Nathan put his feet with shoes on in the water. In the car on the way home, he took off his shoes and his feet were wrinkly "like a 95 year old". The boys were guessing why water wrinkles your feet. Nathan said it was because the water presses against you and makes wrinkles. Alex said it was because water goes in your sweat holes and makes tiny bumps. What do you think?
P.S. It's come....the horrible horrible pregnancy flu. The baby is the size of a poppy seed, so how can something so small take over my whole body and make me feel so horrible and so tired?
Friday, September 25, 2009
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
the motorcycle gang
The boys are in my bed pretending to ride motorcycles. The pillows are their helmets.
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
tons of pics and videos
Here is Katie in her words-can't-express-this-kind-of-cuteness Halloween dress and pigtails:
We went to Discovery Gateway in Salt Lake. All the kids had tons of fun- even and especially Katie.
We went to Discovery Gateway in Salt Lake. All the kids had tons of fun- even and especially Katie.
Nathan's math: (all in his head)
140 divided by 5= 28 (I couldn't do that one in my head, I had to use a calculator. He did it fast in his head!)
8 times 8 = 64 (or 8 squared)
6 times 6 is 36 (or 6 squared)
52 times 2 is 104
104 times 2 is 208
28+36 is 64
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Saturday, September 12, 2009
the name
Today I was so bored that my eyeballs were falling out and my muscles were oozing onto the floor. Todd went to watch a football game at a friend's house and I was missing him. This was my first (of many) emotional day of pregnancy. It makes me wonder why we decided to get pregnant. I'll remember in May...
So, I decided to go to the store with the kids and get stuff to make rice crispies with Halloween M & M's. Junk food is always good when you're bored and/or emotional.
I also saw a pretty fall arrangment I got. They also had a gardenia with a flower in bloom and I took a good long whif and it made me instantly happy.
I then got on Craigslist and KSL and looked at antique dressers for Katie's room and that was fun, too. Then I played tickle chase with Katie and her little giggles were so adorable!
Todd and I picked out the names:
Abigail (Abbie) Mary
or
Nicholas Maxwell
or Nicholas Bradford
My parents hate the name Abigail, so I decided to let you know early so that you can get used to it:).
I'll find out the gender either right before Christmas or right after. Let's start making a list of guesses for the gender. Those who are right, get a little present from us. Those who are wrong get to buy us dinner (just kidding).
So, I decided to go to the store with the kids and get stuff to make rice crispies with Halloween M & M's. Junk food is always good when you're bored and/or emotional.
I also saw a pretty fall arrangment I got. They also had a gardenia with a flower in bloom and I took a good long whif and it made me instantly happy.
I then got on Craigslist and KSL and looked at antique dressers for Katie's room and that was fun, too. Then I played tickle chase with Katie and her little giggles were so adorable!Todd and I picked out the names:
Abigail (Abbie) Mary
or
Nicholas Maxwell
or Nicholas Bradford
My parents hate the name Abigail, so I decided to let you know early so that you can get used to it:).
I'll find out the gender either right before Christmas or right after. Let's start making a list of guesses for the gender. Those who are right, get a little present from us. Those who are wrong get to buy us dinner (just kidding).
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Just overheard
The boys are playing and I just heard them talking about when they get married. "I'm going to marry Avery," Nathan said, "but I don't know what she'll look like when she grows up." Alex responded, "Maybe even prettier, that's what I'm guessing."
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We asked the boys if the baby will be a boy or a girl, and Nathan said, "let me look." So he looked in my bellybutton and said, "I see a little leg.....and a little footsie....and a little right finger (and he held up his finger).....that's all."
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We asked the boys if the baby will be a boy or a girl, and Nathan said, "let me look." So he looked in my bellybutton and said, "I see a little leg.....and a little footsie....and a little right finger (and he held up his finger).....that's all."
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
news
I took a pregnancy test last night.
It was negative.
I took another pregnancy test this morning.
It was positive.
It was negative.
I took another pregnancy test this morning.
It was positive.
Saturday, September 5, 2009
read-a-thon, the many names of Bubs, more of Nathan's math
Read-a-thon
Today we decided to do a "read-a-thon". We got unhealthy snacks and the boys decided to do it on Sat. (today) so we could do it with Daddy. It went as well as you might think with a 5, 7 and 1 year old who was grumpy. The kids thought it was a junk-food-a-thon. We did do some reading though. We'll finish tonight because every night before they go to bed they just can't get enough of reading- they want me to read just another book before they have to go to sleep! We all stayed in our jammies, because that's part of a read-a-thon, too.
The many names of Bubs
We realized that Katie is not going to ever know what her real name is. When someone asks us what her name is, I say Katherine and Todd says Katie. At home, we call her Baby, Baby girl, cute baby, bubba, bubs, bubbers, bubber, babe, babes, bubba girl, katie cutie, katie bug, katie bub, bubster, bubberooni. I guess it's only fitting for the family, though, Alex thinks his name is Richard Alex Zander Carlson, and Nathan thinks his name is John Nathan Carlson. It's only one of the many things our children will go to counseling for because of us!
