The Holbrook Family

Friday, October 31, 2008

Gardner Village

From the look of this picture it doesn't seem like we had very much fun at Gardner Village, but I promise we did! When we first got there I wanted to just take a picture and get it over with, but I think picture taking was too fresh on their minds from the night before. ( Paige took their pictures for me. ) Towards the end they warmed up a little. We had a fun time, Charlie really enjoyed the witches. Next time I go I'm going without my kids so I can do some shopping. I did get a couple Halloween decorations at half off though. Thanks Paige, Amy, and Jayme for the company, this is an official tradition now!

Charlie really liked this witch, he stared at it quite a bit.

Three little monkeys-Dylan, Hayden, and Charlie.

Charlie said "Look mom, I'm a sloth hanging upside down from the tree." I believe he learned this one from "Big Big World." Maybe TV's not so bad after all. :)

Charlie and Hayden, I don't know if their dad's would be too proud of this one but their mom's think it's cute!

Here's my little cutie pill, that's right pill not pie! She wore me out! Or maybe that was Charlie it's a bit of a blur now. ;)

Doctor's, Doctor's, Doctor's!

This has become a pattern in our house, going to the Dr.'s office! Let's just start out with the most recent incident, Charlie swallowed a bolt! We were walking to the car from the dentist (next story) when he apparently picked it up off the road and hid it in his shirt as I put him in the car. As we were driving he started talking to me and the said, "I just swallowed a nail!" I said "What! why would you put a nail in your mouth! How big was it, where did you get it!" He told me he got it off the road and said it was "just little." Well I started crying, (I was on edge from the dentist) then HE started crying, "It hurts! It hurts!" "Where does it hurt?!" He points to his chest "right here!" I was freaking out a bit, thinking if he really did swallow a nail how are they going to get it out and is it going to tear something? We got home and I showed him a couple nails asking if they looked like what he swallowed, he pointed to the small 1/2 inch nail and said that was it. So I called Cami the nurse and we came to the conclusion that we better take him to the ER. So Mark took him to Davis Hospital, luckily we had already met our deductible this year so we didn't have to worry about that. Mark gets home an hour later and says "It wasn't a nail, it was a bolt!" Sure enough he swallowed a bolt and the Doctor said it should pass so now we get to dig through his poop to make sure it comes out! The doctor gave us the x-ray so above is an actual xray of his stomach. So glad he's ok and It wasn't anything sharp but what almost 4 year old swallows a bolt? Well mine does. :) A couple weeks ago he was riding his little spider man push car that's Kenya's size and I'm constantly telling him he's too big for it and not to ride it when he flipped over the front and banged his mouth on the cement. It was bleeding but that was it. About a week ago Mark noticed that his tooth started turning brown and I realized that it must be from his fall. So I called a new pediatric dentist, made sure they took our plan and went to his appointment only to find out after a 20 minute wait and paperwork that they don't take our plan so I walked across the street to our usual dentist very annoyed and made an appointment. It was after this that the swallowing of the bolt happened. At his later appointment we were told he needs a baby root canal to clean out his dead tooth and he'll now have a pretty discolored tooth until it falls out. And can you handle one more doctor story? I'm sure you've all stopped reading by now but I'll keep going. Last week Mark was trying to get him to get up so we could go on a bike ride before it got dark. He tugged him by his arm to get him to get up because he wasn't minding. Well Charlie has a very loose elbow I guess (He must get this from me, I'm now convinced that this is what happened to me as a kid and it never got fixed,) and Charlie screams "You broke my arm again!!" Through his tears "You broke my arm just like last year at our old church!" Yes this did happen at church as Charlie was trying to crawl under the benches Mark grabbed his arm to pull him back and he yelled during church "You broke my arm!" It's actually called Nursemaid elbow and it happens all the time to young kids. We had to take him to the insta care and get it put back in place. Whew! Three doctors in 2 weeks, that's a new record. Love ya bud but please be more careful and mind your parents! :)

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Pack's Pumpkin Patch

We went to the Pumpkin Patch last week on a Monday night, as lot's of others have learned it's not a good night to go, it was very crowded! We road our bikes out to Pack's Pumpkin Patch since it's not far from our house which was fun but by the time we got there it was getting dark and so crowded so we didn't get to spend much time there and we didn't search too hard for our pumpkins which I'm regretting now and I've just realized that we haven't even carved them! Maybe we'll have to skip that event this year, we've been so busy every night! I love the fall and feel like every year there's so many things I want to do before the weather turns and the leaves fall and Halloween arrives! I love it though, It is my favorite season and I'm glad it's been such beautiful weather! After Pack's we went back home and enjoyed some pumpkin chocolate chip cookies with Paige and Russ while our kids ran wild. It was a fun night!

