The Nelson Family: May 2012

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Kangaroo Zoo

This past weekend we went to Utah and Idaho to spend time with family. It was so much fun. It was nice to get out of the same old routine here and to be around the ones we love! The kids really did so well, but got restless from all the driving we did.

We were driving from Provo to Pocatello one night and it was taking us forever to get anywhere because of the traffic and the kids were just not traveling well for some reason. We decided to stop somewhere to let the kids work off some energy, and we found this great place called Kangaroo Zoo. It is this huge building full of bounce houses and the kids had a great time. Deagan was a lot more brave and adventurous than Kayden, but they both were able to run around a lot and burned off a ton of energy that made traveling from then on out much more enjoyable.

More T-Ball pictures

Deagan has been playing t-ball for the past few weeks and to say he is enjoying it would be an overstatement. He doesn't put a lot of effort into it and is never really excited to go to any of his games. He is so funny to watch during his games because he slowly runs from base to base and is totally in his own world the whole time. I am not sure this is the sport for him :)

Here is a sequence of him hitting the ball and running the bases a few nights ago:

He is probably the youngest one on his team, so that might be part of it, but he just does not have the zeal for this sport. Poor kid would probably do better with his daddy helping him, but instead he has me :) We have 4 more games left, and honestly I am looking forward to the end of the season. The games are long and hard to sit through sometimes. I am glad he has been involved in it through because it keeps us busy and has helped us to meet new friends!

Playing with the dogs...

I don't know if I posted about the dogs in the house here already or not, so I might be repeating myself here a bit, but thats ok.

My parents have two dogs and then our puppy hazel is here, so there are 3 dogs living here. At first, this really scared Deagan and he wouldn't go anywhere near them. In fact, the first night we were here, he sat on the kitchen countertop to avoid them. I was so afraid thats how the whole 6 months would go here, but thankfully both the dogs and the kids have warmed up to each other. In fact, they love each other!

One warm afternoon, I took the kids outback to swim in the kiddy pool, and the dogs followed them around the whole time. It was so cute to watch.

Kayden found a pole and was walking around with it. My boys LOVE anything they can use and play swords with

Deagan and Hazel enjoying the same water

Kayden was trying to pull the hose over to the pool to fill it up some more

Beautiful Hazel

Bella! I love her eyes!

Now it is a gun!

A sequence of pictures showing Hazel stealing something from Deagan

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Bella is so funny. She jumps up on her back legs a lot and walks/jumps around. She is so human sometimes is hilarious. She is trying to get a bird out the tree in the picture

A beautiful night to play outside..

I just love this time of year. We have been trying to spend as much time outside as possible, and its been lovely.

A few Sundays ago, the evening was beyond gorgeous, so the kids and I went out to look at the clouds and to play in the grass. What a great summer thing to do right? The kids brought out some spatulas and used them as swords. They are boys through and through! They had a great time and played so well together. I love moments like these.

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Funny pictures of Kayden

Kayden is a funny kid. He just cracks me up all the time.

The first picture is of him at a wedding we went to last week. He was asleep through the wedding part, and then when pictures came we propped him this way so at least his head was in the picture. It was so funny to me for some reason.

The 2nd picture is him at the park near my parents house. He is a really timid kid when it comes to the swing, but he still wants to get on one every once in a while. He was sitting in the weirdest position, but he didn't want me to move him. Funny kid.

Every day is an adventure with these boys!

T-Ball

I am trying my best to keep us busy, so I have been putting the kids in to different programs in the community. So far Deagan has done swimming lessons and now he is doing T -Ball. It is so fun to watch those little ones "play". I am not sure if Deagan will make it pro with this sport, but he's having fun! ;)

Flowers from Afghanistan

This happened a few weeks ago, but I wanted to write it here.

One afternoon these beautiful flowers arrived at our door and they were from Greg! Talk about a fun surprise! He apparently ordered them over the Internet, and the local flower shop delivered them the next day. I love the Internet that allows us to stay connected this way!

Even though we are thousands of miles apart, Greg knows how to brighten my day. I love that guy!

Deagan got glasses!