More of Nathan's Math
Allison said I should write down the specific math problems Nathan does. He does many all day. Yesterday Nathan said, "7 take away 9 is negative 2." Then Alex asked, "What's 100 take away 1,000?" He said "Negative 900." I asked him where he learned negatives (who teaches a 5 year old negatives?) and he said he heard me say it a couple times. I remembered when he was first adding and subtracting he would occasionally say the bigger number minus the smaller number and I would say it was negative whatever. I guess he caught on to the pattern.
Yesterday he also told me 8 squared is 64. Great Grandpa Carlson taught him squares and square roots. He literally thinks about numbers all day long. On the way home from our drive to Arkansas, he was counting for 3-4 hours straight. He continued counting from where he left off, a little more each day when he is trying to go to sleep or bored or in the car, etc. Right now he's at 22,000 and says he wants to get to 30,000. He's a little OCD about numbers. His favorite kind of math is figuring out seconds, minutes and hours; big huge numbers; and money math, but any kind of math he loves. If we give him a hard problem and he thinks about it for a while and we try and help him by giving him a hint, he yells, "Let me do it! Let me do it!" He never wants any help. And on his math workbook, he can't have any markings except the answer, and if he has to do some marking, he erases it. We learned carrying in math and he won't write the carried number on top of the next column. He says he wants everyone to think he does it all in his head. He won't do any counting on his fingers, either. Today he said sometime we should do a math-a-thon where we do math all day.
Today we decided to do a "read-a-thon". We got unhealthy snacks and the boys decided to do it on Sat. (today) so we could do it with Daddy. It went as well as you might think with a 5, 7 and 1 year old who was grumpy. The kids thought it was a junk-food-a-thon. We did do some reading though. We'll finish tonight because every night before they go to bed they just can't get enough of reading- they want me to read just another book before they have to go to sleep! We all stayed in our jammies, because that's part of a read-a-thon, too.
The many names of Bubs
We realized that Katie is not going to ever know what her real name is. When someone asks us what her name is, I say Katherine and Todd says Katie. At home, we call her Baby, Baby girl, cute baby, bubba, bubs, bubbers, bubber, babe, babes, bubba girl, katie cutie, katie bug, katie bub, bubster, bubberooni. I guess it's only fitting for the family, though, Alex thinks his name is Richard Alex Zander Carlson, and Nathan thinks his name is John Nathan Carlson. It's only one of the many things our children will go to counseling for because of us!
More of Nathan's Math
Allison said I should write down the specific math problems Nathan does. He does many all day. Yesterday Nathan said, "7 take away 9 is negative 2." Then Alex asked, "What's 100 take away 1,000?" He said "Negative 900." I asked him where he learned negatives (who teaches a 5 year old negatives?) and he said he heard me say it a couple times. I remembered when he was first adding and subtracting he would occasionally say the bigger number minus the smaller number and I would say it was negative whatever. I guess he caught on to the pattern.
Yesterday he also told me 8 squared is 64. Great Grandpa Carlson taught him squares and square roots. He literally thinks about numbers all day long. On the way home from our drive to Arkansas, he was counting for 3-4 hours straight. He continued counting from where he left off, a little more each day when he is trying to go to sleep or bored or in the car, etc. Right now he's at 22,000 and says he wants to get to 30,000. He's a little OCD about numbers. His favorite kind of math is figuring out seconds, minutes and hours; big huge numbers; and money math, but any kind of math he loves. If we give him a hard problem and he thinks about it for a while and we try and help him by giving him a hint, he yells, "Let me do it! Let me do it!" He never wants any help. And on his math workbook, he can't have any markings except the answer, and if he has to do some marking, he erases it. We learned carrying in math and he won't write the carried number on top of the next column. He says he wants everyone to think he does it all in his head. He won't do any counting on his fingers, either. Today he said sometime we should do a math-a-thon where we do math all day.
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Fall
According to Kristie, Alex, Nathan and Katie, Sept. 1 means you can start celebrating fall and Halloween!
The boys made cute paper chain Halloween countdowns. (no pic)
Here are the fall leaves we put on our schoolroom tree (up high away from Baby Katie)
Sept. 1 we got donuts and apple cider and watched Disney's Legend of Sleepy Hollow cartoon. We got our donuts but we had to wait for Todd to come home. Nathan told me, "My mind has been on those donuts since we got them! So if there is a brain stuck't on to one of them, it's mine."
One of Nathan's recent math genius: "90 minutes is five thousand four hundred seconds." I asked how he figured that out and he said, "One hour is 3,600 seconds and half an hour is 1,800 seconds, so I just added them together."
The boys made cute paper chain Halloween countdowns. (no pic)
Here are the fall leaves we put on our schoolroom tree (up high away from Baby Katie)
Sept. 1 we got donuts and apple cider and watched Disney's Legend of Sleepy Hollow cartoon. We got our donuts but we had to wait for Todd to come home. Nathan told me, "My mind has been on those donuts since we got them! So if there is a brain stuck't on to one of them, it's mine."
One of Nathan's recent math genius: "90 minutes is five thousand four hundred seconds." I asked how he figured that out and he said, "One hour is 3,600 seconds and half an hour is 1,800 seconds, so I just added them together."
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