Zeke and Ash are my Super Heroes

Here is a book that Trustin and I made for the kids this week. 

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Photo Shoot

Last Sunday we drove out to a path near Red Rock and took some photos of the kids since they both had a birthday last month.  We took a ton of pictures.  I narrowed it down, and then blogger went weird and narrowed it down  even more, so here are some cute ones.

(always have to include a bow the size of your head, right?) 

Cheesin' it.

Yes, Trustin brought the hat and coat and staged this one.  But Zeke provided the handsome.

Actually unstaged this time.  Whoa!  This picture absolutely kills me.

We really struggled to get a good shot with the kids together.  I don't know how mothers of more than 2 ever succeed.

Love

Trying to see through the crack.

Pure Zeke.  My silly nut.

The chase and tackle.

Ashlynn's zoney face

A snippet from the imagination of Zeke. I could post a lot of these.

Yesterday at the park Ashlynn was vehemently expressing her desire for me to hand her another strawberry.  Zeke watched Ashlynn's fit and looked at and said quite frankly, "Ashlynn said she wants her Captain America suit."  He then turned to Ashlynn and said, "Sorry Ashlynn, your Captain America suit in in the washer.  It will be done in 3 minutes....[two second pause, Zeke's hands fly into the air] Beep.  Okay Ash, its done."

Do I wish I had a video camera on Zeke every minute of every day? Yes. Yes I do.

Ashlynn Update

I haven't had time lately to blog about any of the cute things the kids have been up to, or about any of the things we've been up to (i.e. guess what, we are moving to Utah, maybe more on that later).  But there are some things about the stage Ashlynn is in right now that I keep reminding myself that I need to write down before I forget.

Ashlynn is adorable.  She is still definately a Momma's girl, but I love snuggling and holding her so that works out pretty well for me most of the time.  One of my favorite things that she does that is unpredictable and therefore unfilmable is the way she tilts her head to look at us sometimes.  She bends her head completely horizontal and then curves her body and neck to look at us when we are holding her.

She spends a lot of time with Zeke, which is evident in the fact that the only words that she really says A LOT are "Hi!," "uh-oh," "roar," and "hi-ya!"

She has taken 16 steps at once, so we are just waiting for her to realize that walking could be a full time thing.  But she remains a very fast bear-crawler.

Her current comfort thing is to stick her arm inside of our clothing: down our shirts, up our shorts, up our sleeves (this can be a little bit awkward in public places...).  She just slips one hand into whatever layer she can find and then she can relax.  One day when she was really tired she lay down on the floor and tucked her hand inside the flap door on a toy dump truck.

Ashlynn is still quite dramatic when things don't go her way. Sadly the cute belly flop tantrums are less and less frequent, but she still lets us know that she is not happy with us.

I love you little Ashlynn-Bo-Dashlynn.  Your scrunchy face smile is one of the highlights of every day and I just can't get enough of it.

Teach Your Dragon

Zeke had no interest in watching How to Train Your Dragon when we first bought it.  That was alright because we bought it for us.  Eventually though, Zeke came around, and now there is a daily request to play "teach your dragon."  Here are some of the elements involved in playing that tonight.

First we all had to pick a dragon (various couch cushions or the love sac) and hop on.  Zeke would then ask which dragon we were on and after we told him he quickly corrected us and informed us which dragon we were actually on and why the choice we made was incorrect (i.e. "No, that not the blue dragon; Astrid is on the blue dragon and they are flying up so high").

Once we were settled in on the correct dragon we all had to buckle up.

Next Zeke instructed us to read our dragon maps. (His was a library book about Ironman, mine was a Berenstain's Bears book about pets).  These "maps" told us everything we needed to do or know.  For example we learned that  The big scary dragon (this role is played by our couch; I tell you, that couch is the best toy we've ever found on the side of the road :)) is afraid of birds, so naturally we found some birds and sent them at him. 

Zeke read in his book that the big dragon would come in 5 minutes and Ironman would come in 2 minutes to help us.  Ironman eventually showed up, but he wasn't much help; he ran away, the chicken!

When I let Zeke consult my map he discovered that Brother Bear, Sister Bear, Mama, Papa and Honey would all be coming as well to help us.  Zeke said "They won't run away like Ironman." 

Shortly after the bears showed up Zeke exclaimed, "Oh, and there is the family of frogs!" (the frogs from Leap Frogs Letter Factory), however these characters never actually made further appearances in our fun.

With the help of the bears Zeke read his map to discover that we needed to throw hard things at the dragon.  Zeke wanted to throw the Hulk's hand, but when I reminded him that that toy is actually hard, hence against the rules to throw, we settled on throwing some nice hard pillows to get that dragon.

At one point Zeke read in his book that the big dragon is afraid of brown suckers.  So what's to be done but eat a sucker.  The dragon is not afraid of blue suckers however, but Zeke said, "Oh, Ashlynn can share with him. That will be nice."


When we were back to playing he said "Good I have a gorilla shirt, 'cause those help us fight.  And good I have these shorts; they make it so he won't eat my legs."

And so the game goes.  I can't remember every element Zeke added, but I wish I could. He is the silliest, sweetest kid I know.  One of my favorite things Zeke does is a trait he definately inherited/learned from me. He is a singer.  My personal favorite song has the following lyrics: "I love Daddy and Mommy and Ashlynn."  He sings that one a lot.  Keep singing Zeke.  I could listen to that one all day.