A few weeks ago, I took Deagan to a kindergarten screening and he failed his eye test. I was really surprised by that because Deagan never said anything about not being able to see. But to be on the safe side we scheduled him an eye apt. My mom took him last week since I was helping my dad at his office, and it turned out he really needed glasses. He has really bad astigmatism and is far sighted. Poor kid has horrible eye sight and I never knew. Talk about feeling like a bad mom.

Today his glasses were ready for pick up! The first thing he said when he put them on was, "I feel like I am climbing over big mountains!" It is going to take time for him to get use to them. He keeps looking over the lenses, so I have to remind him to look through his glasses and not over. But really he did so good on his first day of full-time glasses. And he can see now!

I am grateful for modern medicine and technology that is helping my little boy see! We live in a great time don't we?

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Kids do and say the darndest things...

I don't want to forget all the cute things that my children have said or will say, so check back often to see what the Nelson family has to say!

March 26, 2013

Kayden: Do I still have my eyeballs or are they still at Grandma and Grandpa's house?

Me: I never knew they were there...

January 8, 2011

I was tired this afternoon, and I needed to nurse Kayden. I felt too tired to go pick up Kayden from where he was, so jokingly I asked Deagan if he would go change Kayden's diaper, nurse him, and then put him down for a nap.

He took it seriously, and said, "I have little boobies mommy! But do I have milk?"

Me: "No you don't have milk. I was just kidding."

Deagan: "But do I have water in my boobies?"

Needless to say, he did not follow through with what I said:)

January 6, 2009

*We went to Olive Garden for dinner tonight, and after the waitress brought us our breadsticks my son yelled after her, "Thank you lady!"

*My oldest loves to bring toys with him to bed. Tonight he had a couple of toy dinosaurs that he got for Christmas. The rule we have of bringing toys in bed is that the toys can't play, they have to sleep too. Tonight, he was having a hard time just letting his toys sleep, so I kept asking him to stop playing with the dinosaurs so he could go to sleep. He was getting really frustrated at me because of this and towards the end he started saying, "I am very mad at you!" It was so hard for me not to laugh at that.

January 4, 2009

He has done this for a while now, but whenever we are in the car he will ask, "Where are we going?" in a annoyed kind of voice. Later on he will ask really sadly, "Where did my house go?"

October 29, 2009

My oldest woke up really early this morning, and was whiny and impossible to please. At this point, I am dreading the day ahead and it is only 7 a.m. My oldest was sitting on his play table coloring and playing with his paint box (that was empty). He dropped the paint box, and began whining for me to pick it up. The conversation went something like this:

D: "Pick it up Mommy!"

Me: "It is right by you, you pick it up."

**Pause from Deagan**

D: "Michelle! Pick it up!"

I couldn't help but smile when he called me Michelle. Maybe this day will be better then I am expecting.

September 6, 2009

I think that wanting your privacy while going potty is a natural instinct that we are all born with and that develops over time. D is beginning to show signs that this privacy is a very important time when going to the bathroom. This afternoon I was making dinner and came in to the living room to check on him. As I walked into the room, he held out his hand and yelled, "No Mom! Go back!" I can always tell when he is done by him allowing me to stay in the same room with him.

August 30, 2009

D wants me to always watch what he is doing regardless of what it is. His new favorite thing to say is, "WATCH MOM!" over and over.

July 11, 2009

I was taking a bath, and locked D in the bathroom with me while I did so so I could keep an eye on him. During this process, D was very interested in his old nursing buddies (if you get my drift) and kept saying "Yummy!" "Yummy?" I asked him. "What did it taste like?" "HOT DOGS!" He replied!

July 8, 2009

D is a big help around the house. He puts things away when I ask him to, sometimes. He helps me fold the laundry, by that I mean he lays in the laundry. He is just a great help. One of his new things is to throw away his diapers after I am done changing him. After a diaper change this afternoon, he proceeded to pick up the diaper and head to the trash. His normal trash that he uses was out of reach, so I told him to go into the bathroom right off of the kitchen and to put the diaper in the trash right next to the toilet. I think all he heard from that was, "Put it in the....toilet." because that is where he put it. Like I said, very helpful! :)