Tyler's Birthday- 3 Years Old!!!

Tyler does Preschool with three neighbor kids two days a week- we got to start celebrating his birthday on Wednesday

Ella is getting so big- she moves quite a bit when on her tummy- and smiles the most wonderful smile- She is 6 months old today!

Tyler loved his birthday and got so many fun gifts and cards- Thank you everyone !  We especially love this loud one from Grandma Balls- and Yes Pat- Darren does remember the loud laser gun you had to put up with when he was a kid - but he would still really like to take out the batteries of this lovely digger. 
He got a train track from IKEA- 
This is his birthday cake I made- It was great for me- not perfectly balanced but it tasted good and it was worth the work (which wasn't really that much work) to see his face when he came down the stairs and saw it and with wide eyes and open mouth- he said- WOW!

Heaven

Conversation with Tyler on his Birthday

Mom: 3 Years ago from today you were born

T: where was I before I was born

M: You were in Heaven - then you came down to Earth and were born - So Dad and I could take care of you

T: How did I come down from Heaven?

M: I dont know Tyler

T: Mom I know - I just came down the stairs, ya mom, I just came down the stairs

Never Nervous Tyler

Tyler still loves firetrucks- but it has taken until now to get him to not be so scared of them -

Grandmas Birthday

Grandma Balls had a birthday - I know it was a little while ago but some things take me time like downloading the pictures from our camera-

Tyler loves to blow out candles- as any kid would- So this is the pre lighting candles pep talk. I am sure I was saying something like... this is Grandmas cake, lets let her have a turn blowing out the candles...

This is the final outcome- Grandma helping Tyler blow out the candles- making one happy boy

Curious George

We spent Labor Day in Bear Lake with the Balls family- It was a great weekend- For those who are familiar with Israel- this lake is the Galilee of Utah- It is so blue and the cliffs behind Darren and Tyler look like the Golan Heights to some.  It was wonderful. 

This Saturday we went to the Health Fair at the University of Utah- We waited way to long in line to take this picture- Curious George and the man in the Yellow hat- Awesome stuff, lots of free food and fun- and Tyler got to sit in a Life Medical Helicopter- It took off and landed in front of us- Very loud, windy but exciting for a two year old- Ella slept!

 We did start rice cereal with Ella- She does love to eat- just like her mother-  

(I dont have bangs in this picture... why you might ask... Well, I will never again trim my own bangs- I think they will be pinned up for a long time...until they grow back out to a normal length)

Going to prison...

I share this  mostly for one reader who will laugh a lot, and her brother will probably laugh a lot more...

We got a Curious George book from the library- Here is the plot in a nut shell- 

George gets curious after watching the man in the yellow hat push buttons on the telephone so when the man leaves, George goes and pushes buttons too. Well, George accidentally calls the firestation- and they say hello, hello- but no one answers, they dont know it is George, they think it is a real fire. So they look at their map to see where the signal is coming from, and go to George's house- and I will quote -

"They open the door, NO FIRE! Only a naughty little money, Oh catch him, catch him they cried. A thin fire man caught one arm and a fat fireman caught the other.  You fooled the fire department they said, we will have to shut you up where you can't do any more harm.  They took him away and shut him in a prison"

This book was copyrighted in 1941- and I guess back then... if you called 911 you went to prison. I have tried to explain that you wont go to prison for that, and it is just what the author wrote. 

Tyler doesn't even ask to hold my phone anymore, and when he sees it, He says, I dont want to go to prison so I wont push your buttons.  

 

So tonight Tyler and I went on a walk to a friends house and just because I figured he would say something funny, I told him, that our friends brother just got out of prison today (this is true, he really did) and of course Tyler asks me a million questions- The first one being--- oh, did he call the fire station on the phone....