Daylight Savings

I used to think it would be great to have kids that slept in, but I have changed my mind. Amy is sooo hard to wake up. I have tried 4 times and still no Amy. I think we are going to be late for church today if I don't do something a bit more drastic. Parker is still easy. I just walked into his room and he pops his head right up. He is just kicking it in the shower with dad. All of my kids love the shower. It is hard to get them out. We even put the kids to bed an hour early last night. I am not looking forward to this next week.

Parker talking

Parker is starting to talk a lot more. He tries to imitate us. When we ask him to say something he actually tries. I think he was just in observation mode for a long time.

McCall trip

We spent last weekend in McCall at my friend's family cabin. We had a lot of fun, just relaxing and playing in the snow.

We all walked down the the frozen lake. Someone had built a snowman out on the lake.
Parker didn't like to sled, he just wanted to eat the snow.

Up the hill she goes again.

Amy didn't want to go sledding, until dad made her go down. Then she thought it was sooo much fun.

I need to find a new babysitter.

I am so sad today, because my babysitter has decided to take a break for at least the summer, but maybe permanently. My kids love her. Amy really enjoys playing with her daughter. I feel like I am back at square one again. Sometimes I feel like I need to just take a couple of years off of work until my kids our in school. The problem is I worry if I can get my job back especially now with this slower economy. I hate asking people to watch my kids. I do have a few options right now that I hope will work out. If not I don't know what I will do. Regular daycare is not an option. I will stay home before I send them to a daycare. Daycares are too pricey for part time care anyways. If anyone has any great ideas I am open to them.

Having fun after work

Amy being a cheese ball. She had to get into the picture action. This is her typical pose.
Parker loves this hat his aunt Birdeena made. He wears it all the time. Today he was playing Peek-a-boo. He was cute.

A kid's perspective.

I was getting ready for work today and Amy was sitting on my bed. She said to me, "Mom? You and Dad are old huh?"
I said, "Well we are old compared to you and Parker."
She then said, "Me and Parker we are young." I love to see her ponder things.
She asked me the other day how Heavenly Father gets us to earth. I told her that we are born, but that was not a good enough answer she wanted to know how our spirit gets into our body. I told her that I didn't know. I thought to myself, what a thing to think about when your 4.

Parker is starting to talk more. Hooray!! Just in the last week he has started to say, "no", "up", bye-bye", "eat", "bird", and he is trying to say words when I ask him too. I think he was just in observation mode for a long time. I had him evaluated last week and his receptive language was at a 2 year 11 months level and his expressive was at 1 year 4mo level. It was nice to hear that he understands so well, which wasn't a big surprise.

Amy's version of the Barbie song

We were driving to preschool the other day and Amy was in the backseat singing. She loves Barbies now and I showed her the Barbie Song on You Tube, so she was singing, "I am Barbie girl, in a Barbie world.......Let's go potty, Let's go potty, Huh, Huh." She then wanted to know why I was laughing. For those of you that have never heard the song it is suppose to be "Let's go party."