Daily Dose of Easton

Easton has said some funny things today. (Surprise surprise).

While we were sitting on the couch watching TV this morning he poked Callan and I asked him not to do it again. He said, "mom I'm such a mean boy." It turned into this long conversation about him telling me how he's such a mean boy and has such a hard time being nice and is just mean to everyone and me telling him that everyone has a hard time sometimes and that's why we can always say sorry and try again. It kind of made me sad - he's such a tender soul. This isn't really the first time he's expressed this. A few weeks ago I asked him how nursery was and he said, "I just took a toy away from all the kids. My teacher told me I'm a nice boy, but I'm not. I'm a mean boy and I always take things away from everyone." So sad!

We went over to my mom's house fairly early this morning and I told him that today was aunties last day of school and then they don't have school during summer.

East: "but it's summer right now."

Me: "Well I know, but their teachers said they have to come to school for one more day today. And then they can be done for the summer."

East: "I don't like that! That's not a good idea! I'm going to get my sword and get in Aunt Kate's new car and drive to their school and climb up on the rocks and run across the road and go into their school and cut Collette's teacher in half!"

Every day, sometime between noon and 2, I drive around so that Easton will fall asleep for his nap. I know it might seem a little extreme to drop everything and drive, but it's so worth it! I just drive for 10-15 minutes, come home and lay him on his bed, and he's out for a couple hours! It seems like every time we drive the Katy Perry song E.T. is on. The other day Easton heard the line, You're so supersonic. Wanna feel your power - stun me with your laser and he yelled out, "Mom! That girl is singing about lasers! Just like Buzz!"

Today during the naptime drive I took away the little glow stick sword he was playing with so he would fall asleep. Kennedi had gotten it at a school thing today and gave it to him. When I took it away he said, "Mom I need that sword. Do you know that sword is special? Do you know that that sword is EXPENSIVE?"

Park City!

We have been looking forward to this trip for so long! I'm sad that it's over! We usually go to Lake Powell with the Page family every year, but with the babies this year we decided it would be easier to do a Park City getaway instead. It was so nice to check out of reality for a few days and just enjoy ourselves!

The cousins bonded...

We swam in the hotel pool...

We did the Alpine Slide...

{Easton is perfecting his Flynn Rider smolder}

And we shopped till we dropped! We are going to be all set for clothes this summer! We found some great deals. Tyson got a great deal on a coat from PacSun that I don't think he's even taken off since he bought it - even though it's finally reached 80 degrees - hello summer! And my favorite purchase has been my Croc flipflops. They are so comfy!

Callan didn't really need any clothes, but sometimes I just couldn't resist buying matching outfits! I think I might have the cutest boys ever!

Thanks Steve and Arlene for the fun trip! I have the best in-laws!

Memorial

We are enjoying having Tyson home with us this week! Because he already had Memorial Day off work, he decided to take off the other four days as well so he would have a much needed vacation. He kicked off the week be heading to Lake Powell for a father/son fishing trip Friday to Sunday. The wind prevented them from doing much, but I'm pretty sure they had a good time!

While he was gone Easton, Callan, and I had a movie/popcorn/smoothie party. It was pretty much a failure. I rented Diary of a Wimpy Kid from the library and Easton was so bored. It said the G word in every other sentence and you know it doesn't take long for Easton to catch on to these things. When the little boy pulled a play boy magazine out from under his brother's bed I was so done with that show. I turned it off and remembered that Aunt Kate had given us Rock-a-Doodle. No offense Kate, but I guess I hadn't seen that show in a while. It was so dumb and kind of scary for little East! So we ended up watching Sprout (TV). Easton asked me, "So... mom.... we're watching 'prout' for our movie party?" Ya I guess we are.

We got through the rest of the weekend without any problems, besides the fact that Easton was a complete NIGHTMARE at church without Tyson there. Luckily Callan slept through most of it.

On Memorial Day Tyson filled in at Timpanogos Hospital so the boys and I went with my family to the Golden Spike National Historic Site. Collette has been wanting to go ever since she learned about the Transcontinental RR in school. The weather was horrible (as you can see by the raindrops on the lens) so they held the re-inactment inside. Easton did get to walk out with Bafa Took and see the trains though.

On the way home we drove to Brigham City to eat at Maddox and relive a childhood memory of my parents'. It was closed. So we ate at a little diner and headed home. Easton got The Little Engine That Could book from the gift shop and Kennedi had to read it several times on the way home.

We had to pull over so Easton could pee on the side of the road. My dad took him and said he had waited 25 years for that moment. We had to stop at a gas station 5 minutes later anyway because East decided he needed to go poop (TMI). And shortly after we got back on the road, he threw up. Needless to say it was a VERY long drive. But we sure had fun!