Jeremy – Page 12 – Andelin Adventures

“I Want to Ride My Bicycle”

BICYCLE! BICYCLE! BICYCLE! I want to ride my bicycle! 😉

We opened up the garage on Saturday and dusted off the bikes and pumped up the tires, and the kids rode up and down the street, over and over and over….. So tonight Kyle decided to take the kids over to the school so they can ride around on the pavement at their own paces. Jeremy and Dinah are very slow, but we are SO excited that they both learned to pedal on Saturday. And Ethan and Tyra, having had much more practice can go much faster than the little ones. So Kyle figured the school yard would be the perfect place to go so they could all ride around as much as they wanted, as fast or as slow as they wanted, without the little ones holding everybody up because they are so slow. 😉 Of course as soon as they got to the school yard, the little ones jumped off their bikes and ran for the playground. But Ethan, Tyra and Kyle rode around. I’m so glad that Kyle has finally had a chance to use the bike I got him for Christmas. It’s been too cold and too snowy for him to get out on his new bike before now.

Well as Ethan was riding on the pavement he heard a clink and he turned around to look and his last training wheel had fallen off (the other one had fallen off months ago and we refused to put it back on hoping that it would encourage him to ride without them). But he just kept riding! Ethan has graduated to riding a bike without training wheels!

And the most exciting part is that he did it all on his own. I am also VERY glad that he didn’t freak out and insist that he NEEDED that training wheel (which is what happened when the other one fell off.) Good times 🙂

He wanted me to take a picture of him riding standing up, so here’s the best shot I got:

Shhhh!!!

While Ethan and Tyra were at school, I heard Jeremy in the living room talking to Dinah, and he said ” Shhhh! I want to hear the Holy Ghost talk! Dinah don’t you want to hear the Holy Ghost talk???”

See when you think that kids aren’t listening in their primary classes, they really are hearing what you say. So cute!

Happy Birthday Jeremy

Jeremy turned 4 yesterday! He was happy to have his birthday at Grandpa & Grandma’s house. I made a cake with my new KitchenAid 😉 and we sang to Jeremy and had cake for breakfast (with bacon, eggs pancakes and hashed browns of course). Then before we headed off to church we let Jeremy open the rest of his birthday presents. (Grandpa Tom and Grandma Kathy, Jeremy LOVES the Buzz jammies that you sent him. LOVES THEM!)

Other than that Jeremy spent most of his birthday in the car driving home. 🙁 But at least we had cake, he opened presents and he got to be with Grandpa & Grandma on his birthday. Grandpa even announced that it was his birthday over the pulpit at church. 😉

The Chocolate Factory

Before continuing on our journey to Grandpa & Grandma’s house we decided to take the kids on the tour of the Ethel M chocolate factory in Henderson, Nevada. The kids had a great time looking through the windows and watching the employees make the chocolates. Then we got to have a sample of chocolate. But Kyle and I were somewhat dissapointed in the chocolates in the store. Last time we went to the factory we got to have a sample of any one of the chocolates they had there. This time we got a solid chocolate coin, and all the individual chocolates cost $2 a piece! There was no way we were going to buy chocolates for that kind of money, give me See’s any day. 😉 Before heading back to the car, we went over to the M&M’s World store and we got M&M shirts for the whole family. Jeremy really wanted an M&M dispenser, and he got super lucky because they were doing a special that if you spent a certain amount of money, you get the dispenser free. THEN he wanted M&M’s for it. Go figure. Well again he got lucky. The cute ladies that worked there, gave each of the kids some M&M’s from a bag that they had to pass out samples from, then she quickly and quietly slipped me the rest of the bag. 😀 Purple M&M’s, how did she know that purple is my favorite color? 😉 And we got to try some coconut M&M’s. Oh they were so good!

This sign was hanging from the ceiling in the factory:

Now I think it’s time to go eat some purple M&Ms. 😉

Picture Time

A couple of weeks ago we went in to have family pictures taken. And we wanted pictures of just Chloe, so we went ahead and had pictures taken of each of our kids.

We started with Dinah:

And here’s Tyra

And then it was Jeremy’s turn:

Then it was Ethan’s turn, and the kid would NOT smile. We finally did get a couple of good pictures of him, after we took the pictures of the family and of Chloe, and we said we were all done.

Here’s Chloe!

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