Our Family – Page 30 – Andelin Adventures

Are you nuts?

As I was sitting in my room feeding Seth this afternoon, I saw out of the corner of my eye this streak run past my door into the bathroom. It looked to be about Lydia’s height, so I called her to me. She said she had to pee, but when she was done she came in and my suspicions were confirmed. She was stark naked. This is how our conversation went:

Me:Where are your clothes?
Lydia:My Clothes? (Like she hadn’t noticed they were missing)
Me: Why are you naked?
Lydia: I took my undies off.
Me: Where are the rest of your clothes?
Lydia: My clothes are on the couch.
Me: Why are they on the couch? They are supposed to be on your body.
Lydia: My body? On my bottom?
Me: Well your bottom is part of your body.
Lydia: Can I go in the pool?
Me: What?! What pool?
Lydia: The pink pool. Can I go in the pool on the grass?
Me: What grass? All the grass is covered in snow!
Lydia: I want to play in the pool.
Me: Are you nuts?!?!
Lydia: I’m not yummy! (Apparently she thought I meant nuts as in peanuts….)

At this I just laughed out loud….

Ethan’s 12th Birthday

Today is Ethan’s 12 birthday, and we had such a crazy evening. First of all, the girls and I had our weekly Girl Scout meeting, then we had a window of time to celebrate in before I had to be at a Boy Scout committee meeting. So we decided ahead of time that we would be buying pizza for his birthday dinner, instead of making it. During Girl Scouts, Kyle took the non-Girl scouts to go pick up the pizza. When they got back the girls had all left and we sent all the kids to the table for dinner. I thought it would be fun to put the birthday candles on the pizza, since we decided to not have a cake tonight, but to have it on the weekend when everyone comes out for his ordination.

I did make him a cookie pizza though. For the record, trying to use chocolate syrup to write “Happy Bday Ethan” was not a good idea. It’s quite runny and comes out quite fast, and then it all just ran together so that you can’t tell what I wrote. I tried to use m&m’s to make the words a little clearer, but it was still quite messy.

After dinner we gave Ethan his present. Kyle bought it before Christmas, and I think he had originally intended to give it to him for Christmas, but Ethan found out back in November that Kyle had bought it. Kyle thought it would be funny to have it just not appear at Christmas time, considering Ethan would have been expecting it. So we were mean parents and made him wait until his birthday before receiving it.

Upcoming Events

Ethan turns twelve this week and will be ordained with the Aaronic Priesthood next week, and we decided that we would have Seth’s baby blessing at the same time so out of town family could be here for both. Tonight I wanted to take pictures of the two of them so I could send out an invitation online.

Then the other kids wanted to give Seth some loving.

Welcoming 2015

I saw this picture posted on Facebook yesterday:

So when we were talking about what to do while we waited for the new year, I suggested we do a Back to the Future marathon. Kyle was all for the idea. 😉

After dinner we started our marathon, and we had some snacks to go along with. Adam and Seth fell asleep before midnight. All the others were still wide awake (and Lydia was quite loud) at 1am when the movie was over and we told them to go to bed.

2014 is over and gone, here’s to hoping 2015 is awesome!

Brothers

I just love my little boys. Adam loves his little brother so much and is always trying to be around him. He will help bring me the bottle after Kyle makes it up, and he will take Seth’s diapers to the trash after we change him. Today he climbed up on my bed to lay down with him. 🙂