Is it Winter?

Last night the kids and I took the garbage and recycling out to the curb around sunset. It was around 87 degrees out and humid, the kind of weather that makes you instantly feel sweaty and sticky. The kids thought it felt great and wanted to ride bikes and play. I was checking how our plant were doing after finally getting some rain when Talmage came up to me and asked "Is it Winter?". The poor child is going to grow up so confused about seasons. He saw that some of our plants that do better in the winter were making a come back after temperatures finally dipped below 100 everyday. So he assumed it must be winter. I try to explain season's down here to the kids but they all blend together. Spring is hot, summer is deathly hot, fall is humid and hot, and winter is warm. Now I'm exaggerating a bit but in truth we have flowers of one kind or another year round so it is hard to distinguish one season from the next.

Tokyo Temple

You may need to click on the picture to see it better.

The kids were excited about this picture of the Tokyo Temple built out of blocks on the front of this months edition of The Friend. It turns out Aaron was just as excited because he "helped" the kids build it out of blocks. I love that he enjoys playing with the kids and their toys so much.

O My Father

Talmage has been obsessed with the hymn O My Father for the past month or two. He requests it every night for his bed time song. He knows what hymn number it is. He chooses to sing it at family night. He sings it while he plays. He tries to play it on one of those annoying plastic flutes. Some day it will change to a new song and I'll be glad a recorded this video of him singing it. I am impressed that he knows all the words-- I still get the verses jumbled.



Anya was trying to get attention, hence the puppy in front of the camera. So we gave her the chance to be on camera. Talmage told suggested she sing "Daddy's Home Coming." Also Anya is into doing her own hair these days. She loves stretchy headbands.

Talmage's 6th Birthday

Talmage was so incredibly excited to turn six. I think his favorite birthday present was six 1 dollar bills from Grandma Dazey. He thought he was rich having that many dollars. He wanted to go to the store and by a toy and Doritos (because his mean mom doesn't buy them because she has braces and can't eat them). When we got to the store he found a package of three mini click pens (yes like office supplies). He loves all things miniature (he gets it from HoneyGram) and he loves pens and small note books. These pens cost five dollars though, so he had to put the Doritos back. He was totally fine with that and very, very happy about the pens. He carries a pen around nearly every where. In the next picture you can see it clipped to the top of his shirt. He either has it there, in a shirt pocket, or clipped to his shorts pocket. The boy would love the idea of a pocket protector-- but I'm not telling him about it.

Talmage is so happy to have his cool pen.

Talmage and Anya with their cheesy smiles.

Talmage blowing out his candles. His cake had little Mario and Luigi figures on it. (Anya calls Luigi, "a weegee" it cracks me up, I love her funny words she also thinks apartments are called rupartments)
Talmage also loved his Lego sets. He got one from us and one from HoneyGram and Papa.

Something

It's been a while since I posted something. So here are two random pictures to get me going. I've been putting off uploading pictures from my camera. I finally did it today, so more should be coming in the near future.

Anya and Aaron were all worn out after helping clean the church building last Saturday. Anya is getting so long! Aaron is actually trying to rest and Anya's just faking it, you can see it in her little grin.


Talmage and Anya have been into building with blocks lately. They built this with Aaron one day when I was out. The point was to build a tower using every wooden block, but one. Then they threw that block at the tower to knock it down. Lately they've been building ziggurats because they learned about them in history.