Our Adventures

I love to take my children on adventures and do new things with them.  It creates memories and we have a lot of fun when we are doing it (most of the time).  Last week, we went up the canyon with our friends the Wrights.  We went to Storm Mountain and followed different paths that led to nowhere and everywhere.  Jack and Lydia thought it was great to be able to walk on their own along the trail.  It was rocky terrain and I am glad we weren't hiking on a cliff or anything!  Audrey did fantastic in the carrier and didn't mind it one bit!  I carried her part of the way and then Johnny did the rest.  When we got to the bottom, we had a snack and then headed for home.  All in all it was a fun time for everyone.

Then this past Tuesday, I went with my parents, my sister, my sister-in-law and her two kids to the Tracy Aviary for my dad's birthday.  I did the good mom thing and put sunscreen on the kiddos.  Well Jack rubbed it into his eyes and so his eyes puffed up and his face turned red.  He didn't enjoy the place much and his screaming helped others to question if they wanted to be near us too.  I really felt bad for him and tried to rinse around his eyes and nothing seemed to help but time and tears.  We went to the playground afterwards and everybody, but Jack, seemed to have a wonderful time!  Jack did enjoy the chains in the one water area and later enjoyed the swing with Grandpa.

Audrey is always happy!

Hannah is always happy too!  They are six months apart and hopefully will be good friends!

We were walking along looking at some female peacocks (which are not nearly as pretty as the males) and talking about how we wanted to see a male one.  All the adults walked right past this guy sitting in the grass under a tree.  He was within arm's reach, but fit right in.  If the four year old, Nathan, hadn't pointed it out, we all would have missed it!

My last adventure was tonight while my husband went to play Halo with his brother.  I told Jack we were going to make cookies!  He was very excited and came to sit in his big boy chair.  I want him to see that cookies don't just come in a bag all packaged up nicely, like oreos, so techinically I should have made them from scratch but it was already 8:00 and I had this mix to use.  He still seemed very excited and we started with the egg and butter.

We mixed it all up and Jack looked into the bowl.  He kept saying, "cookie, cookie, cookie."  Well there were no cookies in the bowl and he got upset and I got this reaction:

I tried to explain to him that we had to bake them and then we would have cookies.  He didn't believe me and ran into the other room to cry!  He came a few minutes later to check out the oven, but wouldn't look at me because he was mad!

Meanwhile, Audrey sat there just watching and snacking on her crunchies and yogurt.  She started drinking from a sippy which is great!  Maybe we can avoid the bottle all together!

After the cookies came out, Jack definitely wanted to be my friend!!!!  He forgave me and we enjoyed some cookies and milk before bed.  We also read our night night stories and Audrey joined in!