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

I've got my posts backwards soo, if you want to scroll down first to Catch Up and read up from there it will be in order! :)

We Love Grandpa!

Thanks dad for letting us invade your bachelor pad for the past 6 months! As I have come back to his house since our move I've realized what a mess we were in his house! Thank you for putting up with the mess, the screaming, crying, yelling, early wakings, time-outs, neighbor calling, couch ruining, dish breaking days! What a great dad I have, my kids miss seeing their grandpa!

Kenya always wanted my dad to hold her, she had him wrapped around her finger already!

Kenya helping or hindering my packing. :)

Charlie being Charlie and Kenya being Kenya.

Bear Lake

In the midst of all our packing Itransact (Mark's place of employment along with every other sibling or spouse in my family's place of employment,) decided to have a little retreat over nighter up in Bear Lake. Unfortunately it snowed but that didn't stop us from riding the rhinos for a bit. We played rock band the night before and my trio got first and last place! :) What can I say, my inner singer came out, I just got to sing by default my drum skills are non existent and my guitar skills need practice before playing. :)

Mark, Rich (brother in law), and Dan rocking out.

We're In!

We are all moved in and loving it! I am so grateful to my dad for letting us live with him for so long but it is so great to have our own house again! I know he's thinking the same thing too. Here are some pictures, still a lot of decorating to do, give me 5 more years! :) I don't have a picture of the outside because they still haven't put up the wood beam and arch that go on the front porch so I'll wait for that before I take a pic of it.

Charlie's room, yes his mattress is STILL on the floor! It's only been a year and a half! I have decided to give up on trying to decide what kind/color/size of bed to get him until we have another baby, that will help me determine if I will need bunk beds or not so until then we'll have to put it on a frame, why I didn't think of that forever ago, I dunno.

The office. I need to paint that desk black still, who has the time and energy? We all know where my last painting ambition landed, maybe I'll call Jose again for this job...

Kenya's room, I know my kids' rooms don't look too different from their last ones but I wanted them to feel at home, plus I was fresh out of new ideas. I had to think about too many other decisions at the time.

Great room. What can I say, it is great.

And the kitchen/dining area. Now if only I could figure out how to keep my floors clean for more than a day! Really, if anyone has any advice on how they clean hard wood I would love to hear it. I've been using the swiffer jet mop thingy which I've always used but now it takes forever and I went through a bottle of the cleaning solution in a week and a half! I need another easy solution...

The World Through Kids Eyes

August 2013

Leila has officially stopped saying "I wanna hold you" :( She would always say that to us and I have never corrected her but I guess she figured it out for herself because tonight she said "hold me". She's growing up too fast!

November 2011
I told Kenya tonight that I was glad Heavenly Father sent her to me. She said "Why did Heavenly Father send me to you?" I said "well we were all a family before we came to earth, in heaven." She said "Mom, how did you get up in the sky?" "I don't know." I said. "Did Santa give you a ride?" Followed with giggles by both of us.

November 2010
Today I was telling Mark about how angry I got at Kenya for coloring on the table for like the millionth time. She heard me talking about it and said "You're not a nice mom, you're like the BEAST! I'm gonna put you in da gawbage and get a new mommy!" Then later Mark asked her when he was reading her a bedtime story "Kenya, am I the King?" She said "No, you're the debil (devil)." Charlie was drawing a picture of our family for school and drew me with my mouth open he said "Look mom, you're yelling." I don't think we're leaving the right kind of impression on our kids here.

July2010
Today Kenya came up to Mark and said "Daddy I have to tell you something." She then made him bend down so she could whisper in his ear "You're the best dad in the whole wide world." He thought maybe I told her to say that but she came up with it all on her own. She then did the same thing to me. I love hearing that little whisper in my ear.

June 2010
Kenya randomly makes comments on the baby in my belly, it usually goes something like this. "I like your big belly mom" then "I like your baby Leila." Then it's followed by "I have a big belly too." Tonight that was followed by "It's hooge."

