On the way home from school today Sam was walking with his 3 rd grader friend who was giving him a lesson on precipitation. At the end of the lecture Sam defiantly said, "That's not true, Heavenly Father and Jesus send down the rain." I love the faith of a child.
Sam does not like veggies. He has a 6th sense for knowing if there is a veggie in food. He detests green veggies the most. We have finally gotten him to eat the "leaves" off of broccoli. Silly boy.
These are the kids silliest face that they could make. Hannah couldn't sit still long enough for me to take a clear one.
At the end of May I was at a conference on swallowing for work. We talked about blended formulas for kids with gtubes and how some high speed blender companies will donate a blender to families with special needs. I figured it never hurts to ask so I set an email to Vitamix to see if they would consider donating one to me because I work with families with special needs. A couple of days later I got a response that they would and a couple of weeks later I recieved this beauty in the mail. Horray for Vitamix!!
Hannah loves to play in the bathroom, or more accurately Hannah loves to get into trouble in the bathroom. She came out with blue paste plastered to her head. At first I thought toothpaste but no it was heavy-duty hair gel drying like a helmet. Oh Holy Hannah.
We bought a family membership tongue science center this year. The kids were a bit unsure about it I think. Sam was a little freaked out about the section about the body and Brodi was unsure of the bike that you can ride on a cable. They did all have a great time at the water exhibit.
The superising thing to me about living in the hot desert if Arizona is that we really can grow things here and it is a very agricultural place, but we just grow things at different times than otheer places. The girls and I went Agritopia Farms to pick peaches at their orchard. I think they were pretty impressed to see where peaches actually come from. When we git home I asked Hannah if she wanted some peach and she headed straight to the refridgerator to look for the canned peaches :) Since we were off to a farm I didn't reduce Hannah's hair.
Today we had both Brodi graduate from preschool and Sam graduate from Kindergarten. Both of their programs were so cute. Sam got a good citizen award from his school because he did not have even a warning from his teacher the entire year. He has come a long way with performing for programs. With his preschool programs with Ms. Janelle he would never even sing, now he is up there performing with all the kids.
Brodi's class this year in preschool has given Aunt Tiff a run for her money with behaviors and their personalities showed throughout the performance. It was rather cute because one of the little boys gave one of the girls a hug when she started crying because she froze during her line and things like that. Brodi had 2 of the little trouble makers sitting right next to her and kudos to her she sang every song so loud and realy tried to behave despite the caos going on next to her. We were really proud of both Sam and Brodi tonight.
This is one of the first years that the kids were able to make mother's day cards and gifts. I will have to say that Brodi does get a failing grade on her accuracy of how well she knows me :) Feeling so loved :)
Hannah has followed Brodi's tendency to change multiple times a day, however she hasn't quite figured out how cloths work and will wear a shirt like pants. Whenever she does put on one of these fine outfits she will always remove her pull up as well. Brodi of course totally encourages this. The 2 of them have been playing really well lately. It is very fun to see but now I have double trouble as neither girl seems to have any inhabitants.
With turning 2, Hannah has decided that she is done riding in carts. She will flat out refuse and I will be darned if I can get her into the basket on the cart. Thus she is learning to walk with the cart. The down side of it is that she is not very good at staying with the cart as of yet. Most of the shopping is herding her around the store as her 2 year old curiosity feels the need to look at everything. Oh the joys of a 2 year old.
I recently went dairy and gluten free, since then I have been eating increasingly more healthy. I started a 21 day cleanse a week ago and have been drinking protein shakes for most of my breakfasts and dinners. This evening the kids begged me to make a smoothie for them. I told them about the berries, pineapple, and peaches, but neglected to tell them about the spinach, seaweed, and cucumber. The kids thanked me profusely as they devoured it. And now I have a new way to have the kids eat vegetables. I feel so devious.
While BJ and Sam went to Father's and sons, the girls and I went to a little carnival that BJ's dad invited us to. The big hit was the face painting. The girls sat in line for over an hour to get their painting. Brodi got a snake and Hannah got a butterfly. We also got to hang out with Ty anfand Tiff's girls.
