On July 3rd we went to the Splash pad on Main Street to celebrate our friend Isaac's 2nd birthday! The kids love playing in the water and especially had fun playing with Isaac. I love the picture of the all the big kids (minus Emily's boys) sitting on the step. Angie and Jarred got pizza for everyone and of course my food lover, AJ, spent the entire time walking around picking up peoples leftovers and eating them. He had a scrap of pizza in his hand prettey much the whole time. We enjoyed this opportunity to get together with our friends and I got so many cute pictures of the kids!
On the 4th of July we started our day by going to the Hurricane City Park with our neighbors Tara and Colter and their kids Ayla and Max. There were lots of fun games and even races for each of the different age groups. We tried to get our 3 toddlers to race, but with all the adults crowded around trying to "help" we couldn't get them in line. It was still cute though. Later that day, we headed over to my parents to hang out and have a bbq. Angie and Jarred brought Isaac and Ava over and the 3 "big" kids played in the pool and we ate some yummy food. I think the best part was when we were taking the husks off the corn and Angie's corn cob had a worm on it. She screamed and flicked the corn sending the worm flying through the air and onto my mom's shirt. We were all squealing for a second. It was funny. After we bbq-ed and relaxed a bit, we headed to our traditional spot at Dixie College to watch fireworks. This is my favorite thing about the 4th of July. Lots of our family friends come and we visit. We have been going there since I was little so it is special to me. I was excited to have the kids awake for fireworks and although they watched them, they weren't too interested. I was glad they weren't scared though.
These are just a few silly things Allie and AJ have been doing lately. The other day I was changing sheets on their cribs and they both thought it was so fun to pretend they were sleeping in their cribs without the sheet.
We have some foamy shapes that the kids love to dump out and spread all over, but usually that is all they do with them and then Alberto and/or I end up cleaning them up over and over. Yesterday though, Allie woke up from her nap and was playing with the shapes and after a while came up to me with the stack she is holding in the picture and said "Samich". At first I was confused, then I realized she was showing me that she had made a sandwich with the shapes. It was cute because she used two big shapes and put a bunch of little ones in between. What a smartie, right! I was trying to take a cute picture of Allie and her "samich", but she thought I was going to take it from her so she kept running away. At the same time I was telling her "smile" (my kids don't get the concept of smiling for a picture) so I tried "show me your teeth", hence the crazy photo of her teeth.
Lately, I have let them have a popsicle when we are playing outside on hot days. It think it is so funny to watch them make faces as they attempt to eat them. Last night AJ was being so cute feeding Allie his popsicle and then later he dropped it, so the two of them attempted to put the popsicle back on the stick.
Last week we made a spontanious trip to SLC to see our Glauco, Camila, Wes and Alberto's mom and step-dad. It was a short trip and the kids did not sleep much at all, in fact none of us slept much, but it was fun. The first day we shopped, ate a HUGE lunch at McGrath's Fish House and then let the kids play at the Gateway splash pad. After that we went back to Glauco and Camila's and relaxed and had a delicious Brazilian dinner. The next day Camila took me to the greatest store that had the best deals. Later we drove to Sandy and took the kids to an aquarium. They really enjoyed it. AJ slept through the first half and Allie touched a snake. They both were very curious about the Rays, but refused to touch them. Later we went to lunch with Alberto's mom and stepdad and then back to the apartment to visit. Right before we came into town, Glauco bought a brand new, big flat screen TV. On the second day we were there, Allie found a pen and when none of us were paying attention drew all over the screen. I about died when I saw what she was doing. I was seriously starting to sweat, but luckily Alberto got it all off with a lot of scrubing. That was a close one! Anyway, we had a fun visit!
The other morning I was in my room with the kids folding clothes. AJ had disappeared so I came to the living room to look for him and found him sitting in the rocking chair. He had put a blanket over his lap and was looking at a book. He is so dang cute! I was taking his picture and I said, "read the book", so he held up his book and pretended to read. This age is so fun!
