Communication...

So I titled this blog communication because that is what I have been reflecting on here at our house. Heaven knows Dave and I are always working on ours...and we are loving interacting with Katelee as she is learning words. She has the cutest "uh-oh" exclamation I have ever heard! Grant on the other hand is tuning his skill of communicating through prayer. It is so sweet and fun to have him say prayers for us. They usually are lists of what the happenings were for the day. Here is a good example of one: "....we went to Costco...Katelee screams all the time...mommy did not exercise...Katelee screams all the time." That was Grant's prayer yesterday. Now the day before he asks for blessings to get feeling better (he had been sick) and a new petition I had yet to be a witness for. It went something like this, "...bless Jesus not to be bored." How thoughtful. The funny thing is, when I was little my mom told me I used to include in my prayers, "I hope you are having fun up there without me." So, Grant must be like me, just wanting to make sure everyone is enjoying themselves! Although I am pretty sure everyone on the other side is staying busy!! Here are some photos of Dave and Grant when they went to see David Beckham....I mean, they went to watch the Real Salt Lake game!

What's Your Number?

This may sound like a familiar query to anyone who has recently spoken with Grant. He loves to ask everyone for their number - especially girls! Occasionally, he carries around a little notebook where he "writes" the numbers down. He asked my friend what her number was, she told him, then she asked him why he wanted it. He simply replied, " So I can call you sometime." What a ladies man!

Who wouldn't want her number?!!! Nice hair!!!

While Grant has been tracking down girls' numbers....I have been chasing down 10 year old hoodlums.

Brief summary: As I was relaxing during my kids' nap time, I heard multiple thuds. After investigating, I noticed some girls above my house tossing grapefruit size rocks at our little abode! I opened my glass door and told them to stop throwing rocks, they were hitting my wall. One of these little gals quickly snapped, "You know, we are just going to ignore you." Oooh, that made me mad. Good thing my kids were asleep, I ran out my door... down my street, up the other street and found those little hooligans. I told them to take me to their mothers, to which they refused...so I threatened calling the police, knocking on every door until they took me to their parental figures. Did they cooperate? NO! The little trouble makers tried to make a run for it. I chased them to their house and had a little chat with the mother there. My apology from the one girl went something like this, "Sorry dude." Little rascals. But, no shattered windows, no broken bones, I am just glad I have been exercising and able to keep up with those little runners!!

On a more pleasant note, I planted my first garden ever! We put two tomato plants in the backyard and I was planning on doing green beans. My trusty gardening partner, Grant, was way ahead of me. As I was placing the tomatoes in the ground, Grant the green thumb had already strewn the green bean seeds all over the place. So, who knows where they may sprout! Good luck to us!

come what?... MAY!

One thing I do not usually expect to do on May 1st, is scrape ice off my car, but that is what I was doing at seven this morning! Grant had been messing with my alarm clock, and it was magically set twenty minutes into the future, but hey, it helped me have time to scrape and be off to workout in the time I needed to go! April came and went in a flurry and we have just been plugging along. Lets just do a quick recap of a couple April happenings....Katelee fell down our complete set of stairs, scared me to death, but she got up and shook it off. Grant, who many of you may recall, is still obsessed with garbage, the garbage truck, garbage cans, and all things related to trash. He had my camera for a few minutes the other day and this is what he took a picture of:

Yes, the garbage cans outside our window!! I let him toss our newspaper away and the other day I was putting Katelee in her car seat, while Grant was busily throwing the paper in the recycle bin. When I called to him to get in our car...he was nowhere to be found...again I called his name. This time, I see the lid to the recycle bin slowly open and two little eyes peering out at me. Grant told me that he got in the bin so that the garbage man could take him. After a probably overly descriptive explanation of what would happen to him and the newspaper when they were thrown into the truck, he got out!

We got to visit with Grandpa and Grandma McArthur at the beginning of the month and Grant still says he "misses his Carfurs." It is always fun to see them! We took Katelee to get her pictures taken, see below:
Such a cutie! I catch myself looking at my kids and thinking how blessed I am with these two munchkins. Grant stares off all the time when we are at the dinner table and the other day I asked him what he was thinking about because it was one of those weird stares where someone is looking at you, but not responsive. He simply replied, "I just looking at you mom, cuz I love you." So, good thing the feeling is mutual.