We were watching Mater's Tall Tales and Enoch started to bust a move...
Monday, January 24, 2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Enoch
Enoch has been a lot of fun lately. I have a friend, AM, who has told me since I met her that her favorite age with her kids has been the kindergarten age. I’m just now beginning to find out why and how much I’m loving it as well. I know I complain a lot about Enoch’s latest emotional stage but with his emotions, comes a lot of other funny stories. I always thought the emotions would be with little girls, but, little boys really are bad sometimes with emotions. He cries a lot now, throws tantrums, hissy fits, will hit and punch things when he’s angry, yells & screams at me, and several other antics that I just sort of…well, I just breathe through them really. When he yells at me or Joe, or hurts Travis with these fits, he gets a time out, don’t worry. But most of the time, I know its just something he needs to work out on his own and learn to understand what he’s feeling so he can express himself better the next time. Its been interesting for the last few months, to say the least. So mothers of little boys, BEWARE – there is an emotional roller coaster ahead of you!
Story #1 – Last Sunday
I was in the lobby at church with Travis because he hates nursery. I mean HATES it, with a passion, and refuses to go. So I miss out on Sunday School and Relief Society, much to my dismay. Anywho – My friend S comes running up the hall towards me and tells me that Enoch is giving a talk in Primary and wants to know if I’m coming to help him. Now I’m looking at her all confused because Enoch didn’t come home with a talk assignment the week before or an assignment for prayer or scripture so I’m a little fuzzy. Maybe he forgot to give me the assignment? I don’t know, so I go to primary anyway. Sure enough, Enoch is sitting up front with the other kids who are giving talks and the like. In our primary, they have two talks, a scripture and a prayer for closing exercises. Well, they had the two talks, a scripture and a prayer up there waiting to share their piece and then there’s Enoch, just beaming away. So I go up and sit next to him and ask what he’s doing. The conversation is as follows:
Enoch – I’m giving a talk today Mom.
Me – Oh, were you asked to give a talk?
Enoch – No, but I’m giving a talk today.
Me – Would you rather give the scripture or the prayer?
Enoch – No, I want to give a talk.
So now I’m looking at M, the secretary and asking her if she assigned a talk to him – No. She informs me that he even told her that he had a talk prepared and it was under some random chair in the primary room. I roll my eyes and ask her what the topic is, Enoch is now up, so he stands up, we give a 60 second speal on the topic and sit down. Enoch is just pleased as punch with himself. The other two talks are given, the scripture is read and the prayer is said. And Enoch got to give his talk. I told everyone in primary, if anyone bails on ya, just call on Enoch. He’s ready anytime.
Story #2 – The Interview
Lately, Enoch will come and talk to me while I’m, reading, typing, helping Travis, whatever. And he’ll have a pad of paper and a pen. He will sit down all professional like and click his little pen and it starts:
Enoch – SO Mom, I’d like to ask you some questions.
Me – Ok, fire away.
Enoch – So, what was it like when Travis was in yours tummy?
Me – It was fun but it was nice to meet him when he got here.
Enoch – Hmm, hmm. Ok, good. And what else?
Me – Well, what else would you like to know?
Enoch – Did you like having me in yours tummy?
Me – Yes, you were a lot of fun to have in my tummy.
Enoch – Hmm, hmm. Ok, good. And what else?
Me – Enoch, you’re the best.
Enoch – Hmm, hmm. Ok…Wait, that wasn’t the question Mom!
He truly is a fun little personality. I’ll share more as I get them! Promise!
just some fun pictures of the boys
So here are the Woody jammies – you’ve seen the Buzz he wore for Christmas. He requests them at night, so cute!
So I was attempting to take a picture of Trav and I but I kept missing myself but that’s totally ok
with me because he’s so stinkin’ cute! 
I kept asking Enoch to look at me and he would respond, “I AM looking at you Mom” while giving me this face.
The picture on the right cracks me up because he totally looks like he’s bustin’ a move but I just caught him taking a step or something.
Travis, since he was tiny, will keep air in one cheek and this “pffft” it out. I have no idea where he learned it or why he does it
but he roams around the house doing this all day. Its just Travis.
A few of you may wonder why I have SO many photos of Travis lately and so little of Enoch – Its because of this.
He HATES taking pictures now and gets SO mad at me. Here, for some reason he thought Travis and I were going somewhere without him
and he was SO upset with me – even though I had just finished putting his shoes and coat on.
Then he was even MORE upset with me because I wanted a picture of him. He’s so emotional lately.
Christmas Day Eve at the Fuerst’s
So Christmas Day Evening was spent at my family’s house. The kids opened their gifts and then the adults
participated in a White Elephant Gift Exchange which turned out a lot of great gifts and good laughs.
Joe helping Travis open his pillow pet from Grandmom!
Josh & Lauren
Alana & Sean
(OK ALANA & JOSH – We now know where Enoch gets his cheesy grin from!!! CAUGHT!)
Shining example of cheesy grin from Auntie Alana & Uncle Josh.
Here it is again – the cheesy grin. Awesome gift from Grandmom and Grandpa!
The Wester boys opening their gifts. Experience the sheer joy here folks…
NICE!
Eli’s sweet new hat!
Trav got Transformer cars from Josh – he walks around the house carrying them saying “Touch!” .
He LOVES the Stan Bush song, You’ve got the touch, that’s in the original cartoon movie.
Travis kept taking all his toys to Grandmom so she could open them.
The spectators.
Just some cute pictures.
Merry Christmas!
Christmas Morn’
Christmas morning came and went, it was totally worth all the stress and last minute shopping. Did I mention that I really enjoy doing my Christmas shopping at Target because all their store signage ACTUALLY says, MERRY CHRISTMAS.
The boys made out like bandits, as usual. They were happy little campers and they are still enjoying their new toys, to this day.
Enoch got the whole Dinosaur Train set, no its not a TRAIN set. It’s a little show called Dinosaur Train where all these dinos ride this train through all the periods, Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous. Enoch LOVES it.
Its on PBS in the mornings if you’re into that sort of thing.
Travis got Cars and Toy Story stuff galore. He even got some super cute jammies from his Tutu – Buzz & Woody! He adores them.
Everyone had fun setting up the new toys.
Its Tradition, every year the Mickelsens come over for Christmas morning. They just love to watch the kiddos open their gifts and they love to eat Bonnie’s YUMMY Christmas brunch. Oh it was so good!
It was a QUIET Christmas which was SO nice. We relaxed, napped, ate, snacked, and played all day.
We hope your Christmas was as enjoyable as ours.
Merry Christmas!
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