FLASH ALERT

we are at the store and in LA many stores are 2 floors, so keaton wants to go up the escalator, but i have the cart with Xander in it, so I was going to take the elevator. I thought I would be a nice Mommy today and I left the cart on the 1st floor with items and let the boys go up the escalator. '

Keaton goes on 1st, but he decides he wants to do the splits, with one leg on one step and the other leg trying to get the farthest step away. Xander of course doesn't want me to carry him, not when there are moving steps around, so I let Xander go on his own step. Now at this point I am hanging on to Xander , so he doesn't fall down and Keaton is in front of us and starts falling down (as he realized he doesn't have elastic legs), he has now past me and I was trying to grab him, luckily he found something to hold onto so he didn't fall doing sumersaults all the way to the bottom.

What did he hold onto? My sweatpants, so Keaton is hanging on for life trying to get his footing and my pants start coming down. Luckily the g's stayed on, but the store got a nice glimpse of my big booty. And since the store wasn't very crowded at the time and my boys don't have the quietest voice, all eyes were on us. At the end Keaton was reassuring everyone in the store with his loud voice that he was alright. Now this all happened while we were on the escalator.

SOAP BOX

Where do I start?... So we have been fighting the sick bug around here for at least 3 weeks straight and I have been pretty sick for the month of April and May. Last week I got an awful nasty cold and then Xander got sick with hand foot mouth virus. So what does that mean, NO SLEEP. I was just only grateful it wasn't ear infections since that is a regular for Xander.

Aaaah a new week, I was ready to take life on for a HEALTHY week. That is just too good to ask for. Yep, now Keatons is sick with a fever and when I finally felt like doing house cleaning he threw up on the moped bathroom floor and rugs that just got washed today. Never a break when you are a Mom.

So with Xander still recovering and Keaton sick they are both fighting to lay on Mommy, where is Daddy?(at work) So for FHE tonight everyone is getting a Priesthood blessing.

To sum things up:

• don't let your kids suck their fingers, I don't care if you have to keep the pacifier in until they are 2, I think that is the reason why they are always sick, they are both FINGER SUCKERS
• All in all I AM GRATEFUL FOR THE PRIESTHOOD!

I now must return to my Mommy duties and comfort by 2 screaming boys, Chris should be home in an hour, so that is what I am looking forward to. :)

RAIN, finally in sunny CA

We finally got some rain in CA so I let the boys go outside and play in it. I was inside staying nice and dry when I hear some bubble sounds, I turn to look outside and see the boys blowing bubbles in the puddles. Now they know how to have fun in the rain. Keaton even pulled the snorkel out. You would think that they never saw rain before, well for Xander is rainy days have been limited.

KEATON

WE had a primary activity, so Keaton dressed up in Lehi attire---robe and hand towel for the head is the best I could do. I was in charge of the station where Nephi broke his bow. So at home I climbed a ladder and cut off some of the branches from the neighbors tree and made some bows and arrows. I was a little shocked at how easy they were to make and how far the arrows shot. They worked way better than any toy store one and best of all it was free to make.

Keaton is a little obsessed with people smoking, always pointing it out and telling them it is bad. Chris took him to a dive shop and a man inside had a cigarette in his mouth, but not lit. Keaton isn't afraid to talk to anyone so Keaton asked him why he had the cigarrette and that it was bad for him. So the man got a little closer to Keaton and started talking to him, still with the cigarette in his mouth and while it was dangling, Keaton grabbed the cigarette and ran outside of the store to throw it away. He is not shy. I thinked that shocked the man. I wish I was there, but I can't stop laughing just thinking of it. It only takes one man or in this example one boy to help change the world.

Brotherly Love

We went to the Childrens Museum in Pasadena a few months ago and the boys loved the tandem bike. It was so cute to see them enjoy that together. At home they both have their own bikes and Keaton, my nascar driver is always wanting to crash into someone and Xander loves teasing Keaton Keaton was rocking Xander at home and singing "Rock a by Baby". Xander would get up to reposition himself and then sit back down on Keatons lap. I love it when they play with each, without fighting.