2 Years Old!

I posted about St Patrick's Day. Shut my computer and left. I am back... I forgot to post that Pepper had a birthday yesterday. She is now officially two.

Happy St. Patricks Day!

I love Washington. Not only can you wear green on St. Patty's day... but you can be surrounded by it. I love the great outdoors!

The Great Outdoors!

Pepper L-O-V-E-S hunting for bugs. She removed 19 worms out of a puddle and put them back in the dirt. She is very careful with them and they are usually rescued unharmed. On the other hand Tabor found a worm and it did not survive. Bugs better look out when Tabor is around! Pepper has also found a plethera of spiders. Just think once summer hits Pepper will be in bug heaven. I decided to take this "exploring" one step farther by having a preschool lesson about something in nature and then go outside and experience it. Her birthday is on wednesday and her first lesson will be on thursday. I opened up a new blog just for preschool. If you see a link called "toddlers in nature" you found it. We are going to talk about weather, where food comes from, bugs, bodies of water, 5 senses, trees, rocks, birds and so on. When we did all the colors (when she was 18 months) she did great! And still has them all memorized. So hopefully she soaks this up aswell. And Tabor is going to join us on our adventures.

I haveTwo... One Year Olds

Today was Tabor's first birthday. He had 2 parents, 1 sister, 4 sets of grandparents, 2 uncles and one cousin at the party. We did a dump truck theme. The kids started out by playing with dump trucks in the sandbox. Then it was present time... and with 5 grandma's around there was a plethera of gifts (my grandma paxman didnt come because she is sick, but she gave him the dump truck the cake is in). The whacky ball thing (pictured above) I didn't think he would be able to do on his own, but he took the hammer and started whacking away. He mastered it. Tabor LOVES balls. He loves to kick them, throw them, roll them or eat them. We got him a bigger rubber ball and he walks behind it dribbling it with his feet. Back to the party... he ate mangled up cake (dirt) out of the back of the dump truck. No frosting. Little mess. After cake grandpa darrell & grandpa bruce put together his car ramp while he played whacky ball. I think Tabor enjoyed the evening. Happy Birthday Tabor!

P.S. Both Pepper and Tabor are one for 12 days. Pepper turns two on March 16th!

big bowls are for popcorn

Pepper threw up on tuesday night... so naturally we placed a big bowl next to her bed incase the vommiting re-occured. We told her the bowl was to throw up in. She disagreed, she said it was for popcorn. She then began asking for popcorn. I was able to talk her into a saltine cracker instead and then put her back to bed. The next morning she came out of her room with the bowl (empty thank goodness) and asked for popcorn. So I got her some. Next time she is sick I am bringing up a box instead of a bowl.

Uh-Oh Snow!

Whenever Pepper glances out the window and sees snow she says "Uh Oh Snow". I feel much the same way. I usually try to avoid the combination of snow with my kids, but this morning we ventured out into it. Pepper is finally old enough to do something with the snow besides eat it. We made snowballs and went sledding.

I'm A Barbie Girl!

Pepper is a barbie girl, in a barbie world. And she can stay in that world for an hour or two at a time. She sets the table, gives the baby a bath, drives around the jeep, has little conversations and puts them to bed. I wish I had that sort of an imagination. Both of my sisters did. I was not so easily entertained. Although, on occasion they would let me know their barbies were going to have a party, so I would decorate. I even remember cutting a piece of paper into confetti for Skippers birthday. Anyway... Pepper takes after her aunts. And now Tabor and I have some one on one time (which I would have to do whether I wanted to or not in order to distract him from destroying Peppers little world, but I do enjoy reading/playing with him).

Happy Valentines Day!

Pepper telling Tabor to smell a flower.

Pepper teaching Tabor how to high five.

Pepper hugging Tabor.

I was going to make a cute Valentine card for all of the Grandma's. But as you can see, I am not a photographer. My poor kids, I can't do thier "adorableness" justice. And Peppers hair quickly went from curls to "bed head". But I thought I would post a few of them anyway.
I thought this song would be appropriet for Valentines Day.

Tabor's Eye Surgery

Tabor has cocked his head to the side since we can remember. At first I thought it was a neck problem. Then I noticed I tilt my head... is slouching and head tilting hereditary? Nope, atleast not in this case. He was tilting his head in order to line his eyes up while focusing on a person/object. His left eye was what we might call a "lazy eye" and the head tilt helped his eyes get into the same position. As for my head tilt, still havent figured that out.

So we went down to Utah to accomplish 2 things. Sugery & Packing/Moving. Tabor was champ on surgery day. The nice part about surgery on a baby is that they are not nervous beforehand because they have no idea what is going on. Tabor is in his hospital T-shirt just smiling. He happily went to the doctor who took him away from us. I am glad he was so chipper that morning because I was nervous. But all went well. They did the "Eye Muscle Surgery" in a 1/2 hour we waited for him to wake up for a 1/2 hour and then we left. It was super fast.

They pulled his eye lid up and did thier procedure stitched it up and pulled the eye lid back down. It was slightly swollen but other then that you couldnt even tell. I was so glad he did not have to get bandaged up because it would of been one heck of a nightmare keeping him from touching it. I would have put one of those cones you put on dogs heads around him. Anyway the moral of the story is... eye muscle surgery really anywhere near as bad as I imagined.

My parents drove us down to Utah, we used thier trailor, they helped Robert pack & load our things, entertained kids and then drove us back to Washington. What service! I am so grateful for all of thier hard work!

Heather watched Pepper during Tabors dr. appt. and surgery. Korver and Pepper had a blast playing hide and go seek. They played it the entire trip. Whenever I looked for them I would say "Are they in the closet?" and you would hear them both say "NO" from under the bed. One more last thing because I think it is so cute... the kids were playing and randomly Korver folds his arms and says "Heavenly Father, I am so grateful that I can play with Pepper, in the name of Jesus Christ Amen".

Hair Growth!

I am so excited. Pepper's hair finally reaches into pigtails! She has super short hair in the front and clips/flowers always slide out, but the rubber bands in back are staying. It helps her look more feminine... just like she acts :) She has entered into the world of imagination and is constantly rocking her dolls to sleep, feeding them or changing their diapers (she has even used diaper cream on their bums!). She is a good mom! When she accessorizes it is always with sparkles. And she LOVES to be complimented, so mention the hair or the sparkling shoes if you see her!

Robert on the other hand does not have a hard time growing hair. Since he just graduated from BYU the shaving rule no longer applies to him... so he decided to grow a beard. He was only able to handle one week of hair growth because he said his face was so itchy. Too bad, I wanted him to let it go a little longer and get a little thicker. But it was not something I would want him to keep forever so I am not heartbroken. Anyway... there you have it hair grows.

Stripes For Christmas!

Whenever we go on a trip I pack WAY ahead of time. Usually leading to digging through the suitcase for things we still need. Well, I ended up pulling all the most important items out of the suitcase and leaving them in Utah. My scriptures, Q-tips (i have to have them), makeup, deodorant and our camera. So these pictures are all from my sisters camera. Sorry Salmon side... no pictures of you. But if anyone took any with us in them I would love a copy!

Each Christmas Eve we get a pair of PJ's. This year my mom bought them for all of her grand-kids. 4 boys and 1 girl. So naturally the pj's were more boyish. But my mom thoughtfully bought Pepper a turquoise flower to go with it, un-thoughtfully Pepper kept taking it out.