Funnies...

Savannah says the funniest things all of the time. I really need to write them down more often.

Yesterday she was having a pretend conversation on a pretend cell phone, and I hear her say: "Sorry, my kids are driving me crazy." I felt kind of bad about that one because I am pretty sure I know who she got it from.

She will just say surprising things out of the blue all of the time too. Today, while driving, I let them roll down the windows for a while. She says "It sure is a beautiful summer, huh mom?" Then a few minutes later she says: "Mom, I sure give Color, the lizard lots of love don't I?" Our first day here, Matt caught a lizard and let Savannah play with it. She named him Color and begged me to let her keep it in a cage, but I told her, no. I said he could just live outside our apt. and we would see him every day. Luckily there are lots of lizards around, so we do see "Color" a lot. She really is obsessed with him. She is such a funny mix between a tom-boy and a little diva!

Today, she also asked me why I don't talk to all of my mommy friends.
"What do you mean? I talk to them"
"Well, sometimes you don't say Hi to all of them"
"Like who?"
"Like yesterday at the park with Hallee, you didn't say Hi to all of the other mommies" (meaning the strangers there I didn't know)
"Oh, I guess you are right. Maybe I should have talked to the other mommies there."
"Mom, if you don't say Hi then they won't know you and they can't say Hi back."
"That's true, Savannah. I will try to be more friendly."

This is all coming from the girl that assumes any kid around is her best bud for a while. Nothing like getting a scolding on being more friendly from a 3 year old.

Spring

We had a pretty crazy stretch the last month or so having lots of company and getting ready to move to Houston. In March, we watched Matt's sister's kids for a few days. In an attempt to be a cool aunt and uncle, we tried to take them to do some fun stuff. We fed random animals around town some goat treats we had. (post edit: Now that I read that back, I'm not sure what is more funny...going around town feeding random animals or the fact that we had a big bag of goat treats on hand to feed them)

Then we headed to Leamington for go-carts and cave exploring which both were big hits.

We had a lot of fun having them, and it was nice having someone to entertain my own kids for a while.

Later that week, we went to the zoo to meet up with Matt's brother and his family that were in town. The kids loved it, of course.

We tried to get a picture of all of the cousins at the zoo. Max wasn't in it because he was pretty sick and there was no way he was going to stand there.

Poor kid. Look at his face. It is pretty darn hard to get a picture with my kids smiling.

The next weekend Matt's parents came to visit, and we got to spend Conference/Easter with them. We headed up for our cousin's baby blessing and got to see lots of family before we left.

Easter was pretty cold and I'm not crazy about community hunts for little kids, so we had a mini one at our house with some friends. Savannah went crazy and got way too much candy. Maxwell just wanted to sit down and eat the first piece he found and wouldn't pick up any more.

Waiting for the "go" signal.

Other than that, we have spent a lot of time trying to get everything ready to head to Texas. We never finished everything, but we are here anyway. The kids are adjusting well and love sharing a room. It is really cute to listen to them talking to each other at night. We don't have furniture yet, so we have been sleeping on air mattresses and eating on upside-down laundry baskets. Hopefully it will be here tomorrow. We also have a serious ant problem and I have to keep flicking them off the computer as I type. We are excited to be here though! I will try to update more often, but you know how it goes!