March 2010
When Kenya is demanding something I will tell her she needs to ask nicely. She then yells at me "NICELY!" Not quite what I was meaning.
If you say something like "How are you doing?" She'll say "Kenya" instead of good, or bad, or sad, or happy. Kinda cute.
She's really starting to put her sentences together and express herself a lot better. It's fun to have conversations with her.

March 2010
At dinner we were discussing how babies just drink when they're newborns and don't eat food. We asked Charlie if he knew what they drank and he said "yes, milk from your..." he paused for a few seconds and we were anticipating what was going to come out, then he said "from your belly!" What innocence.
February 2010-
Kenya has been saying some cute things lately most mornings she comes into our bed and snuggles in right in the middle of us. This morning she snuggled up next to Mark, put her hand on his cheek and said "daddy you're my sweetie girl." We had to laugh. Last night we were in the car, Mark was on the phone and Charlie was being really loud so he turned around and grabbed his leg to get him to be quiet. Charlie started crying and Kenya got really mad "don't hurt my sista! You otay Charlay?" We explained it was her brother and she said it all over again, this time with brother. She's been calling a lot of people her sister lately, she's a bit confused.
I made chocolate football cake bites for the superbowl and whenever she finishes her food she says "I want a hapball!" The first couple times I didn't know what she was saying until she ran over to them and pointed, now we know that hapball is football.

July 2009-
Charlie was asking me if his dreams would come true (I thought he was referring to bad dreams because he's been so scared of having bad dreams lately thanks to watching "Thriller") I told him they wouldn't come true and he kept asking me about it. Finally he said "Well daddy's dream came true when you were his wife!" Awww, thanks bud!

June 2009-
Yesterday Charlie randomly said to me "You know mom Jesus is sad when you're mean to me." I guess what goes around comes around. He also told me as we were reading "Little Red Cap" (the real Little Red Riding Hood story) "She shouldn't have lied to her mom" he said. I said "No she should've minded her mom and not gone off the path." He said "well sometimes I lie to you." At least he's honest, well sometimes. :)
May 2009-
Kenya loves the park. Every time we drive by one she freaks out "side, side! Mama side mease, meeease!" (slide please) she says "mease" all the time, it kills me! So cute. She also loves to say "go way!" Every time she's mad at someone or we're trying to get her to do something she doesn't want to its "go way!"

February 2009-Charlie said a prayer the other day that went like this "Grateful we could go to Disneyland, grateful for Halloween, grateful for Christmas, in the name..." That was it! Kind of funny.

December 2008-Last night when Mark was putting Charlie to bed Charlie said "Dad, I think Jaxon isn't choosing the right." Mark said "Yeah, how come? " Charlie said "Because he likes BYU and that's not choosing the right." Mark was pretty proud.

December 2008-

Charlie had a Christmas pajama party at preschool. He got a gift from his teachers. He opened it up and it was a blanket they had made for him, "Wow, a blanket!" I said. Charlie said "It's beautiful!" Then a bit later he was doing a puzzle while I was on the computer and out of nowhere he just says "Merry Christmas mom." He can be so sweet.

November 2008- With Christmas right around the corner and his birthday a couple weeks ago Charlie wants everything he sees on TV. He'll be upstairs watching TV and you'll just hear him say "How 'bout that!" And if it's a girl toy it's "How 'bout that for Kenya!" I don't know why it's "how 'bout that" but it puts a smile on my face every time he says it. It's too cute.

I love how honest Charlie is. The other day he went to the bathroom and when he came out I said "wash your hands" as he came out he got distracted for a minute and then said "Oh yeah, I got poop on my finger." And went to the bathroom. The same day he told me that while he was playing outside with his friend Brady he peed in our dirt, just randomly told me later that afternoon with a guilty look on his face. I was surprised because he hates peeing outside!

I took Charlie to Target to pick out a Halloween costume. I thought he would pick one out immediately and probably choose spider man or batman, well he wasn't really jumping on anything he saw, until he saw a transformer costume he said "I want to be a transformer!" I said "Ok do you want to be Bumble Bee?" "No, I want to be Octopus Prime!" I think it's so cute to hear him say it I haven't told him it's Optimus Prime.

One morning while we were getting ready for church Charlie in his best little sick voice says to me "Mom, (cough cough) I can't go to church, I'm sick (cough cough) see I have a cough.! Isn't he a little young to be doing that?

Last night I was kneeling down by Charlie as he said his prayers. This is what he said- "...Grateful I could go to preschool, grateful for daddy and Kenya," then he reached out and stroked my hair, "and grateful for mommy's hair." He was so happy yesterday when I came home from work and my hair was done and not in a pony tail anymore.

