Niabi Zoo

All aboard, all aboard the train choo choo train.
Elle is so into her big brother.

Calvy and his little friend, she couldn't keep her hands off him, she kept touching his face and shoulders and hair. It was so cute.
Ride that Rhino!

Baking Cookies.

I let Calvy pick out the cookie cutters he wanted and we made a bunch. We did dinos, dogs, doge bones, cars, trucks, etc.
He had fun. It wasn't fast enough for him though, he just wanted to eat them right then and there.
I think he ate about a pound of cookie dough.
He's so cute!

!!WARNING!!

These pictures are not in order. There are some from our trip to AZ and from before we left. I have quite the story to tell but no time right now, I will get on and blog later. Calvy takin charge at Alsy's parents' house.
We got all the grand kids in a picture, though they are not all happy. :)
My in-laws threw us an awesome going away party. We have a BBQ and this big blow-up water slide. It was seriously the most fun we had the whole trip. I had a blast.
Calvy loved it, Aunt Lyda took him down the slide and there was this little water gun thing attached to it that he kept stealing from his cousin Sophia.
These are Alan's "little" brothers. We called them Smirfs. Johny is holding Elle and Kelly is holding Peighton(Princess Pei Pei, that's what I called her). They are both single and looking I believe. ;) Kelly is a Phoenix Police officer, and Johny is finishing up his Pre-reqs for Dental School.
Elle was getting tired while Gma M was holding her, it was so cute, I had to get a picture. Nixon must have had a rough day too.

This is from Elle's blessing. It went well, although I do not recomend waiting to bless your baby till they are 6 months. It ended up being a bit shorter than we all would have liked. But it works. My mo made the most beautiful dress. I had an idea of what I wanted, told it to her and she made it, and it was perfect. I love it.

Ok, I know how annoying sideways pics are, sorry I tried to turn it. Swimming at gma M.
Lyda was trying to burf her for mw, she really holds onto them now. Little stinker.
This is in Dport, my friend did this with her kids, so we gave it a try. Neither one really likes it.
Calvy putting stickers all over sister.
Girls Camp. My YW loved having the kids there, they had a blast. I had so much fun too. Calvy got a tick, which I pulled out, and Elle almost got one, but I caught it before it attached. Gross!!! But we are fine and it was fun. I can't wait till next year.
Big rainy day, we were out for a walk and on our way home it all of a sudden was pooring buckets of rain. I put C on my shoulders and Ran with Elle in the stroller. They were both laughing the whole time.
C sharing his yogurt. He's such a good big brother, he loves his little sis.
Ya, scary picture. I woke up early to go to the gym and looked over at Calvy in his bed and I saw a face covered in blood. At first I thought it was chocolate. He is a pretty crazy sleeper so we think he may have hit his nose on his bed or something. There was blood all over his pillow. It was gross. I wish I would have gotten one of his hands, they were covered. All day he complained about his lip and nose hurting, and later that day got another bloody nose.

Another Calvy Post

Let me just say that I am so excited for Elle to grow up, I can't wait to have two little Barnes/McLaws kids running around. Calvy is so fun and so sweet, I'm just so excited.
Today Daddy set Calvy in his carseat just for a second so he could turn the car on and get the A/C going, then he forgot about it and we started to drive away. Calvy kept saying something to me and I was just kind of ignoring it, but then turned around to fin out what he wanted. At first I thought it was just because he droppe his toy on the ground so I picke it up andgave it to him, but his face was not satisfied so I knew that's not what he was saying. I asked him again and he said "seat belt" I looked at his straps and we were driving without him being buckled in. So, of course we pulled over and buckled him in, thankfully we hadn't left the parking lot. He's such a good kid, we are so thankful for him, especially because this little Elle, she is a fire ball.

He remembered another good thing just before lunch too. We had the places all set and ready to eat but we were still getting odd things like forks and drinks, and Calvy didn't touch his plate, he just kept saying "Prayer. Prayer. Prayer" Such a good boy. Please don't take any of my doting to be a braggy mom, because we are FULLY aware that it is not all our doing, he is just naturally a good kid, and we are so thankful that we have him, he has the funniest personality and the cutest little quirks. I'm seriously so excited for Elle to start showing more of hers.

BTW, Elle is rolling over, almost sitting up by hersslf and has almost complete control of her hands. It's so excited to see her grow and develope, it seems to happened so fast all at once. I love it. She is just like her brother too, she'll fall asleep anywhere. Just now she rolled over onto her tummy and when her brother left to go outside she whined a little, but then was suddenly quiet, apparently she was tired. So now I just need to get the 2 year old to follow step. :)

Seriously, we love being parents, it's the best job. At times the hardest and sometimes I don't think I'm cut out for it and want to quit, but then there are times like these, and it makes it easy to forget the bad.

SYLYB

I have the funniest 2 1/2 year old

So Calvy walks in after a diaper change with his dad and says something that I can't understand. Daddy, pretty regularly, sends Calvy to come say things to me, so I figured this is what was going on. So I ask him what he said, and he says it again, I still don't understand, it sounded something like, "I want to be a caller". Daddy comes in and says, "He's trying to tell you that he wants to be a 'Shot-Caller'" So we laugh and move on. But for the next few minutes Calvy won't leave me alone, he keeps saying "I wanna be a Shot-caller", seriously, following me around and saying it, whyning it rather. So finally I go and get a fuzzy orange hat and say "Ok, here you go, this is your 'Shot-caller' Hat" He was so satisfied. This morning he put the hat on before we left for the park and said "I shot-caller" and just now he walked in with the hat on and said he was the Shot-caller and then put the hat on Elle and said "sister shot-caller". He is the funniest kid, there is no need for television in our house, Calvy is COMPLETE entertainment.