Found on my phone

May 8, 2016

Spotlight
Favorite color: blue
Favorite food: watermelon and blueberries
Favorite thing to do: wrestle with Daddy
Favorite book: Mr. Tickle
Something you are good at: hide and seek and making my sister laugh
What do you want to be when you grow up: a gentleman and an astronaut
Favorite primary/church song: families can be together forever
Favorite scripture story: "the story of the olive trees"
I have brown hair and greenish brown eyes
My name is Daniel Ware


Spotlight
Favorite color: green
Favorite food: marshmallows
Favorite thing to do: clean up the house
Favorite book: A Christmas one about baby Jesus
Something you are good at: cleaning up the house and bouncing bouncy balls really high
What do you want to be when you grow up: a firefighter
Favorite primary/church song: mother I love you
Favorite scripture story: when Jesus died and got resurrected
I have blond hair and greenish eyes
My name is Kyle Ware

October 7, 2016

Words Lila says 18 months
Book
Shoe
Banana
Dada
Mama
Danda
Mimi
Hi
Hello
Tada
Ball
Woof woof
Apple
Cheese
More
No
Phone
Poopoo
Little
Bye bye
Hot
Baby

My phone is running very slow and I wanted to clean it off.  As I was doing thia I found these little things in my notes app and I wanted to remember them. I need to be better about documenting my day to day life because I forget things and I want to remember them!

Time flies when you have 3 kids

I don't know if it is the fact that I'm getting older, not sleeping, have 3 children, or a combination of all the above but time seems to fly. Some days and some nights seem like they go on forever, but somehow the weeks and months keep running. Anyway, I thought I should update my blog with what is going on these days. 

Lila is now 10 months old and is just the sweetest little thing ever. She is almost always happy and takes a lot of love from her brothers that is nowhere near as gentle as I would like. She has been climbing up the stairs for months and has still not learned how to go down despite my efforts to teacher her (I think she can't figure out how to turn around and back up so her feet are headed down first). 

She loves baths, her blankie, and scavenging for food and bits of paper or garbage on the kitchen floor. So far she has eaten most anything we have tried to feed her and starts jabbering impatiently if she is in her high chair too long before food comes. The boys like to distract her while she is eating and she likes to look at them and that can make feeding her pretty messy. 

She recently started to take the lead on peek-a-boo and it is adorable. She will hide behind her bib, blanket, or the door and then laugh when I excitedly acknowledge that she is back. 

Kyle is my big three year old boy (sporting the awesome lederhosen looking knit romper I am almost finished making. I have been on a knitting kick recently). It is a good thing this boy is so adorable and sweet at times because he can be a stinker. He is very determined, often contrary, and he is a climber so this creates plenty of opportunities for frustration and mischief. Kyle likes to help me in the kitchen by adding ingredients to things and of course tasting everything. Kyle loves to be outside and likes walking to the river not far from our house to throw rocks and sticks off the bridge in to the water.

 

Both boys have had fun playing in the snow recently making snow men and eating the snow. I started them in swim lesson in January so they would have something active to do to burn all the little boy energy they have plenty of. They seem to be enjoying them. 

Danny, where do I start in describing Danny? Danny loves to create things, he can be stubborn, if given his choice would almost always choose to watch a tv show, and he often follows his little brothers lead in making mischief.

Danny is often inspired in his creativity by books we have read or shows he has watched. This is when Danny decided he wanted to be a lemur after watching wild kratt's. He got really into it. He found a tail, he made himself ears out of paper and taped them to his head, we tied his teddy bear on him because the baby lemurs ride around on their mom's back, and I indulged him in his desire to have some lemur scent by giving him some old scented body spray. He ran around as a lemur scent marking things and jumping around for quite a while. 

This was the buried treasure he buried in the muddy sandbox one warmer day between snow storms. He will get an idea and just go do it. This can be a little hard for me sometimes because this little stuffed chick-fail-a cow was not the only thing that got covered in muddy sand on the buried treasure day. With things like this I am a little better about not being bothered by the mess. He recently went on a book making kick (he got the idea after we read "If you take a mouse to  school"). He stapled pieces of paper together and drew pictures and then he would tell us the story that the pictures depicted. 

Danny and Kyle can play together nicely, but often Kyle likes to argue and Danny can be very stubborn and this leads to quite a few conflicts between them. No one wins in an argument with a 3 year old. 

Here I am with the crew. Most of my time is spent doing my number 1 job which is keeping everyone alive and trying to teach them to be good humans. I feel like I'm doing pretty good at this and we have fun in the process. Knitting has been one of my creative outlets recently because it is something I can do while keeping an eye on kids (sometimes) or while watching a show with Jon after kids are asleep. I have a tendency to knit with wreckless abandon and I make up my own patterns as I'm going along sometimes. I have to start over and occasionally things don't turn out quite how I imagined, but for some reason it doesn't bother me. 

Jon is halfway through his 3rd year teaching at East and he enjoys it. He is teaching quite a few different classes, working on his ESL endorsement, and is serving in the young men's in our ward. He has quite a few things going on, but he is good to make sure he is around to spend time with me and the kids. I am so glad we get to see him as much as we do. I think we are all happier because if it. 

That is as much of an update as I have time for now. I am going to try to be better about posting small things here and there because my blog is pretty much my journal these days. 

6 months since my last post...

Now to think what has happened in the last 6 months. After Lila was born it was a crazy time of Jon finishing up school and everyone getting used to life with our new little girl. The boys took a while to adjust to the new sibling. Kyle definitely has had the hardest adjustment, but he no longer hits Lila every time he is near her. I think for this post I will just dump a bunch of pictures and see where things go from there.

 (sleeping smiles 3/29)

 (Kyle after playing in the Snow with uncle Mikey 4/15)

 (Boys playing outside and blowing bubbles 4/21. Yup there was snow the week before this)

 (Trip to the park with our friends down the street 4/28.) 

 (After bath time 5/13) 

(Lila's blessing day 5/30. Her little bonnet came from Jon's baby blessing set, but he didn't wear it when he was blessed.) 

So, I have labeled these pictures multiple times and it is not wanting to publish... I am just going to publish it as it is for now.