Robert

So Robert has been really cute the last couple of months. He has started using a phrase that I don't know where he got it but he says "You make my heart so happy". I love it and have started using it myself on occasion. He does though he makes my heart so happy it feels like it will burst for joy. He loves to play with his dad and all his little friends. His friend Jack is his best guy friend and Robert has told me that he is his new brother. I guess that since I haven't given him a sibling to play with he is taking matter's into his own hands and adopting his friends. He is still very into Super Heroes. His favorite right now is Iron Man but I think it is because of the movie coming out.

Robert is also a very caring boy. He knows that his Nana is sick and so he calls her as often as he can and will laugh into the phone when she answers just so that she will laugh. She told him once that his laugh makes her feel better and so now he thinks it is his responsibility to make her better. He also is sweet most of the time to his friends and hugs them when they are upset and try's to make them laugh. I guess he is liked by all the kids in his class and is quite the little entertainer in his class at church.

We really aren't up to much just playing at the park and doing our church stuff. I'm still in Young Women's and Bryce is in the Elder's Quarm presidency. Robert will be 4 next month and we are trying to figure out what kind of party he wants. It goes from sports to bugs to some kind of superhero to Tinkerbell and the Lost treasure/ Peter Pan. As soon as he decides then I can get to work on that. I have started to sell creative memories so that I have play money but it is a good product and easy to work with.

The last thing I want to say is Happy Mother's Day to all of the wonderful women in my life. Thank you for everything that you have given and taught to me in my life.

SO Sorry!!!!

OK I know I haven't put anything on here since November but I have been really busy. Since Christmas we have spent a total of 2 weekends at home. We have been down in OR a lot.

Robert is doing really well. He is getting tall. Bryce has taught him his right from left and he seems to be remembering it. We are working on learning to recognize and write letters. We are starting with the letters in his name. It has been a lot of fun. He loves to learn new things and do workbook pages. He calls it his school. He has made a bunch of new friends and enjoys playing with the little girl that I watch three times a week. He still loves to pretend that he is superman and does not like to take off the jammies (They are his super hero ones) that his Nana gave him for Christmas.

Bryce has been doing the same thing he has been for the last year and a half almost. He still likes his job and is really enjoying it right now. He is working at the trouble desk and has to run and fix the instructions if something is wrong on them. He will be doing this until August. He also has started running 3 times a week and has told me that eventually he wants to be able to run a half marathon. I think it is a great goal.

As for me I am still loving Young Women's. I have been asked to go on trek this year with the youth. I have started to get into shape for it so that I don't die pulling a handcart in eastern Washington for 4 days. I am watching a little girl 3 days a week like I mentioned. With all of those things and my normal housewife work and being a mommy I stay really busy. Robert is so much fun to be around though. He says so many funny things and has such a wonderful imagination that it is a joy to watch him play , learn and grow every day. I often think to myself that he is better entertainment than any tv show, music, or game ever could be.

Ok the pictures on here: The first one was Robert at Christmas and the second was from one day last month when Robert decided that all he wanted to wear was his monkey apron. We called him the naked chef and I got some cute pictures of him. They are total blackmail or embarrass the heck out of him when he gets married type pictures!!

I will try to be better about updating this year. I cant promise that it will be every week but I will try for that. So until I write again. Have fun and get out and do something!!!

November has come and almost gone

ok so it is getting to be the end of November now and I still haven't posted Halloween pictures. I have been so bad about updating since we moved. Here are the pictures and then I'll tell you all what we have been up to.



The first one is when we were getting ready to go out and then the Jack o lantern and the last is when we were done and getting ready to go to dinner. Robert had so much fun going trick or treating for the first time to houses. He got the hang of it really fast and after the first one dodn't try to go inside anyone's house. He even figured out that he only was supposed to go to the houses that had the outside lights on. I love my little boy.

Since then Bryce's mom has come and gone. While she was here we had a chance to go down to Portland and visit with some family. Robert had so much fun taking his grandma and going to see his great grandmas. He is starting to learn how all the family stuff works. He keeps telling me that Grandma Betty is Grandma Pools mommy.

Now we are getting ready to go down and see Bryce's grandmother and Aunt and Uncle for thanksgiving. I think it will be a lot of fun. I'll post again soon I hope.

