Ears

WARNING: this post contains baby Bear ears

Rivalry Week

To whet your appetites for the football game this weekend, here is a great "insider" look at the BYU-Utah game of 2006, as described by John Beck himself. It almost made me cry. (The video clip does make me cry.)

Both are from Quinn Gooch's excellent blog (which I read daily and is my favorite source of BYU football commentary)

http://deepshadesofblue.com/john-becks-account-of-the-final-2006-drive/#comment-2842

More-ing

I thought I should show you how cute Malachi is when he's signing "more." (Sometimes he tries to do it while still sucking on his fingers, see above)

He seems very pleased with himself, especially when his "more-ing" gets results (another bite--yum!).

Our special Sebby

We all had a good time on our trip. But we all enjoyed ourselves in our own unique ways. In Sebby's case, it was in mostly the ways he always enjoys himself:

1. Finding sprinklers

2. Singing and stomping

3. Making windmills/washer-and-dryers/carwashes with his arms. "The arms are going soooo fast! Yike this! Wumpa-wumpa-wumpa-wumpa-wumpa!"

Beach

Saturday we went to the beach (and listened to the BYU game on the radio). It was unseasonably warm, even for California, so we actually played in the water without freezing to death. We had a great time there. Philip and Allison had borrowed some boogie boards, so we had fun on those (Abey dragged his around by its string and pretended it was the Pirate ride at Disneyland [which we had gone on 5 times the day before--it was our favorite]). We also had a very sandy picnic (how does one keep one's food from becoming covered with sand? We found it impossible---not that that stopped us from eating it).

If you would like to see Seb's sandy face, click to enlarge.

Here is Philip looking pleased with himself after saving Ky's life (Ky was starting to eat a sand-covered grape, and everyone else just stood around heartlessly and laughed at him. Luckily Philip leaped to his rescue.)

Ky was very interested in the sand. He learned not to eat it after a while. Sort of.

It was a long, perfect day. We loved it!!

Disneyland

We're back from our quick trip to California, where we stayed with my brother Philip and his wife Allison. Here are some pictures from our time at Disneyland:

Lovely weather---we were so lucky!

Everyone liked the teacups (even Ky) and seemed to be just as happy with acting like we were spinning fast ("Wheeee! Woohoo! Wow, we're going so fast!") as actually spinning fast. I think we rode on these 5 or 6 times. (The lines were all so short; it was great.)

Rockets---Abe was the one that worked the controls (he wanted me to write that)

Who is this monkey? Sam took this picture and I don't know. Is it a monkey from the Jungle Book?

the Carousel---another ride we went on multiple times

Ky enjoyed himself in spite of spending a lot of time in the stroller

I didn't remember what Disneyland looks like at night. It was really pretty:

They cancelled the fireworks because of "winds at higher elevations," so we were sad about that. But we loved being there at night anyway.

THE END

Monkeyky

Some more Halloween pictures of Malachi. These don't show how much he bit his tail. Every time he could find it, he bit it, until it was soaked all the way through. Yum!

Halloween Costumes 2008

We had a Halloween Parade for Playgroup a couple days before Halloween, so we went outside and took lots of pictures afterwards. I was glad, because Halloween turned out to be a much grayer day. Although it was still really nice---we went trick or treating with no coats or anything, which is pretty rare, I think. The boys had a good time, and even remembered to say "trick or treat" AND "thank you" at most doors (progress from last year). One thing that makes me sad when we go trick or treating is how often the boys pick the yuckiest candy from the candy basket. Lots of people had great candy . . . caramels! whole candy bars! . . . and the boys would choose a tootsie pop or something instead. But, I guess as long as it makes them happy . . .
Anyway, the pictures turned out cute in spite of lots of ear-pulling and tail-pulling by various parties (see above)

My mom made their costumes (except Malachi's, which was one we got from eBay for Sebby a couple years ago). Abe was a cute bunny.

Sebby was a nice monkey.

Malachi just wanted to crawl around and eat things and try to grab his tail, rather than keep having his picture taken.
Sebby wanted to take some pictures too (I saw that he was pointing the camera in totally the wrong direction, so I had to quickly try and fall into the frame)

(what is Malachi pointing at?)

(Apparantly I was being really funny in my attempts to make Sebby smile)

Three very toothy animals. Happy Halloween!