The E-man

Easton and his lego tower (we don't have many legos so this was as high as he could make it). He was THRILLED to be able to take a picture of it to show Daddy.

Whenever Easton dresses up, he wants me to take a picture so he can see himself.  This day he was Easton the fireman.

Just another funny Easton picture.  He loves Mario and Luigi currently and insisted that I take a picture of his little buddy.

And now a few Easton funnies:

• Ronnie, Easton, Jord-man and I had the opportunity to go to the UW vs. Nebraska game a few weekends ago.  We had a great time (despite the Cowboy loss).  At one point, I looked over to see Easton with his hand right up my his eye.  I asked him what he was doing.  He didn't move a muscle and answered "Shooting the red guys."  I asked why he was doing that and he said "So they die."  It was possibly one of the funniest thing ever.  Despite our many, many talks of only shooting animals and targets, his UW spirit got in the way and he couldn't help himself.
• He loves to know what we are doing everyday.  If I don't have anything planned for that day it is the end of his life.  Most days I just make something up around the house so he can put it on his mental calendar. He can stand a few days in the coming week with "nothing" going on, but not too many in a row.  Luckily we have our travels to Laramie, swim lessons and preschool that take up the majority of the week.  Then I fill in our Friday and Saturday's and on Sunday we have church. :)
• Any capital "Y" stands for BYU.  He told his preschool teacher last week that his family are fans of BYU. (I didn't even know he knew the word fans).
• We have been reading one verse a night with Easton before bed (he likes to follow our fingers across the page and say every word after we do).  Last night, after another verse that started "And it came to pass" he turned to me and said..."there are a LOT of passes."
• He still asks me just about every day "We don't remember what our baby is?" as if the next time he asks I'll have an answer for him.  It normally only comes up when we are discussing gender (like when he started a new swimming session and wondered if his teacher was going to be a girl or a boy, or when we talk about his friends with new babies--one family had a girl and the other a boy).
• He has asked me what I am doing enough times when I am crafting that now he asks and then answers himself "something for the new baby."  I suppose I need to get his Halloween costume all finished so I can be making something for him to brighten his day.
• While I like to think of him as almost a real boy (you know, talking in complete sentences and acting so much more mature than Kendree), he still has his moments.  Like yesterday when he threw a gigantic fit at the post office that he was not the one to trigger the automatic doors and I just kept on walking to the car and left him there (don't worry, you have to park on the street at this post office and our car was literally the closest one to the door--he could follow me completely on the sidewalk).
• Easton sure does keep me on my toes and we love him lots!

Easton Lately

A few things about Easton I don't want to forget.

He calls the laptop, the flat-top.

All "th" sounds are replaced by a "p".

He loves to talk on the phone.  To pretty much anyone. For a LONG time.  Several times after 15 minutes of talking to Uncle Jord-man I've had to essentially take the phone away.

And now for a few pictures:

Hanging out, waiting for daddy to lock up the church:

In his Sunday best (he wouldn't let me tuck in his shirt before I took this picture).  He LOVES wearing his suit and matching his daddy.  I need to start looking for a good deal on a suit the next size up.

Cousins

I'm [not so] patiently waiting for more pictures that I know my sister has, but the kids really enjoyed having their cousin Alayna around to play with the last two weeks. These are some pictures of the time they spent figuring out grandma's remote control school bus.

And then some pictures of the morning before Erc and Alayna got on the plane.  Getting all three of them too look and smile was impossible, but I got a few good ones.

And more pictures

All of the pictures of the Splash Pad can be found here and Swimming can be found here.

I know, you love me for not posting all 500 on the blog.

Those kiddos of mine

You probably saw the pictures that my fabulous father in law took while we were in Cali of the kids.  Want to see more?
The entire web album is up here.

Easton at 3 years and 8 months (give or take)

First, some pictures that haven't seemed to make it up here yet.

Silly glasses:

 Swimming outside with his Buzz goggles:

 Silly boy.

 Captain Hook!  I have no idea why this is upside down.  Darn you blogger!

 Spending some time at disneyjunior.com

 Being a ham.

 Easton loves hanging out with friends and some of his favorite buddies are Damian and Bianca.  Here we enjoyed a horse-drawn wagon ride at Super Day in Cheyenne.

 Easton's the only one looking at the camera...but he sure is cute!

 Daddy and Kendree enjoyed the ride as well.

Easton is at a very fun (and slightly frustrating) age.  I can reason with him on most things and he understand so much more than I think he will.  He loves to know what we are doing that day (and will ask multiple times during the day if he feels like the day hasn't been fun enough so far).  He says his prayers on his own and hates to be helped if he tells you he doesn't want any help.  Most times we assume that Heavenly Father knows that we are thankful for the food and would like it to be blessed even if only one of those items is actually said out loud.

He is a great little buddy and loves to help with chores (well, not every single time I ask him).  He is especially good at putting away the silverware and helping to fold clothes.  Cleaning up toys though?  Not his favorite at all.

While he continues to love playing with Toy Story and Cars toys, he doesn't request the movies much at all.  His taste for movies has moved to a different movie every day instead of stretches of the same movie over and over.  He also loves spending some time on disneyjunior.com and playing the wii.  He is great at Mariokart, Wii Sports, Mario and Sonic Olympics and Carnival Games and likes to play several other games with a little bit of assistance.

He takes about 2 naps a week (one always on the drive home from Laramie on Tuesdays and then another random day), but is starting to enjoy quiet time in his room on a daily basis as he finally realized it was mom approved "get away from Kendree" time.  We set the timer and he can only come out when it rings (I make sure he goes to the bathroom and takes water in with him so there are no other excuses).  We're not very good at execution on the weekends, but during the week he is great.

