He is learning

Over the last few months I have been working with Matthew on some preschool stuff. We first started with letters, but he did not like that too much. So, we decided to do colors and play some color games with those paint samples you get at Home Depot. But, Gavin decided to eat them so now we just do it with crayons during Gavin's nap. Much safer. So I decided well let's do shapes. I started out with circles. Well, after a while I decided maybe he is just not ready for this type of stuff and we will stick with colors. Well, the other day Gavin was reorganizing my kitchen. This is a daily thing. Matthew decided to help him. Matthew would take out a kitchen tool and ask me what it was. I would tell, example a cookie, or a rack for cookies. Well, Gavin took out the Angel Food cake pan. Matthew took it away from him and asked me what it was. I was trying to think of an easy way to say it. So, I told him cake pan. He told me, "no mom, circle." He started to talk to Gavin and tell him it was a circle then he sang our circle song. I was so surprised he even remembered to show Gavin that it had no sides. He demonstrated it to him too. I was so excited he told Gavin look it is an "O". So, now everything is an "O" that is shaped like a circle.
I have been trying to have patience with him because I know all kids are different. Jason knew all the shapes and their sides by the time he was 3 1/2. Matthew is getting it he just is so stubborn. If he does not feel like doing something he won't. I am thankful, to have a different personality with each of my three kids. They make life interesting.

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First day of School

Last week was Jason's first day of school. He is officially a second grader. He is attending Hogan-Cedars Elementary. It is almost a brand new school. I say almost because it is only 4 years old. Jason was really excited to start school. I love having him home, but I know that he was ready to go back. He was a little nervous, but after the first day he was so excited to go back. Jason has a wonderful teacher. Even though homework has been coming kinda slow for me we still have homework among ourselves.
Matthew on the other hand has not been too happy that Jason is back at school. He loves playing with Jason. Matthew cries everyday when we drop Jason off at the bus stop. We have been having school at home here. He seems to like it. I hope he is this excited when it is actually his turn to go.
I took some pictures of our yearly tradition of taking Jason to school. Jason takes the bus, but on the first day of school I always drop him off.
Gavin came too, but he did not care if his picture was taken or not.

Gavin is Ten Months

Well, I have been a bad blogger the last few weeks. I hope to start up again. Starting with this entry. Our little Gavin is growing so big. He is now ten months old and can do so many things.
Here are a few:

1. Gavin can walk. He still likes to crawl, but he can get up on his two little feet and walk.
   
2. He has finally decided that he does not like baby food. Well at least the mushed stuff. It took him a while but that is okay.
3. He loves to crawl in the tub when his older brothers are taking a shower. However, he will not take a bath in the tub by himself.
4. He loves to play outside. We have a little play structure thing and he loves to crawl on it and play.
5. He thinks he is old enough to play with legos. Too bad they are so small.
6. I am thankful he is getting better at sleeping through the night. Well, okay myabe only until 3:30ish but he is getting a lot better ever since he is in his own room. I don't know how people co-sleep with their kids. I need my space.
7. He loves to read our favorite book "Goodnight Moon" just before going to bed.
8. Gavin can say mama and dada even though he has not said for a week or so.
9. He has one tooth and a bunch more coming in thank goodness for our teething pills. Our little heroes
10. He loves to go for walks. We live near a park and the boys and I go walking every day. Well, almost everyday.
    

We moved!!

We have finally moved out of the guest house. We enjoyed our stay there, but it was just a little to tight for a family of five. We now have a place here in Gresham. We are really enjoying our new home. We have a three bedroom with 1.5 baths and a large backyard. The kitchen is a little small, but that is okay because I am the only one that really cooks anyway. The boys love their new place too. Jason and Matthew are sharing a room. Gavin is in a room by himself. I really like that part. I love my kids but, it was driving me crazy having Gavin in my room. He seems to enjoy his room too. We are also using his room as our office as that is what it will be when he is out.
We had some wonderful memories during our stay in Oregon city. It will always be a big part of our family history.

Our family vacation to California

The boys drinking a Milk Shake Yum Yum!









My dad found this dog on his walk.
We wanted to take it home it was so cute.
But it was not very kid friendly. It kept biting Matthew.

We don't have a bathtub here. The
boys loved taking a bath at the Grandparents.






The beautiful San Diego Temple.
A missionary couple took these pictures for us.

More pictures to come.

Our Family Vacation

On July 3rd the boys and I left for California. We have enjoyed ourselves so much. On Friday Brian left Arizona and traveled all night to get to my parents house. He was able to sleep for a couple of hours then we all had to leave for San Diego. It usually takes three hours to get from Lancaster to San Diego. Well, for us it took us six hours. We had super bad traffic and the boys were not to happy about travling so much. Gavin cried a bit, but he is getting use to the travling more.
On Sunday, we were able to the beautiful San Diego temple. The nice elderly couple that was there took a picture of us in front of the temple. We also did some more sight seeing around San Diego. San Diego is so beautiful. After we did some sightseeing we went to my cousin Rich's wedding. It was so pretty. I am so proud of him. He married such a sweet wonderful girl. The ceremony was at Balboa Park. It was nice to have a break from our boys. My aunt and uncle set up a babysitter for us.
Monday we took the boys to Sea World. They loved it. We went with all my aunts and uncles. My brother and sister-in-law, and mom and dad went also. The boys loved watching all the shows. They have been waiting for a couple of weeks to see The Shamu show. It was okay. Kinda disappointing we did not get wet and we sat right in front. Matthew was a little upset about not getting wet. After, the Cirque de la Mer show we decided to get some lunch. After lunch we were all just talking about what we were going to do next. When all of a sudden Brian asked me to help Matthew. He was bleeding kinda bad from his chin. I took one look at it and knew it was not good. I rushed him to the bathroom. Mike and Andrea rushed over with me. We knew he was going to need to go to the hospital. Mike called for the Sea World nurse. She came over what seemed forever. I guess it was because Brian had time to change his super poopy diaper. She took one look at his chin and told us that he had to go to the hospital to get it stiched up. The RN took us to the little First Aid place they have there. She cleaned it up a little and gave us directions to the Childrens Hospital of San Diego. She told us it would only take an hour and that we could come back. At first I was happy because we really wanted to come back, but then when we arrived at the er and saw how many kids were there I knew we would be there forever. Matthew ended up getting four stiches. Brian stayed in the room and I left with Gavin. The doctor only wanted one screaming baby at a time. They had to tie Matthew down to get the stiches in. After that we had decided that Matthew had had enough. Three hours later. I had.
So, besides going to the er we had a great trip so far. We will be heading back on Thursday. Matthew has to get unstiched on Monday.
I will post pictures later.