Duct Taping the Bishop

Again, this is for those who asked for pictures.  We recently had a primary activity that the kids have been preparing for, for months.  We have been working on the articles of faith this year and as an incentive we told the kids for every article of faith that they memorized they would receive a piece of tape to help duct tape our Bishop to the wall at our activity.  The kids really impressed me with all they learned and had so much fun taping the Bishop up real well!

The kids putting on the finishing touches.

Our primary with the Bishop.

Ami and I with the Bishop.

Rick was the nice one who cut the Bishop out while we gave the kids their treat.  Our Bishop was a great sport and it turned out to be such a fun activity!

Happy Birthday Rick!

Rick turned 32 this year!  We had a fun little celebration at home.  Ethan helped pick out the sprinkles (after dumping the first bottle out in the middle of wal-mart) and loved blowing out the candles with daddy.  Rick's favorite gift came a few days later.  He received the new Call of Duty xbox game and has been playing quite a bit lately.

Ethan wanted to join in the fun.  Here he is with daddy's controller and headset.

Looks just like a miniature Rick!  Happy Birthday Sweetie!

Why Ethan now sleeps in a toddler bed...

Ethan is now sleeping in a toddler bed.  We weren't planning on making this transition any time soon…actually we were thinking next summer after we moved would be a great time.  He had other ideas.  One day I came into his room to get him up from a nap and found this:

Somehow he had filled his crib with books and wipes.  The books I could understand as I had left the box of books next to his crib and it was easy to see how he could pull them through the slats.  The wipes…I had NO clue how he had gotten a hold of them.  So being the wonderful mother that I am, I ran downstairs, grabbed the camera, ran back upstairs, then asked him to show me how he got the wipes.   He was so kind as to show me this: 

Apparently he would climb up on the rail then reach over to the wipe dispenser on the changing table.

Gotta love those wipes!  That was not all though.  You see it is hard to balance on the rail and grab the wipes so he decided he might as well go all the way over and just climb onto the changing table.

Apparently he really wanted those baby wipes.  Well all this climbing of furniture took a couple of years off of my life and after a few days of discovering him in places I was not okay with, we decided to move his furniture around, undoing the completely nice arrangement in his room, so that he couldn't climb from one piece to the next.  That did not stop my monkey.

He just pulled that bottom drawer out and climbed up that way.  See the wipes on the chair?  Do you know how many we went through during this week?  We ended up having to convert his crib to a toddler bed, take the chair, wipes, and the green basket of baby items on his changing table out of his room.  Now he has no reason to climb and after a dreadful week of transition, Ethan now sleeps in a toddler bed.

Halloween

This Halloween we had Ethan dress up like the little monkey that he is.  We took him trick-or-treating at the zoo during their ZooBoo.  We met up with some friends and had a lot of fun seeing the animals and picking up treats for the kids.

Ethan and his little friends.  Aren't they all adorable?

As part of our Halloween activities, we went to Kelsay Farms, a dairy farm not too far from where we live.  While it wasn't a true pumpkin patch, it was perfect for Ethan and they had tons for him to do.  There was a corn crib, a hay ride, cows to look at, a little train to ride, and hay to climb.  It was a fun family outing.

The miracle of this photo is Ethan has a fear of getting too close to ANY animal and he is the one who walked up to pet the calf.

We hope you all had a great Halloween!