WOW

Ok it has taken forever but here it is. We moved the middle/end of August and painted the middle of September, and now it is the middle of October, and I am getting this blog done. I know people want to see pictures of the house, and I will get them up in this blog. Here they are...

The guest room before/ after




Robert's bathroom before/ after




The kitchen before/ after




Robert's Bedroom (I don't have a before picture but it was all pale blue including the ceiling which is now white)




Our bedroom (It was just a boring white room before)




The upstairs living room



Now that you guys have the pictures I can talk. Robert is loving the new house. The basement has a huge main room, and it serves as the play room/ computer room/ tv room. It has been really nice because we can all be downstairs together and each enjoy or work on whatever it is we need to. Robert has made a few new friends here as have I. It has been nice to be able to walk over to my friend Jessica's house so that Robert can play with her 2 girls. Our new ward is nice, and I am enjoying getting to know the ladies in my new ward. I have finished Robert's Halloween costume. He is going to be Jack the Pumpkin King. It turned out pretty cute if I say so myself (I think it is because of the boy wearing it). He also asked me to make him a Zero ( the ghost dog) it was fun figuring out how to make him. The dog doesn't have a nose yet because we are going to use glow sticks so that his nose glows orange and he can be seen as he goes trick or treating with Bryce. I get to stay home and hand out candy as kids come to the door.

Robert is going to have his face painted and wear white gloves when he is all dressed up.

Imagination

Robert has started to show his imagination more and more lately. He loves to pretend that he is a super hero. He will go from being Astroboy to Spiderman to Incedible Hulk, Ironman, and even Batman. This last Thursday though it was a Batman kind of day I guess. He grabbed one of my headbands and put it on over his nose and said it was his mask and then he put on his cape and ran aound singing Batman. Bryce called to have us pick him up and Robert refused to put anything else on so he got in the car dressed as Batman and went to get Daddy. After dinner Robert went and got a blanket and had me put that on as his cape so that he could put the black cape on Daddy so they could play batman together. It was a really fun night and I am glad I was able to snap a few pictures.

Robert when we went to get Daddy.
Robert after dinner.
Robert and Daddy playing Batman together! I love my Superheros!!!

Seattle

Last weekend we decided to take a trip over to Seattle. Robert was so excited to go because he was going to ride a boat and a train to go see more dinosaurs. We went to the pacific Science Museum and had a great time while we were there. We did see the dinosaurs, but we also played with robots, made music in the music room, played with toys, saw snakes and naked mole rats. The best though was the animal grossology exhibit they had. We had so much fun that on the way back to the boat Robert couldn't walk and so I was able to carry my little boy cradled in my arms. That is something he hasn't let me do since he started to walk.

I have a lot of pictures so I will let them finish telling about our trip!
This ball is actually really heavy but the water makes it so that you can stop it and make it turn another way.

Robert really liked this steal drum in the music room.

Robert played with blocks in an area that was mirrors on all the walls.

Daddy and Robert controlling the robot.

The grossology stuff was a lot of fun and as you can see they made the exhibit really colorful so that kids would stay interested.

This was my favorite picture though. I took it on our way back and just loved how the sun hit the water.

Chicago

Wow. It has taken me a long time to get these pictures up on here. Things have been crazy though. We are getting ready to move and so with packing it has been nuts. Our trip though was a lot of fun. It was great to see our family and as soon as I have Robert's pictures that he took on the computer I will add them to the blog. He has some great pictures of my family and the ones on my camera are from the zoo and things like that.


Like I said we went to the zoo while we were there and while Robert enjoyed the elephants and gorillas and everything his favorite were the dinosaurs. So there are lots of pictures of them.

Robert said that these were the Robert and Daddy dinosaurs.

He then said that this was the mommy dinosaur. I guess that means I am scarier than daddy. I don't know if that is good or bad.

We stopped in Wall Drug on our way home and took some pictures there as well.
I thought it would be funny to take this picture. Then with where Robert put his hand it made it even funnier.

Robert on the Jackolope. He was scared to get on this at first but after he saw other kids sit on it he thought it would be ok.

Robert and I by the stuffed bear. This is the only picture on my camera from our vacation so there you go proof that I was there!