Story Time

I don't want to forget these stories so here's a quick post reminding me for later when I forget.


STORY 1:


At the OB's office during one of my prenatal visits, I had all three of my kids with me. As always the doctor did the measuring and then listened with the Doppler for the heartbeat. After finding the heartbeat and explaining to my kids what it was, he asked if they wanted to say hi to the baby. Of course they all wanted to - so he held out the "listening" end of the Doppler and let them say hello. They were all thrilled that they "talked" to the baby - not realizing, of course that on the other end of the listening part was just the speaker box - it was no where near the baby at all.







STORY 2:


After I had Dallin and had begun nursing, Gwendalin was very intrigued by it. She proceeded to tell me that after she has a baby she will let him suck the blood out of her too. She didn't get it that it wasn't blood, but milk. Random random thought - I have no idea where she got the idea that blood feeds infants...She hasn't been reading the Twilight Series like I have....Vampires and all. :)





STORY 3:

I fear that I am raising an angry 6 year old. I hope not, but he tends to throw fits when he doesn’t get his way and here’s a good example. We went to dinner with Tricia and Matthew and Lynn and left all 6 kids (we didn’t have Dallin yet) with a babysitter. Well, when all the girls wouldn’t do what Hunter wanted to do, he threw a fit and proceeded to bang a drawer around in the kitchen until he completely broke the face off of the front. It was rough punishment for him that night- he couldn’t come out of his room for the rest of the night. I think it was the hardest on Lynn- she felt so bad for the little dude…but I think it was a good lesson for him to have to be in “solitary” while the rest of us chatted and played.










STORY 4:


Hunter comes in one afternoon and says "mom, can I go to the Merc (our local grocery store) with Jake?...Doug is taking us." FYI Doug is Jake's dad...so I agree. Well, later (2 hours) Travis and I are going to take Alicia to dinner and we go to Jake's house to bring Hunter home...lo and behold, no one is home at Jake's, so Travis calls Doug and finds out that his boys (Jake and Kenner) are with another boy from our ward - so we went to that family's home. At their house we found out that her son is with Jake and Kenner gone to the Merc on their bikes...after further questioning we find out that Hunter is with them too. So, we go to the Merc....I went in and talked with one of the cashier's and she said that there had been 4 boys in there about an hour ago and they bought lighters (the little blue eyed boy with the Boise State shirt on, said his parents needed them). The little blue eyed boy is Hunter. I came out of there furious. We checked the place the cashier thought they were going next (the skate park at a local community church) - but they were not there either. So, now we have Doug driving around looking for the boys and we are driving around looking for the boys. Finally, Doug finds them at a park down the street from our development. Doug asked Hunter if he knew his parents were looking for him and explained the situation a little bit...Hunter's response was "Well, I think they must've misunderstood." HA! When he got home on his bike I knew he could tell he was in trouble...he came into the driveway very slowly. The punishment was the evening in his room while we still went to dinner...after we got home we (or Travis rather) talked to him rationally about it and he got grounded from friends and his bike for the next week - which is too bad because it's the last week of summer. Travis and I were beside ourselves. We would never let our 6 year old ride his bike to the creepy Merc on busy streets...I am grateful that he was with Kenner who is 9 but still...it was very scary for the 30 minutes we were searching our booming metropolis for him.

Story #5:

Tyler walks around looking for anything that has legs and moves (bug like) and insists that it’s a PIE-DUR. He will squat down and call for Huntr and Gwenlin to come “getim”. It’s very cute! PIE-DUR…GETIM!

He also wanders the house looking for any one person and yells, “Are you?!” And when he finds you he beams with joy “here he are!” He’s at such a cute stage.