Easton loves church.  He loves his friends in Primary and in his Sunbeam class and while his interpretation of what they learned about it usually quite entertaining, he can't wait to go back every week.

He has had what I consider a breakthrough with swimming.  When we started lessons the beginning of July, he hated getting his face wet and had a lot of fear.  After a two week class here in Cheyenne and a one week class in California at grandma's house, he is quite the little fish.  He revels in going "all the way under" and getting his face wet (although he still comes up sputtering, he will readily do it again).  The rest of the sessions are full this summer, but I'll be putting him in a class this fall and through the winter so we can keep up that love.

He hasn't (knock on wood) gotten to the "why?" stage of things yet, but I'm anticipating it anytime. We love his energy around here...and love every day we get to spend with him.

Easton Cuts a Rug

Easton love to dance.  Loves it.

Recently, he does not love when I try to watch him dance, so these next two videos were taken yesterday on the sly.  I'll warn they are a little long, so feel free to stop watching whenev.

Easton and Step in Time (he loves this song forever-more).


Easton Break Dances

Easton Mows the Lawn

Easton loves to help daddy mow the lawn.  Usually he just follows right behind as Ronnie mows.  It is quite possibly the cutest thing ever.

And now a few videos of him in action:

Easton's Mater Teeth

Easton went to the store with daddy and came home with a Mater (from Cars) teeth sucker.  He loved that thing for two whole days until daddy threw it in the garbage (I still don't really understand what Ronnie was thinking when he did that).

Easton's favorite thing to do was to put the teeth in and then ask me to take a picture so he could look at it. I have about 20 of these on my camera.  Here are the best two:

Easter Videos-lots of them!

A little catch up on Easton

A month ago, we went with some friends to the children's section of the Wyoming State Museum. 

Somehow, Easton ended up as the pillow for two girls on the cot.

 And he continued to stay there...

 And stay there.  At least we knew where they all were!

 This is where Easton prefers to watch television....

And this is the face he gives when mama makes him move back.  Life is hard.

Oh yeah, and Kendree has a brother too...

Hanging out on the floor during the FREEZING cold days we had a few weeks ago.

 Wearing Kendree's tunnel

 A picture of the potty training prizes...these worked wonders!

 Eating a Popsicle, watching a movie on the ipod and going potty.  Multi-tasker.

 Pulling silly faces when we were out to eat in Denver a month ago.

 Cheesing on the couch (Note the beloved container of cars...the thing goes EVERYWHERE with him throughout the house.  Mama has a not in the car rule).

Recent Videos

Kendree having ice cream for the first time:




Easton naming all of his cars (sorry for the sideway-ness of it all)


Easton eats a lemon. He begged for it. Literally begged for it.

January Videos

Easton singing Ring Around the Rosies



Kendree in her crib, with Easton trying to be the star (what else is new)

Christmas Videos

Easton sledding times two:





Super Easton!


Kendree the crawler:

The Christmas Report

We drove over to Grandma and Grandpa's house on Christmas Eve morning so that Ronnie could go hunting one last time [he didn't see anything]. 

While the boys were gone, Aunt Sarah, Mama and Easton made a gingerbread house.  Easton loved the idea, but lost interest pretty quickly.  Here he is with the finished product.

After the big boys got back from the ranch, Uncle Jord-man and Daddy built a mini sledding hill for Easton.  To say that he loved it would be a massive understatement.

When Easton needed to come inside from sledding, we acted out the nativity. I only remembered to take a picture after it was all over so here is Easton and Aunt Sarah with his shepherd costume (crook to the side) and Sarah's angel halo.

Next, we ate dinner by candlelight.  Easton could not figure out why we had candles lit that we weren't going to blow out right away, but he got used to the idea.  After dinner, both Easton and Kendree opened a present.  I chose to have them open the gifts that they gave each other. 

Here, Easton is opening Kendree's fabric jingle ball.

 And Kendree taking a look at Uncle Adam before chasing after her ball again.

Then, Easton got to open up his gift.  Mama had made him a Super-Easton cape, which he loved!

After a few songs on the chimes, we got the kids into their pajamas and headed back to Cheyenne.  As expected, both kids conked on the way home.  Luckily, mom and dad remembered to set out milk and cookies for Santa.

The next morning, Easton woke up around 7:00 a.m. but he still didn't really "get" Santa this year, and we had to do some coaxing to get him to go downstairs.  [he was content watching cartoons in mom and dad's room].  However, the crumbs on the plate and milk residue left from Santa were VERY exciting for him.

Easton loved everything that he received and insisted on taking things out of the packaging before moving onto the next gift.  Unfortunately, Ronnie was running the video camera for most of the morning and since that made me chief helper, I neglected to take a single picture.  Shame on me!  After presents, we got ready and headed back over to Grandma and Grandpa's where more presents were waiting.

Easton had the drill totally down by this point.

 While Kendree was content as long as we gave her some wrapping paper to play with.

 And Easton was thrilled with his Lightening McQueen slippers.

Grandma and Grandpa Cali gave both kids their Christmas outfits this year.  You can see Easton's in the above picture and here's Kendree in her Christmas outfit (she's a little annoyed with the headband, obviously).

Ronnie and Easton got matching ties and here they are before church.

We had a great Christmas and the kids were spoiled, as per usual.  Now begins the monumental task of the toy clean-out/rearrange to fit the new stuff!