Seth's Bike Wash

Seth has decided that he wants to open up his own car wash. He has started practicing on his bikes. He is using the hair cutting spray bottle to get them wet.

Then he is using only the finest, German made, shammy to wipe them down.

He wants to focus on customer service. His motto is,
"Service With A Smile."

The Metal Munching Maniac

There has been a great buzz lately around the city of Richfield; reaching as far south as Cedar City. It has been said that a creature is stalking the poor citizens of these fine towns and munching on their metal belongings. It is a well known fact that this creature likes to eat forks and spoons and anything made of silver. Car fenders are its second favorite treat. The creature was first seen chewing up stop signs and causing all kinds of accidents. Now it seems that the creature has turn to salvaging in residential areas as well. Locking your doors will not stop this creature, since it can easily chew through door knobs with a single chomp. Some may think that this creature would be easily recognizable, due to the fact that it is missing quite a few teeth. The issue is that this creature looks like any other second grader. Also, the teeth that are lost during one day's hunt, grow back that very same night. This creature does most of its stalking between the hours of 6:30 pm and 8:30 pm; it does have to get to bed at a reasonable hour, since it has school the next day. If the creature is spotted, please do not attempt to catch it. Please call the head director of the Society of Abnormal Bicuspids, Mrs. Prisbey.



This is a picture of what the creature looks like at night, since that is when you are most likely to encounter the creature. Do not panic, just run for your life. Screaming at the top of your lungs does help to confuse the creature, and it stops the pursuit to look around thinking that its little brothers are getting into its stuff.

Bat Boy Gets His Big Shot

As always, I was at DI looking for anything to catch my eye. I have been looking for a few things, and I do not want to go to the hardware store and buy them brand new. I will just wait until I happen to find them at DI, and gladly pay the discounted, gently-used price. As we were about to leave, I found a nice little T-Ball stand shoved to the back of the bottom shelf. I had walked passed that spot five or six times already. Luckily, Seth was playing on some little scooter and I was chasing him around; stopping him from running over other people's feet. As I bent down to grab Seth, I saw it on the very bottom at the very back. I almost bought one a year ago through Carbon County School District. You know the schools get the best equipment. This one had a slight tear at the top, where it had been beat repeatedly. I fixed that with gorilla glue and it is like new.

He really likes it a lot. He always wants to play with it. He has been using a little bat that my Mom bought for me at Wrigley's Field. He is getting pretty good at only hitting the ball. Seth loves sports. He mostly plays basketball and baseball and drives around his little trucks. The picture above is funny, because his eyes are closed.

Seth has gotten pretty good at baseball and now is followed everywhere he goes. He has started to wear sunglasses to protect his eyes from the flash photography of the Paparazzi.

Seth got these snazzy glasses at the Blue and Gold banquet the other night. They are way to dark and he cannot even see out of them. He runs into the way and trips other things when he is wearing them. He sometimes lets them slid down his nose so that he can see where he is going. I mean who makes these things for kids and knows that they are putting themselves in great danger every time that they put them on.

This Bed is Too Soft

Little Goldie Locks does not always like to sleep in his bed. When it is time for a nap, Seth is put in his room and the door is closed behind him. Sometimes he cries and wants out, but it is for the best that he take a nap. Lately he has started to play with his toys instead of taking a nap. When he gets tired enough, he will fall asleep wherever he is. Usually he is upside down in his bed. This time he was sitting next to his bed, lean on it with one arm supporting his head. He reminds me of Michael sleeping in sacrament meeting.

I guess most kids at this age are still sleeping in a crib. Seth is an obedient little boy, but only if he decides to be. If we try to force him to obey, he fights it and does exactly the opposite of what we want. He will normally go to bed without much fighting. If we try to put him in a pack n play, he will cry and will not let up. It is easier on us and on him if he sleeps in a bed with no bars and no restrictions.

Valentine's Day...I have been pardoned

When we first got married, Jennifer told me not to buy her flowers. She said that they are a waste of money and that they just die. She would rather have breakfast in bed. She does not want me to buy her presents on Valentine's Day. She told me that she would rather have me do nice things for her. I guess she would like me to wash the dishes or take out the trash or change one dirty diaper; hopefully just peed in. Ladies, how would you like your husband to take out the trash and call it a present to you on V-Day? Do you think that I should believe her? I did. We were at Jennifer's parents house on V-Day. I got up and got myself breakfast, so that Jennifer would not have to. I put my own bowl in the sink when breakfast was finished. I took Seth at church, so that Jennifer could enjoy her class. Then when we got home from church, I controlled myself enough to let Seth take a long nap. I gave Jennifer many presents today. I hope she enjoyed them, if she recognized them as presents.

Black eyes are better than black ears

Jennifer has been very excited since she found out that we are having a boy. She has pulled out all of our old things and gone through them and reorganized them a few times. She has been pulling out every box in the closet, even if it does not have baby stuff in it. Seth is right in the middle trying to help. She has been wiping down the pack n play; cleaning and mending any tears that it had. Seth takes his turn with the rag. He does not really cleaning anything but looks at though he is doing a good job. The other day Jennifer had her sewing machine on the floor. Seth tripped on his own feet and face planted on the sewing machine. That day his left cheek was all red. The next day it turned into a black eye. It surprised us, since we thought that he hit his cheek on the machine not his eye. The bruise must have worked its way up there. It did not seem to hurt him too much. After a few seconds he was just fine and up running around again.

Boy oh Boy

This morning Thomas had some extra time, so he was going through some things in the top drawer of his dresser and pulled out these goggles. Seth just had to get his hands on them. They are the perfect sledding goggles. To bad he does not have a sled.

Then Thomas pulled out my maternity lounge chair, it releaves the pressure on my back muscles, but Seth would not let me have a turn. He was going to be the King of the Chair.All of his fun made the day go by quickly as we patiently waited for the ultra sound....

and as you can tell from the title of this post we are having a BOY!!!

Just what the boys ordered!!!

Thomas has been saying that it is a boy for quite a while now. Most of his family thought that it would be a girl, mostly just to serve Thomas right. They probably do not think that Thomas could handle a girl. We would have been very happy with a boy or a girl. It is good that we already have most of the clothes that he will be wearing. When we got home, I made Thomas get the old baby clothes' boxes out of the closet. I went through them all and seeing the little clothes made me even more excited for him to arrive. I know that he still has five more months until he comes, but I am wishing he was here now.