Wrestling, Comedy, and Sleeping Boy

Last Saturday we spent the day at Grandma Rhonda's house playing in the swimming pool. We had a lot of fun splashing around.

After the long day we had dinner, but Will was nodding off into his plate, so I laid him down on the couch with a blanket.

He fell right to sleep.

He was so exhausted that he just slept straight through till morning. The only interruption was when we had to take him home.

PS... Thanks to Aunt Kathy for the wonderful blankets.

On Sunday night Paul, Ed, and I all went to see our friend Marcus do his comedy routine at a local club. You may know Marcus from Last Comic Standing. He came in second a few seasons ago (he was totally robbed).

Marcus is one of the crazies who taught Paul and Ed how to wrestle. The last time that I saw him he was diving out of the rafters onto some poor sap in the wrestling ring.

If you have the chance to go see Marcus live, or if you can catch his Comedy Central special that will be airing sometime this fall, I highly recommend it.

Cooking Dinner

Last night as I was cooking dinner Will went downstairs to play.

When the food was ready I went down to get him and I found this.

When I asked him what he was doing he said "I cooking". He had put on his own apron and was washing dishes and was putting things in the oven and microwave to "cook".

Usually he lets me know that he is done cooking when he yells out the door that "nutch ready" (translated "lunch is ready").

I was highly impressed that he had found his apron and put it on himself. I knew that he had figured out how his bibs worked, so it makes sense that he would translate that to his apron.

Idaho Trip 2010

We did our annual pilgrimage to Idaho over this last weekend.

We went to celebrate Grandpa Bill's 80th birthday. Aunt Kathy put together a great party at Grandma and Grandpa's club house.

I spent most of the time running around after Will and taking pictures with the disposable cameras that we had for the party. I did manage to get a few shots of Will on my camera.

Grandma Rhonda gave Will a bag of new toys to play with at the party. His favorites were a paddle ball and a beach ball.

Will also liked riding in Grandma and Grandpa's golf cart. Here he is with Grandma Rhonda and Great-Grandma Donna.

Every time that I turned around Will was trying to drive off in the golf cart.

We had a lot of fun visiting with everyone. We even got to have dinner with a few of our friends from school. It's kind of surreal to look at everyone that we grew up with and see that we all have kids now.

The only down side to the trip was that we couldn't spend more time visiting. It's hard to spend a day driving and then turn around and do it again a day later.

Especially with a toddler...

Memorial Day 2010

We spent Memorial Day shopping and having a picnic this year.

Paul got his Father's Day present early this year. We got a new TV and a Blue Ray player. (I know, he's spoiled.)

On our way home from the store Will was playing with his sun glasses. He has figured out how to put them on himself, but he usually gets them on upside down.


Later in the afternoon we went to the park with Grandma Rhonda, Grandpa Bob, and Aunt Erin. Grandma made a really nice picnic for us.

The little park behind Grandma and Grandpa's house has a splash pad that the kids can play in. It was really cool because it was free to the public. There were pillars around the edge that turned the water on when you touched them.

Will wanted to go into the water. I didn't have a swimsuit for him so we just let him run through in his clothes.

The only downside was that the clouds kept covering the sun and there was a breeze. By the time I pulled him out he was ice cold. Not that he wouldn't have kept playing if I had let him.

This morning I had the camera sitting out so that I could download the pictures from Memorial Day. Will found it and wanted me to take his picture. He had just gotten up, so his hair was all messy.

He has learned that you say 'cheese' when someone takes a picture.

This is him saying 'cheese'.

2010 Family Photos

We had some new family photos taken on Saturday.

Will didn't really want to cooperate at first, but then he smiled for us.

Darn we're a good looking bunch! :-)

Will's Room

I found some fish stickers to go on Will's wall.

Paul helped me put them up the other night.

I think that they turned out really cute.

I might still want to paint some of the walls in his room, but I haven't fully decided yet. Now that I have the stickers up I think that it might look nice to paint it to look like sand and water on that wall. The only problem is that to do that we have to pull all the stickers back off. I'm not sure that I want to do that. They are reusable, but it's a lot of work.

I did decide to paint his book shelf to look like water and sand with more fish.

Picnics and Farms

Since the weather has been so nice these last few weekends we decided to spend them outside.

A week ago we went down to the Jordan River Parkway and had a picnic. We brought along Will's tricycle and Paul helped him learn to ride it.


Will liked the water but was mad when we said that he couldn't go into it.

We walked a long way along the river. Most of the time Will had the lead.

Once we were finished with our hike we had lunch. It was Will's first outdoor picnic.

This last weekend it cooled down again, but the sun was still out, so we decided to go to Wheeler Historical Farm.

Will liked the horses.

He also liked the big tractors.

Bunnies!!

These pigs were big enough that Will could ride them. They are raised by the local FFA chapter.

Will wanted to pet the little goats.

Paul set Will up so that he could "drive" the equipment.

The geese were out in the canal. Will wanted to get a closer look, but Paul made sure he stayed dry.

It's funny how little children's minds work sometimes. We showed Will the Turkeys. He kept calling them chickens because that's what he knows.

This big rooster was sitting by the barn crowing away.

This is the ice pond. The ducks, geese, and seagulls were out in force. There was another family there feeding bread to the birds. Will liked watching them swim around after the food.

Paul put Will on his shoulders so that he could see the pond better. It was funny because he kept playing with Paul's ears.