifts.  Ahhhh, bliss.

Cutie Bree pics...

Bree is a super photogenic baby, and she LOVES to have her picture taken...so I take a lot of pictures of her!  When she sees the camera, she immediately does a cheesy grin.  Here are a few favorites from December.

Standing inside Miles's lego box...

Enjoying the first snow...

Getting her "sticker" on!...

Wearing Daddy's hat and Miles's mittens...

Hamming it up for the camera...

Happy Birthday Miles!

Miles turned five on December 7th.  He was so excited to get up extra early to open presents.  One great thing about Miles (or maybe not-so-great, depending on his mood) is his ability to show his emotions.  Here he is--thrilled with some of his new things (a Hot Wheels Wall Tracks and a new Wii game).

 For his cake he asked for a "Sonic" cake.  "Sonic Colors" is a Wii game that he plays and loves, and so he wanted a cake like it...I'm really new to fondant, but I have a friend who is a super great cake decorator and she said she'd help me.  So we gave it a go and here's what we came up with:

 I bought the Sonic figurine to go on top because we knew that part should be perfect.  We molded the "wisps" (those are the colorful guys around the edges) out of fondant, and my friend used her Cricut machine for the letters and shapes out of fondant too.  I was really happy with the way it turned out.  And it tasted good too! (which is the most important part!)

 For this birthday, Miles got to have a "friend"  birthday party.  There were 10 kiddos there and everything turned out really well.  Bryan had half the kids for a craft while I played games with the other half, and then we switched.  After cake and presents, we went out to the garage for a pinata--I think that was everyone's favorite part.

 We sure love this guy--he is such a sweet boy.  He always tries to mind and follow rules.  He is super smart and has a memory like a steel trap.  He is kind to his friends and he's a really likable kid--almost always smiling and laughing (in fact, his cousins even gave him the nickname "Smiles."  It suits him!)

Here are his interview questions:
Favorite thing to do:  play the Wii
Favorite Wii game:  Super Mario Galaxy
Favorite thing that is NOT a video game:  play cars
Special friends:  Gabe, Owen, Mya, and Pressley
Favorite food:  quiche
Favorite treat:  Starburst or Bubble Gum
Favorite fruit & vegetable:  pineapple & carrot
Least favorite food:  green beans

Favorite part of preschool:  snack and learning new things
Favorite thing to do with Tess:  everything
Favorite thing to do with Bree:  push her on her Lion rider
Favorite thing to do with Daddy:  go shooting
Favorite thing to do with Mama:  play games
Favorite book: Sesame Street readers
Favorite Primary song:  Nephi's Courage ("I Will Go, I Will Do!")
Favorite song:  Here We Are Together
What are you good at?  Singing
What do you get in trouble for?  Hitting my sister
Favorite color:  Yellow
What do you want to be when you grow up?  Garbage man
What makes you laugh?  Tickles

ES3 Christmas Party 2012

Bryan's company holds their annual Christmas Party up at Snowbird Ski Resort each year.  They are generous enough to put all the couples up in hotel rooms there at the resort, so it is always a fun get-away for us.  They have a funny slide show of pictures of ES3 employees from the past year (last year they showed pictures of both Bryan and ME--I was pulling a stupid face for the camera at the previous year's party.  I didn't expect them to show that for the whole room of 200ish people...  yeah, I felt pretty stupid and have since tried to smile prettily for pictures instead of sticking out my tongue and crossing my eyes for pictures!)  

After the slide show is the food.  The food is yummy and they have LOTS of it.  Something new and super scrumptious this year was a waffle-donut thing (they use donut dough, but they pour it into a waffle maker to cook it) and then they dip it in glaze and put whipped cream and fruit on top.  It's like a Krispy Kreme and a Belgian waffle combined--delicious!!

The main part of the night is a game show.  They've done "ES3 Idol," "ES3's Got Talent," and "Minute to Win It."  Bryan is too much of an introvert (his word, not mine.  My word might be "Enginerd.") to sign up for any game.  But this year's game was "Family Feud" and I told him he had to sign us both up.  You can't look like too much of a fool playing Family Feud, right?  I thought surely we'd be on the same team, but nope, there were actually 5 guys from work on one team and all their wives on the opposing team (there were actually 8 teams in 4 different rounds, but we did play against each other during our round.)  I really wanted to win...but alas, we did not.  The guys "stole" our points after we got 3 strikes.  blurgh.  Oh well, it was a lot of fun and luckily we got some prize money no matter which team won!

Here we are in front of the ice sculpture.  Every year they have an ice sculpture, and every year it's a little bit bigger and more impressive.  This year's was a big joke because it was supposed to be huge and amazing, and they said it weighed 3000 pounds, so a guy that Bryan works with built a special, super strong, platform to set it on, yadda, yadda, yadda, and then the company who made the sculpture completely blew it and arrived about 2-3 hours late (it finally showed up after dinner), and then when they set it up, they put the company logo backward--the "ES3" part, but when they "fixed" that, the world part was backwards so Florida is on the West Coast.  Ha!  Oh well, at least with an ice sculpture nothing's permanent, right?