Care Bears & Leapfrog Letter Factory

Erin watched The Care Bear Movie the other day.  When it was over she said, "Oh Mom that was the most beautiful movie!"

We got them the Leapfrog Letter Factory movie at the DI the other day as a reward for being good.  They have watched it every day so luckily it is not overly annoying.  Now they go around singing the songs and all the sudden Erin is started to point at letters and say stuff like, "The P says p.  Like popcorn!" The other day she sprayed some cleaner on the table and said, "Hey that says ssss like S!  Does spray start with S?"  Why did it take a movie to cement everything we've been working on since birth?

Erin's comments to Blake

Blake was going over to Kirk's house and asked Erin if she wanted to go along to play with Trestin.  Of course she did so she went and put on her shoes.  She always 'forgets' to put on socks so Bucky double checked.  Then he made her wait for him to go find her some socks.  Meanwhile, Blake told her to hurry or he'd leave her.  She looks up at him and says, "Just go get in the car and wait!"  I don't know where she got that from but it worked! 

When they came back Blake was laughing and told us that he couldn't wait to see how we handle Erin as a teenager.  I guess while they were at Kirk's house she did something and he told her he was going to give her a timeout.  She grinned her cocky grin at him and said, "You can't cuz you aren't my parent!"

Heaven help us I can't even control my 4 year old!

Unusual Baptism

Bucky's grandpa was excommunicated from the church a long time ago. He's continued to go to church and called himself "the most active non-member you'll ever meet."  He got the go ahead to be baptized so we attended his baptism this last Saturday.  I think it was a good experience for my children to be there.  Afterward we went to Grandma and Grandpa Condor's house and had food and met a whole bunch of people I had never met before!

Just Another Testimony Meeting...

Lately Levi has taken to identifying various individuals by select titles like Grandma, Grandpa, Aunt, Uncle, Mommy, etc...  Well on Sunday each person who got up he had to tell me what they were in his classification system.  I kept trying to shush him because he wasn't very quiet about it.  All the sudden he says really loudly, "Is that a grandma or a grandpa?"  I just hope that no one else could understand him! 

About 10 minutes later I told him to stop doing something and he through one of those 2 year old mini-tantrums so I had to take him out.  I sat down on the chair in the foyer with him in my lap and starting talking to him about his behavior.  He turns and gives me a huge hug and says "I love you Mom."  I paused, told him I loved him too, and started reminding him how we behave in churhc.  He turns, gives me a huge hug, and says "You're the best mom in the whole world!" Then he started to laugh.  I gave up.  The guy on the couch across the foyer was trying really hard not to laugh.  Then he saw the picture of John the Baptist baptizing Jesus and says, "Look Mom, Jesus baptized!"  I gave the appropriate response and he says, "Grandpa Condor baptized!" I gave the appropriate response and he says, "Me baptized?"  Such logic in a 2 year old!