New Blog--weatherlyclan.blogspot.com

Okay, so we decided to make our new blog public again, at least for the holidays. So it's weatherlyclan.blogspot.com. Be sure to make a comment on it in case we decide to take it private again.

Fun things kids do

Rook finally has his big boy bed. He doesn't get
out of it until I come and get him. When I put him
in bed he says, "no get out bed, go Time out. No tools
right now, no basketball right now". I say...good job.
He sleeps in it like a crib, every which way. Good
thing there are guard rails.

Alexa loves to play in her exersaucer. Thanks Alisyn
and Ty for the loan. A good chunk of her awake time is
in this thing. She grabs everything and tries to put it
in her mouth.

So we have a no screaming inside rule at our house.
You can scream outside all you want...so when Rook
and his friend Isaac were screaming inside right before
bed time, I said, "Do you want to sleep outside? If you keep
screaming you're going to have to sleep outside". He
ran upstairs and brought down his pillow, blanket, and
dog, snuggles (Joe named it) and laid down on the cement.
He even shut the door. I laughed so hard.

Alexa really needed her own room for a while and
she outgrew the bassinet. I really didn't want her in
our room anymore so I started putting her in the
pack n play in the laundry room and it worked out
great. So when Rook got his big boy bed, we just
moved the crib in there and she has her own little
room. I can even do laundry and she sleeps right
through it. She started sleeping all night as soon
as I started putting her in there too...

Well I didn't think anyone could drool as much as
Rook did...but I was sooooo wrong. Alexa is every bit
a drooler as Rook ever was. Her poor clothes are
destined to stink. She is still the sweetest baby girl
ever.

Rook said his first prayer the other day all by himself.
He said Hemly Fodder, Thank you garbage can and trucks.
Please help daddy school, come home play tennis Rook.
Jesus Amen.

Lauryn is getting married in 2 weeks. I'm so excited for her.
I get to make her wedding cake. Any suggestions on Frosting
that I can make really smooth, without using Fondant?

I've been tagged

So I think I can do all of these except including the links
to the people I tagged...Don't know how to do that.
1-I'm not very original. Any great idea I have, I get from
someone else. Like that I used to squat 300 pounds. Becky
shared her squat weight on her blog and I thought, well I bet
alot of people don't know that about me either. Does that count for 2?

2-One of my first jobs was selling Avon with my sister Alisyn.
We mostly just wanted to get free stuff and samples and weren't
very good at it.

3-I was 30 when I got married and am having my kids now when
most of my friends are all done with theirs.

4-My husband is in Medical School here in Las Vegas. I am what
you call a med school widow...especially this week with block finals...

5-I was on the track team for BYU and got a scholarship for
throwing the hammer. What is the hammer you say?
It's the ball and chain thing that you spin around and throw
all while yelling as loud as you can.
I was never Olympic material, but I had fun.

6-I love to do home improvements. I just finished painting the
downstairs bathroom after we ripped up the floor from a sewage leak.
I laid some pretty slate too and it's almost ready to be put back together.

7-Thanks to student loans, I'm on welfare and Medicaid. I know
you're all jealous but all you have to do is quit your jobs
and go back to school.

I tag Kirstyn who needs to update her blog really bad,
Anna, Tiffany, Brandi, Brandy, Nicki, and Mattie

Happy Fall

So we don't have kids going back to school and all that,
but Fall has brought so many fun things.
Rook loves to play with Alexa. He reads to her and
shows her all of his toys and still occasionally lays on
top of her.

Today was our Trunk or Treat. Rook had such a fun
time saying trick or treat to everyone and wanted to open
all of his candy right then. He was a cute M&M and Alexa
was a mini me. She had lots of fun too and slept most of the time.
It was a nice 90 degrees today...

We went to Gilcrease Orchard to pick apples and pumpkins
last week and there was 1 single apple on all the trees. Rook picked
it and carried it around like a baby. We would not let go of it or let
it out of his sight. He also picked this baby pumpkin, since all the big
ones were gone. Mental note, go by October 1st next year...
We went to a pumpkin carving get together in our neighborhood
and Rook carved his pumpkin all by himself and had a blast.
Joe carved our big pumpkin and totally got into it. I was surprised.

Happy Birthday Rook

So why did I put the cake on the floor? Well it seemed like
a good idea at the time. The presents were there, everyone
was sitting on the couches...Joe jokingly said, now Rook,
go and step in the cake...and he did.

Joe's brother Johnnie helping me clean him up while
Joe took as many pictures as he could. We all laughed so hard.


So Rook got this great basketball hoop from Kid to Kid
and my parents gave him this ball. We let him play inside
for a bit...and then moved it outside to our huge yard...
He says, "play side (outside) mommy, beecaball poop".
I just haven't wanted to work with him to learn hoop. It's
too cute.

John and Mattie gave Rook the huge Mr. Potato head.
(It must be an Idaho thing...) Rook asked me to help him
build a mom, dad, Lex, and Rook. So I put all the eyes in a pile
and all the noses, etc. He built me with all eyes...he was so proud
of it. He made a complete family and explained them all to me.

Here's super Rook in his new jammies from
Grandma Weatherly. It has a "Dump it Truck" on them
and he wants to wear them every night...luckily sometimes
they're in the washer.

So his birthday is today, even though we had a little party when everyone was here for Alexa's blessing. We wanted him to feel special too. We sang to him again today and he had alot of fun practicing holding up 2 fingers and saying 2 to anyone who would listen.
We can't believe our baby is 2. And we have another baby. We're old.