Charlie's Aunt Kristen asked him one day "Charlie what did you do today?" He said " I played with Samara." She said "Oh, is that your friend?" "No!" He said, " she's my husband!"

Mark sold his car and Charlie was with us as we dropped it off to the new owner. Charlie said "Dad, where is your car going?" Mark said " I sold it, it's going bye bye." Charlie said "All our of our stuff going bye bye?" I hope we're not traumatizing him! :)

Charlie has been learning about the Holy Ghost and he seems a bit confused at the concept. Today out of the blue he asked me "Mom, where is the Holy Ghost?" I tried to explain to him that he's a spirit and he can bring good feelings to you etc.. Then he said "Oh, can I touch his blanket?" (This is what a ghost is to him, somebody with a blanket over them.) So then I explained that he's not a real ghost he's a spirit and he doesn't have a body etc. Then he said "Yeah, but he almost has a body, and when I pull off it's blanket is the Holy Ghost a girl or a boy?" Let's just say he's still confused. :)

We went to Discovery Gateway today and as we were walking in there was a little person standing by the entrance. Charlie looks at me and says "Mom, that was a wittle mom." I thought that was pretty politically correct. :)

Today at church Charlie was playing with some cards on the bench during sacrament when I looked over at him he seemed to be pondering something and said to me "mom, am I going to get baptized?" I said "Yes, when you're 8 you can get baptized." "But I want to get baptized now!" (The lady sitting in front of us turns around and whispers "precious." :)) I told him again he could when he's eight. Then he said "Can daddy help me get baptized?" I guess he is learning something in primary and FHE!

Almost every morning I have a battle with Charlie on what he's going to wear. At least the mornings when I care what he wears and want him to look decent. Last night he got to pick out a movie to rent, he chose a Buzz Lightyear one (this is his latest obsession.) This morning I brought out some clothes and he saw them and said "No, not that shirt! That shirt won't make me Buzz Lightyear!" I said "Oh, what shirt will?" "Come here, I'll show you." And he took me into his room and insisted that he wear a white baseball T with green sleeves. This is the closest shirt he has that resembles Buzz Lightyear's costume. Pretty creative kid.

Charlie is in sunbeams now but we've been watching Cami's kids this weekend at her house so he went to nursery today with his cousin Luke. When we got home I asked him what he learned in nursery. He said "nothing." I said "didn't you have a lesson, you must have learned something." Very adamantly he responded "No we don't learn anything in nursery, we just have snacks!" No wonder why he loves it! :)

Cami has a piano in her house and yesterday towards the end of Charlie's nap Luke started softly touching the keys. Charlie woke up and came out of the bedroom with his hands out to the side palms facing up and said in a sweet surprised voice "I wake up and heard the piano singing." Mark and I thought it was too funny.

Those of you who have been around us probably know that Charlie hates my hair in a pony tail. I have no idea where this came from but for about a year he has been like this. It's getting better but at first he would throw a huge fit and say "Don't cutta your hair!" Then I explained to him it was a pony tail so it became "Take out your ponytail!" And he would grab my hair and try and get the elastic out. He's made progress over the past year, it went from forbidding it to throwing a fit but on occasion after I explained to him I was going to the gym or didn't have time to do my hair a few times a day I could make it through the day. Now He doesn't immediately respond to it when he sees it but at some point through out the day he'll comment on it. The other day he was going down for his nap and he said "Mom when I wake up will you take your ponytail out?" I can't believe a three year old boy could care so much about a ponytail! So much for short hair, he probably wouldn't speak to me for weeks! :)

After we sold our house we moved into my dad's. Charlie loves being around his grandpa and the other day he was sitting on the potty and I said "Charlie, do you need help?" and he said "no, I want grandpa to wipe me!" I said "no, grandpa doesn't wipe you, just mommy." So a couple days later he says to grandpa "Grandpa, are you a boy or a girl?" Grandpa said "I'm a boy." Charlie said "if you're a boy then you can wipe me!" Don't know how he decided that one but I guess he's got it all figured out!

Kenya has been sick the past day and tonight at dinner Charlie said "why isn't Kenya eating?" I said "Because she's sick." He said "Oh, does she have a snotty nose?" I said "No, she has a tummy ache." "Oh, did she eat an egg?" "No, I said ache, not egg, it means her tummy hurts." In classic Charlie response to everything "Oh." :)