picnic at the park

Today we wanted to meet up at the park and have dinner and build sandcastles. Katie had a coupon to Noodles and when she got done with work she went and got us some yummy food. Conrad and I had been hanging out watching his new favorite movie Hercules. When we got the call from Kate we jumped on the scooter and took off. I was having some trouble keeping the basket of sandcastle stuff on the front of the scooter but Conrad helped me out by grabbing the basket with one hand and holding the handle bars with the other. I don't know why Katie and I like to make sandcastles so much but I enjoy it a lot. It is just really nice to hang out with her with nothing to do. We had a nice picnic dinner and we went down the slide with Conrad and just goofed off and had a good time! I love my little family!

Rans

blue or brown cereal

This week I have been helping my mom get some projects done for a scrapbook show at the end of the month so poor Conrad was demoted to eating on the floor because I had the table covered with new Pebbles Inc. product. I got 10 projects done in 3 days and it feels great to be done and the mess out of the house!

When Conrad is hungry he comes up to me and says, "I eat." Lately he has been on a cereal kick, asking for at least 5 bowls a day (luckily I can bribe him to eat strawberries if he wants more cereal for some nutrition!). The only cereal he will eat is Frosted Flakes so we buy the big malt o meal bags. This last time we got chocolate (brown packaging) and regular (blue packaging) frosted flakes so he will ask for blue or brown cereal. It's nice that he is starting to talk more because it is getting easier to figure out what he wants! -Katie

"play"

When Conrad says "play" it means he wants to play aggravation. You just have to watch him carefully so he doesn't start throwing the marbles. I love playing this game with him (not only because it reminds me of my Grandpa Ted) because he tells me what color I am and what color he is and it changes in a matter of seconds! It seems like he learned most of the colors overnight. He struggles with a few, but he is getting better. It's fun because everywhere we go he is pointing out colors. -Katie

bath time

Conrad LOVES bath time, especially when he gets a bubble bath. Sometimes he will ask for 2 or 3 baths a day. My family bought the Disney characters for Conrad at Disneyland when they went a couple years ago and he is now starting to call them by name. As soon as I put him in the bath he asks for them by name. It's my favorite when he says "Goofy". Tonight the bath was a much needed distraction from his diaper rash. -Katie

balloon chasers

This morning we were going to get up early and watch the hot air balloons take off, but like usual we stayed up way too late and could not get up on time. Conrad got me up and I let Katie sleep. Me and Conrad saw some balloons pretty close out the window and he was so excited. So I grabbed him and we took off on the scooter and started to chase them. There was one not too far from the house and we got right under it and Conrad was shouting "Hello!" at the people in it. Soon we spotted another and then another and they were getting farther and farther away from the house. I had no shoes and Conrad had no pants so I am sure we looked crazy. Finally we made a big loop and ended up by the house again. There was one super close to the house and it started to land in the grass by the church. Conrad and I went and got Katie and told her to come look and then we took off and watched them land. Conrad was right next to the basket looking straight up into the balloon and the guy turned the burner on and he took off screaming across the grass! But it was really fun Balloon Chasing with Conrad on the scooter! After the balloon chasing we had a special breakfast, it was delicious as you can see.

Grandpa and Grandma's house was really fun. A lot of cousins came and there was a lot of food. I even grilled the burgers and brats. Then we all jumped in the pool and the kids lined up to have me throw them. Katie was busy playing card games and talking and Conrad floated around being his crazy self. After I got out I played cards with every one and Jill showed us a really fun game. Then we played wiffle ball. As things were winding down Josh and I thought that things were too quiet so we threw Ashlee in the pool. Then Brenda wanted to get Lindsey so I went and helped her, and then we pushed Brenda in right after her! It was pretty fun and everyone else was careful around us. The 4th of July with family and food is always the best (especially Grandpa's homemade ice cream! Can't get enough of it!)

Rans

broken promises

So I got talked into doing this cleanse by Brenda, where I didn't eat a dang thing for 10 days! All I could have was this drink with fresh lemon juice, maple syrup, and cayenne pepper. I was told that if I was to do this that I would have a 2 pound mucus poop in a few days. That sounded pretty interesting. There is always a little book with these things, and the book said that the first three days would be the hardest. I breezed through the first three days so I was thinking to myself that this would be a piece of cake, then it got really bad and I would dream of food and my taste buds longed for some real flavor! Day 6 and still no mucus poop. But I had gotten that far and maybe it would come soon on day 7 I was sneaky and grabbed a piece of Emily's chicken. "i'll just chew it up and spit it out, it won't count" when I put the chicken in my mouth and began to chew the only way I can describe it was that I had a brain orgasm. My mind thought it was over! But then I spit it out and the bliss along with the chicken, went into the trash! Finally the ten days passed. We were supposed to get our bodies ready for food again by drinking orange juice all day the 11th day. It was heavenly to have that juice! But by noon we all just said to heck with it and pigged out big time. Brenda went down hard and was sure that we were all going to follow but we held strong. I will never give up food for that long again, unless there was none in which case I would just die.

thanks a lot Master Cleanser! No mucus poo!

Rans