Grandma's Know Everything

This week marks the first week that Ashley has started to sing lullabys with me. Every single nap, and nighttime I'll sing "I Am a Child of God" to her and Monday she started singing along with me. Mostly only getting the last words of phrases, but it was so sweet-it made me half sad to know she's getting that old! She also started saying "I love you" back when we tuck her in at night. Normally we would pat her back and say, "Love you" and she wouldn't respond. But this week she's responding and singing. It's so cute seeing the difference between raising a boy vs a girl. Ash loves to dance and when the radio plays and I'm singing, she always starts to dance and try to sing along too. I love it!

This week there have been many times when I knew what Austin was up to (getting out of bed because I heard him jump out or filling the sink with water....) but I would always surprise him when he got in trouble. He would ask, "How did you know I was out of my bed?" And I responded with, "Mommy's know everything." And he has been retorting with, "You're too young. Only Grandma's know everything!" Very well said.

This week Duane and I were able to attend the LDS Temple together. It was wonderful going back (its been too long since we've been last). But I almost gave Duane a heart attack as we're getting ready to go, we were going through different kids classes/workshops being offered at the local Rec center (Freedom Center) and Austin really wanted to take a cooking class. He didn't want T-ball like Duane wanted him to join. Nor did he want any sport for that matter. Austin just wanted the tot cooking class. Duane told him no and then Austin went on to put my bra on his head. That sent Duane over the edge. I explained that Austin's masculinity will not be determined at 4 because of a cooking class or the fact that he's touched a bra. Needless to say, the temple calmed him down. Duane got Austin really excited about taking Tae-Kwon Do instead of cooking. Kih-Yah!

Tonight we went to the County Fair with some of our buddies and we had a ball. Corndogs, cotton candy, funnel cakes, fried oreo's and cheap fair rides. It's always something fun to go to once a year, but then you're glad that its only once a year.
The kids got their pictures taken this week and it was so fun. They both love to ham it up in front of a camera.

We leave on Monday to drive to Charleston and leave Tuesday for HAWAII!!! We're glad the tropical storm has left.....yikes!
Aloha!
Angie