Amazing Memory

Today I was walking down the street with Zeke when we passed a hotel. Zeke asked, "What is that?" I said, "It's a hotel." Zeke said, "We lived in a hotel once. It had fish in the bottom." How in the world did he remember that? He was 13 months old!

Later this evening we were reading out of his Berenstain Bears' science book. It has probably been at least a month since we've read it. I was flipping through to see where we had left off. Zeke said, "Can we finish that part we didn't finish last time about energy?" I looked and that was exactly where we had left off. His memory really amazes me these days.

The blanket saga is over. . . maybe...

For those of you who have been keeping up with Zeke's blanket, it is gone now and the saga is over. Here's the video:


Yeah, he does have a replacement, though, so we'll see how that goes. Thanks, Holly for the new "blanket".

Hands...

This morning, Zeke and I were talking and I told him that his hands were getting big. He said, "Yeah, but they're not as big as yours yet." I said, "No, they're not. That would be silly." He said, "Why?" So I decided to show him.

He thought it was silly.

Sierra is 2 months old and other fun things. . .

Today, Sierra turned 2 months old! To celebrate, we headed to the doctor for 2 shots and some kind of oral vaccination! So far, we have a long, lean girl on our hands. She was a little over 12 lbs. and 62 cm. long. She is grinning and cooing, and becoming lots of fun!

On a different note, I decided halfheartedly to give potty training another try yesterday. I didn't expect it to be very successful, but Kaiyah has done GREAT! We've had a couple of busy days, so she has mostly just run around naked in the mornings, but both mornings she has gone several times on her little potty! We're so proud!

And for a Zeke story: today at lunch Zeke asked me, "Would you rather I die before you do or at the same time as you?" What in the world??? Dan asked him where he comes up with this stuff. Zeke replied, "Not from anywhere, I just make it up in my head."

Day at the water park...

My friend and I decided to take our 5 kids, ages 5 and under, for a day at the water park. (Sierra stayed home with Dan.) There is a free service from the mall near our house out to the park so we showed up about 8:50 to head to the park! Now, we ended up having to wait awhile for the service bus to actually leave, and then there were a few adventures on the way, so by the time our non-air conditioned van pulled up to the water park we were READY to jump in that water! We had a blast. Zeke was all over the pool, went down the "big" slide, swam under the water . . . Kaiyah loved going down some of the smaller slides and jump, jump, jumped! We got to see a fun dolphin show, although the sea lion apparently wasn't feeling like preforming because they brought him out for a few minutes, tried to get him to cooperate, and then quickly took him back in and called the show done. We swam some more and then at 6 PM climbed back on another hot van for the ride home! Both kids were sound asleep as we were pulling out of the parking lot! I didn't take a lot of pictures since there were just two of us moms keeping up with five little kiddos, but here are a couple that I did take:

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